Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections How Believers Should Face Difficult Devotion Part 1
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The use of the "one person" and "one person" phrases in Islam is meant to describe behavior and intentions, and the "one person" and "one person" phrases are meant to describe actions and intentions. The transcript discusses various verses in the Quran, including deeds and deeds book, and the importance of witnessing and providing evidence to support one's claim of being the right person. The transcript also touches on the use of technology to record everything from the ground up, the "IT" and "IT" sub hired words used by people to hold on to their identities, and the importance of praying and not just sitting on one's knees. The conversation is difficult to follow and the speaker suggests that people should not be fast during the summer and should be able to fast at a regular pace. The speaker also mentions the importance of learning to read books and starting to get more confident in learning Islam.
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then you sort of have seven Allah says, Yeah, animals Sera, what?
Allah knows the secret and that which is even more hidden than a
secret What can be more hidden than a secret? Well, not every
secret is hidden. You tell somebody something, but it's just
a secret. Okay? Don't tell anybody. So he goes until it's at
least one person because you're one person telling one person is
not a secret.
Telling two people maybe is a problem but telling one person
it's okay. Right? I'm not giving you a fatwa. I'm just saying
that's what people think. There's multiple verses anyway. So Allah
subhanaw taala. In all of this he underscores the point about the
intense and in depth amount of knowledge that he has. Like it's
mind boggling what kind of knowledge he has
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so dear order my dear brothers and sisters and our dear friends and
listeners at home.
We are looking at this really, really important verse that has
been recited already in taraweeh. In the last few days, it's verse
it's the second to last verse of SoTL Bacara verse 284.
This is considered to be a very, very important verse. The purpose
of this verse is to actually give us a really important principle
and really important information regarding Allah subhanho wa Taala
and our faith. So that's why I've chosen this particular verse today
to look at to look at what Allah subhanaw taala is saying. So ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada says, Lila Hema is somewhat your mirfield for Allah
is everything in the heavens and earth. So that's an absolute
statement that everything in the heavens and the earth as we know
it, and that pretty much includes everything, there's nothing beyond
the earth, and the heavens. So in the summer, what and in the earth,
everything belongs to Allah subhanaw taala. So that's the
first thing he says Everything belongs to Allah, then Allah
subhanaw taala says, If you reveal anything, you know, if you reveal
that which is in your heart, that which you think about that which
crosses your mind, thoughts that you have, if you reveal it and you
vocalize it and you say it to somebody, or you keep it hidden,
where nobody knows, nobody reads your mind, thank Allah for that.
So you either reveal it or you leave it in your mind, you have
SIP Combi Hilah, Allah will account will recommend you for
that will take you to account for that.
So everything that we clearly say that's recorded anyway, people see
it, somebody's going to notice it.
If nobody's going to notice it, then our phones will notice if we
have them around us nowadays, right?
But this is talking about beyond that, which is that even what you
just think about in your mind and you don't even reveal, you don't
even bring out even Allah subhanaw taala will take us to task for
that as well.
And then Allah says file theory Manisha where you as the Brahma
Yeshua, he then will forgive whoever he wishes, and then he'll
punish whoever he wishes. So clearly that reckoning is the
first step and then after that there's going to be a punishment
or there's going to be a forgiveness. That obviously refers
to if there's something bad in there. If it's good, he doesn't
discuss that here. Because if it's good he hasn't mentioned that yet.
What LA who cliche in Kadir and ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada has ability
over everything.
Allah has ability over everything.
So the first thing that Allah subhanaw taala tells us about in
here is that Allah subhanaw taala has the kingdom and the ownership
of everything. So everything is his kingdom. And he of course,
it's not just his kingdom and then he's got other people to look
after it. He is
is Knowing of every single thing that happens in there at that very
instant. It's not the report that he receives afterwards. It's
moment by moment. In fact, it's not even moment by moment, he just
knows it even before it even happens. So he's already known it,
that everything that's going to happen in this creation, he's
already known it.
This is a really important verse of Tawheed. For us, and our
understanding of the characteristics of Allah subhanaw
taala.
So nothing that is apparent or hidden, or secret, or subtle, or
concealed, is hidden on him.
So then what Allah subhanaw taala tells the people that once he's
laid this foundation, he said, This is what it is. Allah subhanaw
taala den tells us that I'm going to if I know everything, nothing
can be hidden from me. And I'm going to record you I'm going to
take a Serb and account you for everything that you do. And
everything that happens in your heart, that you just think about
thoughts, even if you dispel them, I know about them. So I'm going to
take you to account from for that. So for example, in sort of early
Imran, there's another verse where I mean this. This theme is
mentioned multiple times in the Quran. In verse 29 OF SWORDS
earlier Imran Allah says, go into full Murphy's to do they come out
to do Yharnam hula, where they will manifest somewhere, where do
you wanna fill out? Allahu Allah, Felicia in Cadiz, just set in a
different order. But Allah says, tell them that if you hide that
which is in your heart, or you reveal it, Allah knows it anyway.
He knew it before you even thought about it. Where you're gonna go
with that. That's Allah's knowledge that Allah knows things
before you even think about them.
From eternity, it's all written it here knows it all. There's no
escaping it. I mean, he knows what we're going to say next. He knows
what we're going to think about tomorrow, not we were going to do
tomorrow, that he knows anyway. But what we're going to be
thinking about tomorrow, we don't even know that we don't know
what's going to happen, and what's going to cause us different
thoughts. Maybe you're going to get angry, you're going to maybe
we're going to get excited about something. Allah subhanaw taala
knows all of that anyway.
And then he says that for Allah is everything in the heavens and
earth and he has capability over everything. Then in surah Taha,
verse seven, Allah says, Yama Sera, what? Allah knows the secret
and that which is even more hidden than a secret? What can be more
hidden than a secret? Well, not every secret is hidden. You tell
somebody something, but it's just a secret. Okay? Don't tell
anybody. So he goes until it's at least one person because you're
one person telling one person is not a secret.
to two people maybe is a problem but telling one person it's okay.
Right? I'm not giving you a fatwa. I'm just saying that's what people
think. There's multiple verses anyway. So Allah subhanaw taala.
In all of this, he underscores the point about the intense and in
depth amount of knowledge that he has, like it's mind boggling what
kind of knowledge yours see, there's a few verses in the Quran,
Allah says about the Day of Judgment, Allah says, well sila
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on the day of judgment that which is in the hearts will all be
revealed. So what's in the hearts that will be revealed?
Essentially, the heart is a database of everything that has
happened in his life because that's what makes us that is what
makes us who we are, what we think, our mindset what we take in
and of course, what we then do, all of that is a database it's the
that's what Allah mentioned many years ago to us. Then Allah
subhanaw taala talks about the ground he says Yo Ma even to
Hadith Bara be unknown Rebecca ohada
The earth is going to reveal its news. Its information, its data,
let's put it in modern terms that the world is going to reveal its
data
because Allah subhanaw taala is inspired to do that. Okay, so
that's number two. There's two things number three we already
know about the angels right Cara and Cara TV by the way, just a
quick question. So we can get this out of the way which one is
Karaman and which one is going to be
the right one is my shoulder that's really cool.
I'm Kathy Venus which one? The left one is better.
Okay, of you guys have asked the angels whether that is their name,
they might be offended by this to be honest. Right.
They'll actually be very offended if you said that to them. Right.
Allah Tala mahfuz. And you guys my office as well. Right? Because
Quran means noble ones. Karam is the plural of Korean, which means
noble ones, and Cardi B means writers, plural of Khatib, so they
both noble writers, okay. I mean
As you want to give a name to them, your own personal name to
them make salaam to them sometimes, like how's everything
going? I hope I'm doing okay right now, you know, just take it easy
with me, you know Subhanallah they've been with us since birth.
But it's just to underscore the point that they are so with us. So
that's the that's going to be in our book of deeds on the day my
books on the day, my deeds will be displayed. I know for one, I will
be afraid. It's just a beautiful line. That is Allah Tala help us.
So you've got the deeds, we've got the ground, the earth, and we've
got the hearts. And then if that's not enough witness against us,
Allah subhanaw taala has
the limbs, basically Allah subhanho wa Taala the limbs will
speak and we will say to our limbs, what's wrong with you?
Why are you speaking for against ourselves, but that time the limbs
they all become strangers? Because what matters is us. We as an
essence, whoever we are, our origin, our essence, that is what
will speak? How are you going to what kind of evidence do you have
against these four things? Now, all of this the ground.
That means anywhere we were, that's why we have this hadith
about us praying Salaat in different places, so the ground
will bear witness, literally, the ground is chipped with the most
advanced chips in the world that have not even been invented. I
mean, this would never have been even conceived before he just
believed in it. But we'd never conceive of it. Nowadays, you
understand about Smart Objects, where you touch the register
everything, our phone literally can register exactly where we
touch, what we say. Which button we press, and everything. Right,
Google takes all of that information, right? But this would
never have been understood before. But now you understand Allah as
the most advanced technology at wherever we go. There's a chip
that, or whatever that system is, it's recording what we do on the
earth, whether somebody is watching or not. Our heart is
literally recording everything. It's so much easier to understand
these things. Now. It doesn't even sound like a miracle anymore. It
just sounds default. That's just what it is now. And maybe that's
how things are going just to describe what Allah subhanaw taala
give us an understanding. And that just makes that should actually
make us more fearful to be honest, because we see it as a reality. So
our hands will have a recording of everything we've done with them.
Our feet have a recording of the data of what we've done with them.
So this is what is being underscored here. Allah subhanaw
taala says he knows everything. He knows everything and even beyond
what you can even think about. Allah subhanaw taala says In other
words, what matters to me what rocketing Illa Allah Maha with a
hot button.
So for example, every
every
leaf that falls and is always leaves falling, especially in
autumn, just imagine from a single tree, how many leaves fall, then
imagine how many trees on one street. In one area in one town.
There's literally billions of leaves, but Allah subhanaw taala
simultaneously at once. He knows exactly where and how every leaf
is falling and the purpose that it will fulfill the story I think
immuno cathedra has mentioned regarding this that once this
person had a question about this, and suddenly what he sees he was
outside, he suddenly sees that there's a scorpion. It is
racing towards something. It's a scorpion on a mission. Right? It's
not a scorpion is crawling around haphazardly, here and there. It
seems to be just racing in one direction. He decides to follow it
like this was really intriguing. So he sees that as he's going
along. There's a little stream that's coming up front, he's
wondering, the scorpion is going right
towards the screen stream music is going to take a dive into in the
stream, what's going to happen then he watches it. As soon as the
scorpion gets to the bank of that spring of that spring and then
takes the spring into the spring. Suddenly, there's a leaf that just
comes floating down from one of the trees and lands right beneath
it. And the scorpion plops right onto it. So it doesn't drown that
with the current or whatever it is. That's that leaf then goes to
the other side, the scorpion jumps on the other bank and carries on
he's still on his mission. So he decides it continues to follow it.
He sees in the in the distance. There's somebody sleeping under a
tree as the guy sleeping under a tree and this Scorpion is going
right in that direction. Like oh no, maybe this is his he's going
for that guy, but that seemed like such a premeditated effect. But
then suddenly he sees that the scorpion doesn't go when he gets
close. He doesn't go at the person. He actually goes at the
tree. The trunk of the tree, right maybe the guys behind
it and he climbs up the tree and then suddenly he sees a snake on
top, and the scorpion goes and attacks the snake and the snake
falls down on the other side. And the man is saved every leaf that
just gives you an idea of one leaf. Now it's mind boggling for
us to even consider this, that what does he mean by every leaf,
what kind of fertilization you might do, what kind of pollination
might happen? What other things and benefits that might come from
the Allah knows every drop of rain, for example. And this is
exactly what Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran. I mean, if you
read this, you can't just you can't help but be amazed by Allah
subhanaw taala squadra and his ability, and once you understand
that life becomes more easier to give to Allah. Because when you
know that there's someone so capable, then it's easy to give
ourselves up to them. Because what's the point of restraint
there? What's the point of trying to fight against such an entity,
it's just not worth it. There's nothing about that. So this is
what Allah subhanaw taala is underscoring here. Now, when this
verse was revealed, this became very difficult on the sahaba. They
were returned. I don't know if anybody is crying already that
even what we just think about in our hearts. Okay. And this is a
question I'm going to ask, right? How many of us when we heard from
this verse, that Allah knows what's obvious, that's obvious.
But he also knows what's going to be in our hearts, and then he's
going to take us to tasks where he's going to question us about
it. How many of us were worried about that?
They'd be okay. There was one person, two people, three people.
Four. Okay, five. All right. So there's five of us, or six or
seven of us that were worried about that. The Sahaba were very
worried. They wanted full marks, right? They wanted full marks. So
for them to think I mean, we're probably thinking, Oh, maybe
there's some way out of that. There's some disclaimer somewhere.
There's some way to wiggle out of that, but the Sahaba wanted 100%.
So they got worried. They said
they came to the Prophet salallahu Salam, we can understand that we
be taken to account for what we do openly and outwardly. But what
about what's inside? We thought that was all that we didn't really
think think about that. And that's going to make life really
difficult.
That's going to make life really difficult. Imagine somebody says,
I'm going to watch what you do, and when to watch you in the
toilet in the bathroom as well. It's like come on, you know. So
the background of this verse there's multiple Hadith Imam
Muslim or Buhari Imam, Imam Muhammad, many of them have
related the background to this verse, which is really important
for us to understand and then the, what I love from this is the
reaction of the Sahaba which really gives us something to go
by. So when Allah subhanaw taala revealed this Lila Hema is
somewhere to fill out and Allah knows everything, when he revealed
that that was one of the severes verses for the Sahaba they came to
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And they literally sat
on their knees, like they knew they couldn't even sit calmly,
they sat on their knees, they sat up on their living room, because
when you stand up, that's casinos
not not a very good other so they sat down but they sat on their
knees, ya rasool Allah polyphenylene Allah Marie man or
teeth, like we've been made accountable for things that we
have the ability to do, like you know, we we've been made
accountable to pray and fast and not swear and things of that
nature, or Salah to ASEA. And while Jihad was sadaqa, they said,
but then this verse has now come down one antiguo How can we have
no capability? Like how can we be careful about how can we govern
our thoughts?
How can we guard our thoughts so that we don't even think of
something bad?
Those impinging thoughts that come into the mind are fleeting ideas.
So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam first he told him off in
a affectionate way he says a toady Luna and Taku Luca makan Okita
vein. Do you want your Do you want to react the way the people of the
two books have reacted? Their reaction to some of the rulings
that would come down for them? Is that what you want to do?
So that's what he kind of first admonished them first. And and
then. And then do you want to say somewhere now, what I've seen that
we've heard, but we're going to disobey because we can't do it.
Man is too tough. Instead, say somewhere in our Atlanta, just say
it. Say we've heard and we will obey.
And this is what really is the crux of this matter. For me. When
I first read this hadith, I was like, wow, if there's ever a
difficulty that you're facing in your religion, in your deen,
whatever that is, and then you're like, oh, man, this is too tough.
These are what should be our reaction. I can't do this man.
That's too difficult. I don't have any enjoyment in prayer. Let me
not pray. Literally. I had that question from someone. I don't get
any pleasure. So what's the point of
praying well, you're supposed to practice and keep doing it until
you get the pleasure you're supposed to do the right things to
make that happen. But anyway, he said, say, I we have heard and we
have obeyed wolf Veronica Robina illogical mahseer that's your DUA
if you find anything ever difficult this is to I don't know,
you find this in any dollar book, right? But it's from the Quran.
Okay.
We've heard we have obeyed
our Lord Your forgiveness. And to you we're going to come back
that's what you have to say when you find something difficult and
then you'll see what happens right? Now as soon as they said
that they said that immediately, you know, they've imagined the
more sitting on the on it like standing up on their knees, and
they all said that, and they said that as soon as Carnaby Hill calm
where they'll let be seen as soon as they were able to say that with
their tongue.
Allah subhanaw taala is so merciful.
Allah immediate reveal the next verses.
And the next verses are not Rasulo beam. Zilla you know you hear me
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wolf Veronica Rob burner where Eli Ecole mercy. Allah literally took
that situation. He said, The messenger believes in what was
revealed to him from his Lord, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam he
believes it and so do the believers. So do many in they also
believe what was sent. All of them believe in Allah and His angels
and his books and his messengers. And they say we will not separate
between any of his prophet any of his messengers, and they also say,
or they've said, we have believed and we have obeyed your
forgiveness, my Lord, our Lord, actually, unto you is our return.
He repeated exactly what the Prophet saw someone told them to
say. And subhanAllah when they did this, Allah subhanaw taala then
revealed the next verses law you can live Allahu nevsun Illa WUSA,
which is later on law you can look for law when Epson allows law.
Marchesa but Wiley Makdessi, but Rob Benalla to Heavner, in nesina,
or our partner and until the end, which is Allah never makes you
accountable. No, nothing, he doesn't make anybody accountable
for what they don't have the ability to do, they don't have the
ability, like a blind man can never be made obligatory, to look
at something, he can't do it.
Right. In fact, I don't think we're ever obligated to look at
anything, even an even seen man.
If you can't pick up a mountain, Allah will never make you pick up
a mountain. So that means everything he has told us to do
within our parameters. It's something that we do have the
human capability of. So for example, just at the first day of
Ramadan, I got a question from somebody who was asking on behalf
of a convert in the area and one of the messages he has just become
Muslim recently, maybe a month a few months ago, and she's worried
about Ramadan and I don't blame her I was worried about Ramadan
but am I going to be fast you know, when you have certain
illnesses like diabetes or whatever you want or you're
worried right? That how is that fast gonna be although the faster
getting a bit easier to steal, you're worried.
So she's like, I'm not really sure if I can fast is there some kind
of leeway? So this brother was asking does she have a leeway? I
said she has no leeway yet. Right? Tell her to fast come after a few
days let's see how it goes. And subhanAllah every year there's
people I know who say that we have we always apprehensive because
they're not fast throughout the year didn't have to get they got
diabetes or high blood pressure something or the other. So they
are worried but mashallah they start even those peak summer days
that we had mashallah we've just gone beyond that right and from
next year is going to be much easier okay. But it's already zeal
hamdulillah and they just find it easy on a normal day they couldn't
keep without a you know, some sugar or something for 10 hours
you know, for five hours maybe in here they fasting for mashallah 19
hours, right? You know, the earliest time as well Masha Allah.
So, I said, tell her to fast. And then And likewise, pregnant women,
and breastfeeding women, and ill people you fast. Remember when you
go to a doctor, a doctor is gonna give you the standard
reply because they don't want to get in trouble. So that's why if
you've got a complication that's different, otherwise you fast and
Allah makes things easy because Allah is not going to make you
responsible. For what you don't have the capability which means
that if you cannot fast genuinely then you can miss it and fast
later.
Likewise, if you can't stand and pray, we sit and pray. If you
can't sit and pray you can lay down and pray there's a way to do
that. And then there comes a time when if you can't pray even like
that, then your your your prayer is forgiven.
If you're in that state, like if you're paralyzed, you can't even
move your head for 24 hours,
or you're in a coma for 24 hours, you don't even have to pray
anymore. For 24 hours you if it's only for five, seven hours or less
than 24 hours, then you have to make cover. But otherwise, that
gets forgiven as well.
Allah subhanaw taala is forgiven women their prayer during their
monthly periods, because that just would amount to too much every
month, but not the fasting because fasting is easy and maximum misses
about 10 fasts. So Allah subhanho wa Taala does never make anybody
and there's always Lee ways to look at. So that's the backdrop of
that. And then after that, everything just became easy. So
then what Allah did is that he actually cancelled out that
original point, which is that no, you will not be taken to task for
your evil thoughts until you don't express them or you don't bring
them in action. The point of a lecture is to encourage people to
act to get further an inspiration, and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on there, the Islamic
essentials certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the
end of that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you will feel a lot more
confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue
to live, you know to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well as local law here in Salaam
Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh