Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections How Believers Should Face Difficult Devotion Part 2
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The speakers discuss various thoughts and topics related to a surah Al Baq sitting on a mountain, including sadness, grief, and evil thoughts. They also touch on the importance of understanding and power in design and design work, as well as avoiding sadness and suffering. The segment emphasizes the importance of learning Islam to achieve success and power in business, as well as pursuing spiritual paths. The speaker also mentions a course on Islam designed to help people learn essentials and become more aware of topics that require further study.
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Just a quick point on bad thoughts. According to one
opinion, what does it mean that you will be taken to task for your
thoughts? I shudder the Allahu Anhu reports whenever somebody
discusses something in their own mind of any evil, the way that
will be reckoned for by ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada if he is going to
record for it right will be that you will be for every bad thoughts
that you have in your mind you will be given some kind of sadness
and grief is going to overtake you for every bad thought you allow in
your you indulge in your mind even if you don't do it. If we want to
stay away from sadness, then stop thinking evil. Yes, evil thoughts
might come in our mind. Don't engage them. If you engage them
you're going to be punished by a sadness in this world.
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Taala are they who are either early or Sofie
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either Leisha in call the broadly speaking, if you want to look at
this in detail, these are five levels of thought that come into
somebody's mind
hajus in Arabic they call hajus hotter at evenness hum and Aslan
Hodges I will translate as a fleeting thought, you know, you
get these thoughts, it just pops in your mind. You don't interact
with it, it doesn't even say anything goes.
This constantly our mind is open to thoughts in solid. Wherever we
are. There's just constant thoughts, we might be engaged in
something, there's another thought that will come in mind. But
because so engaged will go away. That's a fleeting thought is just
literally a second or so you don't engage it, it doesn't linger. It
just goes. The second type is where a thought comes in. And it
lingers for a while. So it's the lingering thought. But you don't
interact with it. It's there for a while. But you're too occupied to
remember, it's in the back of your mind or something but you didn't
really engage it. That's number two. Number three, a thought came
in it lingered and you engage should I do that or not? That's a
good idea, or that's a bad idea. should I should I not? Oh, that's
haram? Or maybe I've got this leeway. Maybe I've got this
excuse. Maybe nobody will see. Right? Maybe I'll be forgiven? Or
should I give this donation or not a thought came in your mind you
should give this donation should i It's a lot of money. shaytaan you
know, all of this, these are this is what you call Hadith enough's
where you're speaking to yourself is a discourse with yourself.
Right? So this is when you're discussing, discussing with
yourself, the two minds, the two voices in your mind.
All three of these, if you're discussing a bad thing in your
mind, I should do that tomorrow. I should call her up. I should do
this. I should do that. You're not sinful for any of these.
The fleeting, the lingering, and now the interactive sort of
thought, No, nothing. Okay. What's the next stage? The next stage is
that you kept thinking and discussing and then you incline
towards the idea? Yes, I should do it. After the discussion going
back and forth. You said yes, I'm going to do it.
You call that now?
That's called Hamid Arabic, like you decided not decided but you're
inclined towards doing it. Now. You're not fully resolved yet?
Now you've inclined? Again, Allah says we're going to forgive you
probably someone said that's going to be forgiven as well, even
though you're inclined because you haven't done it yet. However, the
next stage, then is your resolve to do it. Yes, I'm going to do it.
You put the plans in action, whatever, yes, I'm going to do it
in your planet. That's called Assam full resolve to do
something. That's where Some scholars say you are accountable
for that now, and others say you're even forgiven for that.
Now, there's a bit of detail here. We can't go into that much detail
right now. But it's a bit of detail because there's some bad
acts which are literally based on thought.
They are as soon as you go to the home stage, you're going to be
trouble with that are definitely at the ASMs stage, which is for
example to think of gopher I don't really want to believe, too Why do
I believe that there's this question and there's Dawkins says
this and so and so says this and there's this argument can't really
be a god and whatever you that's Hadith, enough's. And then if you
decide that yes, there can't be a God, there is no God, that's cool
for you never said it outside. You haven't said anything, you could
still be showing yourself as a believer. But that's cool for. So
some things by the nature of which the action is a thought anyway,
that is what it is call for is a thought it is you express it, but
Iman is an idea in the heart. It's from the heart, we just express
our iman for others to know, right, and for us to do what we
need to do. That would definitely be the case. But if it's the
scholars who say we forgive that this is forgiven, as well as like,
for example, you decided to do Zina, tomorrow, a person decided
that tomorrow he's going to go to a club, right? He's been there
before, it's all organized. So he decided to go call up his friend.
We're gonna go tomorrow, his friends going to come and pick it
up. He doesn't have a card that way. And it's too much of a hassle
to go in a bus. Say someone's going to pick him up. Next day is
friend's car breaks down. So his friend calls him last minute
sorry, we can't go my cars broken. Is he sinful? Now?
According to those who say yes, then they are sinful. He's sinful,
but only sin for resolve to do it. And he gone that would have been
the biggest sin obviously, that would have been a bigger sin, but
he still and the others. They say no, he's not sinful.
I go with the opinion that he is sinful because you've made a full
resolve to do so you've put plan in action, and you did something
of that nature. But then of course you can seek forgiveness.
So that's what this discussion is about. So
now let's look at this again, this surah which is Surah Al Baqarah.
Allah it's a longer story in the world as you know. It's the
longest one in the Quran and the longest in the world. Why am I
thinking of the world today? But Allah subhanho wa Taala if you've
got if you start from the beginning, Allah subhanaw taala
discusses though he Oneness of Allah, Prophet prophecy, and he
discusses a number of other principles. There's lots of things
that Allah subhanaw taala discusses in this surah discusses
Zakat and Salah and pea sauce and fasting and hygiene, Jihad and
Heydon Tala can aid and lots of things, right.
Allah why does he end this surah with such prominent verses about
Lila Hema is somehow at your man fell out. So
Allah wants to bring the point home that after all of this,
remember, the reason for all of this is that ALLAH SubhanA, WA
Tada
has the kingdom of everything. And Allah subhanaw taala has the
perfection of everything.
Now, if you look at anybody, and they have characteristics, so
somebody is a really good painter, somebody is a really good speaker,
somebody has a lot of knowledge, somebody has a lot of power. Now
imagine it out of all characteristics that anyone can
have, which characteristics do you think are the most fundamental
characteristics that even the others rely on? The other
characteristics rely on? One is power, and knowledge, knowledge
and power, they are the most important characteristics that
anybody can have. Because with knowledge and power, then you can
design well if you're a designer, then you can speak well, because
you need power for that you need knowledge, knowledge and power at
the back of everything, the other foundational characteristics of
everything. So in this verse, Allah subhanaw taala speaks just
about those two characteristics. So by saying, well, Allah, he
might be somewhat Yama filled, Allah is saying I've got milk and
milk.
Basically, I've got sovereignty and kingdom and ownership of all
of this.
Which essentially is understood as him having power of of creating
all of this and thus controlling all of it, nourishing all of it,
and he has control so that is absolute power is understood from
Linda Hema, this summer with your martial arts. Now, there is
knowledge now, although knowledge comes in there, because how would
you create all of this without knowledge, but Allah makes it
clear by saying the next verse we're in to do Matthew and fusi
come, if you reveal which is in your heart, or you keep it,
concealed, Allah knows it, that talks about absolute knowledge. So
absolute knowledge, absolute power, that's what we understand
from that. Now, if anyone usually if you've got anyone in the world
among your friends or your local Imams or scholars or people right,
as soon as a person has full control and full knowledge, then
usually they gain a lot of respect. The one with the greater
knowledge and greater power, they have more respect, right? So
that means that f
everything besides Allah subhanaw taala in the heavens and earth
must be the creation of Allah, and must be those that are nourished
by Allah and cherished by Allah and looked after by Allah and
cared for by Allah subhanaw taala. So that's the conclusion we should
reach by this, if you really think about it, that is nobody else we
can go to. And it's only Allah subhanaw taala we can do that we
can go for
just a quick point on bad thoughts. According to one
opinion, what does it mean that you will be taken to task for your
thoughts? I shadow the Allahu Allah reports that
whenever somebody discusses something in their own mind of any
evil, the way that will be reckoned for by ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada if he is going to recommend for it right will be that you will
be for every bad thoughts that you have in your mind you will be
given
a sadness
some kind of sadness, and grief is going to overtake you for every
bad thought you allow in your you indulge in your mind, even if you
don't do it.
So, if we want to stay away from sadness, then stop thinking evil.
Yes, evil thoughts might come in our mind. Don't engage them. If
you engage them, you're going to be punished by a sadness in this
world, which is still good. They say the Hadith says the actual the
Allahu Ana said in the dunya, that's going to happen with either
some kind of Husum or oven, or it could be some other kind of pain.
But when the hero comes, live your salon, you're not going to be
questioned about this. So that's it's expiation in the world of
sadness is of the world.
But you don't want that sadness of the world. So just stop indulging
in bed. Well, I'm Jakob Ali.
So it's related that she asked the prophets of Allah Islam about this
verse and this is the response she had gotten. So that's what she was
revealing about this. So our time is up. Allah subhana wa Tada.
As I said, in the next part of this verse, Allah subhanaw taala
says, fail if you really may Yeshua or your as the moment
Yeshua, Allah will forgive, to whomever for whomever he wishes,
and Allah subhanaw taala will punish whomever he wishes. That's
a warning after knowing about Allah subhanho wa Taala and that
he's in control of everything, just to get a straight. That's why
this verse
Armineh, Rasul will be my own Zilla era Hema Robbie, he will not
be known. The Prophet sallallahu Sallam has mentioned as believing
in this to show us that if the prophet believes in, if it's good
enough for the Prophet, why isn't it good enough for you? I mean,
it's not about being good enough for the prophet in the way the
prophets Iman is sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is very different from
our iman.
The Prophet sallallahu Sallam knows about what Allah has
revealed and what he wants much more in depth and in the most
subtle and most complicated and delicate and sophisticated way
than we know. That's the promise of Allah isms. Iman, and ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada. So the main lesson from this, that I that I
found most useful for myself was the fact that whenever you come
across any hardship, do what the Sahaba did. And ponder this verse,
that Hola. Cancel this hokum cancel this ruling of taking us to
account for our thoughts because of the way we responded. So we
Insha Allah, if we respond to any during the saying, We believe in
Allah, we're going to try to do this. Yes, we might be weak, oh
Allah forgive us for our weaknesses, our mistakes, our
discrepancies and our defects, but we're going to do it and we're
going to make Istighfar for whatever we do wrong. And Allah
will make it easy for us and he'll accept it. That's Allah subhanaw
taala has mercy. He is the owner. He can punish us if he wants to.
But he has given us a way out. So I'm in semi now what wulfrun aka
Robina were illegal. Merci May Allah subhanaw taala bless her
soul.
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your forgiveness and your generosity and your kindness of
Allah we ask You for all of these things and more. Oh Allah. We
don't have much to show but we are making an effort we're sitting in
the masjid. We're listening to this. Oh Allah we're studying
where we are reading Oh Allah we are fasting Oh Allah we are
standing of Allah accept these things. However defective they
are. However weak they are however full of holes it may be oh Allah
we ask you for completeness of Allah we ask you from your
completeness we ask you from your love of Allah We ask that you
bless us all. Oh Allah you bless this order in this month you
drenched in your mercy and you're drenched in your armor of Allah.
We ask that you make this Ramadan better than any before it. Oh
Allah that you give us an understanding of your words.
that you give us an understanding of your Quran you illuminate us
with the Quran you inspire us with the Quran you elevate us with the
Quran of Allah you bring us closer to you with the Quran. Oh Allah
allow us to read the Quran to teach the Quran to defend the
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the light of the Quran the blessings of the Quran the mercy
of the Quran of Allah We ask that you make it an intercession of
intercessor for us in the hereafter. Oh Allah bless this
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contribution to his Deen in whatever way it may be. Allah
accept from us Subhan Allah because Allah is at your mercy
Fonasa Nam anonymous Selena Al Hamdulillah europea.
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