Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections Natural Faith and the Covenant
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So hamdulillah Allah we are in this world we thank Allah for
being there but 7080 years and then just take a safely with
alphabet and with a full deen and with goodness and he's given us a
little cuddle anyway that gives you 70 What is it? Alpha Shara
about 70 years of witches about 1000 months Hamdulillah that the
bonus adds up. Allah make it easy. Allah make it easy. I'm making it
sound like the world is a very bad place. It's a difficult place.
It's a challenging place, especially nowadays. Right Allah
make it easy though, because he can make it easy.
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my dear brothers and sisters and dear friends.
This is the month of the Quran, the month of Ramadan. So, we're
gonna look at a very, very important verse of the Quran today
and try to understand what Allah subhanaw taala is telling us about
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this is sorted out of verse 172 275 174. Now,
Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Surah Tarun So Imam Abu cathedra
and he discusses this verse, Allah, Allah he quotes the verse
from Surah to room Allah says Firkin Warjack added the Hanifa
direct your face for the dean or
establish your direction for the dean, which is Hanifa in a way
that your pure monotheism, you don't associate anybody with
Allah. And then Allah says fit rot Allah Hilah, the Fatah, NASA Alia
This is the fitrah that Allah subhanaw taala has created people
on that if you leave people the way they are, without corrupting
them, they will usually follow one God. And there's multiple examples
of this in primitive communities. Even the people of Makkah they had
they did shake lots of shake, how many hundreds of idols, they still
believed in one God. They just believe that these ones used to
take them close to Allah because Allah was too far for them, but
that he was still a great God. Even in India, the Hindus and
others that believe in multiple gods they still believe in the
great Lord, Allah, they might call him on or different names, but
there is one Allah, Most believe in one Allah in that sense, they
do bits of shell, but they still believe in Allah to be the highest
Lord. So that's the fitter that's nature. That's nature if you don't
corrupt anybody, because Allah then says let the beat Holy *
Pilla. There's no changing the creation of Allah. Just like the
unless you force it to change, but the Allah's creation does not
change.
Now, Imam Bukhari and Muslim these are two famous Hadith
compilers, they have a Hadith from Abu Huraira the Allahu anhu, which
gives us a bit more understanding of this. The Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said, Could Lumo Lu the new Allah to Allah tetra,
every
one that's born every offspring
is born on the fitrah you might have heard this and people this
usually remember this as everybody's born Muslim brother.
That's why when you embrace Islam afterwards, you revert you don't
convert. And then this argument is a convert is it revert, man I'm
happy whatever it is just coming to Islam, be a revert be a convert
hamdulillah from the fact that you were something else before and
you've converted your converts and from the perspective that you come
back to the natural faith your reverts so you revert and convert
it
hamdulillah
people really get angry by why you calling him convert for what he is
a convert, like for the last two years, he's converts. He's a
revert from you know his birth time. So they both rights, okay?
Then the Prophet said, so what the prophet hasn't actually said is
everybody is born on a fitrah not that he's born on Islam is born
fit or what is fitrah I usually like to translate fitrah as the
natural faith, natural feeling towards Allah subhanaw taala
in another version, then he adds,
actually there is another version which says, Every mon is born on
this Miller. The word Miller is use, which could mean this path
this way this dean
then, the Prophet saw some said, it's the father, the parents you
have with that and you make them Jewish. You know, see Ronnie, he
make them Christian. You met Jason and he or make them into fire
worshippers on agents.
And then the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam explained afterwards,
using an example of an animal.
Then in a hadith of sahih, Muslim
from Al Dibner Hemara the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
Allah said in the hello to everybody, whenever I've created
my slaves as pure monotheists many believers in one Oneness of Allah,
that's how I created them. Naturally, that's what they would
incline towards. For GIA Atooma Shayateen fetch Starla tomb
shaytans COMM And then they mislead them from their D they
divert them from their Deen well, how Ramat are they Hema Halal to
the home and they make haram for them? What I have made halal for
them. They tell them oh, don't do this, do this. Don't do this, do
this.
Then we've got another Hadith famous Hadith from Abu Huraira the
Allahu Anhu he says that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said that when ALLAH SubhanA wa and I told you this in
brief already, but I'll explain to you the full Hadith Allah subhanho
wa Taala when he created other money salaam
the brother who remembers Do you remember the creation of other
money cinemas? Well,
okay, that's too early, right? So, listen to this carefully. If you
don't understand something, just ask me. Okay? You're my go to
person now. Right? What's your name?
Dar. Mashallah. So, when Allah subhanaw taala, created other
mighty salaam He
rubbed his back. And from his back came every single person that was
going to occur until the Day of Judgment.
Now, according to the amorphous Sermo cartel, he says that Allah
subhanaw taala rubbed the right hand side of the back and that
Allah knows how best he did, because we don't believe in Allah
having physical characteristics, right? Allah rub the right hand
side, and from it came
the progeny, people progeny that were white,
they were moving. Then he wiped the left hand side, rub the left
hand side. And from that came a darker progeny. Again, similar
form but darker progeny. And Allah said to other Malays salaam, Adam,
this is these are your descendants, these are your
children.
And then after that, he addressed the progeny in their small
miniature phones and he said aren't your Lord and they said of
course.
Then Allah said that these ones that are brighter. They are for
Jana, with my mercy. They are going to be the US Hubballi Amin.
May Allah make us of them. So far, it looks good because we pray and
we believe and we come to the masjid. So it looks like in sha
Allah, we are have them. Right, we should be happy, we should be
satisfied with that. Right? So he said that, then he looked at the
ones that were overcast. And he said that these are going to go to
hellfire. And I don't care. And these are the people of the left.
Meaning these people I know in the future, that they're with their
free will. They're going to do bad. I've told them the right way
but they're going to refuse to listen and I know that from the
future. That's why it's not that I'm connected. You can't become
good. That's not what it is. Like, I know this from my foresight,
from my foreknowledge that these guys are gonna go to paradise.
These guys are gonna go to hellfire. May Allah not make us of
them. So far in sha Allah is looking good in sha Allah.
Then after that he put them back. This is interesting after he put
them back into the Melissa lungs back.
I don't know what size they were but Masha Allah Allah knows best.
He put them back. Now as
When it comes time for us who, for each individual to come into this
world, then it goes from the male. It then divides into the different
tribes and communities. And then that's why there's this whole
discussion about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam seed,
or light was with Ibrahim alayhi salam, when he was thrown into the
fire. How could you borrow money sunburn. It was with new hottie
Salaam in the UK, because no hate Islam is the great great
grandfather, the seed was there.
And likewise, then it says, From Abdulmutallab, even to Abu
Abdullah and from Abdullah, he went to Amina when she became
pregnant.
There's multiple durations that explain that. And then he was born
from Amina
the Prophet, sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam.
So that's how this event happened. And then everybody was put back
into the back of Adam. And eventually, the Hadith says that
they'll all come out from the wombs of the mothers, because
that's eventually where the seed goes and fertilizes the egg. And
then that's where everybody comes from.
Now, there's an interesting, written narration here, ignore
adversity. Allahu Anhu relates that, you know, when Allah
subhanaw, taala, extracted everybody, and he told us that
when it's on, these are all your progeny. These are all your
descendants.
He saw a group among them. There was like a group among among the
billions of people imagine there's how many billion people like now
right now in the world, about 8 billion or something. Right? So
imagine how many billions that other medicine was looking at. But
he saw a group in there that were very, very illuminated, bright and
lit.
He says, Who are these guys? Out of everybody else? They were like,
really, you know?
Oh, these are the Ambia these are the prophets, pure people.
Now, among all the prophets, he saw one who was very, very, very
bright,
like really sparkling. A shadow neuron. He says, Who is this? This
is that with Elisa?
How old is he? Meaning how old? Is he going to be any other money?
Some just thought about this? Then he's like, come on, bro. How long
life is he going to have 70 years. Other Muslim said that's so short.
70 years. That's so short. I've given him I've given him not like
give him I've given to him from my life. 40 years.
And other money sounds life was age was going to be 1000 years.
That was the early days. 1000 years.
Somebody died at 200 and something years of age in that time, and
they will feel sorry for him. He's died very young.
Because it was long age.
I think we're given less age. And I think maybe that's a blessing.
Because
only seven years to be safe. And then get out of here.
Because the world is difficult place especially nowadays the kind
of fitness that we have today. No, no history has ever seen it.
You know, like just think about it. I know there's an opportunity
as well you get but in terms of the fitna.
If you wanted Xena 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago, you'd have
to go out of your house and find someone maybe one person maximum
two people you know or whatever. Now you sit in your house on your
phone and you can in 10 minutes, you can have 20 different
partners.
Allah save us Allah protect us and doing whatever you want them to
do. Never in history, never in history you had that kind of
variety and access like 100 times or 1000 times more option Subhan
Allah
right it's just so hamdulillah Allah we are in this world we
thank Allah for being there but 7080 years and then just take a
safely with alphabet and with a full deen and with goodness, and
he's given us a little cuddle anyway, that gives you 70 What is
it? Alpha Shara about 70 years of which is about 1000 months
Hamdulillah that the bonus adds up. Allah make it easy. Allah make
it easy. I'm making it sound like the world is a very bad place.
It's a difficult place. It's a challenging place, especially
nowadays. Right? Allah make it easy though, because he can make
it easy.
Yes, I've given him for I've given him for two years now, eventually,
when otherwise carried on living and he had 40 years left.
So he was how old 19
In 60 years old molecular mode came to take his life.
Said what? I've got 40 years left 1000 years I'm supposed to get
what's going on? Didn't you give to your son, though, then you give
him 40 years.
I'm not going to give anybody have, I'm not going to give
anybody any parts of my life.
So he said is the other one is Sam forgot? Well, his descendants,
they also forget things now, forget fullness is part of our
life now. Right? But anyway, that's an interesting story.
So that's why everybody's life is very, very clearly written by
Allah subhanaw taala.
Now, a few things to understand from here
is that there's, Allah mentions two things of why he's reminding
us of this. He's reminding us so that we don't say that we didn't
know about this. Because if you don't know, then why should Allah
punish us? If you don't know that Allah is your Lord? How can you
get punished?
You can only be punished if you know what's the right thing. So in
the Hereafter, which we're going to have to face when it comes time
of our hisab. That's, in fact, in fact, it says that, you know, when
a person is about today, when they in the last breaths, the one thing
that happens at that time, when you have your last breath is that
everything becomes clear.
Everything becomes clear.
What does that mean? The HAC and the battle, the truth and
falsehood, everything becomes clear. Right?
So as you're dying, as you're breathing, the loss coming out of
this world, everything becomes clearer. So what happens then is
that we then once you know that, you know, it's like, you struggle
through your exam, you came out of the exam, there were a few
questions which you were unsure about, but you thought you got
them, right. And as you came out, it just clicked that that was
wrong.
You can't go back in can you?
Are you going to feel miserable or happy? Why do you feel miserable?
Because it just suddenly clicked? It was this was the correct
answer. But I wrote that answer.
Okay, when well, we can take another exam, but in the
Hereafter, you can't come back to this life. So you go in a really,
really miserable state, and they call that Sue will hurt him.
That's one expression of a decay, that he had an evil ending.
Because when you die, you are in a miserable state. And of course,
what's going to come is worse than and on the other hand, when you're
dying, and you know that people have had smiles on their face and
so on. These are the people who, like Yeah, it clicked and it was
right Hamdulillah I got full marks.
You know, that feeling? Allah Allah gave us that feeling on our
deathbeds. Again, in sha Allah, we are on the right track, sha Allah
and Allah keep us on the right track and get us even more
stronger. So that's what that's what happens. So Allah says, I
don't want you making an excuse. And number two, another big excuse
that people make. So
this works in a lot of ways. There's a lot of people who have
bad character, or bad practices or bad culture, cultural practices.
So when you tell them that, look, you shouldn't do it this way. Oh,
this is in our culture.
So what if it's in your culture, look at what's going on here. Your
culture is not that important. I'm not against culture. By the way, I
love culture, it's very important. You can't be in, in fact,
nobody can be without a culture. Everybody's got a culture. There's
some people who are born in Gujarati, Pakistani, Punjabi,
Bangladeshi, silletti homes, and they don't like some, they don't
like some aspects of their culture. So then they say, I don't
want this culture. What do you want them? You're gonna have to
have some culture. Some people Oh, I don't want to get married to
anybody from a culture. Why? Because they come with baggage.
They come with certain baggage. So who do you wanna marry? Oh, I want
to marry from that culture. They also come with a baggage, it's
just a different baggage.
This one, you know that when you don't know, that was the only
difference because everybody has a culture.
Like I give you an example, right? On the day of Eid. If somebody
says mine is just Islam, no culture. So I've thought about
this for a very long time. That's not really a good way of thinking
about it. Because I'll give you one question, right?
You know, in on the day of Eid, you want to spend it like a Muslim
according to Muslim culture. How would you do
what would you do on E to make it a Muslim cultural eat? Just just
Islam like proper Islam and nothing else? You will wake up in
the morning, do Fajr maybe do some tahajjud do Fajr then after that,
go early to the masala for the Eat prayer. Right? The tech be new
clothing, perfume, maybe eat something if it's eagle feather
you know, observe all of the sun right? You will go you will do
technique
You then you listen to Salah you listen to hotbar, Salah etc, you
will finish off you will meet people, I mean meeting people is
that what they promised us and do that and they have it. Did you say
eid mubarak? No there was a special dua he said, right? So
you're only going to do that and you're going to come back home and
then you're going to see all day and what?
What after that what happened after
the prophets Allah some did say that the day of Eid is for eating,
drinking and with the family.
How are you going to spend the time with your family? What does
the Sharia tell us?
That's according to your culture.
Whatever your culture is, as long as it's halal culture now, culture
is very important. You have to have a culture, you're going to
pick up some pieces that in this country, we mix our culture. So my
culture is very mixed. I'm originally from a Gujarati
culture, which are the Indian culture, but I have multiple other
cultural aspects. Right, which is in Hamdulillah. That's our new
reality, and it's only going to get more and more mixed, which is
no problem. What we have to be observant is that every one of our
Muslim cultures Bangladeshi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Somali,
Algerian mashallah, every one of them has some very, very good
points that comes from our Islamic aspects, but they also have some
bad aspects.
You guys are mostly Bangladeshi? Do you go? Do you know any bad
aspects of Bangladeshi culture?
You don't have to mention them right now. But, and, for example,
when you go back to Bangladesh, I go back to India, for example,
back to India. So I come from there. You know, I if I go to
India, you go to Bangladesh, and there's certain things you frown
upon. Right? Do you understand what I'm saying? That's not a
problem. You don't throw away your culture because of a few bad
things. But you don't stick to your bad culture. Stick to your
good culture, because there's good things in your culture.
All Muslim cultures have good properties. But then they also
have some weird things every now and then, especially in like
weddings and other weird traditions that you need to use
Islam as the criteria and refine our culture accordingly. So now, a
lot of people say that I can't have I can't pray five times in
the masjid. I only do Juma in the masjid. Why? Because that's our
culture.
What do you mean your culture? Well, my dad did that. My uncles
do that nobody in my family goes to the masjid. They go to work,
they come home, they watch TV, nobody goes to the masjid for Isha
prayer. On a normal day, they just go for Juma. That's our culture.
And you know why it's so bad is because they're going to be if
they did start going their own people are going to say algorythm
like, what are you doing?
Sufi Banga. You become very religious now, because they start
feeling guilty. So they're going to make a mess of them. In some
culture, in some cultures. In some families, there's no hijab. They
don't cover the hair, because they've never done so. And one
poor girl now a teenager or young girl, she gets hit out she wants
to cover. She finds that the biggest trouble she has is what
her mom's gonna say what her aunties are gonna say, what her
cousins are gonna say, like, what's wrong with you? That's not
part of our culture. What do you mean it's not part of our culture?
My culture is not the first thing my Eman is the first thing because
my culture is not going to help me in the hereafter. My culture helps
me in this world. But my Eman is going to help me in the hereafter.
Culture is a beautiful thing. Like if I know that you're from a
certain culture and you're coming to my house, I will cook
accordingly. So that I cater for you. I will treat you accordingly.
It's beneficial. Allah says in the Quran, that later our awful so
that you can gain recognition of one another. And you can
understand nothing wrong with culture. It's just the bad aspects
of culture, which are a problem. So now
a lot of people they ask that why did you become a scholar? Why did
you study and why did you choose this path? I usually first I used
to say oh because my father is an heirloom and a half is my uncle is
a half is My other uncle is a Mufti? My grandfather from both
sides a half is and one is an island, and and so on and so
forth. He runs in the family so I'm
it's not useful for you, is it?
If you don't have that, you're gonna think well, it's not useful
for you? Well, actually, it is useful for you. I know of families
who changed their culture.
One family I know nobody wore hardly anybody wore hijab in the
family in all of the brothers and they had like five, six children
each. Nobody wore hijab.
One of them went to study, one of the girls went to study
and she came back and she wanted to cover properly. It was tough.
It was difficult because now the men who used to come all the way
into the kitchen when prohibited from coming into the kitchen,
before they could just come all the way into the kitchen talk to
anybody they want because it was just very free mixing like that.
Now they couldn't come slowly, slowly. Nearly everybody wears
hijab now in that family took about 15
Here's 1055 1015 years, everybody wears hijab now.
Every single son in that family is half is of the Quran.
It changes you have to make the change up the change. Don't keep
saying it's not in our culture. It's not in my family tradition.
You make your family tradition, Uncle here, how many grandchildren
you have? Just give me a 10. Right? So now look at this. He's
got 10 grandchildren, right
10 grandchildren, from his 10 grandchildren, there's no stopping
them now. Okay, there's no stopping them he'll be gone from
this world will be gone. But those 10 will multiply and they all his
grandchildren. They're not his brother's grandchildren, his
sister's grandchildren, they're his grandchildren.
So
change the culture.
That's why Allah subhanaw taala says, otaku in nama Ashoka about
when I'm in Kabul, but couldn't remember him. So this is a
different example. They just saying that, Oh, our forefathers
they did shake. They made partners with Allah. And we were just the
next generation after them. Are you going to destroy us? Because
of what they did wrong? Well, why did you do wrong them? So we are
if we're more guided, and more particular, we ask Allah subhanaw
taala for change, and that we want to change it so that in sha Allah,
our families can also have all Hafeez of the Quran, and top
people in the world, successful people in this world, successful
people in the hereafter for that you have to have a vision and you
cannot go across. So the biggest lesson from this is that Allah
subhanho wa Taala
teaches us to go back to our roots and our roots are with Allah
subhanaw taala to recognize him, declare monotheism Oneness of
Allah subhanho wa Taala and stay on the path because Allah then
finally ends by saying, What can 30 can do for Cyril, Ayat, that
this is the way we make our signs very, very clear, so that they
will return to the right path. We might have spent 1520 30 years
doing wrong, but now we want to do the right thing and we want to
make that change and Allah subhanaw taala will help us and
Allah will help us may Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us to feel
may Allah subhanho wa Taala accept from us. And may Allah bless this
month of Ramadan, while he read that one annual Hamdu lillahi
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