Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections Only the Good Remains
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The speakers discuss the importance of the Quran's statement about survival of the good and false positives and false negatives of the human community. The survival of the good is a survival of the good, not a benefit for people. The discussion also touches on the legacy of the f reading and the importance of benefiting the entire community, particularly in addressing evil. The speakers emphasize the importance of helping people in the face of evil and offering good deeds. They also encourage people to take online lectures and practice learning seriously for the Islamic essentials course.
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Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
Back to our Ramadan reflections. Let us start with the verse of the
Quran Allah subhana wa Tada. His words are all below him in a
shaytani R rajim Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim.
mezzetta do fail. How would you feel?
Well, I'm
Ferran Nassif. I am going to fill out. Get Urtica yobbery below who.
But I'm Meza. Do. Habu jufa Well, I'm Ferran Nassif, I am going to
fill out get rica Yada rebula Who and
this is another verse from Surah two, right? Verse 17, Surah, two,
right. And in here, Allah subhanaw taala is striking another example
he says that he's striking an example as we've seen from other
verses. So what Allah subhanaw taala is saying that as far as the
scum is concerned, then that will disappear, like froth that is
cussed out, you'll hobble jufa and scum will disappear eventually,
right? But that
which is for the good of mankind, that which is of benefit to
mankind, will remain on earth.
For I am going to fill out murmur young Pharaoh, Nurse famco, to
fill out that which is a benefit to mankind will remain on the
earth. And Thus does Allah set forth parables. This is how Allah
subhanaw taala provides examples. Again, this is a major principle
in our Islam that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala mentions in the Quran. This
essentially speaks about the workings of the universe, this is
speaking about how our human community prospers our human
community moves on and how it deals with things, how he deals
with the good, and how he deals with the bad.
We learn this from the Quran. But we also see this played out in
history. So this is just the reality. The Quran mentions
regarding a point of history, and we see that good is always going
to be an enduring quality, even after hundreds of years, it's the
good that will continue. And that will remain and people will
benefit from today, people they speak about, they quote, many,
many people of the past, they've gone we don't even know about
their lives. And sometimes we know that they've said a good word, we
know that they've done a good deed. And that is what will
remain. That's what Allah subhanaw taala says that things that are
going to be of benefit to the community and of people that will
remain and that will endure. And that will sustain and that is what
will continue.
Now, what's really interesting is that we have the same survival of
the fittest. In Islam, I think it would be survival of the good
survival of the virtue survival of that which is beneficial is not
only a survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest can play a
part in that, you know, to sometimes do good, then you have
to be fit in a particular sense, in a particular way. So we're not
dismissing the concept of survival of the fittest, there's some
probably some truth to that as well. But this is spiritually the
fittest, and something which is a benefit for the people do things
which are of benefit to others. Leave things in this world. That's
the only legacy you can leave, what legacy are we going to leave
if it's not a benefit for people, because it's people who will
continue that legacy try as much as we wish, right? To promote
something that people don't enjoy that people don't take benefit
from? Where's that gonna go because it's people that keep
things alive. It's people who think something is worth it. So
they keep it alive. they perpetrate it, they continue it,
they proliferate it, they promote it, they
spread it, only people can do that. So it has to be a benefit
for the people. The lasting nature of good is what Allah subhanaw
taala is speaking about. And Allah subhanaw taala speaks about that,
which is scum, essentially. Xzibit is scum. It's like foam. When you
have a torrent when you have a lot of water that is gushing forth
somewhere. There's all that froth at the top. And that froth doesn't
have any kind of
stay, it eventually just disappears. There's nothing in it.
Right? Eventually it just goes it's just created by the movement
of the water and then after it goes off, when you have a deluge
and you have another flood when you have all of this rubbish that
goes onto it. That's just taken away, nothing stays. So it's only
the good that will remain.
Whatever is not good or positive, are useful. That doesn't
contribute to man's survival, human survival or comfort or
progress is going to be considered branded
Skam in the Quran.
So again, Allah subhanaw taala mentions in a very, very general
way in a very, very comprehensive way. It's a very wide ranging term
that Allah subhanaw taala uses, for my info nurse, anything of
benefit for the people. That's what he said. And this doesn't
have to be just religious aspects here, this is just anything
beneficial for the people, as long as it doesn't lead to their
tyranny or their arrogance or the showing off ostentatious or
something like that. So anything which is like that is just going
to lack stability, and constancy.
You have mashallah, you know, in some cases, you have sudden
radical movements, right, that aim to make certain changes or
whatever, but they have no permanent form, because they were
not really of benefit, they didn't really have much good in them.
Scum generally appears at the top comprising of the dirt and the
impurity. And it doesn't have any benefit for mankind. So it will
just disappear with the movement of the flood or the subsistence of
it, or it's relegated to the side and fall down into the gutters.
It'll just be relegated to the side. Nobody cares about that.
Nobody values, those kinds of things. It just doesn't have the
capacity for survival.
Allah's law
entails that that scum cannot last for long. froth does not last for
long.
In fact, if such things did continue to endure, then it is
going to cause a problem for people because it's rubbish.
That's why we're actually causing that today, because we've
introduced unnatural things into the world that do not decompose.
The can't be left to the Earth's, to the Earth's own processes, like
plastic. So for example, I remember this was 20 years ago,
somebody had visited Yemen. And he said that, you know, in places
like Yemen, I've seen it in India as well, we used to eat something,
and you just throw the banana peel outside, you throw
the shells from the peanuts from the pistachios, or whatever, you
just throw it outside outside the train window, for example.
They used to provide tea in clay pots, and you just throw them out.
Literally, I used to feel really weird throwing that stuff out. But
then I understood that while it's dirty, and they should be probably
a better way to do that. It just used to be subsumed by the Earth.
But now we've introduced plastics, right, which is obviously coming
from the petroleum but it doesn't it lasts too long. And that's why
we're having problems everywhere, including the oceans.
So we're introducing that. So now to give a few examples about the
good. Islam has always been a good factor, it's of benefit to people.
So even though Muslims were defeated by the Tatas by the
Mongols, Muslims were defeated by the Mongols and they came to a
brink of destruction. People were worried it was one of the worst
Carnage and cleansing that had ever been seen before one of the
worst scourge to be visited upon this ummah. But mashallah because
there's benefit in Islam. Eventually it took over the
Mongols themselves and they became Muslim. And today you have so
many. I mean, the title is all Muslim today in Russia, in Ukraine
and many other countries of the world.
So the Muslims may have one have
lost the battle, but they're invaluable message made the title
submissive to Islam.
And this is the law of Allah subhanaw taala This is the law of
nature, that benefits beneficial things will always last. That's
why Muslims as a whole we're not talking about just individuals but
we as Muslims as a whole we need to benefit the community. This is
the point about this that the Muslims need to benefit the
community. You have to remember that anything which is for Allah
is also considered to be good.
Imam Malik Rahim Allah wrote a book called The more top it's a
collection of Hadees probably one of the first and most authentic
hadith collections. It was written before Buhari, right it was
written before Sahil Buhari as well. And after he wrote that it
must have become a bit popular. There's other people who also
started compiling books of a similar nature. And somebody
mentioned that to Mr. Murray that look, there's other people who are
doing as well. He said, That's fine. He says Maka, Ana de la he
fought way up for
that which is going to be for Allah that will remain. So that
which is good, mashallah always remains our deeds. I mean, if I
expand this idea, our deeds that I mean, our deeds will remain for
the hereafter. I mean, I know the verse talks about that which is of
benefit to people, but this is beneficial to us. Our deeds remain
with us in the hereafter. Remember a good word that you've said to
somebody you've benefited somebody with a good word. You've made them
feel good. You've made their day
that's going to remain with them for a while. Just remember,
whenever you said good to somebody, you know that imagine
that there is somebody who you see in the masjid, or you see as a
neighbor or whatever, you don't really discuss much. And one day
you finally bump into them somewhere and you start speaking,
and they say something really nice to you. Believe me, that's going
to remain with you, that's going to remain with us. And we're going
to be thinking about this. And every time we think of that
person, we're going to think of what they've said, or if they did
something good for us, that's going to remain, people love when
people do things of benefit to them. That's just so amazing.
Right? That is something that you always appreciate. And that is why
good character,
that which you do of benefit to others, which has to come from
good character is what's going to remain and endure, even after your
death. Just think about it. Why do you remember certain people who
have passed away
because of a good quality? Right. And generally, if it's for if it's
for evil, then it's a different kind of reminder. But what we do
is we actually remember people for the good that they've done in the
community. That's why you even feel obliged to go and attend a
janazah, even though it is nobody to see whether you came or not.
Nobody's obliging you to go. And subhanAllah. Above all, I think
the last point I want to make mention of this for this verse is
that I think the best goodness, we can leave. And the best gift that
we can give to other people is righteous children. That's the
best gift we can leave and leave in this world. Because when we go,
this is what we're going to leave behind is going to be our
children, most of the time, parents died before children. So
if we can train our children and nurture them, and give them that
tarbiyah, to be done in a proper way, that they become good
citizens of the world, good vice germs of Allah subhanaw taala,
then in sha Allah, that's an amazing thing. And that will
remain. And you see this that where some people have taught
their children, well, you actually see that, that you can't miss it.
You know, when you travel with new people, you can't really see it
among I mean, you can sometimes see it among local people as well.
For example, I know these two brothers, right, they both have
different businesses. They're very, very helpful people. Both of
these guys are very helpful people, they help a lot of people
they help a lot of, they help a lot of organizations, right. And
they both have different businesses. And I know both of
them to be very generous. So yesterday, I went to a masjid. And
there's a man, an older man who came to shake my hands and he
said, I am so and so's father. And I said, mashallah, you know, so he
lives in a different area. And then after that, after the burn, I
said that I was going to stay there for Iftar. And
just about, you know, sometime before he thought he comes, and he
had these gradual, you know, because the masjid gives out
normal dates, but he had some idea in his pocket. And out of that, he
shared them with me. He said, No, you have these, these are agile,
and he shared at least three of us with me from the few that he had
in his pocket. I don't know how many he had left for himself. And
I just saw that mashallah the generosity and the goodness of
benefiting others runs in that family. That is what you can leave
behind. If you do that, yourself, your children will pick that up,
and then their children, and that will continue like that inshallah.
And that's one of the best ways we can Inshallah, do this, so that we
don't leave scum behind. We don't leave trash behind. We don't leave
rubbish behind, and we don't leave evil behind. May Allah subhanaw
taala give us the trophy.
That 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 the exam essential
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'll 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 and Salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.