Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections Only the Good Remains

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.