Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections Rise Again the Will of Allah

I'm gonna give you something that's really, really interesting.

There's a book here

Qurani. If that's right, this is a book by Sheikh Abdullah Hassan Ali

nadwi. Essentially what this book is, it's a collection of the

reflections on various Quranic verses by the great chef, I will

Hassan Ali nadwi Rahim Allah. And in one of his reflections,

actually on this verse, he says something very, very important,

right? And I'm going to read it to you, right? In translation, he

says, in my opinion, all the above meanings are implied the multiple

meanings from this verse are implied, but let us not therefore

assume that the fate of Turkey is sealed and that it is destined to

remain forever an Islamic country. Okay, this is very, very

pertinent. It is not preordained that Turkey will be immersed

forever in ignorance and darkness. He's obviously writing this time

when the Khilafah had been dismantled, the Ottomans have been

exiled. Right. And it's under this very secular liberal state now,

right, the Advan has been banned. And, you know, that was a really,

really miserable time when I have heard scholars, you know, from the

1950s and they just have this reminiscing of the past and this

really sense of this major sense of loss. I mean, many of us were

born much later so we never had any reference to the Khilafah as

such, right.

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh so dear brothers and

sisters, Ramadan Mubarak to you. And we ask Allah subhanaw taala to

benefit us through these verses of the Quran. today. I've got a verse

from Surah Al Baqarah. I'll just read it first. Are all the

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So another thing is that he tells us about

the passage also talks about the importance of true faith.

And true faith has to permeate every aspect of our life.

Because Allah subhanaw taala is reiterating faith, he is he

showing here his power, and that means that we have to have faith

in him.

So I think the big point here is very, very interesting, is that

since about the last 100 250 years,

after the very glorious period of the Ummah, of the various

different Muslim dynasties and ruling systems, and then being

being super powers in multiple places that you know, we know

about through our history.

There's been a lot of suffering. From the late 1800s, early 1900s,

there's been a lot of suffering, I think things have become at least

slightly better, right? And there's a sense of despondency,

and there's a sense of hopelessness, there's a sense of

estrangement that sets into people and then for some people, it's

actually the cause of losing their faith as well. You know, when

there's all misery, they just, they think that the grass is

greener on the other side, little realizing that it might be

greener, in a sense, however, the roots are bad. So it might look

green, but it's because of something else. And there's no,

there's no substance, there's no substance there. But it does, it

is definitely a cause of a lot of concern and a lot of worry and

loss of faith for a lot of people. I think this is a very, very

pertinent example of the fact that Allah subhanaw taala brings it

back and we've had hurdles in the past you should read the saviors

of Islamic spirit by Sheikh Abdullah Hassan Ali nadwi. Right,

which I found extremely, extremely beneficial, where he talks about

how there were so many downs but then there was always another

afterwards. Yes, it could take 100 years for another up to come. But

I think Inshallah, we are

Definitely in an up, yes, we're struggling. It's a struggling to

get up. But hamdulillah it's not so bad, right? It's been worse.

Let's put it that way. Right? It's all relative. And at the end of

the day, what are we going to do? Whichever window of time that we

have appeared in this world? We could have been, you know, we

could have existed in the time of the Prophet salallahu Salam, we

could have been here during our the Allah one. We could have been

here during times Salahuddin, we could have been here during the

time of the glorious period of you know, Sulaiman and Salim and

others, you know, of Mamet of Sultan Mohamed fatti. We could

have been there we could have been, that's when we could have

been alive. Our 5070 100 years would have been then. But no,

Allah chose us now what are we going to do about that? Well, we

have to do the best that we can, and have hope that things will

come up because we've seen in our life that things go down, things

come up, the night ends, the day comes, the storm ends, and the

freshness comes back, autumn, winter ends and spring comes back.

That's a cycle of Allah subhanaw taala. And it's happened so many

times the Sahaba struggled, then they came back, and then they came

up, the Prophet saw some words and his followers are persecuted at

the beginning. But then after that Allah subhanaw taala showed them

great glory, as long as they did not stop. As long as they did not

stop. A lot of people lose their faith over this, right? There's

certain places in the world where some Muslim or otherwise does

something bad. And then there's a big backlash, and that causes

regular Muslims to lose their faith. It's kind of crazy. It's

just because humans are full of emotions. And if they don't have

enough knowledge, especially of our history, and of the Quran and

Sunnah. And if they're not in touch with the Quran, and Sunnah,

then you can't, who's going to give you that? Who's going to give

you that strength? Who's going to give you the encouragement for the

fortitude? So that's why I'm going to leave you with something that

was really really, really interesting, right? I'm gonna give

you something that's really, really interesting. There's a book

here.

Qurani, if that's right, this is a book by Sheikh Abdullah Hassan Ali

nadwi. Essentially, what this book is, it's a collection of the

reflections on various Quranic verses by the great chef, I will

Hassan Ali nadwi Rahim Allah. And in one of his reflections,

actually, on this verse, he says something very, very important,

right? And I'm going to read it to you. Right? In translation, he

says, in my opinion, all the above meanings are implied the multiple

meanings from this verse are implied. But let us not therefore

assume that the fate of Turkey is sealed and that it is destined to

remain forever an Islamic country. Okay, this is very, very

pertinent. It is not preordained that Turkey will be immersed

forever in ignorance and darkness. He's obviously writing this time

when the Khilafah had been dismantled, the Ottomans have been

exiled. Right. And it's under this very secular liberal state now,

right, that Yvan has been banned. And, you know, that was a really,

really miserable time when I have heard scholars, you know, from the

1950s. And they just have this reminiscing of the past and this

really sense of this major sense of loss. I mean, many of us were

born much later. So we never had any reference to the Khilafah as

such, right. But I only understood it later where they were coming

from. So shake up with Hassan and he is saying that look at this

state of Turkey, which was the center of the caliphate center of

the Muslim world. It's become you can almost say like non Muslim,

you know, without faith, right? Other than his band, I mean, how

much worse can it get? So he says that no, it's not going to stay in

ignorance and darkness forever. Appointed reference, he says is

made in the above passage to food and drink, which remained

unaffected. Using the same logic, divine guidance. embodying a life

sustaining message can never become out of date. If food which

is nourishment, biological nourishment, for the for the

stomach, and for the body, then why then our spiritual nourishment

because Allah says Allah Who multimodal Allah is going to

complete this faith, he's going to take it to the end, right? Whether

we're on it or not, but Allah is going to take the faith today in

sha Allah, Allah keep us with it. He says that just like

life sustaining food can stay alive and keep that alive for 100

years and not very right then why not a message? How can that ever

come out of date when it's not something perishable anyway? For a

loan ensures mankind's deliverance. This he says that

this truth is actually stated in the Quran does

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Laura? Ooh, for Rahim. So it will dakara verse 143. And Allah would

never make your faith have no effect. Like make it redundant and

wasted. Your faith will have a benefit for you. Right? So and the

stronger your faith the more benefit will have for us, for

Allah is surely full of kindness and mercy to all people. Then he

says this verse holds up

much hope and renews our confidence. It boosts our morale,

putting to rest despair and skepticism. Since Allah does not

let ordinary food rot, the Muslim community stands a fair chance, a

solid chance of survival, I would say, for the message assigned to

Muslims is of immense benefit and value for the whole of mankind.

That message has to continue. Let us take it up. And then he says to

me, the Quran contains a glad tiding glut and remember, he's

written writing this like 50 years ago, I would think that Turkey and

the Turks who are for centuries a force to be reckoned with in

Europe will soon be reinvigorated. And he's passed away. shakable has

ended he passed away in 1999, just before the millennium, right?

Literally on the 31st of December 1999.

He didn't see Turkey grow. He hasn't seen Turkey and it's in its

current state. But this was his prediction. He says they were

forced to be reckoned with in Europe, they will soon be

reinvigorated. Subhanallah if only he knows if only he could know

Islam will be revived in its full glory. That's just the next step

in sha Allah. And that's why

he then says

the verse again as a sort of early embryo and verse 27 to lead you

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documentation will be highly hisab which means, Oh Allah, it is you

who cause night to gain on day and cause day to gain on night. You

bring the living out of the dead, and the dead out of the living.

And you then give, I'm going to add this hidden at this but and

you can give totally without any kind of number of sustenance and

provision to whom ever you wish. So let's leave it there for today.

But that's a really, really powerful message from this verse.

May Allah subhanaw taala allow that to happen in our lifetimes

and allow us to be instrumental in the Dawa Jazak Allah, Allah bless

you all, as salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.

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this more sustained study as well. JazakAllah Heron Salaam Alaikum

Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh