Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections The Qur’an Explains the Reality of the World Part 1

What we have to also remember is that the realities of things don't

necessarily are not necessarily different in this world and in the

hereafter. So if the life of this world is the most important, well,

the life in the hereafter is the most important as well. So the

life can't just be important in this world. It's actually

important in the Hereafter, because it's a reflection of this

life of this world. In fact, it's going to be much more critical in

the hereafter of what we've done in this world, for example, right?

So Allah subhanho wa Taala says, In another verse, gave attack

following a bit Allah he will continue and Wharton that are here

come, how can you deny Allah when you are dead, where you are

nothing, you are non existent, and then he gave you life? He gave you

life. And if you look at this verse, this is the first bounty

Allah subhanaw taala speaks about that the first bounty of the human

being is being given life. That's our first bounty and that's our

first gift. That's why that is the first thing that we've been given.

And that's life.

Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Alhamdulillah wa

salatu salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala early he was so

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or any Raji me Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim

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Allah we do your brothers and sisters.

Today we are looking at this verse of sortal. Hadith. It's one of the

Jawaharlal Quran, one of the true gems of the Quran. And that really

glitter for us because it really has

an understanding of the reality of this world and this life. And I

think once you read this, regardless of what state we're in,

whether we're abiding and understanding this and abiding by

it, or whether we're not and we are enjoying our life and

indulging in our life.

I think everybody can recognize that what this verse is saying is

the absolute truth because deep down we understand it because it's

given such an example, such a parable, such an explanation that

it's absolutely amazing. This is verse 20, of certain Hadith, this

is what Allah subhanaw taala says, Allah subhanho wa Taala is saying,

Allah more animal hair to dunya that no all of you know that the

life of this world is nothing but a play like LeBron Willa one

amusement or distraction, Xena tune which means adornment

embellishment. And then he says what the far from Boehner come and

pump mutually showing off between one another and ostentation

showing off rivalry almost and MacArthur and decathlon which

means multiple you can say both the Fairholme Boehner comb and the

Catherine is like a mutual kind of boasting and the Catherine is you

can say a multiplying just wanting to get extra just wanting

abundance just wanting to have more than one another I'll her

como taka for the same word is used as well ticker for

Phil unworldly well I will add in, in wealth, in your money in your

assets and in your children. So enriches and in children is mutual

boasting and multiplying among yourselves in rivalry between your

children in terms of your riches and your children. So that's what

Allah subhanaw taala mentions as being the reality of this world

thereafter that Allah subhanaw taala says

commodity lathe and so he provides an example and he says that here

is a similar tool. This is like a similar tool. This is like an

example. Right? How rain how rain and the growth which it brings

forth. So camera 30 lathe in eligible California and Roberto,

how rain and the growth which it brings forth so anytime there's

rain, there's gonna be some kind of greenery some something that

comes because of that, Mashallah. What that does is that that

provides delight to the hearts of the tillers to the farmers to

those who grow the crops grow

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but soon it with us and then you will see it grow yellow

for Tara houmas Farah through my Hakuna Matata and then it becomes

dry and then it crumble crumbles, right, it crumbles away, or Phil

are here at either Bucha deep, then Allah says but in the

hereafter there is a penalty severe for the devotees of wrong

as Pickthall says, and but there's also forgiveness from Allah and

His good pleasure for the devotees of Allah. And what is the life of

the world but goods and chattels of deception?

Material rule, that's how pitfall translates it. So we're going to

look at this verse because I think it really seeks to remind us, I

mean, it reminds us and hopefully Insha Allah, we can be reminded by

this so that we can temper down our situation. Those of us who

live in the West, you know, we can say that we actually enjoy

literally

a life of the top 10% lifestyle of the top 10% of the world is all

there's always going to be a few people who are very, very, very

extra wealthy. I mean, you know, we can't compete with them. But

just in terms of a standard life, the lifestyle that we enjoy here

in the West, I mean, this is this is what it is we have, we enjoy

the life of 10% of the top 10% of the world, population, Masha,

Allah hamdulillah and may Allah grant us Apphia with that, and

don't allow us to use it for mischief. So now what Allah

subhanho wa Taala is reminding us of this verse of sorbitol Hadith

verse 22. Put this verse in perspective, the previous verses

of Surah Hadith were we're living in a Kaffir okay, that will be it

now, like I was humbled Yeah, heme, which is actually speaking

about the disbelievers and what's going to happen to them. So now

Allah subhanaw taala wants to warn us that we don't want to go into

the wrong direction, and we don't want to end up in hellfire. So

what Allah subhanaw taala says in this verse, essentially, the whole

purpose of this first is to just, you can say, demote the quality of

this world, demote the value of this world in our eyes so that we

don't give it too much value. Right? That's really the

perspective of this is that it's to demote the focus on this world

to show its reality. And mashallah, the example that Allah

subhanaw taala has given us it's amazing, and hopefully, I mean, it

will drive the point home for all of us. And showing that the real

life is the life of the hereafter. I know we keep saying this, but

this one really puts into perspective for us. So Allah

subhanaw taala describes this as a plaything, an amusement, a

distraction, a point of just showing off any of these things

that you know that these things are things that we should actually

look down upon, rather than actually value things that are

just for playthings. Because the hereafter is what's really going

to matter and if these things don't benefit us in the Hereafter,

and what's the point of all of those things. So now, Allah

subhanaw taala first mentioned it Allah more animal higher dunya

Allah subhanho wa Taala refers to the life of this world. Now that's

very interesting that Allah subhanho wa Taala discusses life

here at Hyatt Hyatt means life and his mentioning of hayati is

actually very, very important. It's actually completely on point.

I mean, I can't say it anymore. The reason for that is I don't

know I don't think we've ever probably even thought about this.

But Allah subhanaw taala has made life the most important thing for

us if we were to say that what's one of the bounties that is

actually the most important bounty for us, you will realize that it's

actually life because without life, you can't enjoy anything.

And you can't even prepare for the hereafter and you can't accumulate

anything for that. So that's why life itself the hieratic dunya is

actually a bounty in itself. That's why Allah subhanaw taala

says, in Niger Ilan, Phil or the Khalifa called the ini, and then

eventually caught me I know my letter, I don't want that I'm

going to create a vice chairman on this earth and then eventually

after the angels, they question him regarding that. They're

wondering why he's creating the human being in this world. Allah

subhanho wa Taala says, I know what you don't know. Now I have to

remember that if it wasn't part of Allah's wisdom, and if it wasn't

the correct thing to do, then Allah subhanaw taala would not

have created life in this world for us. So that goes to show that

life is Allah subhanaw taala is creation. Allah subhanho wa Taala

says in Surah Mulk Allah the Holika Mota will hire Leah will

welcome you can accent or Amira. He is the one who creates death

and he's the one who creates life. Allah subhanho wa Taala if he's

creating something, it can't be for nothing. Okay? It can't be for

nothing. Allah doesn't create things for nothing. Allah credit

doesn't create redundant things that means life can't be

redundant. There's a

value to this life. So we don't just live this life. But there's a

real life in the hereafter let us not follow in this normal idea

that Let's just enjoy our life to the fullest because everything

that's created, especially nowadays the world has just become

like that. It's just about making us enjoy life to the fullest as

they say, of course, there's a proper way to enjoy life to the

fullest, it's just about changing the paradigm. And then you can

actually enjoy life, but it will actually be an investment for the

hereafter. If we don't have that right, then we'll enjoy this life

maybe right? You will enjoy everything that's unavailable.

That's an offer, you'll feel about bad about what you can't get. And

you'll be excited by what you do get. But then after that, there's

nothing left. So this life firstly, let's understand that

it's actually a really, really valuable asset that Allah subhanaw

taala has created and that he's given and chosen us for it among

everybody that he could he could have created. So then Allah

subhanaw taala says, for her symptom, and nama Hakuna calm. I,

Bertha were unknown, Elena to Joan, do you do you? Do you just

think do you do you conceive? Or do you think that we just created

you redundant for no reason whatsoever? Like that just flies

in the face of atheist essentially, who are people who

deny God who deny any kind of reality of the hereafter? Allah

subhanho wa Taala also says, well now hold off on a summer well,

although I've been a homer belt Isla, we have not created the

heavens and the earth, you know, in vain or redundantly or without

purpose. Right. So it shows us an NL Hayato dunya Nerima. This life

is a NEMA. In fact, Bill here. So according to one of them, FSC says

that it's actually our principle, our capital, it's the origin, it's

the foundation of anything that we can do, if you don't have a life,

we can't do anything. So that that point is really, really well made

and very important, right? It is the foundation of every other

bounty that you can receive.

Now, what we have to also remember is that the realities of things

don't necessarily, are not necessarily different in this

world and in the hereafter. So if the life of this world is the most

important, well, the life in the hereafter is the most important as

well. So the life can't just be important in this world. It's

actually important in the Hereafter, because it's a

reflection of this life of this world. In fact, it's going to be

much more critical in the hereafter of what we've done in

this world, for example, right? So Allah subhanho wa Taala says, In

another verse, gave her the Quran a biller, he will continue and

worth and that are here come, how can you deny Allah when you are

dead, where you are nothing, you are non existent. And then he gave

you a life, he gave you life. And if you look at this verse, this is

the first bounty Allah subhanaw taala speaks about that the first

bounty of the human being is being given life. That's our first

bounty. And that's our first gift. That's why that is the first thing

that we've been given. And that's life.

Now, all of this is just to show you that the life of this world is

not necessarily a bad thing at all. In fact, it is not a bad

thing. It is not something which is bad, it is not supposed to be

bad, it's supposed to be good, because it is the stepping stone

for the hereafter. So don't think of this life as a bad thing. Just

change it to be the right thing, because it is a bounty, what we've

done is we've obscured it, we've misunderstood it, that that's why

that's happening. So what it means then, is that anybody who will

turn this life, anybody who is going to turn this life and focus

it for the hereafter, right? In fact, let's talk about the person,

anybody who focuses this life on this world only, and they don't,

there's no hereafter that features into that. And there's no

obedience in that. And it's just obedience of the shaytaan instead,

and just full of fulfilling one's whims and desires and, and

fantasies, then that is what's bad. So there is a way to make it

bad. But it's not intrinsically bad. There is a way to mess this

life up, which is to just indulge yourself, but it's not

intrinsically bad. It's actually extremely huge potential for good.

So now, in order to underscore this, Allah subhanho wa Taala does

the following he explains the different aspects of this life and

this is what really drives the point home.

Firstly, he calls it live. Right? That it's Laban. Right, which

means that it is play. And what is play play is fairly low Sybian.

Right. Play is the activity of children. This is what children

do, and they're completely halal for children to play. Don't

deprive your children are playing. Don't say it's bad, because that's

what children do they play. That's how they learn through play,

right? So they play, right. And what they do is they get tied in

playing, they play, they play, they play, even if they're

fasting, they play, they play they play, and they get tired of they

eventually tie themselves out

But there'll be tired and they'll still be playing, they will be

tired and they'll still be playing. They love to play like

that. They can play football for hours, they can play outside for

hours they can do, they can play on computer, they can play on

games for hours, and hours and hours. And even if they're tired,

they can carry on playing. What a beautiful example that is. Don't

become like children, that the world, You're tiring yourself out,

but you're still after it. It's just like that. What a beautiful

example that is. Right? You know, when I when I read this verse, I

was like, well, subhanAllah I mean, we understand if you look at

it from a children's perspective, as adults, when we look at humans,

like how can they just carry on playing like that? They don't even

get tired? Well, they are getting tired, but they just still enjoy

it so much that they keep going on about it, then what do they have

to show for it? What does the child have to show at the end of

play nothing, but that's fine. That's just his way of growing up.

But for adults to play, and literally, they are playing now,

Allah subhanho wa Taala is talking about doing things and making it

look like play and treating it like play. But literally, I mean,

what a world we're living in today that there are multiple ways as

probably never in history before, that we've got ways for adults to

play. Like, think about that, like 100 years ago, if an adult wanted

to play, you know, you'd have to go outside and do something

physical. But now you can actually literally play what children play,

right, just maybe in a more advanced way, or something like

that, you know, games and Candy Crush, and you know, you just kind

of just play Subhanallah you know, even if you're sitting waiting for

something, there's just multiple ways of playing. Now, children

pass the time in doing that. So we do the same thing humans do you

know, adults do the same thing. And

the question is that, where does all of this get you? So

commentator would say something like, in the typical material,

then Kobe minerais refer either all of these things that you've

just spent your time playing, right? It just finishes and

there's no outcome. There's nothing to show for it. There's no

fruits of that labor. Essentially, that's what he's saying that

there's no

there's no fruits of this labor to show. So don't make your world

like that. Don't make your life like this, that it'd be like a

plaything. So that was the first example I think that's very apt.

Second example A second thing that Allah so a second description,

Allah Subhana Allah says the level now according to some of them are

first series, some people live and lower together. But strictly

speaking, lightly display and low is anything that distracts. It's

anything that occupies from something else, usually from

something more important, but it's anything that will occupy you, and

anything that will distract you. So Lucha is a distraction. You can

say, alright, it'll hurt. We use that word, it'll hurt. So it's

allowed. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala says that it's also Allah

when he, according to some officers, they say that he

mentioned law, because this is what younger people do them.

Right? This is what youth do. So children play and youth they pass

time, right, they just pass time, essentially, you can call that a

pastime or occupation.

Again, the same question that arises is that when you pass your

time, just like that, you just had, you know, you've just gone

out and you've just messed around, and you've just bent it a bit,

you've just had a meal or whatever, at the end of it, what

have you achieved, that is beneficial for you for this world

and the Hereafter, you may have even argued, you may have even had

a problem, you may have even broken up with somebody, but at

the end of the day, Liab, CA, il hestra. Right, and especially if

you're a youth who should be making up, you know, his adult

life and be preparing for that, and be getting serious, to be able

to get married, and to be able to have a home and so on, you're

going to think you've wasted a lot of time, especially if you're

occupying yourself in this multiple times. So essentially,

that's what's happening, there's going to be a hazard and a sense

of loss, that you've just wasted your time in doing that. Right. So

and the reason for that is there anybody who's prudent and

intelligent, after wasting time, they will usually think that my

life is gone, that part of my life has gone. Now we're not saying

that this take a summer recreation time, recreation time is

completely fine. Okay, that's completely fine. This is speaking

about the situation where you literally just keep wasting time

over and over again. So even the pleasures that we're seeking, they

end, eventually, they keep ending, and we feel bad, but we still want

to do it. Again, this is the nature of the world. It's the

challenge that we have, right? It's just the just the way it is.

So the problem with all of that is that it's just becomes a

continuous problem, that you want to do it again, but you feel bad,

but then you want to do it again. And this is for the people who

think if you don't think then you'll just carry on doing this

and you literally wasted years and years of your life. Right? May

Allah protect us from that. The third thing that Allah subhanaw

taala speaks about is that the dunya is Zina, right is adornment.

It's embellishment, it's beautifying something, right. It's

making something beautiful, putting me

Upon putting nice embellishments on to make your house look better

and nice decoration, you know, putting up stuff to make it look

better, right? adornments and everything like that.

He says that well, this is usually what's allowed for women to do,

because they're allowed to do that. And we also do this in order

to cover up anything which is ugly. We also embellish things to

cover up what is simple, plain or maybe ugly. So we try to make it

look better. Right? We try to make it look better. So you look at

structures, you look at buildings, you look at cars, you look at

whatever else there is, right? You try to make something look better,

and you're augmenting it and you're enhancing it. That's the

purpose of it. However, at the end of the day, right, what is the

original state of that thing won't change because this is just an

embellishment, it's just a facelift. It's just a veneer

underneath. It's what it is. I mean, these shells, they just

veneer, they're not real oak, they just veneered oak inside. It's

just, it's just particles, it's not solid wood inside. Right, this

would cost a lot more money if it wasn't a lot heavier, right. But

that's what it is outside. It looks oak finish, but that's what

you call a veneer. It's just an outside venue. So he's saying that

the same thing that dunya does for you when you go after things that

are not functional and not necessary. It's just a veneer.

It's just an embellishment.

It you just do that to basically complete something which is

defective, complete something which is incomplete to make

something look better. That's what you're basically doing with all of

these things. If no Ibis or the Allahu Anhu says that the verse in

this particular point says, and they'll Kaffir yesterday due to

the hayati because they're busy in the dunya. That a disbeliever for

his entire life, he is going to be spending it to seek an

embellishment of the world during the AMA will occur no focus on the

hereafter. Is that what we're doing it for as well. Right? Is

that what we're doing it for as well? Well, we shouldn't be doing

so. But a lot of people are in that. So that's why Allah subhanho

wa Taala describes it as an embellishment. The point of a

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