Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections The Ultimate King Tafsir of Aal Imran 26 & 27 Part 1
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Then, of course after that, in a very short amount of time in just
decades, your religion pretty much went around the world faster than
anything before it went all around the world and then sustained
itself. Yes, we have been persecuted and we have faced
oppression and we face oppression. But still today, Islam goes around
the world, even through its difficulties. You see the
refugees, many of them for some reason, a Muslim, whatever that
is, by design, by, of course, by decree of Allah subhanaw taala.
In Germany, you have a certain number of Muslims, like a lot of
Turks and others and then suddenly you get from all these other
countries, you get these refugees.
Whatever Allah subhanaw taala has planned Allah knows best for the
next 5050 to 100 years we don't know. But we are praying that
Allah subhanaw taala make us part of the positive change.
Because I'm finding these verses when I read these I find them
extremely
hopeful in all of the doom that gloom that is that is their
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So as with yesterday, we are looking at some of the prominent
verses and pearls of the Quran or the gems of the Quran. And this is
one verse which always
people notice it's verse 26 and 27 verses 26 and 27 of swords either
Imran and I'm sure you've heard and thought about it and had seen
it quoted as well. So firstly, let me just translate it for you. So
we know what Allah subhanho wa Taala saying in general here.
It's an address to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allah
says to the robber, sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam say,
oh, Allah, Lord of all kingdom, Lord of all dominions, Lord of
everything, you give kingdom and domain, Dominion, ownership, to
whom you will, and you take it away,
from whom you will, it's up to you, you give it to,
and you exalt whom you will. And you base and humiliate whom you
will,
in your hands is all good, in your power is all good. And surely you
are all powerful.
The next verse is, you cause the day to enter the night, and the
end you bring and the night to enter the day.
And you bring the dead out of the living.
Or rather, you bring the living out of the dead, and you bring the
dead out of the living.
And you give provision to whom you will without account as much as
in a in measurable way. So there's a lot in here, there's a lot in
these verses and essentially our you could say that our
dean, our aqidah our belief depends on this verse. Because
once we understand this verse, we understand Allah subhana wa Tada
and we understand
who Allah subhanaw taala is and what his scope is. So firstly,
we'll take this bit by bit Allah subhanaw taala says, Say O
Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, say this in a way that you're
glorifying your Lord and you're magnifying him because this
statement that you're going to make is something about glorifying
Allah and showing his might and greatness. And you're also showing
your dependence on him. That's why this is a very powerful verse and
you'll understand and also when you're saying this, you must be
thanking Allah subhanho wa Taala and showing your gratitude to him.
And you must be essentially consigning all your matters to
him. So say it in this state, we can do it the same way. This is
what the Prophet salallahu Salam was told to do it in that way. We
also want to do it in that way. So, we say the same thing Allah
Malakal will tell will come and Tisha.
Oh Allah, the owner of all kingdom. So one is people have
kingdom, but you're the owner of all kingdom, all sovereignty, all
ownership,
everything.
local mall cucolo, you have everything in your hands. And then
you give it to whom you wish. So anyone else that has it, the kings
of the world that we know the, and when we talking about kingdom
here, we don't have to talk about it always, in this macro sense of
Kingdom, the King of England or the King of
Saudi Arabia, or whichever other country has kings. This kingdom is
on any level, we have our own little kingdoms. If you have your
own family, you have a residence, you have your car, you have your
business, that's your little kingdom. So it's the same thing,
whether we're talking about the major kingdom. And we think that's
too far fetched. This is the same thing for us, our little kingdom,
our little sovereignty that we have that we consider our own is
given by Allah.
So it's the same thing, whether it's masses of land or whether
it's our little house,
you you give the kingdom to whom you wish, and you pull it away
from whom you wish.
There's been many who were the kings or rulers and they were
taken away. Some, they were disgraced at the last moments of
their life when they're 18 years old. Like in the Arab Spring,
certain leaders, they literally have to go to prison or in exile.
At the end of their life after literally enjoying the lives in a
way for the first 6070 years of their life. Some of them end up
with diseases, it's taken away from them, nothing lasts, nothing
lasts at all. That's the thing about kingdoms. Today, it's the
superpowers of the West. It wasn't the 200 years ago, or 150 years
ago or even 100 years ago. Tomorrow, it's going to be
something else it's going to be someone else. This is the
happenings of this world.
It always comes and goes.
You then give honor you give honor to whom you wish and you debase
who you wish. So Kingdom is one thing, but the other one is you
could have honor and humiliation that's again up to Allah subhanho
wa taala, meaning you're the giver of all of this, you are the giver
of everything, you are the overall giver, and you're also the
preventer. You're also the blocker. You're also the one who
prevents and who withholds
and it is you that whatever you wish happens and whatever you
don't wish doesn't happen. So in this verse, what we're basically
being told to do is that if you do have something that you consider
is a kingdom or honor, then thank Allah subhanaw taala because this
is telling us that only Allah can give it. So if you have honor
Masha Allah then Allah subhanaw taala has given that to you. And
every bounty every nightmare is an honor from Allah subhanho wa
taala.
In fact, being in this OMA is an honor as well that we need to
thank Allah subhanaw taala for because what Allah subhanaw taala
did is that after a long succession of prophets among the
Bani Israel, most of the prophets came from them for a very long
period of time, one after the other, in fact, multiple prophets
at once in the different tribes. Just like we have Omar in the
different areas, they actually had prophets Ambia among the different
tribes, however, that was taken away from them and it was given to
this one prophet from the Quraysh
and Nabil or me the unlettered man the unlettered prophets, Allah
Qureshi, Al McKee and omy. Heart I mean, Naboo, who then became the
final prophet,
the prophet before the Prophet sallallahu sallam was a Saudi
citizen who was from the Bani Israel in a whole line succession.
That was 500 something years before, then comes the promise a
lot. So there was no Prophets for such a long time.
Even among the many Israel, the children of Israel, and then comes
this prophet, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he becomes
the final prophets.
And then the other thing Allah says is that what we've given you
is not just prophecy to who, to those people or groups of people
or limited amount of people of the past, but we've actually given
prophecy to you to both the entire humankind and the gin Illa Theca
lane, which essentially refers to the gin cane and the humans. Allah
subhanaw taala has also brought together and consolidated for you
all of the X
sentences of the past, the past prophets, the past nations, Allah
has given you the best and gathered it all together and
giving you the best of everything.
So why shouldn't you? Why shouldn't we declare this?
Allah subhanho wa Taala has actually even given you specific
characteristics that he's not given any other prophets. And this
is not the time to go into the Hussite is and the characteristics
of the Prophet sallallahu idea, somebody's whole books written on
the unique features of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that
nobody else was given no prophet, no messenger, nobody before he was
given. Likewise, the knowledge that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam was given the Sharia, the balance, the moderation, and
everything, none of that.
Then, of course, after that, in a very short amount of time, in just
decades, your religion pretty much went around the world, faster than
anything before it, went all around the world and then
sustained itself. Yes, we have been persecuted, and we have faced
oppression and we face oppression. But still today, Islam goes around
the world, even through its difficulties. You see the
refugees, many of them for some reason, a Muslim, whatever that
is, by design, by, of course, by decree of Allah subhanaw taala.
In Germany, you have a certain number of Muslims, like a lot of
Turks and others, and then suddenly you get from all these
other countries, you get these refugees.
Whatever Allah subhanaw taala has planned, Allah knows best for the
next 5050 to 100 years, we don't know. But we are praying that
Allah subhanaw taala make us part of the positive change.
Because I'm finding these verses when I read these, I find them
extremely
hopeful in all of the doom and gloom that is that is there.
So this is essentially what these verses mean. Now there's other
verses where the sort of zakat of Allah verse, Allah says in verse
31, what kind of Lola Lola Lucila had the Quran or Allah or God
mineral Korea Tanea Aleem? What are the questions? You see the
people of the hood? They didn't want to accept the Prophet
salallahu Salam because he's not from the bene Israel. He's broken
the trend. So they don't accept that they that's one of the
reasons that they don't want to accept him. The Metcons didn't
want to accept him is that where we're gonna get profits from?
We've not had a problem for a long time. You know, where we're not
profit nation. So how does the profit come from us? So they had a
big issue with that those who detracted that's why in this
verse, They said
Why couldn't this Quran be revealed to
a mighty a person like a grid that was known for might or a ruler or
something like that from from these in habitations? So Allah
subhanaw taala responds, he says, insert Zoho verse that you want
Allah 32 in the next verse, Allah respond saying, Whom Yuxi Munna
Rama tropic? Do they divide and distribute Allah subhanaw taala
has mercy, nano Kasam nabina Houma Isha home, Phil hayati dunya, were
the ones who divide and distribute the livelihood in the dunya in the
dunya real life, what I find about the home folk about the individual
and were the ones who are going to raise certain people over the
others.
You know, on a smaller scale, you will you will sometimes see that
there are certain families like people who know the history of the
community know certain families that had no orlimar among them.
Just somebody who was there who respected him who respected
knowledge, who respected the dean. And suddenly mashallah their
children are the Olimar leading the masses now. It's not a family
thing. It wasn't in the family, it didn't run in the family, there
were no alumni in the family, there were no leaders of such
caliber, and suddenly mashallah, they are the wonderment of the
next generation. There's so many examples of like that.
So don't underestimate Allah, your efforts, and your doors, but your
ambitions, that's very important. You must have an ambition for the
future, and not just for you, but for your progeny until the Day of
Judgment. Why would you just have an ambition for yourself until you
die? Why not have an ambition for your children? Well, not just for
your children, for your grandchildren, and even your great
great grandchildren that you will not see, most likely, but why not
have an ambition for them and make the offer them as well?
And then Allah will bring Allah will bring it to be sha Allah.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says Allah who are Allah Mojito? Yeah, God
sir letter. Allah subhanaw taala knows where to put his message. He
gives it to him ever he wills the sort of
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JazakAllah Heron salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.