Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Some Reflections on the Third Juz’ of the Qur’an
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The " handyman" attraction in Surah Al Baqale is described as a symbol of Islam's strength and pride, a symbol of conversion and recognized. The segment discusses misunderstandings of religion and the importance of submitting to Islam for a pleasant life. The segment emphasizes the importance of seeing reality in action and spending energy in the path of Islam, shrouds and not spilling during storm, and giving sada 49% as a gift. The importance of avoiding risk and taking back one's capital is also emphasized. The segment also discusses the use of the fly wheel and the importance of writing down debts and loans, as it is difficult to avoid behavior.
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the third, just the third Sebata that we're looking at. And
mashallah, as averages is this one is very rich with many, many,
much content. And of course, in the small time, and a bit of time
that we have, we don't, we can't cover all of it. But we will be
looking at some of the most important aspects that I that
stand out for me. So the first thing
is the AYATUL kursi. So this is part of Surah Al Baqarah, the SOTL
Bacara will end in this use of the Quran. And we have AYATUL kursi
here, that will corsi is one of the most profound verses of the
Quran because it speaks about Allah, this is Allah speech, the
whole Quran is Allah speech. And the AYATUL kursi is the one that
gives us a an understanding of who Allah is Allah in this verse tells
us who he is. It gives us an understanding, so that we can
better understand who Allah is. So Allah there is no God except he,
he is the living one. And he is the self subsisting one he doesn't
need anybody else. He neither knows nor sleep, no slumber
overtakes him, and for him is everything in the heavens and
earth. And then regarding the Day of Judgment, it says that who is
it that can intercede except with his permission, he knows
everything. He knows what's before you what's after you, what's in
front of you, what's behind you, and nothing can encompass his
knowledge, nobody can have the knowledge that ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada has, Allah has
all knowledge, we have partial knowledge, Allah subhanho wa Taala
gives us bits of knowledge that we know. And Allah subhanaw taala is
kursi his throne, it encompasses the heavens and the earth, and the
heavens and the earth. looking after them is not an easy task. If
from a human perspective, it's impossible from a human
perspective. And Allah looks after every aspect, every iota every
atom from the Heavens and Earth at one time, and nothing ever goes
amiss. Nothing is beyond his capability in his capacity. He is
aware of every leaf that falls on the spool to me water cottony
layer.
And he knows every seed in the world and seeds are amazing. You
know, when you see the seeds and on YouTube, you can actually see
seeds and how they germinate over a month or two, because they put
them in a on the edge of a glass case a glass pot, and they show
how from a little seed it knows exactly what kind of plant it's to
become. And to cease might look alike or similar. And yet they
become two totally different things. That programming is an
amazing that is for me, one of the most amazing phenomena that you
can observe.
And Allah subhanaw taala is most high and most mighty, thereafter
that Allah subhanaw taala makes the declaration he says that there
is no law Iqra feed Diem. This is you'll see that in verses verse
256 There is no compulsion in religion. What this means is that
what Allah subhanaw taala continues there's got to be in a
rush to menial high.
guidance has been made very clear debayan comes from the concept of
Bon Bon means clarity,
clearness, like absolute clarity, where things are very distinct. So
gotta be in a rush to Minella rushed it guidance and they is
deviance. So, guidance has been made very distinct from deviance.
And then after that Allah subhanaw taala continuous says that whoever
believes in Allah, he's held on to the proper
Allah Toluca, the firm hold the firm handle. That means that
anybody who does that they are on to something that is going to be
of benefit for them in this world and hereafter, We are extremely
fortunate that we have taken this path and we are sitting
here today in this month of Ramadan observing it for this
purpose and may Allah subhanaw taala yeah Allah Ya Allah be
witness to us being in the masjid, at this other time on this day of
Ramadan and may allow may or may you allow this to be of some
benefit for us in the hereafter where we are discussing your Quran
and your words Subhan Allah, Allah Tofik, what an enablement were so
many other people are doing many other things maybe at this time,
and Allah has allowed us to be here, this is an amazing something
to thank Allah subhanaw taala for. So now that nobody is compelled to
come into religion, the process of awesome never force religion on to
anybody else. And that's why we should not do that as well,
because you don't always get a good reaction with that, when you
force people into religion. And religion was never forced onto
people anyway, we did definitely win battles, and we did put down
enemies, and we did
provide a defense and put up a defense with the sword as they
say, but conversion was always it had to be. And that's very
distinctively clear from all the Islamic histories that you read
that conversion had to be. That's why we have a whole system in
Islam that non Muslims can actually remain within an Islamic
system. And all they do is instead of pings occurred as Muslims would
do 2.5% of your texts, they just have to pay
Jizya and Jizya is actually not much for the wealthy, it's if I
remember correctly, according to the Hanafi school is 48. Durham's
for the middle class, it's 24. And for the lower class, it's 12.
Their homes 10, their home sold, their home is not even 10 pounds.
It's not much money, it's a protection tax. So you can remain
you can remain non Muslim, you can follow your faith, you can have
your courts, you can have your own systems, your own Imams, etc. And
this has been observed. That's why there's no force in religion. Yes.
A lot of people misunderstand this. They take the faith or they
are part of the faith, but they don't observe and they say how can
you tell me to do something of the faith, law extra 15 There's no
compulsion in religion. That's a misunderstanding of this verse.
This is about entering the faith once you enter into the faith that
we have many other verses right here or you have ladina Hulu facil
me cough, or people who believe enter into Islam holy, that's a
command. So once you've taken Islam, you've got a choice to
take, you enter, then you need to take it wholesale because Islam is
totalizing.
Islam is not a partial religion for one day of the week or two
days of the week, or that relates just to how you worship God and
show your devotion it is totalizing in every aspect in
terms of behavior, in terms of character, in terms of agreements
with others, in terms of interactions with one another.
Islam has to be totalizing. And that's when Islam is at its best.
A partial following of Islam is partial following. There's no the
fulfillment that a person has when they fully submit to Allah.
Because Allah has made us for submission, we are servants and
slaves. That's who we are, we are created by Allah, Allah has made
us to submit. So when we do that, we are at our natural, that's our
natural position. And that's when everything falls into place, as
Allah wants it to be. And all that promise, Oh Allah, Allah subhanho
wa Taala promises of higher turn to yerba that further nahi and
they come higher until you but we're going to give you the life
an excellent a pleasant life. That's what happens when you fully
submit to Allah subhanaw taala if you want one foot here, one foot
there, then that encroaches because the heart is not fully for
Allah, Allah has mercy and His comfort will only come into our
heart and infuse it and thus infuse our entire body when we're
able to give our heart fully to Allah make the Allah make that
easy. There's a lot of distractions in the world
thereafter. What's really interesting here, and if we had
the time would have gone into the stories in detail. There's three
or four stories that are mentioned here regarding truth and
falsehood, and the supremacy of truth, and goodness, over evil. So
the first story is about Ibrahim alayhis salam and his debate with
the tyrant ruler of his time, and
who called himself God used to call himself God Nimrod number
route, he used to call himself God. So Ibrahim Ali Hassan said,
My Lord, the one I follow is the one who gives life and death. So
he this guy said, I also give life and death. And again, you have
these partial abilities that
provide a misunderstanding or a complete delusion, rather. So you
get somebody and kills him. An innocent guy kills him and there's
somebody who's supposed to be in prison, maybe got a death sentence
and he frees him. He says, Look, I do the same thing. Now I brought
him a lesson then gives him another argument. He says, Well,
my Lord brings the sun
From the east to the west.
This is where you bring it from you bring it from the west, from
its place of setting, he couldn't do that. That's where he was
confounded. And so that story is mentioned. Then there's another
story mentioned about going to a place that totally Allah subhanaw
taala put somebody to asleep. And there's a number of discussions
that it's just going to take too long to go into all of those
stories, although they're very nice stories. Allah subhanho wa
Taala put him to sleep for 100 years. Then he put him up. And
then he says, How long were you asleep for? So he said, I was only
asleep for maybe a day. It was a long sleep, so maybe I'll sleep
for a day. I mean, it did feel like a day or maybe part of a day.
Can you imagine that's what it felt like? And yeah, he'd been
sleeping. For 100 everything had changed outside. Because in 100
years things change. Look at what's happened to the UK in 60
years.
Right, the earliest Muslims started settling here from the
late 1950s. And look at the place. Just look at Hackney where it used
to be.
It's totally gentrified now. Right? People are moving out
60s 50s 60s world changed spine, Allah, may Allah make the next
5060 100 years good for us. Right may not make it I mean, look at
what the people in Ukraine are going through and various other
places. How people have gone through in the other parts of what
is now Ukraine. That southern the southern part where there were
Muslim parties that were evicted by the Russians, you know, over
100 years ago or something like that. Subhan Allah, may Allah give
us goodness, may Allah give us airfields? So then after that,
there's a story of Ibrahim alayhis salam where you brought him on
Islam asks ALLAH SubhanA wa taala. Look, my Yaqeen is full. My
certainty is complete. But he didn't say that. But that's I'm
just, I'm just speaking on his behalf. He asked Allah subhanaw
taala. He says, I just want to see how you will bring back the dead.
How you will bring the dead back to life. I really need to see
that. Right? That's not the way he said it. Okay, I'm just
paraphrasing, right? Imagine like, I really want to see that. Allah
says, Don't you believe affectionately like, Don't you
believe? Of course, he knows he believes. I mean, he's passed with
flying colors. What are these tests that have been put on him?
And so on? says no, I just want further conviction further
certainty. Rather. You know, when you see something you heard of
something you believe in it, but then you aren't you want to see it
in action? That would be amazing to see it in action. You know, you
you you believe in the Battle of butter, the Battle of art you
believe in I shudder the Allahu anha in Amara, the Allahu Anhu.
You know, they've made movies about him, that's nothing compared
to the reality. And we want to see the reality. So we're going to
watch the real movie, maybe in Jannah I don't know when you go to
paradise.
I think you can watch a lot of movies if you want to, I really
don't know whether you're going to feel like doing that or not gonna
have a lot of time. Right? So I want to see the Battle of or hurt.
I want to see the Battle of better. I want to see the life of
Omar Radi Allahu on Abu Bakr, the Allah one. I don't know, I guess
we can hope for things. I mean, if we get there and we distracted by
everything else in paradise Alhamdulillah. But at least I
think that's a good thing that it gives us an understanding of our
affinity to our great people.
So Allah subhanho wa Taala tells him to get a few animals and cut
them up, Secretary slaughter them, cut them up, mix them meet
together, put them on four different piles. And then he says
now call on them, And subhanAllah they all came back, and the meats
rejoined with one another. And they may and they turned into the
original animals that they were. And that was an amazing thing.
Thereafter that from verse 261, it starts a discussion of sadaqa
these are very, very prominent verses of sadaqa and good deeds.
So I really think we need Ramadan is a month of spending and
generosity rather I would say Ramadan, rather than spending it's
a it's a month of generosity. Allah Subhana Allah starts from
ALLAH, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada is most generous in Ramadan. Look
what he's done, he's opened the doors of Paradise. Close the doors
of * lock the shaytaan up, multiply the rewards of fourth
prayer 70 times and any novel prayer to the reward of a fourth
and so on and so forth. And he's made it so easy that the
distraction goes the Shakedowns locked up. So you get double
capacity or triple capacity and MSG, the Nasus I say we need to
build a bigger masjid.
And then shaytaan comes back out
after Ramadan
and it doesn't stay the same. Right? So anyway, Allah subhanaw
taala most generous the Prophet sallallahu was known to be
extremely generous during the month of Ramadan. Very generous,
that effects all of us mashallah even our women get so generous
that they with fasting they cook so many foods
The generosity is everywhere mashallah, there is so much money
that is given in the path of Allah in the month of Ramadan like
probably never, never, you know, never any other time. So an
amazing time Subhan Allah.
So Allah says that the example
he provides a number of examples about spending in the path of
Allah, that when you spend your wealth in the path of Allah, it's
like a seed. Right? That's your seed like you, when you give a
pound. If you give 1000 pounds at 1000 seeds, or more like just to
give you an idea, it grows Sebastiana, build seven ears of
corn, you get seven from there, right. And in each one of these
ears, there is 100 seeds, that 700 seeds, that's kind of average, you
know, when you put a corn seed in the ground. And then if you ever
seen a corn plant, it says green shoots that covered and then you
have to uncover each of these ears as they call them. Right? And cob,
a corn on the cob comes out of it. Right? That's what you know,
that's what we know, because you hardly see that. And each one of
them will have how much how many of those small, yellow Lego pieces
you get on a cone.
They look like Lego pieces. And it's small ones, right? Because
they're all in the in the cone. So you get each one of them. It says
has 100 seeds like that Subhanallah and Allah then gives
what Allah says Allah you da da fo Lima Yasha. Allah then multiplies
as he wishes, and Allah is expensive. And he is the old
knowing of what you do and how you do it.
However, there's a threat to this, there's a problem when somebody
spends the shaytaan stops you from spending, and then if you spend,
then shaytaan tries another attack. So he says that, okay, if
I've spent then I need to remind the people I'm spending on see
these relief organizations, they've only appeared today, this
is a modern phenomena before you gave it to the poor. Yes, you may
have had some people who may have collected for certain purposes and
taken somewhere else. But otherwise, it's pretty local.
That's why I you know, saw the capital filter that we give at the
end of Ramadan, right? Most people give it in the middle of Ramadan,
right before the day of Eid. And the reason for it is that it's the
purpose of it is to enrich or not enrich, but at least give enough
to the poor person on the day of eat. So they can also enjoy the A
that's the purpose of it.
Now, you come to the masjid, you don't give it during Ramadan, you
come to the masjid. And then there's an announcement. When you
see that, and then you try. Let me give it before I do my salad.
where's it gonna go to the poor is supposed to be for the poor on the
dairy. That's the optimal idea. Yes, it can be given later. But
the optimal idea is given to us. So try to give it earlier, so that
these organizations because we don't, what happens in other
societies and what used to happen. And I only observed this once, I
think in Zambia. So we're going on our way to the masala which means
the place of prayer outside, right in a massive field. The whole of
Lusaka comes together, I think, right? The big, big place. And as
soon as you get closer, there are rows and rows of people begging.
Right? They know this is going to be their day. Right? These are all
the focus, the focus, the the destitute, it's that's where you
give yourself the counterfeiter, we hardly get that chance to do
that today. So before giving the destitute gets helping somebody
you know, you can see, what's the norm. Today, when's the last time
that you help somebody that you actually know, that you're aware
of? Right? It's become I mean, it's too difficult people. It's
like it's a burden to go and find the purpose. And I get so excited
when I find a purpose because you can actually help them directly.
I remember it was somebody's wedding. And I said, and you know,
when you invite poor people to adapt to a food invitation,
there's Baraka. So I remember I asked him that wedding, he was
somebody close to me, I said, Then he Poppy, but I just come back
from as many poor people we can invite that like, What are you
talking about? Like, oh, that's kind of unheard of, what are you
talking about, but to give a poor person directly has its own
because you can then see, but then there's a problem with that. There
could be a problem with that, which is that if they're close to
you, then you may start taking advantage of somebody like I
helped you out, I help you. And there's people who do this, by the
way. You know, a lot of people in the UK are originally hailed from
other countries. So what they do is they feel an affinity to those
people to actually spend their but when they go back for a holiday,
they expect favors from those guys, like you're going to drive
us around, you're going to do this for us, you're going to you know,
run errands for us or whatever, and that's wrong. In fact,
subhanAllah these people who go there, they do this, they get
people to assist them and around there because they're poor, they
expect something that way
A foreigner comes when a guy from London comes right? Or wherever
they expect that they're going to get handouts and gifts. So they're
willing to actually go out of their way to assist you and help
you and do things for you. Because they expect something from you and
then what people do they give them zakat. Okay? It's not wrong to
give zakat to them but they give it literally like a payment.
The card needs to be given as an obligation. It's a good thing that
there's somebody to even take it from us.
You know, they're doing us a favor today and we actually make it like
I'll give you my I've given giving you my zakat money, man, this
might do what's wrong with you. This is what Allah has made do for
me. It's no you're not you're not doing me any favors. We give zakat
which is an obligation, it's actually a purification of our
wealth. So we give that and we should thank the faculty that you
are taking it from us because otherwise it's not easy. We should
thank these relief organizations as well. But we need to give
sadaqa as well. Right? Even when you give Southern California
you're not allowed. And this is what Allah subhana wa Tada says,
Lena, you feel cool in the home V sebelah. He sumela youth via Unum
for all men while other those who spend their wealth in the path of
Allah and then they don't follow that up.
They don't follow up what they spent with reminders. Look what
I've been doing for you. Every year without fail. I've been
giving you my zakat I've been helping you for so many years,
or any other kinds of harm.
Traditionally, gifts were considered to be something to
reciprocate.
And this is an interesting, the reason you give a gift is to
reciprocate love, affection, a bond, a connection, or maybe that
they've given you in the past. So you give back that's not sadaqa
that's a gift you get reward for a gift. Sadaqa is for Allah only. So
if sadaqa is supposed to be for Allah only, then you should not
look back.
You should not look back, then whether the guy swears that you
afterwards. I mean, he shouldn't obviously but if he curses you
afterwards as well. Well, my sadaqa is for Allah, I should not
feel bad. If he use obviously if he's Mr. Heck and entitled to it,
then my, my sadaqa is right, if he's a poor person, and that's
fine, it might be a bit crazy, that's up to him, but I've helped
him out and he was in need, then after that, it doesn't matter.
That's how it should be in May Allah make that easy for us.
Then Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about the person who can't
give materially who doesn't have to give they feel bad. And there
were people who used to do this, they felt that they were in
competition of doing the best that they could. And when they saw that
the wealthy people they good mashallah gives sadaqa. And they
couldn't give sadaqa. So they felt bad. So, the prophets, Allah, some
gave them to spear, the 33 times 3333 and 34, subhanAllah
Alhamdulillah. We're after every prayer, basically, the test, we
have the poor, the rich guys, they figured this out, and they started
doing this as well. Well, you can't stop them. It's not it's
prohibited for it. Right? So then these poor people, they came to
office hours and they said, Well, they're doing that as well. Nice
as well. That's the funnel and grace of Allah He gives to
whomever he wishes. But the Allah is telling us, you can do coal on
my roof.
You can say a good word to somebody. That's a sadaqa saying a
good word to somebody saying something nice to someone. That's
a sadaqa. That's such incentive, isn't it? Because, you know, we
think of giving money in the path of Allah something big as
something really important as something significant. That's why
it's so difficult to give for most people. Now you say, you know, if
you say a good word to somebody, that's a sadaqa as well. Oh, wow,
I didn't know that. I'm going to start saying more good words to
people. Right. It's just incentivizes. And so Allah again,
says, oh, people who believe do not destroy your charity, by
reminders and by falling harm. And then Allah subhanaw taala gives an
example of the people who do certain things and then when it
comes to the day, they actually don't find any profit, just like
for a person who's given all of this charity and then in the
Hereafter, he gets nothing like I gave so much in charities to give
30% of my wealth but you gave it for the wrong reason. And then
Allah gives examples for the person who gives it for the right
reason. So there's a whole discussion of charity here whole
discussion of charity here thereafter, Allah subhanaw taala
tells us that what kind of thing you should spend you should spend
of that which is pure. So you've got some old clothes laying around
okay, it's okay to give that so somebody else can use it. There's
nothing wrong with that. But the idea is that oh, this food is
getting a bit stale. Let me give it away to somebody because I'm
not going to enjoy it anymore. I like eating fresh. If you wanted
to give
don't give stale food don't give wala Tata and mumble Hadith I
mean, who don't give that which is repugnant.
That which is reprehensible because this is given to Allah you
must imagine that you're giving this to Allah, the poor person is
representing our giving to Allah. So you want to give imagine
there's a, you know when when there's a more noble kind of guest
or a more noble kind of recipient of our gift and we give
accordingly.
There's some people we can get away giving a box of chocolates.
Cadbury's but there's some people I know if you give them Cadbury's
they will not be happy. Their level is
above that. Right lint and you know, Godiva and
Belgian but not every Belgian chocolate is good, just certain
Belgian chocolates, but there's a level right? So you have to try to
pick the best for Allah and that's why the next use which we'll be
doing tomorrow lentinan will be Rohita tune FICO me matter he boon
that you can never gain righteousness and full piety until
you spend of that which you love.
encouragement for us May Allah make it easy thereafter that Allah
subhanaw taala speaks about these particular fuck ears of how poor
people should be. Just because Allah subhanaw taala has really
encouraged the giving right so now the pulpit a person must go out
and put himself out there that I'm a poor person so give me no Allah
praises little for Cara ilina or zero fee sabe healer is starting
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it out.
For the poor person who is constrained in the path of Allah,
who can't travel.
Who this is the point I want to make ignorant who the ignorant
ones, the unaware ones think that they're wealthy because of the way
they abstain from asking the way they withhold themselves, the way
they carry themselves, that they're poor, they have nothing
but they carry themselves in a dignified manner.
And if you can find a poor person like that, they're the best people
to give.
I've known a number of people they go for ombre hij and they've got
money they want to give their so they're not looking for those that
are begging on the streets and that come around begging.
They either say they're from Kashmir, or they say they're from
Syria.
It's wherever there's a plight in the world. They tend I mean, I
remember once is a woman she's clearly Egyptian because I've been
to Egypt, they dress in a very particular way. They have a
particular accent I'm Syrian, I said you are not serious.
And then in the minute they come and say I'm from Kashmir, Rama,
your team from Kashmir. So my dad is like you're 30 years old, you
can't be a team anymore. And often is when then immature.
And it's from Kashmir. Everybody becomes Kashmir because Kashmir is
a blight and they just tugging at the chords of your heart.
So no that's not the way they do it. So a lot of people don't they
go and they sit and then they start talking to somebody and they
figure things out. And then they mashallah then they give those
kinds of people. There's a lot of people that come maybe once in
their life for Hajj they've just about made it mashallah, right.
These people don't persist in the asking for people that Allah
subhanaw taala says, thereafter that since this is all a
discussion of wealth, Allah subhanaw taala speaks about bad
wealth and one of the worst forms of wealth giving and taking is
Riba. So now the verses from verse 274. It starts off. After that, it
starts off about Riba and about interest. Okay. And one of the
most common questions I get asked and there's this fatwa apparently
that's going around, the first house is allowed on riba said, I
don't know who's given that fatwa. Like I personally do not know
who's given a photo I might be a European Council, but exactly how
they've given the fatwa there's certain details I've heard about
that or something like that. But Allah subhana wa Tala speaks about
doing things by business. It's very easy. It seems to increase
your money through rebar. Sometimes, you find these high
yield bonds and things like that. So what Allah subhanaw taala is
what the Prophet sallallahu sallam said as well is that it might seem
huge. And I know a number of stories, people who really went in
there big time, and then eventually, as the Prophet SAW,
some said, eventually it leads to
killer, it leads to essentially struggles. So one needs to avoid
that grow at a slow, pure
through pure stages, slowly, slowly, don't bind to the whole
corporate world of you know, where they tell you how to do things by
leverage and things like that. These things are not sustainable,
and there's been crashes and they may be you know, more crashes May
Allah protect us. May Allah allow us to do things correctly so that
bubbles don't
As for us, right? But otherwise the whole world goes into turmoil
and how long can that be sustained for? It doesn't work.
Allah, this is the verse where you must have heard 279 If you don't,
like, get rid of that interest or whatever, then
hear the announcement
of a war with hola from Allah and His messenger.
But you can always make Toba, you will get your capital back. But
you can't take the interest, you can always take your capital back,
you can't take the interest. If you do have money in interest
based or haram, portfolios, stock or whatever you can take your
original capital out, that doesn't become you can take that out, you
just can't take the other part. That point you take it out, give
it to the poor, right? If you can't give it back to the those
now, our time is pretty much up. But the next which is the biggest
verse in the Quran, the longest verse in the Quran, verse 282, is
about it's all money matters here. This is all money matters. So this
is about debts, loans. When you owe somebody money, the
encouragement is that make sure you write it down. And it's really
interesting. The emotion human being you know, when you do so
many transactions if you're like, Oh, I'm gonna remember this. You
know, we'll just remember it is difficult to always write
contracts with people. It's a bit
complicated. Sometimes it's a bit pretenses sometimes maybe as well,
that, you know, let's write a contract. I don't you trust me,
brother. I do trust you, but I don't trust the shaytaan. And I
don't trust my mind. And you know, there's so many cases where you've
ruined but and then you've forgotten the exact amount.
Sometimes people have paid back. But the other person can't
remember, you remember, but you have no proof.
So then you have to pay back otherwise, it's just a hard
feeling. No, I paid you back. You didn't pay me back.
And then you start doubting, did I pay back or No, I must have it's
money, man, I can't, you know, I must have paid back. It gets
complicated. So record all of these things that it's there
recording tells us how to take witnesses and so on. And then
finally, the last part of this surah are these beautiful verses
which are recommended for us to read and ponder over. And that is
basically about a submission to Allah.
submission to Allah Insha Allah, I'm going to be covering this in
one of my Quran reflections that takes place every day at five
o'clock through zamzam through zamzam Academy channel. So I'm
going to because our time is up, but this is one of the most
profound verses and it really really helps us in gaining
submission to see how the Sahaba did it, and how Allah subhanaw
taala then makes things easy, right for them. So that is where
we end and may Allah subhanaw taala accept our month of Ramadan,
may Allah make it better than any Ramadan before it may Allah draws
close to Him and allow us not to be distanced from him, even after
the month of Ramadan allow us to emerge from this month with Dakwah
that this month has been one of the purpose of this month is to
gain Taqwa. So Allah allow us to come out of this month with an
amazing amount of dukkha until the next Ramadan, and then to build on
that work and with that one, and it'll hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
aalameen. The 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 Dean 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 there, the Islamic
essentials 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 aka law here and Salam aleikum
wa rahmatullah wa barakato.