Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Tafsir of the Whole Qur’an in 30 Hours (Commentary) Part 2
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day of Ramadan was good for you. And may Allah subhanho wa Taala
allow us to complete both our Ramadan and also our journey
through the Quran.
So today we begin the second use of the Quran. The second use of
the Quran gets a lot more inclusive, a lot more
comprehensive, in terms of the very specific rulings and related
to the life both social life family life and individual life.
And so almost perfect because the first just kind of sets the scene
has an introduction. And now mashallah the second Jews. It
provides a lot of the very specific details and rulings. It's
like a manual. So inshallah you will see, however, the second just
starts off with the discussion about the change of the Qibla. The
change of the qibla, almost like you can say,
Islam, the worship in Islam was becoming more focused in terms of
its center, which is mcomber karma, because as many of you may
know, that initially,
after the Prophet salallahu Salam moved to Madina Munawwara for
about 16 months or so, the GABA was not yet the Qibla. So Madina
Munawwara is on the north of mucca mucca mucca mucca. Rama is in the
south of the ages, which is the western border of the Arabian
Peninsula. So about four hours north, as you will know is Madina
Munawwara. And then if you carry on North you get to Jerusalem and
sham sham in Jerusalem. So when the prophets Allah was in Morocco,
Morocco, Rama he would actually stand behind the Kaaba so that he
would face the Kaaba and in the in a north, so you will be facing
Jerusalem which was the Qibla at the time, but he would also face
the Kaaba as far as he could. When he moved to Madina, Munawwara the
two directions became an opposite side. So
Jerusalem was north from Madina, Munawwara because Medina
minorities in the middle and the carrabba beaches, masu haram in
Makkah Corona is now in South, so he couldn't incorporate both
directions. At one time, it was impossible because it was 180
degrees. So while he used to pray the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam used to keep looking up, kind of glancing up. That was just
his way of looking for a revelation looking for change of
guidance almost looking to see if the Qibla could change. So
initially begins of sacoolas sufa Amina nurse, the foolish among the
people, they are soon going to say that what made them change the
Qibla so after 16 months, the following verses were revealed,
but not autocon Luba wedge has fallen over Leanna clay bulletin,
tada. Now, we we direct you towards the Qibla the direction
which you are satisfied with which you were hoping for and which you
wanted all along, but there's going to going to be people who is
going to make a discussion about this foolish people who make this
something to discuss object to wonder about talk about this what
talk show host to do, and this is you can just say the earlier
precursors of
The talk show people, but obviously not just to make money,
right not just to have conversation, but actually also to
to denigrate the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and the
religion of Islam, especially some of the hoods said that because
beta blockers and Jerusalem was kind of their Qibla was kind of
their direction as well. So obviously it was a bit of setting
it sounds for them that now the Qibla was totally
severed from the change from the to mocha mocha aroma, so not just
the hood, but it was the Manasa tea in the hypocrites at the time
as well who started to object in all of this regard. However, Allah
subhanho wa Taala says, for one leverage haka shuttle Masjid Al
haram now, direct yourself towards al Masjid Al haram, the sanctified
masjid, the sanctified place of place of sujood of prayer. But
then Allah subhanho wa Taala remains in there to respond to
those objections that what does a direction mean anyway, all the
directions
for why Thoma can tune for well, Lou, would you have come shutaura
When you look at these verses, and you look at the way the profit or
loss and proceeded disregard, where he wanted a Qibla to change,
but he never once prayed for it in everyone's sorted or asked Allah
subhanaw taala he just kept looking. In anticipation, he kept
looking in anticipation, raising his gaze up to the heavens. And
maybe the reason for that is that he didn't want to ask for
something which Allah subhanho wa Taala wanted it to remain
otherwise. For example, if Allah had maybe wanted it to remain
towards beta like this, and he asked for something different,
then that's the other that a person has with their superior
with the Lord. And the prophets Allah ism you can tell his
personal Adam his, his his beautiful, a HELOC with Allah
subhanho wa Taala as well.
Now, immediately after that Allah subhanaw taala speaks about
providing bounties to the believers to show that
Allah subhanaw taala has provided them with the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam.
Allah subhanho wa Taala has provided them with this Suraj
moody this lamp of guidance, which is a huge benefit to humankind and
to the believers. So the fact that Allah subhanaw taala wants
everybody to face towards Masjid Masjidul Haram as well. That in
itself is a another huge benefit to to the Muslims. And that's why
there's numerous verses it carries on all the way until about verse
151 or so when he couldn't leave which had to who are more li
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Masjidul haram I think the main thing in all of this woman Hazel
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condom for well who would you have come shatterer the Allah Hakuna
Nina Cid come Hoja in all of this, Allah subhanho wa Taala is telling
us that the main thing is that the main thing is not that you face in
a particular direction only. That is important to have everybody
synced in one direction, have a unity throughout the world that
they all facing in the direction of the carrabba. Otherwise, Allah
subhanaw taala is not physically located in the Kaaba. It's a house
that represents him. It's the most distinctive feature of
representation of Allah subhanaw taala because it's called the
House of Allah, where we're sitting is also a house of Allah.
But the ultimate GABA and Baitullah is in Mocha, mocha Rama.
But the real, the real objective is not the direction only. That's
just to get everybody physically oriented in a particular
direction. Otherwise, really, what's important is that people
get the orientation of their belief, their actions, their
dealing and their character. So that occur in Malmo, I'm alert and
the o'clock that these need to be in the right direction. That's
that's really what's most important. That's why Allah says
well you Tim money MIT Alikum Well, I like them that they don't
so that I complete my bounties upon you and so that you are given
guidance. And then Allah says come out of Santa Fe come Rasool Amin
come yet ya come it in our user key come where your limo
communicator but well Heckman where your limo Kamal and Hakuna
Matata moon. Allah has sent you the messenger so that you can
so that he can teach you all of these different things. That's
verse 151. And then 152 is first Karuna corkum Wash Kuru Liberata
Quran telling us to remember Allah subhanho wa taala. And thank you.
All of this gets summed up in the ayah tool better, which was which
were going which is around at the quarter of the Jews, about 100 and
verse 177, Lacell, bearer and Tolu. Would you have come after
all of this discussion in between Allah subhanaw taala then sums it
up there, that the real piety and righteousness is not just that you
turn your face to the east
or the West. But true faith, true faith. And true piety is the one
who believes in Allah, and the Last Day, and the angels, the
book, the prophets, gives money, and spends money where it's due to
his family, to the orphans, and so on, so forth. So you can you can
read that verse in detail. That's why
there are approximately 16 different rules that are mentioned
in that, not just in that verse, but the cluster of verses, mostly
after it. And there's two of them that I mentioned before it. So
let's just quickly go through the 16 main rulings that are provided
around this idea of, of beer which is laced into a loop.
So out of that, what you've got is
the main gist of it is that just doing outer rituals, or putting up
symbols of faith is not sufficient. Right? You know, for
example, what some Christians would do is they put a Christmas
tree at Christmas, it's just a symbol. I don't even know what the
origin of that is. So Muslims are told that you're not going to
focus just on symbols, symbols are important. They provide a form of
unification no doubt, they provide a form of representation and
identity, no doubt, but that's not the objective, the objective and
the soul. And the substance of your faith is more than that. It's
how you turn your heart and your behavior
in to Allah subhanho wa Taala and the way you deal with everybody
that Allah subhanaw taala wants you to deal with in the correct
way. So
it's not just about doing something in a masjid. That's why
this These times are very important for us because we don't
have access to the masjid majority of people don't. But it's your
deen continues, God is still there. Your worship still
continues. You do taraweeh at home, right? Whether the
congregation or alone, right, you do your Juma prayers. You can't do
Juma you do the hara at home. So our deen continues, and Allah
gives you the reward of what you would have liked to have done in
normal circumstances. So the idea here now is that how does Allah
subhanaw taala want us to be in the house, when shopping in the
markets on the streets, in the masjid in a madrasa when studying
politically speaking, in terms of ruling or being subjects in terms
of business, terms of just interaction with one another, all
of that. Islam teaches us and a lot of those laws you'll find in
the second use of the Quran here in part of Surah Baqarah. So
that's why this is called AYATUL bearer, I it will be Lacell Bureau
and to aloo hackle. As I mentioned, it's verse 177. Now,
what are these? It will be sorry, the AYATUL bill represents the 16
or so these would be called a wobble bearer, the doors of
goodness the doors of piety, what are the 16 doors of piety that are
discussed in this verse? So as I mentioned, there's two that are
discussed beforehand.
Number one,
Allah subhanaw taala says in a Safa well Murata mean SHA it Allah
from an hudgell bait. So that's verse 180 158. So this was a
ritual from the Hydros the ritual from before Islam, right from
Ibrahim Ali salaams time there's been some kind of a pilgrimage,
though it was probably modified from what it was supposed to be,
and a lot of corruption had entered into it. So now the way
the Mushrikeen used to do it, is that on Safa and Marwa they were
actually two mounts at that time, and the value was in the in
between where the two green lights are today. So they actually have
two idols, they had idols on suffer and on marijuana so
essentially they've made it into a idol house, right and a location
of idols. And that's why some some of the Sahaba initially were
avoiding the sufferer and Mira because they thought that it was
to do with Jaya Helia and it was to do with the time of ignorance
and so that's why Allah subhanaw taala says that the fella Juna,
Allah here in Utah where FABY Hema there's no harm in going between
them, it's actually part of your ritual, because now the idols have
been removed anyway. Number two, the Mushrikeen the pagans that
idolatrous at that time, they used to have their own way of making
certain things haram upon themselves, okay, this animal is
haram, I can't eat it anymore, even though it's a goat or
something. Right? They had these ways of making certain things
haram and restricting certain things for certain people, and,
and so on and so forth. They had their own kind of laws in that
regard. That's why Allah subhanho wa Taala then teaches us
that there's this whole set of verses that discuss in the
Muhammad Ali equal meet at our demo Wella mackynzie. So that's
going to verse 173, that Allah subhanaw taala then
tells us at the beginning it tells us that these are the things which
are haram upon you and unlawful upon believers is only said the
deceased, a carry on meat that was not slaughtered properly flowing
blood, the flesh of pig and swine, regardless of how its slaughtered,
and anything that is slaughtered on other than Allah subhanaw taala
his name, then Allah mentions that if somebody is in a extreme
situation where they don't have anything to eat, they're going to
die literally, then it becomes halal for them to even eat from
one of these unlawful things, just enough to be able to sustain
themselves and not in a way that they gain pleasure and they start
enjoying it is literally just to survive and to save themselves. So
that's then Allah subhanaw taala he says in Allah has a photo Rahim
constantly, you find these throughout, they mean something
that there's a very specific reason we don't have the time to
go into the subtleties of why it says go for Rahim in this case,
but I think it's quite obvious. In this case, Allah is the forgiving
one, the Merciful One, this is the hokum This is the ruling of mercy
for you. Number three.
The third point which this the above will be, essentially is that
the Islamic sharia is based on justice. And one of those aspects
which is a very important one starts just a few verses down on
verse 178, which is yeah, you Alladhina iniquity, but a common
case also Phil Cutler that you are going to basically take a life for
a life that's a command for you to take a life raft so that's an
Islamic idea, and it's taking already from as will be mentioned
later on, but COVID-19 via and the nifty nifty while I enable it
later on in another Surah So the idea of this is that yes, if a
murderer murder someone, then yes, it the His blood is lawful now is
known he's lost his sanctity. However, there's also a ruling
here that those who can forgive right from an old fella who we
know he he shaved on 50 bear on Bill Maher over there on the
labia.
Furminator the back the dirty girlfriend who I thought when I
mean welcome Phil PSRC HYAH Tonia Ali Al Burb all of that is
discussing the kind of philosophy behind allowing somebody who
murdered someone else to be murdered and killed themselves,
because that is a huge deterrent. That's why Allah says that for you
in doing this is life, you're killing somebody in this life in
their Well, the idea is that generally, it's considered a huge
deterrent that a person will think twice. Now there are two opinions
about this in the world. Some places they have the death penalty
in other places, they're vehemently opposed to it. They're
helpless, their hands are basically tied in terms of what
they can do. So the increasing number of murders and rapes and
all of these other things, but they're not willing to bring in
capital punishment, yet in other places. I mean, even in the West,
so the West is not unified and disregard. I mean, America, in
many states, there is a death penalty. They see the benefit in
that they see the wisdom behind that. So they do that. But in
other places, they throw their arms up in the air. They don't
know what to do when they see so many crimes and how to deal with
it. But if anybody brings it up, they look on it as completely
barbaric from an Islamic perspective. It's there. It's
mentioned in the Quran, and there's the legislation and
there's also a reasoning welcome filthy saucy Hiatt, right for you
in this key sauce, in this is in this life for a life essentially,
is a hired However, Allah subhanaw taala does does say that anybody
who forgives
anybody who forgives and
who takes a ransom instead, then that's also good as well. So we've
got two ways to do that. It's not like earlier faced, like the
Jewish faith where they had to be, you had to take the retribution.
Right now you can actually forgive, and you can actually take
a ransom instead as well. Let's just another one, which is
Allah subhanho wa Taala says that anybody who's close to death,
could be battling with a harder radical note, which is a verse
180. Is that those of you who are close to death or who think
they're going to die soon? And subhanAllah I mean, this is a good
time as any, right, is that they should actually write a Basia
the full the you should write or say the full laws aren't here yet,
but it seems like you should at least write a bequest, right of
where your where your inheritance is supposed to go. So that's
encouraged here. The number five is finally where the fasting is
mentioned. So for every sane, mature, Muslim fasting is
necessary. And there's, you have Latina Amano, quotevalet camassia
katiba Latina and publikum starts from verse 183. And it continues
and there's numerous discussions there related to fasting related
to Ramadan, related to eating and drinking and so on and so forth.
Allah subhanaw taala speaks about
Ramadan being a very important month because then he brings in
the fact that the Quran is also revealed in the shell Ramadan lady
on Zilla field Quran, then it carries on to discuss a number of
other things like
it's permissible during the nights of Ramadan once the Iftar has been
done. I mean people know that you can eat and drink. I mean that's
coming anyway. Right? That's coming anyway. But first Allah
subhanaw taala says that it's allowed for you to have
*, the spouse is not allowed to have *.
However, this is not allowed during aitikaf. Then after that,
Allah subhanaw taala speaks about what Amala combiner can build
Belton what to do behind Hohokam, that it's not allowed for you to
consume anybody's wealth in an unlawful way, whether that be
through deception, whether that be through interest in usury, because
that's not allowed in Islam, whether that be by usurping
somebody's wealth, not giving somebody their right, withholding
somebody's debt, or for whatever it is, you can see there's a huge
amount of laws here both a bar that laws of worship to Allah and
also laws about this inter inter social relationship. Nothing I
just want to mention here is Allah subhanaw taala says that or Halal
accolade at the CME refer to Isla Anissa, which is giving permit
permission for * between spouses during the night when
niversary likoma, antimony baths will learn some of the philosophy
behind it. And then Allah says that he knew that he
was who was trouble, this is a very important idea for me at
least, right because there's so many things that I'm that is based
on this verse, where Kulu was trouble now eat and drink, once
Iftar is done once Mercury has come in, eat and drink until,
because initially, it was not allowed for a person, it was only
allowed for a person to eat after Iftar, meaning at Maghrib time
until they fell asleep. So if somebody fell asleep, of course,
until somebody fell asleep before them, they couldn't eat
afterwards. So there was a Sahabi, who came from the fields really,
really tired and weary. And he was really, really tired, came home
and he said to his wife, is there any food she says, I'll prepare
you something. But he was so tired, he fell asleep. He'd been
fasting all day, he fell asleep. And as soon as he fell asleep,
what happens now is that his next fast has begun. It didn't start at
Fajr time it started from time you slept. So Allah subhanaw taala
revealed this verse Now that now you can eat and drink until the
white, the black, the white thread becomes distinct from the black
thread. Right? So this is the basis of both the publishing
company that I started white thread press and also the
institute white thread Institute, which is a nonprofit organization,
right? It comes from this it has a Quranic basis and a fucky basis
that basically you can eat and drink until dawn, right until
dawn, becomes clear for you.
Allah subhanaw taala then carries on about
number eight. So the eighth point then is Yes, I do Anika I need a
healer starting to ask about the moon's now. Right? Something which
could really benefit from somebody who really understood this and
follow this properly, that you need this, you need to understand
not just the solar system that you're used to but the lunar
months, because many of your worships are related to the lunar
months as we know Quran, the Ramadan, there eat the eidl,
Aloha, Ashura and so many others.
Number nine, is a long discussion about jihad, about basically
defending against your enemies and dealing with your enemies
preparedness against it some of the benefits in doing so. Not
being weak in that regard. Subhanallah living in the West
that's a very difficult How come it's in the Quran is a very
difficult hokum, and a ruling for people to to even understand what
to do. That's why there's lots of people who take advantage of
people's sentiments for jihad, right people's sentiments for
jihad, the message in the Quran is over and over. Right, so then
they, they basically manipulate them to do the wrong thing, which
is not a real jihad. But we really need to sit down and try to
understand the frustration among people about understanding the
real understanding of jihad, and how to maybe do it in the correct
way. Right. And that's a very important and very profound
discussion, that's probably going to have to be have as we continue
to live in the West. Right? As we continue to live in the West. This
is obviously not the time for it, then it speaks about in spending
in the path of Allah subhanaw taala. Then another huge
discussion comes after the fasting, right, we've already had
solitons declared before yesterday in the first Jews. Now the
discussion about Hajj, another great pillar of Hajj pillar of
Islam, which is the Hajj that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada wants you to
come together in one place, the Muslims of the world, whoever can
come to come together, show your solidarity, learn from one another
benefit from one another and perform a worship together. When
you do some ritual together, it creates a bond and the harmony,
harmony is created. Then it mentions that the Hajj can only be
done at once during certain months. However, the ombre can be
done. More than that. Then Allah subhanaw taala discusses
very specific rules about the Hajj. Now, it's not just here,
this Surah Al Hajj an entire Surah about Hyderabad there, it's more
about the sentiment and the emotion of the hijab is more
discussed there. Here, the discussion is more about the
rituals of the Hajj and try to correct some of the Jahai rituals
of Hajj because remember, they had Hajj before, before Islam. So
number one, a lot of the Quraysh they thought they were special,
because they used to be the caretakers of the caliber of the
haram. Right? So they were in charge. So there were certain
things that they wouldn't do. And they said that everybody else can
do it. Right. So for example, one of the things that they would do
is that they would not go to out of out of as the furthest location
they would stay in was deadly for and they would actually think it's
lonely to go to alpha, everybody else could go out if they wanted,
they wouldn't go. So Allah subhanaw taala says here that you
need to go a Phaedo in Haifa, a further nurse will still fit Allah
that you need to also go where everybody else goes numb. Then the
second thing they will do is when they will come back to Mina for
those days of the Rami of pelting the shaytaan that would be a time
of huge fanfare of basically them competing with one another with
poetry and so on, to try to say that my forefathers were superior
to yours. Our tribe is better than yours because we won more more
battles and we had such an such an individual and so on. That's what
they would do. So Allah subhanaw taala says that when you come back
for either a fourth tominaga 13 First Quarter Allah indle
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either Kobe to mana seeker come once you've done those main rights
of our firm so on first kulula Remember Allah decree comm Abba
calm just the way you used to remember your forefathers. Oh Asha
Decra Oh, Asha DEKRA, or even actually more intensely, now you
need to use this time to remember Allah subhana wa Tada.
general encouragement to spend in the path of Allah subhanho wa
taala. Because remember, the deme one of the things that you need
for the sustaining of our religion of the institutions of our
religion, like the mosques and so on, is that people need to spend
of their money to assist them. Because that's what you need. You
need You need that, like in this time, in this particular time in
the masjid, unfortunately, out of bounds for most people, I mean,
they're still going to need to have the expenses. So it's
something to consider in Ramadan. Don't forget your messages, right?
Don't forget your local institutions, right, which have
been shut down on you can't maybe visit them right now. They may be
teaching online, right? And they may be doing gurus like this
online, but you have to remember them because spending in the path
of Allah is a major part of our deen. It's an essential aspect of
the economy and this the stability of our foundations.
And the main thing is that Allah subhanho wa Taala will give a huge
reward in all of this number 12. There is a discussion about the
one who becomes a mortared, the one who loses their faith the one
who apostates. So that's that discussion then takes place. And
then after that Allah subhanaw taala discusses from verse 219. So
that was in 217, verse 219. Where's Luna candle hungry? Well,
Mason,
where's Luna? Candle hungry? Yes, Luna candle how many one masive
puts the two together. One is drinking hammer, which is why and
number two, is Mason, which is gambling. Because they're both bad
addictions. One of them you can actually smell on somebody's
breath. The other one is actually more deadly. I've spoken to a
person who is addicted to gambling. So the problem with this
is that you can't even smell it can't even tell that somebody is a
gambler. With a drinking you can see from this, you can understand
from the slurring of their speech, maybe the way they work, right and
so on. But with a gambler, you just will not know. That's why
it's not the gambling is even sometimes even worse, because it's
so difficult to remedy. So both of these are mentioned here. And
Allah subhanaw taala refers obviously, or rather, the profit
or loss I'm referred,
wine is referred to as Omen hubba. If, right, and gambling is one of
the worst of deeds. Then number 14, after discussing a lot of
these social issues, as we've discussed so far, now, Allah
subhanaw taala goes on to speaking more specifically about family
issues, interpersonal relationships with the family,
family is what creates the communities zooms in even further
from talking about more community related issues, to more specific
family related individual issues. So here, Allah subhanho wa Taala
discusses a number of things and mainly in that is you have the
discussion of Nika and you have the discussion of Talaq, which
goes on and on in a lot of detail. Verse 221, Allah subhanaw taala
speaks about who to marry, and that it's not allowed to marry a
pagan and idolatry. Marriage should be based on your religion
in Allah subhanho wa taala. Another verse has allowed marriage
of Muslim men to Christian and Jewish women, but not other not
the other way around. However, as mentioned the Hadith and from the
Sahara
About etc, it's disliked. Because it's very difficult to have. If
you've got different faiths, it's very difficult to have a common
understanding in terms of maintaining the family, because a
major aspect of the family is children, providing an
environment, you have two different ideas. Faith is a very
important aspect for people is not something on the side. I know in
the modern world, faith is kind of on the backburner. It's a kind of
a side issue. It's a supplementary issue. But for Muslims, faith is a
very big issue. It's a very important issue. And that's why a
lot of people can't understand when Muslims tell people that
we're not allowed, it's not good to marry outside the faith,
because that's something that unifies the whole focus of worship
and life, because remember, Islam governs every aspect of our life.
And if the husband and wife don't have that, and they have different
values in that regard, because there's going to be different
values, it's going to be extremely difficult. So it was allowed
because of need in certain cases, but it's considered undesirable
and disliked, where there's no need for that, that's with just
with Christian and Jewish women. Otherwise, with anybody else, it's
not allowed at all.
So Allah subhanaw taala speaks about that in in detail. And then
Allah subhanho wa Taala says that Allah is inviting you to Paradise,
and to guidance to to forgiveness by his permission, and Allah makes
all of this very clear. The next one number 15. Very specific
ruling now, zoomed in even further, is about women's
menstruation issues. It's a very important issue. But the problem
is that so many women, they have absolutely no idea about when to
start when, when to finish. That's why we've run several courses to
actually equip women, right, both Alamos and non Alamos to really
understand this so that they can help otherwise, many women have to
come to men to ask this question. And they feel very embarrassed
because it's a very, very personal issue. Right? And that's why it's
very important that you become you know, you learn about this, right?
You learn about this, and there is a course for women on Rayyan
Institute's right for for the menstruation. It's an eight, I
think it's an eight or 10 session course that you should definitely
take, right, it's good, it's targeted at beginners as well. So
it's a really good idea that you understand that because Allah
mentions it in the Quran. And he talks to men to say that, yes, you
may have a desire at that time. But that's a holiday time where
you're not allowed to do the intimate act, you can have other
forms of intimacy, and I'm keeping this language general because
there may be children who are listening, but you may hear we
have general, you know, mutual, intimate benefit, but not in the
area, not in the very specific area. Right, which because it's
other, it's harmful at that time, it's harmful, and that's why that
should be avoided.
Then Allah subhanahu, WA Tada, moves on to the next one, which is
number 16. The other reason that this was also mentioned here,
Allah subhanaw taala says, After talking about the prohibition of,
you know, penetrative * during menstruation, Allah
subhanho wa Taala says, Nisa will come hearth and welcome, your
women are a
tilt a crop for you, right fat to have her come, and now shaitan
you're allowed to approach your crop from whichever direction you
want, which is,
which is actually a response to the Jewish prohibition, of only
allowing sexual * in one particular position. And they said
that the other position is wrong, it provides all of these harms and
so on. So the Quran Allah subhanaw taala thing is completely allowed.
What could the moody and fusi come like sent for for yourself? And
that is very interesting. What duckula Where, Nicola COO, and
fear Allah, and know that you're going to, you're going to know
that you're going to meet him one day, know that you're going to
meet him? Why is that discussion when it's talking about sexual
*? That's why many of the Allama they've taken from
this, that those who are really the only of Allah, those who
really understood Allah, all of this is just a reminder of them of
the pleasures of the afterlife, and of the greatness of Allah. So
even when they engaged in something like what people would
call a lowly Act, which is, which is not, it's done in the right
way. It's actually a very noble act, because that's how humans are
born. Right? They actually get closer to Allah even, you know,
just through because of their perspective when they're doing the
act. That's why mangas Allah says that, that gives you what gives
you one of the sensations of the greatest pleasure to remind you of
paradise. So you need to change our understanding of why we have
these things. And again, I'd have to leave that to you to look at
that in detail. The number number 16, then, is regarding basic rules
of breaking an oath that yes, alts are there in Islam, if you break
them, then this is what you'll have to do. Number 17. Then moving
on from verse 226 227. Moving on, the largest amount of verses
related to divorce and all the most of the rulings related to
divorce is inserted Bacara
Even though you actually got to in the 28th juice, you've got sort of
two Talaq. A sorta that's called after Talaq, there are some rules
mentioned there. But I think a lot of those rules that I mentioned,
there is a lot of emotional assistance there as well. Whereas
here, it's about the rules about tilaka quite in detail at pala
Kumaratunga for Himself to me my roofie notice three homebase son,
I would suggest to everybody, every Muslim, that he goes through
these verses, because one of the biggest problems that we face as
scholars is Talaq issues, people just giving Talaq without any
consideration, just willy nilly without understanding and this
then they excuse, we didn't know that this was a divorce that this
was going to amount to a divorce. That's why the book that I've
written called handbook, recent Handbook of a healthy Muslim
marriage, most of it is just mostly practical and anecdotal,
right, based on cases, but the divorce insisted on adding a
divorce section in there, which is a slightly more technical
explaining all the types of divorces. So those who are married
should definitely understand divorce, because it's something
which you don't want to do wrong if you ever have to do it. But
Allah subhanaw taala tells us that sometimes you know, there are
going to be cases where your home becomes a living *, and you
need to separate That's why if there is a divorce is allowed in
Islam as opposed to in the Catholics. They don't allow
divorce, you'd be excommunicated from the church if you got
divorced, even though it's a reality of life, right? That's why
in Islam, it's allowed and the prophets are awesome signified as
avoidable. halal. It's the most detested of the halal things. So a
lot of people think it's haram to do it. The misunderstanding It's
haram to do it in a wrong way. But by default, it is a halal act when
it's necessary to do so don't hold on to your wives even though
you've Eric Eric You know there's no possibility of reconciliation
and you just holding on to them because Allah speaks about that
here that do not leave them more Aloka right for either to look to
Manisa MC gonna be my Rufino Sadie who's gonna be my roof wala tomb
Seco now there are only tighter do don't hold on to them just to harm
them. I'm gonna punish her forever so that she can't marry someone
else. Every moment you're doing that you'd be sinful for that?
Because you're you're basically not giving her her right. You're
not letting her come she doesn't want to maybe come it's
irretrievably broken down. You need to let them go with coronet
Matala here in a coma and Sally communicated your hikma then Allah
subhanho wa Taala discusses the MaHA. Right Allah subhanaw taala
discusses the MaHA the dowry and the discussions about that I'm not
going to go in talk about that. Then there's the discussion about
can a divorce woman marry somebody else? Yes, she can. But Allah says
that, if a husband has divorced his wife three times. Then after
that Allah says, For interlock, aha, ie the third time, which is
verse 220 30, Fela Tehila, whom embedded who had to attend, he has
chosen a euro. She is not allowed to re marry that same husband who
is divorced three times whether together or three separately. Once
he's done three, he's lost his right to be with her. So now she
can't go back to him. She she would have to marry someone else,
until she marries somebody else consummated the marriage. Right,
which is not the contribution part. It's not mentioned here. But
then only then if she happened to be divorced from the she'd be able
to come back. If that was all organized and pre planned, then
that would be haram to do that anyway, in most cases. Then Allah
subhanaw taala discusses
the fact that do not harm your wives. In fact, it says well,
Metallica, T Mehta and Bill Maher roof many people don't know this,
that when you if you happen to divorce your wife, you should
actually give her a parting gift when it all gets dissolved. And
you're not going to see any and there's going to be generally a
lot of acrimony. In most cases, you're supposed to give her a
suit, any top and bottom, you know, suit dress, and I was just
so that it just diffuses some of the hard feeling well in Moodle
Alacati Mata on Bill Maher roof as well, that could also refer to
other things as well.
Then it moves on to the 21st point here is that again, Islam is based
on justice, so on and so on. And there's no allowance for
there's no allowance for volume and oppression. That's why even if
there's a separation, and the mother has to be called on to she
still has the right to feed her children to nurse her children. So
all of that discussion is there. Right? Well, while he that you're
there, Hola. Hola. Hola. Lanie kami lane, how long the the
nursing period needs to be all of that discussion is there women
should especially read this, right? Because it's very relevant.
Then after that.
There's a discussion of it that now once divorce takes place or
the husband dies, then women have to sit in the waiting period. One
of the reasons for it is obviously to mourn the husband. Right mourn
the death of the husband and others
Isn't is to find out whether you're carrying the child of the
husband, because Islam is very lays a great emphasis on making
sure your genealogy, your ancestry is not confused. So if you get
married somebody straight away, then it could be possibility that
you might think it's the second husband's child, whereas it's
actually the first husband's child. That's why it takes about
three complete menstrual cycles. For that to be clarified, not just
one, but three complete menstrual cycles, you won't have to spend in
order to do that. Again, there's lots of detail here, which we
obviously can't go into. So the various discussions about it that
and the waiting period is discussed in these verses. And
then Allah subhanho wa Taala
speaks about Allahumma Salli, ala sayyidina. Muhammad, what do we
discuss what don't we discuss, we see the time creeping upon us. So
the idea is how much we discussed Alhamdulillah. I think we've
covered quite a bit of ground, but just a few points that are left
here as we're nearing the end of the surah.
Finally, to just to make it more comprehensive, there's also a
discussion that if a husband and wife are having problems, and the
wife one out wants out, but the husband won't let her then there's
also there's also a discussion about the
wife providing a payment, or forgoing her dowry, to secure the
divorce. That's also that's also mentioned in the Quran.
Allah subhanaw taala then puts in here haffi do other Salatu was
Salam ala Wooster in the midst of all of that discussion going back
to the worships. So that is, verse 200. And verse 238 238, which is,
be be very protective and regular and mindful over all your prayers,
especially the middle prayer, big discussion as to what the middle
prayers, many orlimar say, refers to answer prayer, because that's
kind of in the middle where it's easier for it to be missed.
Because by Maghrib, you're at home generally, in a moderate climate,
you are in February at home, in the home, there's a there's a
there's a time when you're focused, but also time is the end
of the business day. So it's very possible that in order coming back
from your community, you may miss us or be very particular about
Yasser pray especially. Right then to finish off Allah subhanho wa
Taala provides two stories, two incidents. One of them is kind of
relevant to us but we don't have the time to go into it in detail
is basically from verse 243, LM Tala Illa, Latina hora, Zhu Min
Dre him Woofle, huddle melt.
But Allah says Faqad Allahu Allah who moved to some higher home in
hola hola do further in other nasty weather in Corona slash
karoun. So this is the story of a certain community who were hit by
a proper plague. Now, thanks to God that this is not a plague.
Because what we're going through right now, if it was a plague,
that'd be very chant less chance of survival. That would be deadly
like anybody who catches it, mostly they die. That's what's
happened in the past of the bacterial plagues. We're dealing
with more virus right now, but that those are more bacterial. And
generally, anybody that catches is probably going to die, right most
likely. So that's why we call this a wobble as opposed to our own.
But anyway, these people were afflicted by a tornado. And the
condition in town is basically locked down. The ruling is a
lockdown, don't get out. Right, which we're being told to do right
now as well that don't get out. So the idea is, I mean, flights,
mostly suspended and so on. However, these people they got
scared. So they didn't listen to the ruling that you must stay
there and they ran out. They left and they died. Allah subhanaw
taala then gave them death. That why did you do that? So follow the
ruling that you're supposed to do stay indoors stay stay home.
Right?
I'm not saying that the Quran is telling us to do that right now
directly, right. Don't get me wrong here. But generally we get
the inspiration of that from from these verses. The second story is
a more detailed story that Allah subhanho wa Taala discusses and
after all of these specific rulings, ruling rulings, Allah
subhanaw taala in the next cluster of verses from that starts at
ilimitado, Ilan mela Iman Bani Israel I mean by the Musa remember
there's a lot of discussion of Bani Israel here. So it goes back
to that discussion on verse 246.
If God willing to be alone rathlin, American Nakata, Luffy,
Sybilla, these these group of the Israelites, they were asking for a
commander, a king, a sovereign, a leader, that they could fight
behind to deal with their enemies, right? This is the whole story of
Goliath and soul dilute, right. So that discussion is there. And
there's a numerous benefits in the story for us. The story is not
there just as a historical account, right. It's there for a
very particular aspect number one, it's
Thinking about the whole jihadi aspect of it, that this is this
was important for them to defend themselves because they were under
impending danger. Then after that,
what's very interesting about the story apparently is that this was
in the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. They
were three Jewish tribes in Madina, Munawwara right, W ne, W,
K, no CA, and the blucora. Right. And they were they had learned
people among them, they had their other Ma, the rabbi is among them.
Now, what this particular story about soul and the taboos, right
the ark, whatever it was, that was something only the elect few
learned individuals among the community knew, it was not
something that the common Jewish individual knew among the three
tribes at that time, according to what the overseeding historians
mentioned. So the fact that this story is mentioned in the Quran,
so much detail was like a big wow factor, right that this story, I
mean, which, which is not being denied by the ruling, sorry, but
by the religious elite among the Jewish tribes at that time. So
this story is not just a story to provide a historical account, but
it's to fulfill a number of different purposes, and one of
them is to show the truth of the Quran. Right, that this isn't
that's why there were a few Jewish rabbis that actually then convert
us like Abdullah, salaam, and so on. Now, the other thing is that
this story is
speaking about coming fit in Karela, in whatever theater and
Kathy Ratan Bismillah, this is a part of a verse that is quoted in
numerous situations, especially when you've got a small group that
and you face danger from a more powerful enemy, your foe and your
opponent is much more powerful, or more in number. Right? So this is
to give a huge amount of confidence and assurance, and
trust in Allah subhanho wa taala. So the whole story is discussed.
Number one, they didn't agree with Talu being the leader, because he
didn't come from a special family, he didn't have a lot of money. So
that sometimes you get the psyche among communities, including
Muslim communities, that
the those who have Prestidge, right, in any sense needs to be
the worldly Prestidge you've got money or influence opposition, the
religious prestige is nothing. That's why there's some countries
in the world, they're all Mr. denigrate and looked down upon.
Right. Because through media and so on, they've just made it that
way, except in the minds of a few people hamdulillah in some
countries, that's changing hugely, and they're orlimar becoming much
more respectful, right and more respected. Then you've got certain
countries in the world Muslim countries I'm talking about, they
send that some of their best students, when I say the best
students, not just best students, but also the most wealthiest
students to our top universities here, like Imperial College and
UCL and Oxford and Cambridge, and so on. These students come there
from the from, you can say the wealthy elite of their countries,
because I mean, who's gonna pay 20 30,000 pounds a year for fees?
Right? UK people find 9000 A lot. I mean, 20,000, from another
country, along with every other cost. So it's only the very elite
that come. These people they come from a mindset of certain
countries are like this, not all countries are like some countries
are like that. They have a mindset that people who are religious or
lowly, they like the low class, because generally among the
wealthy elite in our country, the religion is not a big deal.
Because money and position gives you a false sense of security.
Religion also provides you security in the hereafter and this
world and makes you deal with your emotions. But they don't know that
because they can buy what they want.
And they can get what they want. They feel like religion is not for
them. I've got my money. I've got my context, right? I know somebody
in the government, or I know somebody in the local police
station, or whatever. So that's why a lot of corruption happens
because of that. Some of these students, they come to the UK,
maybe to America and other places. And now they're sitting next to
Muslims who are from families born in the UK, who are religious girls
in hijab niqab, even men who are praying salah, this masala,
they're in the university and they're going for prayer. There's
a Juma prayer, they're doing religious activities. These
students is like, Wow, you guys are our kind of
ultimate purpose in life. Like, we wish you could be like you, but
what's wrong with you guys? And subhanAllah, many of them actually
discover their religion in a Western country, which is really
weird. I'm not saying that. Everybody needs to move to a
Muslim country because of that. There's the pros and cons in every
country in every place, and so on. But that's something to understand
the same time
Another thing you can see here as well, that they're saying that God
will honor your kulula Homolka. Elena, when Bill came in, who will
have you at the site at a minimal? How can he have sovereignty over
us when we are more rightful and befitting of the sovereignty and
he has not even given been given a lot of wealth. Allahu Akbar. So
Allah says in Allah Stouffer who Alikum was the WHO bestaat on
Phil, tell me, well, Jason, Allah has chosen him, the Prophet of
Allah has chosen him over you and Allah has increased him both
physically right? So mashallah, you know, he was mashallah well,
well to do in terms of in terms of his body and physique, and also in
knowledge, wala who yo T Malika Houma Yasha This is a huge amount
of consolation for those who are downtrodden. Allah gives his
sovereignty to whoever he wishes, Allah who is here on our team, and
Allah is the expensive and most knowing he knows exactly where to
play. And that's why throughout history, you've seen huge
traditions, dynasties, people who were on an ascent, they were
untouchable at that time. They were superior, they were
superpowers. If you look at cars, Rose muda intestine, right of the
Persian lands, that city was remarkable, right? There was no
way you could, you know, they defeated the Romans. Today,
there's no, there's there's not even a sign of them. Right. The
few that are left, they're sitting in India, right? They're sitting
in India, the fire worshippers, the Zoroastrians, the major ones.
So if you look at history, you will see that whatever is
ascendant right now, doesn't have to be tomorrow. As long as you do
the right thing, Allah subhanho wa Taala will give you the true
sovereignty, which is what really matters. And that's why this story
is for them FOSATU to build Junoon then the whole discussion of a Dao
with Ali salaam, young man at that time, who kills Goliath, the huge
giant, right? And
finally, Allah subhanho wa taala, just like in the first Jews,
right, it's a perfect place to end this actually, the last verse here
that was chosen to end this Jews in not by Allah subhanaw taala
necessarily directly, although it is a choice of Allah because
whoever made the study, Jews did it from Tofik with ofI from Allah,
Allah says, Tilka to Allah, He Naklua Allah, you can be luck.
We're in NACA laminal, mousseline, that these are the signs of Allah,
that we relate to you that we recite to you, right with the
truth, right, a lot of these things like the story was not
known by the by the Jewish community at that time, or the
majority of it. Were in Nicola, Mina and Mozillian, you are truly
the sent messenger, you are truly the apostle of God, right, you are
truly sent by Allah subhanho wa taala, again, to reinforce the
message of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So now just to
quickly wrap up a few additional points, from the beginning to the
end, just so that this kind of whirlwind roller coaster ride.
We remember some of the main points, number one,
from the aisle bill, the discussion was that the most
important thing is that you purify your heart, and you straighten
your approach to things as opposed to just being focused on the
symbols, and outward ritual. But this is not to say, because you
know, we've got a bit of a extreme, you've got some will say,
focus on the symbols, and they forget the substance, you get
those who claim that they're doing the substance, but they don't do
the symbol, they won't pray. But I think that the objective of prayer
is to be nice with others and be empathic and loving. So I'm doing
that, but I'm not doing this. The truth is that all of it is
important, that being empathic, loving, kind.
Generous, is one important feature of Islam, one paradigm of Islam
and prayer for Allah in a particular way, with the ritual,
the outer form is also important. That's why this huge amount of
laws related to that they're both important.
So Allah subhanaw taala underscores both things here.
Number two,
in a lot of those verses studying, in fact, this juice is the one
that it includes AYATUL beer, but it also includes another great
idea, which is IRA to sober, right. And that's an idea that you
should read carefully. And always keep in mind, especially when
you're going through difficulty and you will find huge comfort,
and solace and consolation in that. And that is from verse
153 257. Yeah, yeah. Hello Adina. I'm gonna start you know with
somebody was salah,
or people who believe, seek assistance through patient
and through prayer. So patience is our emotional state of how we put
mind over matter. And we understand this from Allah, we're
doing it for Allah. And physically, you're doing the outer
form of prayer as well. All for the sake of Allah. And Allah says,
because Allah is with the patient ones. And then Allah says, do not
consider those who have been killed in the path of Allah that
they did their very living, but you don't perceive that, we will
certainly test you. This is that famous verse of test will
certainly test you with a bit of health, and Jew, and noxee middle
and while he went on for a thermal out a bit of deficient bit of a
loss of children of crops of wealth and hunger, and so on, but
give glad tidings to the people who are patient, right? When any
kind of affliction reaches them. They say we are we belong to
Allah, we're going to return to Him. We've lost this right now.
Right? But we're also going to be lost to Allah one day. And these
are the people upon whom is the blessing of the Lord, and the
mercy. And these are the people who are guided, they know what to
do in this state.
Then after that, we had the whole discussion about the obligation of
fasting and the related rulings, and so on. So that's something
very important to go through. Right, Number Number four, the
next one is about hedge and so on. But as I mentioned, in this surah,
it's the a lot of the physical aspects of the surah. Whereas
insert will hedge discusses a lot of the emotional aspects there.
And number. The next one is huge discussion about family life.
Family life is made up of husband and wife, marriage, divorce,
custody, children, nursing, all of that is discussed there. But Allah
links all of that up to taqwa, lots of discussion. You look at
those verses, when you read them closely, you'll see that there's
lots of discussion about being cognizant of Allah subhanaw taala,
having taqwa and righteousness to make that work properly, because
if you don't, it's not going to work for it's going to be very
selfish. And finally, the discussion is about Joe Lutz,
right, Goliath, huge discussion of somebody following your leader,
and doing the right thing and keeping you hoping Allah. And that
also teaches us steadfastness, sticking to your principles, that
gives us all of that discussion and how small groups will even
overcome big ones because the assistance of Allah is the most
important thing for anybody. And the last point I want to make
here, verse 251, well oh Allah for Allah hiddenness, which we're
going to be discussing tomorrow. So I leave that right now. But may
Allah subhanaw taala accept. May Allah accept May Allah guide us
and may Allah open up the Quran for us and make it a solace and
comfort for our heart? Well, I can read that one. And Al hamdu
Lillahi Rabbil Alameen