Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Adornment of Quran – Part 1
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين
والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين وعلى آله وصحبه
وبركه وسلم تسليما كثيرا إلى يوم الدين أما
بعد Today we begin the tafsir of Surat
Ar-Rahman.
Surat Ar-Rahman is a surah that is
beloved to many people.
Many Muslims like to recite it because of
its beauty.
It's a It has 78 verses and 31
times there's a repeated verse فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا
تُكَذِّبَانَ It's one of the Makki surahs that
deal with strengthening the faith of individuals, establishing
the iman strongly in the heart by speaking
about many different manifestations of the power of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in this world
and how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bestows
so many bounties and so many gifts out
of his generosity on the human being on
the makhluk and especially the human being.
So it really deals very fundamentally with the
aqeedah of the Muslim to connect oneself with
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The basis for everything, the strength of our
iman, the sweetness in our worship, the ability
to do good, the ability to follow the
commands of Allah, the ability to abstain from
the prohibitions.
All of that becomes easier when you do
it out of the love of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
And the only way we can gain the
love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
by learning more about him.
And then when we realize that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala gives us so many bounties
and so many gifts, how can we deny
them?
Then we were told about the many different
gifts that are in this world and that
are for those who will give thanks to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Nobody can deny them.
And then when we realize that the one
who is giving all of these gifts is
the most generous, the bestower, the benevolent one,
the love will increase for such a person.
The human being by their very nature as
an Arabic saying goes, الإنسان و عبد الإحسان
الإنسان و عبد الإحسان The Insan is a
servant of Ihsan.
Ihsan means when somebody does good to you.
So if somebody favors you, if somebody does
good to you, you normally become their slave
in the sense that you will begin to
treat them and respect them well, you'll begin
to love them and so on.
So if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who
is the greatest bestower of all and everything
that we have and anything that comes from
anyone else is also really from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, then we'll begin to love
him more.
So once this kind of aqeedah, this kind
of belief is established in the heart.
What does aqeedah mean?
We say aqeedah, your aqeedah needs to be
correct.
Aqeedah comes from aqada, means to tie a
knot.
If the knot, basically if the heart is
tied correctly on the right things about Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, then our body, us
as a human being, we will follow suit.
That's the most important thing.
When the aqeedah is corrupt, when a person
doesn't really think Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is the source of everything.
When they think that others are the source
of something or the other, then we begin
to overlook Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Then we begin to become a bit negligent.
Then we're not really as worried about making
him happy or incurring his wrath.
Because we think benefit comes from elsewhere.
Benefit and harm comes from elsewhere.
But if the aqeedah is so strong that
we're able to look beyond the normal things
that we perceive benefit and harm from, and
we see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala behind
it, and we see all the bounties that
we have in our life are all coming
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That even when we feel we have calamity
upon us, we still have many bounties that
we can, that we have to give thanks
for.
Once that becomes really established, then the life
in this world becomes easy.
Because then a person is then, a person
is then playing his role in this world.
Their role in this world is of servitude.
And to realize that everything comes from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and there is nothing
that can be denied, that is what makes
it that much easier.
That is what Surah Ar-Rahman is all
about.
And then it's so beautiful to read it.
But if you read it with understanding, then
you can reflect over these bounties.
Because that's the whole purpose.
The whole purpose of this is not just
some kind of a beautiful a beautiful sounding
rhyming chapter.
It's about the meaning that's in there.
In a hadith it mentions, Everything has a
bride, meaning everything is made up, like in
everything there's something that you adorn, embellish like
a bride.
And that among the Quran is Surah Ar
-Rahman.
Surah Ar-Rahman is like the adorned one
in its beauty.
See there's more fadail for Surah Yaseen.
There's more fadail, more virtues, certain benefits that
are gained about Surah Al-Dukhan, Surah Al
-Waqi'ah, Surah Al-Mulk, Surah Al-Kahf,
Surah Al-Baqarah.
But you see that when somebody wants to
memorize a surah of the Quran after Yaseen,
normally they go to Surah Ar-Rahman.
Even though the virtues, specific virtues about the
surahs, they're not as many about Surah Ar
-Rahman.
One of the most famous hadith about Surah
Ar-Rahman is this aspect that it's an
adornment but the heart is so close to
it because it's beautiful and it speaks about
the bounties of Allah.
The surah begins and you'll see from the
in-depth tafsir that we do of each
verse, the surah begins, I'm just going to
give us an overview of the surah.
The surah begins first by speaking about some
of the great and mighty clear signs of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that are His
bounties.
Which obviously cannot be enumerated, but firstly it's
about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taught us
the Quran.
It speaks about teaching, speaks about education, speaks
about knowledge.
Anybody who understands knowledge and education will understand
that that is the tool for everything.
Without knowledge, you can't understand Allah.
Without knowledge, you can't understand the purpose of
this world for the human being.
Without knowledge, you can't move forward in this
world and be successful.
And then without knowledge, you cannot be successful
in the hereafter.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala starts off with
the fact of mentioning that He taught us
the Quran, He taught the human being the
Quran.
Allama al-Quran, khalaq al-insan created the
human being, taught him how to speak, taught
him how to express himself.
Taught him how to express himself.
We can express ourselves to animals, but it's
a lot more difficult for animals to express
themselves to us.
Just the ability of speech that we have,
this comprehensible speech.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala starts speaking
about all of the major things like the
sun and the moon and the stars, the
trees, the heavens that are standing up there
without any pillars that we can see.
And every fascinating qudr of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala that could be seen in all
of these things.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about
the earth, speaks about the many things that
He grows for us and gives us through
the earth, the crops, the different types of
fruit.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about the
bounties of the earth.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then speaks about
the oceans, how He has an ocean, vast
expanse of water, but allows these ships to
sail in these oceans.
That's another bounty of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
So He speaks about the heavens, speaks about
the cosmic system, speaks about the earth, speaks
about the water, speaks about the water of
the earth and how you can overcome that,
how you can deal with that.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about
how everything is temporary.
All of these things that we see, it's
at the end of the day, it's all
going to be temporary and eventually we'll all
perish.
And nothing will remain except the creator of
all of these things.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about
the main thing, that these are all things
we've spoken about, all about the world.
Everything of this world is all about the
hereafter.
It has an effect and influence on the
hereafter.
So then He starts to speak about the
day of judgement.
But there is more discussion in this surah,
out of the five and a half pages,
two full pages, only one page is about
frightening aspects, warnings, punishments.
And two whole pages are about the bounties
of those who will be close to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, the obedient ones.
And among that there are two levels as
well.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala here describes
them in detail.
That those who fear the position of their
lord, they will receive this.
And then those who are close will receive
this.
So let us start the surah.
Surah Al-Fatihah The
Rahman So we begin in the name of
Allah, most gracious, most merciful, after seeking refuge
from shaitan that occurs the Rahman meaning the
all-merciful one has taught the Quran he
has created man he has taught him how
to express himself the Sun and the moon
are bound by a fixed calculation and the
vine and the tree both prostrate to Allah
he raised the sky high and has placed
the scale so that you should not be
wrongful in way in weighing observe the correct
weight with fairness and do not make waiting
or weighing deficient as for the earth he
has placed it for creatures in which there
are fruits and date palms having sheaths and
the grain having the chaff and fragrant flowers
so amount mankind and jinn which of the
bounties of your Lord will you deny that's
how it starts now if we are to
speak about each one of these things in
detail and really open them up it would
become very very detailed because each one of
these is so significant Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
starts off by saying the most merciful one
it starts of it Ar-Rahman that is
the name of the Surah that the most
merciful one Rahman just starts off with that
why do you think he starts off with
Rahman as opposed to Al-Qahhar or Al
-Muntaqim or any of the other names he
starts off with an with his name of
of beauty of generosity of Rahma and mercy
to attract and to soften the hearts of
people that look this is your Lord who's
merciful and the reason why he's giving you
all of these things is because he's the
most merciful Lord so Ar-Rahman, Allama Al
-Qur'an the first thing he speaks about
is he taught you the Quran that's very
significant if you look it says Ar-Rahmanu
Allama Al-Qur'an Khalaqa Al-Insan he
taught the Quran and he created the human
being why wasn't it he created the human
being and taught him the Quran the Quran
is bought first then he created the human
being there could be a number of reasons
for that one thing which comes to mind
straight away is that the Quran is older
than the human being because the Quran is
the eternal speech of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
yes it was revealed in this world at
a particular time in our history 1400 years
ago but the Quran is originally the eternal
speech of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala that has
always been with him so it's older than
the human being the human being comes afterwards
but what the Mufassereen normally they mention is
that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala he gives he
speaks about the highest of the bounties first
which is the Quran because if you had
human beings without the Quran then we'd be
nowhere the Quran is the manual of life
it makes life and it gives it the
value that it's supposed to have to understand
the rights and wrongs to understand the way
to live to understand who we are and
what we're supposed to be doing the Quran
is the greatest the Quran is the out
of all of the books as well the
Torah the Zabur the Injil and the other
scriptures that came down to other prophets they
say that there's a hundred and four scriptures
that were sent down by Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala over the course of history for the
hundred and then there's four the four are
the main ones the Quran the Zabur the
Injil the Psalms the Evangel and the Torah
then a hundred these were smaller some of
these scriptures were given to sheath alayhis salaam
some were to Ibrahim alayhis salaam there were
some that were given in addition to the
Torah to Musa alayhis salaam, Suhuf Ibrahima wa
Musa so out of all of those the
Quran is the most superior of the revelations
that have come down onto the earth on
any of his prophets it's the one that
has been mentioned the most and read the
most if you just look today how many
people possibly read the Torah or the Zabur
or the Injil even even though there may
be more Christians in the world but how
many actually sit down and read the Bible
even if you don't look at what's accurate
in there and what's not accurate in there
what was additionally added later the amount of
Quran that is recited every day just think
about it that the Muslims you know even
if you say a huge amount of them
pray and huge amount of them don't pray
those who pray there's a Quran being recited
there are verses that we say all the
time so the amount of Quran that's being
recited has a very high position in the
has a very high position it's the one
that's most quoted and it says that it's
the most influential when it comes to for
the deen for the prosperity of the deen
for the strengthening of the deen reading the
Quran is is the is the most effective
thing that that you could do that's why
it is a hadith one sahabi came to
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam he used to read
lots of Quran and he the hadith the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said that anybody who
spends so much time with the Quran that
they don't even have time to make dua
to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala or anything else
Allah will give them whatever is best for
them even without them asking because you're reading
the Quran that's how powerful this Quran is
so it has a very it has a
very very strong influence on the human being
it was revealed from Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
to the best of all of his creation
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam going back to Ar
-Rahman when another verse of the Quran it
said usjudu lil rahman that was revealed means
go and prostrate for the most merciful one
so the kuffar of Makkah they said wa
mar rahman what is this rahman you're speaking
about we've we don't normally use this term
who is Rahman that you're describing the most
merciful one so they found it strange they
denied it they rejected it la na'rifur
Rahman we don't know the Rahman that's what
they said so Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Ar
-Rahman Allama Quran that this surah was revealed
these verses were revealed to show who the
Rahman is subhanallah what kind of a ignorant
people would say we don't know who the
most merciful one is so Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala revealed this to show who the Rahman
is and all the bounties that he gives
you out of his mercy now Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala teaching the Quran you could speak
about this for hours you know the benefit
of the Quran we don't have the time
because this is supposed to be a concise
commentary but Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala teaching the
Quran he's made it easy young children are
able to memorize it older people are able
to memorize it I remember I went into
one madrasa one seminary there was an old
man with a white beard sitting there so
what is he doing here he said he's
come to memorize the Quran you know I
can understand a six-year-old child memory
of memorizing the Quran I personally think it's
a lot more difficult for a 70 year
old man to memorize the Quran and he
was sitting there he was sitting there reading
away is something I've seen in my own
eyes I don't know what happened afterwards but
this is something I've seen then he created
the insan he created this special makhluk who
has characteristics of the other creations of Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala walks just like other animals
do other created animals do eats drinks copulates
reproduces but then there's one thing that we
gave him we gave the human being we
gave this insan that others don't have which
is this ability to converse and comprehend and
to understand Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and thus
be given a choice for that and then
to subjugate the other animals as well so
the human being who is able to listen
who's able to hear was able to speak
who's able to see and the insan here
when Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says khalaqal insan
is not referring to any particular human being
is talking about human beings in general that
Allah created the human being now if you
have any value for yourself you realize that
Allah who created you he must be a
majestic creator because a human knows their own
intricacies you can compare yourself to other animals
can you imagine that you've got this big
elephant and people ride on elephants how can
you subjugate an elephant a camel a horse
all of these animals are bigger than human
beings physically in strength in prowess but Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala gives that ability and then
allamahul bayan he taught them how this is
what makes the human distinct from others he
created a human being just in case you
don't understand the distinguishing features of a human
being allamahul bayan gave you the ability to
articulate yourself to say how you feel to
say how you feel to say what you're
thinking to be able to convince somebody of
something to make somebody cry by speaking to
them to make somebody happy by speaking to
them by saying and using certain words obviously
everybody has a different level of all of
these things not everybody is as eloquent as
as others are so Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
gave the human being this ability to speak
to articulate themselves to express themselves in a
way that expresses their inner feelings their desires
that is what makes them distinct from other
human beings so the Baydawi who was one
of the great Mufassir he said that the
whole point of mentioning all of these things
is just to start speaking about the bounties
that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has given you
starting from the absolute basic personal which is
that it's the creation of the human being
and his ability to speak but that ties
in with the Quran because the Quran you
will read it you'll understand it you can
explain it and teach it to others another
reason why the Quran is mentioned first before
the human beings creation is because the human
creation it's it's a fact but to to
take our attention to the fact that from
your Dean the things which matter for your
hereafter what is the most important thing for
you to know and that is the fact
that the Quran has been taught to you
that it's from all of the beanie bounties
the Quran is the greatest bounty that you
have the Hadith is a Tafseer for it
is an explanation for it so that's why
it was mentioned first that because we're speaking
about the things which are benefit to you
just telling you that Allah created you as
a human being but then you need something
to get to you need something to get
beyond that to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala so
he mentioned that first then a shamsu al
-qamaru bi husban Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala created
the heavens and the sun and the moon
these are two things which are so important
for human beings the Sun and the moon
the Sun by day the moon at night
especially for people who didn't have artificial electricity
artificial light and other means of warming themselves
up or seeing and illuminating and being able
to see their way through the dark and
guiding themselves but Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says
is a shamsu al-qamaru bi husban He
didn't just say I created the heaven that
the Sun and the moon but bi husban
husban refers to it's like ghufran, kufran which
means at a very intricate level something done
at an intricate level ghufran as opposed to
maghfira means like a very strong forgiveness a
kufranun ni'ma as opposed to kufrun ni'ma kufran
is got a more intensive meaning so husban
here is created so intricately with an intricate
system and we discussed some of that in
the previous surah yaseen that the Sun and
the moon are in a very intricate system
which is explained in other places here's just
a reminder that the Quran that the Sun
and the moon is created with a very
in a very intricate system that they follow
a particular pattern they do their task there's
a very particular task that they perform for
this world and it's very necessary for this
world even the moon with the with the
tides and the connections and the associations that
have been discovered that's that's also then wal
najmu wal shajaru yasjudan there are other things
which are important as well but not to
the level of the Sun and the moon
it meant Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala mentions those
najm wal shajar the najm is the stars
and the shajar are the trees yasjudan they
prostrate they prostrate now here prostration of the
Sun prostration of the stars and the trees
that is not something that we normally observe
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala knows best if it's
in a literal meaning Allah knows best to
its meaning but what's normally described here or
commented here about what they mean is that
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala that the stars and
the trees they submit themselves to Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala they submit themselves to Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala by the stars being in different
constellations for people to be able to benefit
from that there's a predictable kind of constellation
that they're in every night of the year
so that people can understand where are we
where we going what direction do we have
to go in and there's a benefit to
that for us we don't really see any
benefit in the stars if we even get
the toffee to ever look at them but
for people who don't have the means that
we do which is a lot of the
world's they use this and traditionally they've used
this and the trees their submission to Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala is by producing the fruits
and the food that nourish that nourishes us
the way this translation has it is and
the vine and the tree both prostrate to
Allah he is translated Najam not a star
but in another meaning another possible meaning because
the word is a homonym which means it
has more than one meaning and so that
it's the vine so the vine the normal
vine and then you've got the the tree
right so those trees which are more like
palms and vine and then there's there's the
trees so he's saying it is commonly used
for star and for a plant whose stem
requires support and which climbs on a wall
etc both meanings are possible here it could
mean star or it could be in a
vine that normally a tree is something that
stands on its own it has its own
trunk but a vine he's saying the Najam
refers to that which needs support you either
have to tie it up to something or
it climbs up a wall or something of
that nature right so he's taking that meaning
in view of its conjunction with tree most
exegetes have taken it in the sense of
vine their total submission to Allah's command is
described in the verse in the verse as
their prostration that their branches I mean it
could be taken literally that their prostration in
the sense that their branches stoop down eventually
that's their prostration for Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
and that's why the vines you have to
actually prop them up you have to support
them up because they're constantly prostrating to the
ground that's if you take that literally you
could take it metaphorically as well he raised
the sky high he raised the sky high
so that you should not be no he
raised the sky high and has placed the
scale this requires a lot more commentary but
the heavens he put high he elevated it
he elevated it and you'd never think it's
gonna fall down we're so secure that the
heavens are up there they're not gonna fall
on us with anything else you need to
keep strengthening it but the heaven is such
a massive roof for this earth but you
feel secure underneath it except for punishment as
believing people would believe that punishment can come
from the heavens well the al-mizan and
he placed the scale some have described this
placing the scale as a physical scale which
by which you're able to make rightful decisions
about how much you give to someone and
how much you pay someone because that is
such an important aspect that every human being
does it you either use money or you
barter with goods it's one of the oldest
you know nothing comes for free in this
world even in societies where they work on
a community basis where somebody's producing wheat somebody's
producing sugar somebody's cutting hair so what happens
in these kind of that they like a
cooperative the person who's who's producing the wheat
whatever their total yearly crop is they will
distribute it within the members of that community
of that village everybody gets a shared amount
the one who's producing sugar he'll give out
the one who's cutting hair his responsibility is
every week to go around and cut people's
hair right so everybody's kind of in this
cooperative but even in that it's just an
exchange at the end of the day exchanging
and dealing like this is so important if
there wasn't a scale to measure exact amounts
then can you imagine how difficult that would
be and the dispute that would cause because
of just doing it in general so in
some things you can do things like that
in general but that's what causes if it's
about I'll give you a fistful I'll give
you a fistful I'll give you a cupful
there's a difference in the two but even
with the cup you have to know how
much there is that's why these scales they're
very important so Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala said
we're giving you this bounty by it you
avoid so many disputes you know clearly that
this is the way it is ووضع الميزان
right another one ووضع الميزان is we placed
the ميزان means the قانون law that we
placed on earth the law by which you
conduct yourselves by which you with you deal
with each other and your life remains stable
because you follow a certain law that's why
if you look at the world why is
it that there are people from around the
world who there are certain countries with immigration
to that country is more than to other
countries it's ajib in some countries you can
literally drive into that country and they don't
mind but in other countries you'll have to
do a lot to get in they will
check you and make sure that you are
in you are entitled to come in and
yet there are other countries you can literally
drive in anytime no problem there's a reason
for these things and if you look at
it most of the places where people want
to migrate to it's because of stability of
some sort and stability comes from what stability
comes from a system a law Meezan that
is so important if there's a lot of
money to be made in a place but
there's no law there would you go there
right now there are so many countries that
are opening up where you could go and
start a business you'd be a pioneer you
could bring in so many because open markets
but there's no stability would you go there
few people would but not the majority of
people majority of people they want stability they
want law they want justice well what the
army's and Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala established justice
and I think about justice normally if you
look around that any dynasty any ruling system
that has been successful is because of the
justice that they upheld once you start to
violate justice you go down because it's so
important to the human being the Othmanis were
considered I mean Othmanis I mean one of
the biggest of the Othmani the Ottomans was
Suleyman the magnificent his name in Turkey is
Suleyman Al-Qanuni, Qanun means the law the
canon justice is so important that you know
you can get your right to a certain
degree there's no perfect place in this world
everywhere there is going to be some kind
of civilized corruption going on favors being you
know and bribes and there's gonna be that
everywhere but in general where if you compare
one place to another it's really sad that
those who are supposed to be upholding justice
are in many cases not upholding justice those
who are they have stability so it doesn't
matter what you are if you as a
human being as a human society if you're
upholding justice you will get stability you have
all other corruptions that are eating eating up
there'll be other cancers within it but you'll
have a general stability it's like if you
look in this country as general stability as
we've got major problems inside you know people
taking drugs and all sorts of stuff you
know the people killing themselves from within doing
all sorts of harmful things to themselves but
at least their stability so if you take
this وَوَضَعَ الْمِيزَانِ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
placed the scale and scale not as a
physical scale but as a system and then
it says وَأَقِيمُوا الْوَزْنَ أَلَّا تَطْغُوا فِي الْمِيزَانِ
it's translated here's he has that you do
not be wrongful in weighing but if we
take that on a grand scale that you're
not unjust you don't go against the law
of the right and wrong because that is
the greatest bounty that you will have if
there's a law of right and wrong and
then وَأَقِيمُوا الْوَزْنَ بِالْقِسْتِ when you do establish
any kind of trade or anything of that
matter and he as he translates it here
observe the correct weight with fairness and do
not make weighing deficient do not cheat with
one another on a small scale in your
small because what they used to do is
they used to sometimes attach a and there's
they didn't have electronic scales right they didn't
have electronic scales they had the the two
pans that were balanced with each other so
most of the time you you would never
see the two scales balanced because they'd always
be a weight on one side and if
they were to change it to you know
something more heavier than just take that one
off and put the other one on but
you'd never really see it so what they
could do is they would do these different
things they would place piece of lead or
heavy metal under the under the pan in
which they would normally put the grain for
you to weigh for you so you know
already you're you've lost because you know there's
already or the stone would look big but
it'd be a light stone right it won't
be a very heavy somebody it looks heavy
but it's not and there were different things
happening like this and this is all haram
that's why the people of Shoaib a.s.
that's what they were taken to task for
because they used to really be very corrupt
in this regard but that's an example there
were there were probably others as well that
that's an example for us to understand from
so وَأَقِيمُ الْوَزْنَ بِالْقِسْ وَلَا تُخْسِرُ الْمِيزَانِ خَسَرًۭ
خَسَارًۭ do not be deficient in your weighing
that's so important why would something like that
be mentioned here don't be deficient in your
weighing because that is what messes up society
imagine how bad you feel if you feel
you've been cheated then you want to take
revenge this causes so much dispute conflict and
problems that's why from verses like this we
understand many Ahkam it says that any transaction
you do with someone where there's ignorance about
exactly what you have to give or how
much you have to give that would become
Makruh it'd be undesirable for example if you
said that I'll give it I'll give you
this much I'll give you I'll give you
a car for this you could go with
the you know a 200 pound car and
that person must be thinking that you're a
decent guy you probably give him a 500
pound car for that I'll give you a
pen I'll give you this I'll give you
that I'll give you a handful now a
handful is so you know you could kind
of hold it loosely you could hold it
you know very tightly these things it's all
ignorance so it makes it Makruh to do
that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala starts another surah
with this وَيْلٌ لِّلْمُطَفِّفِينَ woe and destruction be
to those who give short measure these things
are so important it's so basic but they're
so important and nowadays with the modern scales
that we have I mean you could calibrate
them wrong I mean what these companies do
nowadays is that you know when you buy
packets of something if you compare packets that
were sold 10 years ago to what you
can buy now that they've decreased chocolate bars
have become smaller collection of sweets or chocolates
used to have maybe 20 pieces now they'll
have 15 right everything is kind of becoming
smaller the worst is when you buy a
big box of chocolate biscuits cookies or something
and the way they make up the trays
inside you'd feel that you've got so many
biscuits in there but the way they make
up the plastic inserts in there that they
only fit two in and then the rest
of it is just plastic that's the worst
of it you think you're getting a nice
big box of it and when you open
it up there's just a few and then
it's the good ones are less and you
know that the staple kind of thing that
that's there's more of that I'm not saying
that's wrong because they probably mentioned it somewhere
on the board on the box or whatever
and then there's a grammage that's mentioned but
the tin is really big the box is
really big so I don't know if that
comes in here but it's definitely some kind
of it's definitely some kind of deception I
think wallahual it's a wasting of resources that
a big box but nowadays you know that
there is this movement to minimize packaging so
they're making it smaller and the more expensive
something is even if it's small the bigger
box it has to come in just to
make it look like that you think you're
getting more because there's more packaging and then
you're gonna throw all that away unless you're
obsessed and you keep it around wallah tukhseerul
meezan then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says wal
arda waza'aha lil-anam feeha faakihatu wal
-nakhlu thaatu al-akmaam wal-habbuthu al-asfi
wal-rayhaan this is this this thing these
things were so important and they are so
important for us but because we don't deal
with it directly we're not a farming community
you know we don't do these things on
us we just go to a shop and
buy them so we don't really understand the
the real significance of this because we don't
deal with it directly to have a good
crop that year can you imagine if you've
been working behind a crop for the entire
year and then a disease spread through it
and it didn't give you anything you lost
it after a year it's it's it's probably
bigger than if your shares just all went
down because this you can actually see this
huge field of crops and suddenly you can't
use it anymore and then you have to
deal with it we shares going on you've
lost it you don't have to dispose of
anything right you've just lost it you don't
have to do any cleanup but this I'm
assuming that for people who have a large
for a large farm or something of that
nature and they their crops get destroyed can
you imagine how they would feel you think
you'd feel worse if you lost some money
in your investment the investment that I mean
the modernist when I said don't worry we'll
clean it up for you as well you
have to clean up you'll just lose it
that's it we don't you don't have to
do any cleanup so Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
says as for the earth he has placed
in it placed it for creatures the earth
is for you to use for creatures in
which there are fruits and date palms having
sheaths and the grain having chaff and fragrant
flowers saying that all of these things are
going to be used you're going to eat
some of this the rest of it you're
going to make different things with your animals
are going to eat the chaff you're going
to use it for different functions everything is
for it to be used then after that
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will speak about how
the human was formed the creation of the
human being and the jinn inshallah we'll discuss
that in the next session Allahumma
dhakkirna minhuma naseena wa'allimna minhuma jahilna Allahumma
rizquna tilawatahu ahnaa al-layli wa'anaa al
-nahaa Allahumma arham al-muslimin jamee'an Allahumma
khfir al-muslimin jamee'an Allahumma ansur al
-muslimin jamee'an Allahumma ansur al-muslimin fi
sabeerik Allahumma ansur al-muslimin fi kulli makan
Allahumma ansur ikhwanana fi sabeerik Allahumma ahfazil muslimin
fi kulli anha'i al-anam Allahumma ahfazil
muslimin min al-bala'i wa'l-afati
wa'l-miham Allahumma aslih lana sha'anana
kulla wa la takilna ila anfasina tarfata'ayn
Allahumma khfir li ummati Sayyidina Muhammadin sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam Allahumma khfir li ummati Sayyidina Muhammadin
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allahumma khfir al-muslimin
wa'l-muslimati wa'l-mu'minin wa'l
-mu'minat al-ahya'i minhum wa'l-amwat
Subhana rabbika rabbil-izzati amma yansifuna salamun ala
'l-muslimin wa'l-hamdulillah The point of
a lecture is to encourage people to act
to get further an inspiration, an 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 their basic
level so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us.
And that's why we started Rayyan courses so
that you can actually take organized 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 listen to lectures, but
you need to have this more sustained study
as well.
Jazakallah Khair Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh