Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Beauty of Surat al Fajr An Inspirational Commentary
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al Hamdulillah
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Allah subhanahu wa taala
reveals many verses in the Quran and sodas.
And the whole point of the Quran is Allah subhanho wa Taala says,
Well, I've got Serafina if he had the Quran, Ilya Vetco.
We have mentioned incidences over and over again. We mentioned them
and then we mentioned them again.
So that people would think people would take a reminder.
In another place Allah subhanaw taala says,
You the solar home the Quran, let alone your takuna or your the
solar home vichara. The reason we reveal the verses in the way we do
in different parts of the Quran, some here some there, and then
again, from a different perspective.
This is so that people will gain Taqwa they will gain God fearing
illness. And number two, it will create a reminder for them. The
first time you read something, you may not be in that right frame of
mind for it to impact you.
Allah subhanaw taala knows the nature of human beings and how
they impacted. We have different situations at different times.
Sometimes we're in vulnerable situations. Sometimes,
unfortunately, people are in situations of overconfidence,
exaltation, where they feel that nothing can harm them. They feel
self sufficient self reliant self subsisting, they feel that there's
nothing that anybody can do for them, they forget about Allah
subhanaw taala.
This is exactly the same case that is mentioned about the two
brothers in Surah Al gaff, Allah subhanaw taala speaks about the
two brothers of the garden. Both of the brothers were such that
they inherited a huge amount of inheritance from the from the
Father, one spent it in the path of Allah subhanho wa Taala and was
eventually ended up eventually ended up with nothing to eat for
himself. The other brother, he invested it and he made a lot of
money. He had a large orchard.
His brother asked him for a job to help him out. His brother asked
him for some help after spending it all in the path of Allah
subhanaw taala he asked his brother to give him some help. And
his brother began to chide him and censor him and tell him off and
mock him and say that why did you spend it in the way you did? Look
at me, look what I've done, nothing can happen. They were both
believers. They were both believers. But the one brother had
remained remote had been remembered had been remembering
his load and he did everything he did for his load. The other one
forgot about it and felt Self Reliance self subsisting and
became overly confident that everything he has done he did it
for himself. So just like with in a Korean Academy call me Musa are
they him, just like with karoun he was gone had a very severe
punishment, where everything that he owned was sunk into the ground
septarian collapse, everything was sunk into the ground him with all
of his riches.
Whereas came to this brother, suddenly, one morning they woke up
and
something had come through and just destroyed everything that the
person had owned. So this was just a reminder. So Allah subhanaw
taala provides these reminders in the Quran over and over again. So
let's take one of the suitors that are constantly recited Surah Al
Fajr, while Fajr De Waal a year early national was Scheffer, evil
water well lately either. Yes. Healthy 30 Cal Casa Milady hedger,
Allah subhanaw. Taala takes the number of oaths in the beginning.
Allah subhanahu wa Tada. Whenever he says something, he doesn't have
to take enough. His words are more than authority because he is the
only supreme authority. He is the only real authority. Allah
subhanaw taala will say on the Day of Judgment, where are the rulers
and the sovereigns and those that claimed to rule and to own and
possess things? Allah subhanho wa Taala will ask al Mulu
because he is he will be the medic on that day and the true Malik
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MIDI. And this is constantly a reminder for us that when we
recite Surah Al Fatiha, we remember that he is the sovereign
of the Day of Judgment. So Allah subhanho wa Taala here is taking a
number of oaths, he says, Well Fajr the Fajr can refer to the
morning, morning is looked at morning is looked out for people
seek the morning, because after a dreary night, the morning brings
light the morning brings many promises, while Fajr could also
refer to the daylight hours because Allah subhanaw taala then
will continue so he swears by the morning, he swears by daylight he
swears by
by light and the day and then he says well, Fajr Wallah yearly
national and the 10 nights, he didn't want to swear wages any
night, he swore by the 10 nights and most likely these are
referring to the 10 Nights of the first 10 Nights of The hedger.
There is also an Allah subhanaw taala says we're chiffre Well,
what
Allah subhanho wa Taala here speaks in general university about
everything that is in pairs, and those which are single things that
are single, one category, and those that come in pairs. This is
just speaking about reality in general throughout the world that
that's our reality is Allah subhanho wa Taala wants to draw
attention to the way things work in this world where they're
constantly being juxtaposed between each other. This
constantly changes. For example, if you take the concept of the 10
Nights, one of the other ideas about these 10 Nights is that if
you look at the month, that has three sets of 10 nights, the first
set of 10 Nights start from being brighter to becoming darker, then
you have
the second set of 10 Nights, then you have the last set of 10
Nights, which starts off being more darker and then start
becoming brighter. So you have a difference even within the month
and within the moonlight in the nights that we spend. This is just
purely for us to reflect Allah subhanho wa taala. If you look at
the Quran, the reason why it's such a great book, and it's
impacted so many people, and it, it doesn't fail to beautify a
person's heart and mind and inspire a person is because Allah
subhanaw taala being our Creator, and the master of the universe, He
takes examples from things that are extremely relevant to each
individual in particular. So in this case, he is making us think
and reflect just over different phenomenon in the world to think
about that in terms of our own life that just like the nights,
the 10 nights, the first 10 nights, the second and the third
10 Nights, they will be different, they will go from being brighter
to being Darker, darker to being brighter, they will be different.
Likewise, our lives will also be like that, and a person must
understand what to do in their life at any given moment. That is
the guidance that is being provided here. But it's been
provided here through reflection as opposed to directly telling us
this because the Quran is a book to think about, it's to ponder
that's the whole point of the Quran is to read it over and over
again and to ponder over it. What is Allah subhanaw taala saying
here? What is Allah subhanaw taala saying here, for example, there's
a verse in the 19th Jews of the Quran Allah subhanho wa Taala says
we're sure Allah we attribute to whom Allah Who and LM Tara and
equally worthy he moon. Just the other day interview Allah was
reciting this verse. Just before that, it says that
it speaks about the shaytaan it speaks about the shaytaan and then
immediately afterwards, it speaks about the sharara gonna be welcome
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a theme, you will call in a summer work through whom Kathy Boone and
then we're sure IRA or W Humala, when I saw this wonder why is
Allah subhanho wa Taala censoring the poet's sharara yet tiberiu
Formula One, these poets they're being followed by people who are
deviant. And I'm Tara Anna Humphrey, equally worthy moon,
don't you see them? Don't you see them running around? Don't you see
them wandering around in different valleys and places? And you think
about poets and poets. They seem to be so strange, in the sense
that what they say doesn't necessarily seem to reflect always
in their life. Sometimes you have a poet that would say words that
are extremely evil, extremely negative, extremely sad, and yet
their life doesn't necessarily reflect that. Sometimes you have
poets that are don't seem to be religious at all. They don't seem
to be following religion don't seem to even pray Salaat but yet,
sometimes Allah subhanaw taala allows them to say certain poetry
which just makes so much sense and which is so penetrating which is
so religiosity inducing.
It is amazing. Anything How can a person like this, say something
like this? Because poetry is generally inspirational. It's not
something that you can you have a knack for it, but it's from Allah
subhanho wa Taala to sometimes open it up for you. If you speak
about some of the main poets, that's exactly the case with them
as well Allah make while used to sometimes have a dry mome dry
period where nothing used to come. Nothing used to come. And then
when he used to come, it used to just come and it used to just
overflow. And that's that's the way that's the way of poetry. So,
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada follows up the concept of the poets, the
negative poets with the with the discussion about the shaytaan and
how shaytaan how shaytan is whispering. So you can only see
these connections number one, if you understand what you're
reading. And number two, if you're conscious and present, when you're
reading sole purpose of the Quran, the Quran is not a book of spells
to just kind of read without much thought. The owner might have a
difference of opinion about whether it's better to read a lot
without thinking too much over it.
And that is the opinion of some of the Shafi scholars, but the
majority that opinion is that we do what Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam did, which was to read it slowly relaxed with reflection,
that will get you much further and that will be more rewarding.
Actually, they say that you will get more reward. If you if you
look at it logically speaking from a reward perspective, if you read
more is based on the hadith of Abdullah Masood, Radi Allahu anhu,
you will get 10 rewards for every letter that you recite of the
Quran. So if you read a lot without too much thought without
giving it too much thought, then you will accumulate an abundance
of reward. But the superior reading the tough dull, the more
virtuous way of reading is to read less with more reflection in the
same amount of time.
However, we generally recommend the best of both worlds, in fact,
the best of three worlds, which is that you recite the Quran as much
as you can, you spend some time doing that you spend some time
reflecting, and you spend some time memorizing the memorizing
also becomes rewarding, because when you memorize, you repeat the
words over and over again, you repeat the letters. In fact, you
repeat them faster than you would just be reading them. You commit
them to memory as well. So you're getting the rewards that you would
have reading them, you're committing it to memory. So it's
something that you eventually that will come for you come to use in
your Tahajjud prayer when you're riding the bus when you're
commuting somewhere and eventually in the hereafter when Allah
subhanaw taala will, will say to you to read and ascend, so the
more you know, the better there is and you'll still get the reward.
However, the problem that we have is if I'm to ask a question, how
many of us know Surah Fatiha by heart, just put your hand up? And
please, I want everybody to put their hand up. Otherwise we'll
have to start sort of the fattier classes.
Okay, Hamdulillah. How many of us understand what sort of dull
Fatiha means please put your hand up.
Like let's see everybody when their hands are up again, hand up
again.
Now, this place has probably fared a bit better than other places.
Generally, it's about 5% of the congregation that will understand
Surah Al Fatiha something they've been reciting over and over again
many times a day. And they don't know what it means, which I would
say is the satisfaction of life. You could be the best in anything
else that you do. You could be proficient in whatever else you
could think you have all of the gifts of the world. You could
think that you have money in your bank belt in your bank, you could
have a nice house, you could be a doctor, you could be whatever you
think you are, but you don't know the meaning of certain Fatiha. You
don't know the people know the DUA Alhamdulillah Hila the atonement
or Sakana which Island Muslimeen. You know that there are Allahumma
Bismillah al mutawa here, Al Hamdulillah Hilah the area and
Burma Emmerton away hidden ashore, but do you know what it means? Or
do you read it like a spell? That's why one of our lemma of the
subcontinent when he came two years ago Mufti Salman monsoon
booty of Madras Asha he Murata. But he said hamari Dwyer,
parrhesia t han monkey and he jati
for odo. That means in order what that means is we read to us we
don't ask them, we don't make them we we don't call Unto Allah. We
just read them. And we say, Oh Allah, you know what this means? I
want it whatever it is, but we have no idea what it means. We go
to see Allahumma Bismillah r mu to where he was my coach, matzah,
Krishna Raja motormouth. That's it, right? It's a really sad fact.
These are the basic things we're not saying you have to go and
spend years and years learning Arabic but at least know what
you're reading. And of course, if you have a desire to learn Arabic,
you will learn it. Do you have a desire
To understand the Quran, you will know it,
you will learn it. And this is so important because there Allama
have paid so much attention to this. Otherwise they'd be it'd be
prohibited to write a translation of the Quran. Otherwise, some of
the greatest if I just talk about the Indian subcontinent all the
way from Shaohua EULA one of the first to write a translation in
Persian of the Quran. His two sons one wrote a trend shot of your
deen Shah Abdul Qadir, they wrote translation one of the first Urdu
translations were written by his sons, and this is when all he was
just being formulated. His son decided to write a translation of
the Quran just when Oda was being formulated as a language 300 years
ago, or even 250 300 years ago. Then you have some of the greatest
other scholars that came later should be Ramadan millennia
Shefali tan we have Muhammad Jalla Andrey, you have all of these
great scholars abdelmadjid, the Rebbe the Rahmatullahi Allah him,
then you have recently moved to Turkey with money OSHA hazard
Manisa Matata. So all of these people they've written
translations of the Quran. What's the point of writing translations?
Mufti Shafi? What's the point of writing translations if it's
supposed to be prohibited, the Quran is not some kind of arcane
and some kind of secret cultish book that only the few people can
understand it No, it's for us to reflect upon. So Allah subhanaw
taala swears these oaths while Fajr wala Uriel in Azure, were
shut for a while water well, Lady either so and by the night
specifically, as the night continues and develops or its
darkness begins to spread. So Allah subhanaw taala speaks about
the 10 particular nights. Then he speaks about the night in general
this could also be an allusion to the night in which Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam was taken on his ascension and had
this special, physical journey that was so highly spiritual in
his meeting with Allah subhanahu wata Allah. Then Allah subhanho wa
Taala says, healthy Vertica pasa Milady hedger
is this sufficient oath or the sufficient customs and oaths for
those who have understanding? The hedger? Those who have intellect
and Abdullah, those who have rational, rational understanding?
Do they have is this sufficient oath? Allah subhanaw taala is
making us think he's asking the question. These questions in the
Quran prove that the Quran is to be recited with thinking with
comprehension, because Allah is asking that question literally,
it's a question, healthy 30 kasama live agent? Isn't this enough oath
on these sufficient oaths for those who have akal and intellect?
So what are we supposed to do? Just read it and pass it along?
Are we supposed to interact with anything? Yes, Subhan Allah, what
is Allah subhanaw taala telling me to think about
Allah Tala, then Allah subhanho wa Taala moves away from emphasizing
after he's taken the oath, he begins to make his points. And
Allah subhanaw taala. When he makes his points, he has
everything at his disposal. He has the knowledge of history. He's he
knows from even before it created, what was going to happen in this
world. So he speaks about the most relevant relevant things that will
relate to the message that he is trying to provide at this point.
So the message is something else the message is not a historical
message, the message that of this surah of Surah Fajr is about us
and how we can purify ourselves to get into Jana. However, Allah
subhanaw taala has draws on history. He provides some
evidences from history he says. And I'm Tala K for ferula. Rob
Buka biard Have you not seen what Allah subhanaw taala did with the
ad with with this group of people call ad Iran a 30 Emad ad, I do
Iran ad is the ad is their tribe. They were the people who were from
the tribe of Iran. So the further up they call that they're from the
Iran tribe. So I heard of Iran, the artillery mod, have you
considered how your dog Lord dealt with the art
of Iran, the city of lofty pillars, lofty pillars, that was
the distinguishing factor about them, they would make things with
lofty lofty pillars that would take many, many people to lift up
and they were considered to be very tall, and very, very mighty
people. So Allah subhanho wa Taala is choosing the specific things
which the people of the time that Allah subhanaw taala is reading
the Quran to knew about this as well at that time, these stories
were orally transmitted, and people knew about them. Likewise,
we know about these stories as well.
Eromanga Tillery mud and let Elam your luck, Matthew Hatfield,
beloved Allah subhanaw taala himself is saying, there has been
none that have been created in there like
these were the ad nobody has been created in there like they were
without simulate ood without example without peer. They were
matchless. Allah subhanaw taala created them with so much
might he gave them that ability to work with the with the mountains
and let Elam you walk me through how Phil Billa then Allah subhanaw
taala says and ThermoWood with a Moodle, Latina Jabu Sahara
beloved, they worked with stones. The Moodle Latina Job was a
horrible word. The thermal do hewed into rocks, they didn't need
to, they didn't need to use bricks or wood, they would just build
right into the rocks. They would carve out their, their abodes and
their places of residence into the side of the mountain. Then Allah
subhanaw taala says, we'll figure I wanna the altered Allah Xena the
whole field beloved, or Farah, I'm gonna tell OTA then Allah subhana
wa Remon reminds people about Pharaoh, Pharaoh we know much more
about. And today we know probably more about the Pharaoh than people
did a few 100 years ago, even. We have been blessed with greater
insight into Pharaoh and everything that exists about him.
Because for Pharaoh, we know what his needle used to look like. We
know what his chariot used to look like. We know what his mirror used
to look like, we know what his bed used to look like. Because all of
these things were preserved along with his body. And they were
discovered about 150 years ago, and we have them in the Egyptian
Museum.
So we know exactly and that's pondering to ponder over. These
things have not been just kept back to be, although they are to
be a source of income for the Egyptians. Right? They make a huge
amount of money by Pharaonic Egypt, tourism, that they they
don't have much else to provide. So you know, they don't have oil
etc, as many other places have. So that's how they make their money.
But that wasn't the reason why Allah subhanaw taala it was to
take a lesson from these things. Well, if you don't want to deal
OTA Alladhina Tahoe, Phil Bilad. But all of these people, their big
problem was that they committed excesses in the world they
transgressed in the world, to hear, to hear and is to go beyond
to transgress to go beyond the bounds and the limits that is
allowed for anything. That's what you call Toby on the Whoville
Beloved. They created much mischief in the on the earth and
in the lands, and they spread corruption. We're a Latina Tahoe,
Phil beloved, for a third roofie alpha, they create a lot of
corruption because they felt so self reliant, they had a sense of
impunity, they felt that they could do what they liked, and they
would be nobody to take them down or nobody to check them and to
stop them. This is the thought that Allah subhanaw taala is
driving us towards that let's not think this way just because we've
given you things of this world do not think that you have everything
that you that you have everything and you have to become self
confident and start exalting
Allah subhanaw taala without wasting words and he says very
simply FASAB barley him Rob Booker Soto either and look at the
expression it's so beautiful. For sub Bernie him sub means to
literally
a deluge.
When you have like a massive shower, a whole bucket just come
down on you. That's what you call sub, but just pour for somebody
you know, Buddha soda, Florida, Allah subhanaw taala just poured
onto them, just a one whip
of punishment. So it was just like a whiplash, and that was enough to
deal with them. Allah subhanaw taala shows the immense mite in
his punishment by showing how in significantly he can take them to
task and lead them to total waste. And then in other parts of the
Quran, Allah subhanaw taala shows what happened to them, which is
not the topic of today. Today. It's just to think about, you'd
have to go to this other place to to read about that. Right? Today
we're just looking at well Fajr and how Allah subhanaw taala
details it for us for somebody Hema Buka so tada.
They, your Lord sent a scourge of punishment loose on them. Why?
Because in Rob Bacala Bill Mirasol your Lord is Ever Watchful over
everything. Your Lord, it doesn't he that the Lord does not become
engaged in looking at certain people or dealing with certain
people and thus become negligent of others or heedless to others.
Your Lord is constantly and ever watching everything. Mirror Assad
is actually the sniper mirror Assad is the person who is
properly in watch. He is in a place is watching his seeing
everything, not necessarily with you even knowing that he's
watching now.
Today, it's become so much easier for us to understand how
everything will remain and be recorded, and not a detail will be
missed. With the technology that we have today and the recent
revelations through Edward
Snowden and others, the security contractor, you understand what
kind of depth of information has been compiled and is preserved in
their centers and how much they know about every phone call that's
made every image that is being sent every letter that's being
typed. If all of that information is being recorded like that today,
and we see it in front of us, that makes it so much easier for us to
understand when Allah subhanaw taala says, from early hurthle
kitab la you heard illusory Ratan wala kabhi Ratan Illa. Salah? What
would you do man? I need to have the euro. Well, I have Limerock
Buka. Allah subhanaw taala says that when the disbelievers will
look at their books, and they will just be totally wonderstruck they
will be amazed at the level of precision in the recording Marley
huddle. Kita what kind of a book is this? What kind of a book is
this? On the day, my deeds will be laid? I know for one, I'll be
afraid.
On the day my deeds will be displayed. I know for one, I'll be
afraid. Really, this is something very important to ponder over many
herbal Kitab What is wrong with this book? What kind of a deadly
book is this? Just think of all of these expressions that would come
when you're amazed that what kind of information there is Mullah.
You heard the rosary, you rotten water can be rotten Illa saw. It's
recorded everything small and big things I've forgotten. It reminded
me of things.
That's the That's what Allah subhanaw taala will have. He's
showing us in this world because maybe our level of iman is so low.
Our level of Eman is so low today that you get a fatwa from someone
who writes a fatwa, who is not considered to be any form of
authority because a lot of deviancy in this doctrine. He
writes a fatwa that you can break your fast at seven, eight o'clock.
I read the fatwa a few days ago, saying that you can calculate the
time within the UK even though we have a proper sunset and a proper
sunrise. So around seven o'clock is the Iftar. And I thought who's
gonna follow this I thought does this even need a response? Who's
going to follow this? This seems so absurd.
And subhanAllah I'm told today that yes, there are people that
this one individual told me today he knows individuals who are half
the families following this and half the family isn't. So you've
got a division in the family because some have started to make
Iftar two hours before sunset.
Two and a half hours before sunset, and the others are waiting
until sunset. People are there to take anything that's downtrodden
liquidly Saki 13 Lucky to atone for everything that's dropped,
there's going to be somebody to pick it up. Somebody will hold it
for some value. Somebody with something in their heart that will
find some attraction in there. This is what we're speaking about.
This is this is the problem. So Allah subhanaw taala says for sub
Barili hemraj buka SOTA Agha in Arabic Allah Bella Musa Allah is
Ever Watchful everything he knows. And then the thing is that on the
Day of Judgment, it's not that Allah subhanho wa Taala will say,
I saw you do this, he will bring a number of witnesses. Allah
subhanaw taala is not going to let us feel that we are being cheated
in the least are being oppressed, well are usually more of Buka
shahada, your Lord is not going to oppress anybody. And today in this
world, when a when a person commits a crime or doesn't commit
a crime, but they take him to court and they are charged,
sometimes they feel if they innocent, then they could be Miss
charged and they could be put into prison and then later it's
discovered that they didn't do anything. Sometimes people have
done something wrong, but they feel that the the penalty that's
meted out, it's worse than the infraction, it's worse than the
violation. So, people have a problem in this world, but in the
hereafter anybody that goes to hellfire, they will know for
certain what they did is totally wrong and nobody will feel
oppressed because Allah subhanaw taala will not only have himself
as proof, but he will have a number of what will their al Kitab
the Book will be laid out they will record deeds will be laid
out. What will they allocate up another thing is Yo mama is in to
help the two Akbar Raha be another Becca O'Hara the earth will speak
it will give its information, it will provide its information that
this is what this person did on me at this place and at this place.
So the earth will also bear witness. Then Allah subhanaw taala
will say also says will wholesaler manifest seduce sudo which is the
main the main hard drive that it takes all information. What they
what they found out is that there was this
documentary about normal printers, printing machines that each of
most of these print, print these photocopying machines have a hard
drive in there and everything that's gone through has been
captured in there, then they dispose of these. Somebody could
take that hard drive out
All the confidential information is all in there. So that's even
without knowing that you're doing that, well how Silla math is
pseudo. That which is in the heart will or within the chest will in
the chest will become revealed. Then Allah subhanaw taala if that
that is not enough, if the earth speaking is not enough, if the
angel speaking is not enough, if the book of deeds is not enough,
then Allah subhanaw taala Andhaka Allah subhanho wa Taala will make
the limbs of the person speak and the limbs of the person will speak
against them. Allah the undock ocular che and the person will say
to his limbs, what's wrong with you? Why are you speaking and
testifying against yourself? It's because Allah subhanaw taala has
made us speak. There is no escaping on that day. Allah
subhanho wa Taala just by saying Iran mothered just by saying in
Arabic, Allah will mirror Assad, that Allah subhanaw taala is ever
watchful. So all of these different witnesses are coming to
us. How is there any kind of escape? How is there any kind of
excuse on that day, as good as you are in getting out of situation,
as good as we are in explaining things away, as good as we are in
making our case, as good as we are in our rhetoric and our persuasion
doesn't make a difference? Because everything will be piled up so, so
strongly against us that there's nothing that's going to work then
Allah subhana wa Tada. After speaking about these historical
events, these punishments, then speaking about his divine ability,
his omnipresence, His omniscience, His omnipotence, Allah subhanaw
taala then says, for a million son, and now the main message it
was to make us think about all of these things because for a million
son is amatola, who rob boo. Now Allah subhanaw taala he and these
next two verses, is speaking about how a human being fears how a
human being deals with prosperity and adversity.
How is the human being supposed to deal with it? There's a beautiful
Hadith Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, I genuinely
am really not meant for in umbra, who could Allahu Allahu higher
the situation of a believer is so wonderous. Because every situation
of his whether it's good or bad, it's going to be good for him. As
long as he does the right thing, if either
Asaba to Sahra for shakar Rafa Hua, you don't know what either
Osama to Daraa for sabara work on that if a person suddenly has some
bounties placed on him granted to him, some good times happen. You
mashallah got something good that happened in the world, you
accomplish something, then you made sugar, then it's good for
you. If you didn't make sugar, then you forgotten Allah. And if
something bad happens to a person and you make sober, then that's
good for you as well. So what we're told to do is to do sober
when something bad happens, that's the way to deal with it, or Bashir
is sobering. give glad tidings to those to those who make supper and
patients Alladhina either Asaba Tomasi Barakaldo inna LilLah who
are in illegal Roger on those who when a mercy but reaches them then
they say we are for Allah we I mean this mercy but mostly your
means I've had a shortcoming. Something's gone back. Something's
taken away from me. Something taken away from me what's the big
deal? I'm gonna go back to Allah. In the law we owned by Allah were
possessed by Allah. We're gonna go back in LA Raji Arun. So this is
going back what's the big deal?
What's the big deal? There was one greater, great scholar of the of
the set of Saudi, his his, his son passed away. His son passed away
and he he seems still composed. He still seemed composed. He just
made dua to Allah subhana wa Tada. He didn't cry over the cry or
anything of that nature, though. It's permissible to weep.
Somebody said how come we see that you're so composed? He says well,
and you know, you're just praying to Allah subhanaw taala You're not
crying or anything like that? He says, Well, I'm doing what you
guys will do after three days.
I'm doing what you guys will do after three five days anyway. You
will wail and cry and lament for three days and then after that you
think well, there's nothing is gonna bring him back let's call
them to Allah subhanaw taala is that something good for them and
for us?
So I'm doing that right. So you compose right from the beginning
that this is what we're supposed to do. From the first moment we're
supposed to have this sovereign patience.
So now in this Allah subhanho wa Taala shows what a human being is
like, how he generally acts for a mill encircle either I'm Abdullah
who rob boo for a chroma who wanna ama who fire coonara be a Quran.
This is what they do when ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. The nature of
man, is that when his Lord tries him through honor, honors him
sometimes gives him a good position gives him a good name,
gives him some good praise, gives him something good, worldly
speaking and blesses him. Then he says, My Lord has honored me, but
Rob
be a criminal. I am deserving of this honor. So it's not like my
Lord has honored me just like that. And thank you very much for
that. But it's, I'm deserving of it. My Lord has honored me so I'm
honored at this point. Then
what am Mallinson? What am I even I'm Abdullah who for cada Allah
here is for Kadalai Hisco HuFa Khun Robbie a Hernan if it's the
other way around. So if it's the other way around, as Allah says,
when Allah tries him through the restriction of His provision, it
just gives him a bit of shortcoming. He just takes away
something from him, he has a loss, he has a knock on his salary, he,
something happens in a fire, he loses Chi in an accident, Allah,
all of these kinds of things that may happen. He says, My Lord has
humiliated me. He doesn't know how to act in this state. He says, My
Lord has humiliated me. I'm supposed to be an honored
individual. What is my Lord doing to me? It's like he's separating
from his Lord. He's feeling like he deserves this entitlement. He
is expressing an entitlement by saying that this is what now we
may not. The point is that we may not do this so blatantly.
But sometimes we do this subtly. And there's the danger in that.
What is wanted from us and demanded from us is that we are
totally for Allah as His servants. Not that we ever feel independent.
Just because Allah has given us this ability to think things
through and to make decisions, good and bad choice.
We have free will in this world. And the only reason we have free
will in this world is so that there is accountability. Those who
don't believe in a hereafter and accountability. They don't need to
believe in free will. Because it's just all mechanic. It's just the
enjoyment of this world. It just works.
Then Allah subhanho wa Taala says
gala Billa to Cremona, Leah team, Allahu Akbar this this is where
the gelar of Allah subhanho wa Taala is expressing yourself as
Gulla Absolutely not. Your Lord has not Dishonored you that's not
considered to be a dishonouring of your Lord. Your Lord doesn't owe
you anything that he needs to do this or that for you that he needs
to honor you or give you bounties or give you blessings or that he
take away something from you he can do as he's as he pleased.
Calla Bella to remodel your team now rather than look at the way
Allah subhanaw taala says this, he doesn't start to deal with that
specifically, but he shows how the human should be thinking. He says
but Allah to Cremona, Leah team, what's your problem, you don't
even honor the orphans, the most helpless of humanity. Those who
are considered to be the most helpless, which are young people
who are not yet mature who've lost their father, that's what you call
an orphan. Somebody came to us in Hajj the other time last year when
you're in Hajj. And he says, I'm a team, can you please help me out?
He's he is 3030 year old man. I said, you're not a team. I said.
I said you're mature. Allah has given you the ability you're not
going to live under your father for how long? Are you going to
live and evaluate? What are you trying to say? You're trying to
invoke the mercy of people by saying you're a team, you're not a
team anymore. You may have been when you're younger, you're
definitely not not right now. Because once a person matures, he
becomes independent. Allah gives him the tools to earn a living
through. But the most vulnerable and the most needy are the
orphans, they taken advantage of traditionally speaking, they're
taken advantage of. Now you'll you're learning about children's
homes, and how some of the most powerful of this country we're
exploiting those children home for their base desires, their satanic
desires.
godless world morality that's totally lost. And today, we try to
act as Muslims. We're just trying to act our religion and trying to
please our Lord, and they have a problem with that. But when it
comes to this total failed morality, and this whole exercise
of
immorality that's out there, then that's not a big enough deal.
And this is talking about the most powerful people of this country
and what does that reflect on the rest of us on the rest of the
people of this country?
So Allah subhanho wa Taala says,
Allah, but Allah to Cremona, Leah team, you don't even care for the
orphans. You don't have no honor for the orphans, lead to criminal
your team? What the How do not allow time in Miskin and forget
about you spending on the Miskin the poor and the needy and the
destitute. You don't spend yourself but Allah subhanaw taala
doesn't say that you don't spend on them. He says latter half do
not allow time in miskeen that you don't even encourage others to
help them out. So one is you're so miserly that you don't help them
yourself. But over the top of that you don't even encourage others.
In fact, in some cases, you may even prevent people from doing so.
Let the * do Nulato Amelie Mysskin and yet, look at the
juxtaposition. Remember, this is all to think about led to *
don't allow time and Miskin. You don't encourage anybody to spend
on the miskeen what that coluna Torah UCLA Lama were to hit bonell
Madhuban. Gemma, what you're doing for yourself is totally opposed to
that. What you're doing is what Allah subhanaw taala says, No,
indeed, you people do not honor orphans. You do not urge one
another to split it to feed the poor. What You Can you consume
inheritance greedily.
You consume inheritance, greedy, and you love wealth with a
passion.
You don't just love wealth, but you love it with a passion. It's
your heart is in there. You've replaced the love of Allah and
anything else that's beneficial for you in the long term. You've
taken it and you've replaced it with something else. And then
Allah subhanaw taala says,
Gala. So you see, we started from history. Then we spoke about Allah
subhanho wa Taala is greatness and how he's also always in watch.
Then Allah subhanaw taala gives the prodding to the human shows
the nature of the human being, and how we're supposed to go against
that idea, and not fall to our base desires. Now, this is the
constant theme in the Quran. Now Allah subhanho wa Taala takes us
fast forward, what's going to happen on the Day of Judgment?
Allah subhanaw taala says, God Allah either Ducati outdo that can
duck wotja Bukovel Melaku, soft, soft YG young woman, Mia Jehan,
young woman, Evie, girl in San Juan de gras. Allah says no
indeed, when the earth is pounded to dust, the same earth and the
parts of it components of which meager components of which you
amass, and you love so much, and you have this amorous desire for
it, your whole heart is given to it, Allah subhanaw taala will make
it that can occur. I mean, even for those who don't understand
Arabic, you understand the rhythm of the Quran that that kinda
sounds exactly what it means, even though you don't understand where
this word comes from. But Subhanallah that's the that's the
other beauty of the Quran, that if you understand the Quran, even its
sound, it's impactful. It's not just its meaning and it sounds
absurd, it sound is beautiful, and it conveys the meaning along with
it. So Allah subhanho wa Taala says, can either do cattle or do
duck conduct wedges or Bukovel Melaku, soften, suffer, which is
that this earth will be laid to waste turn to dust, pounded to it,
pounded and pounded. When your Lord comes with angels. Now it's
setting up this majestic scene, this awesome Site of the Day of
Judgment that your Lord will come with this whole entourage of these
1000s and 1000s of angels in the multitudes pulling Hellfire
Hellfire will be so mighty and so great and raging, that it will be
pulled by this multitude of angels and they will come. And Allah
subhanaw taala says we're Gao may even be Jahannam and the Jahannam
will be brought, the Jahannam will be brought. And when you Lord will
come with his angels rank upon rank, when * is that they
brought near. On that day, man will take heat that day, then you
will definitely take here because there will be no escape your mind
and everything will be focused. When it comes to anything else you
could be distracted and the thing may not impact you in this world
if you're distracted. On that day everything will be of presence.
Biologically, physically, spiritually, you will be present
at the scene. Because it says that in this world, your body is
primary and your soul is subordinate. When it comes to the
bursa the cover your soul becomes primary and your body if there's
anything left of it is secondary is subordinate. In the Hereafter
your body and soul become primary. That's where you will, you will
experience full punishment. And of course, you will also experience
and take the pleasure of full pleasure of the bounties because
both your soul and your body will will be part of it. So then Allah
subhanho wa Taala says
yo, Mama, Evie, the Corolla is newer in the craw that is the day
when
man will take heat. But what good will it do on that day? It's too
late to go and make changes. The same theme is mentioned elsewhere
in the Quran, where they'll actually ask, Oh Allah send us
back. Let us go back and we'll do differently. We will change
will become better. And Allah will say, Well, I'm not a miracle Maya
that goofy human does occur, which is a common theme for zuku. Family
Vitamina minasi didn't give you enough time, enough time that you
could have reflected in it 70 years isn't that enough? 60 years
isn't that enough?
People become accomplished age of 2030 they become accomplished, you
have less than that people become accomplished. So we've given you
70 years, 8090 100 years, and you still didn't do the right.
You'd go back and you still do the same thing because you're so used
to do it doing what you're doing. So then Allah subhanaw taala says,
you're cool, do ya like the person says your ujar late and he caught
them totally hayati. Now he starts realizing I'm here without
anything. This is a typical example, you may have felt this
sometimes when you have felt confident that you know what's
going to come in the exam. Because you may have done some past
papers, you may have been diluted, and the teacher may have given you
an idea that the questions are going to come from this place or
that place. So in your laziness and lassitude, you've decided that
I'm only going to focus on this, and I'm not going to focus on
everything. So I only focused on these things. I go into the exam
and you know how you imagine the feeling. You open it up feeling so
confident that I know everything, suddenly you open it up. And the
questions are totally something different. What happens to you
Don't you see like the air just come out of you. Suddenly your
heart sinks, literally, your heart seems to sink, your throat becomes
dry. But this is of something that can be repeated in this world.
It's something that can be repeated, you can immediately
compose yourself and think, Okay, fine, I failed. This darkness is
over you. You have this feeling of depression, but you feel I've got
next year to retake. Yes, it's going to set me back in my in my
goals, my ambitions, my ideas, my plans, but I still got next year.
But what happens on the Day of Judgment, when you suddenly start
seeing everything in total reality.
Imagine where your heart is going to be, then imagine what our
thoughts is going to be like them Subhanallah
that's the point Allah Allah subhanaw taala is giving us
examples of this world, you are late and you cut them to the
higher T you're late any cut them to the higher t look at what he
says on that day. He realizes now, he used to think that this world
was the real life. So here he is saying, Yeah, late and he will
upon me, if only if only I had sent forth for this life of mine
for my life. Now he saved my life for the life of the hereafter
which becomes his true life. We're in the Allah tells us that anyway,
we're in the Eurodollar, Hill Haiwan. The euro is the true life.
This is just a transitionary period for us. But we make this
our life and we're all involved in this, especially in this time of
capitalism, materialism that is bombarding us left right and
center, things becoming available so easily, things available at the
touch of a button, which becomes addictive for many people
amazon.com become a.co.uk becomes addictive for many people, they
order something they receive it, and then suddenly the pleasure of
that dissipates and then they have to order something because the
packages have to keep coming through. You know how you good you
feel when a package comes through. People run men and women they run
to the when when the postman comes up packages there, they can't were
to just tear off all the labels in the packaging and open it up and
enjoy the product. Once you've enjoyed it, it's gone. It's
finished. It's done. It's dissipated. That's the pleasure of
the world. Then you want to order something else then you want to
order something else until you become a diagnostic shopper to be
a shopaholic.
Allah save us Allah protect us. We do this in different ways. We all
do this in different ways. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala says.
Now this is where Allah subhanaw taala is really showing his
punishment and His Majesty and His greatness and His mate. So Allah
subhanho wa Taala is saying yaku Fiona is in law, your Azubu Aza,
who I had, when I use a call with a co who had on that day.
Never has anybody given punishment, that Allah subhanaw
taala will give. No punishment that you have ever conceived,
perceived or seen or created and conscious conjured up in this
world could be like the punishment in the hereafter. Nothing. The
worst of the punishment is psychological punishment, coupled
with biological punishment, the physical punishment, Allah
subhanaw taala will have everything so when you've just
totally become heedless, when you've totally become helpless,
and this feeling of absolute despair and hopelessness, your
whole mind is taken over. So the physical pain the physical
punishment awaits in hellfire, but before that, on that day, the
turbulence that your mind is in Subhanallah
So it says that no one will punish as Allah punishes, and no one will
bind as he binds, he will bind, you will be surrounded like in
this world, you could be physically punished and certain
people, they're physically punished, but they're able to mind
over matter. They're able able to get through it because they're so
strong willed, they're able to under, they're able to tolerate
numerous amounts of persecution, huge amounts of punishment, and
they're able to just take it through, they'll die for it. And
Hereafter you will be helpless, lost, vulnerable. Totally.
There'll be nothing left. That's why Allah subhanaw taala is saying
just just to remind of his might, then Allah subhanho wa Taala says,
year a year to Hanif Salam automa. In Now remember, this whole Surah
seem to be about gloom and doom. It's seem to be all about despair
all about dissuading us from the harms and the wrongs of this
world. But remember, as I mentioned, maybe I mentioned here
before, Allah subhanaw taala never paints only a picture of doom,
there's always it's for it's for a reason. That's why there's always
going to be the beneficial side, there's always going to be the
brighter side. That's why Allah subhanaw taala ends the surah
beautifully. Yeah, a year to Hanif Sumatera. In Iran de la Arabic,
Raul de Maria, for the Holy theory birdie, where the Holy Jannetty
that's how Allah subhanho wa Taala he suddenly just turns away from
this entire scene. And this is again for the human being to be
thinking about that. And then suddenly to see the good, which is
to destabilize the heart and the mind so that they can feel this is
what I want to knock this will take you through all of this gloom
and doom and then suddenly tell you, yeah, a year 200 And then
Allah subhanaw taala doesn't transition into that. He just
suddenly says it. That's the beauty of the Quran. It's so much
more impactful. It didn't say, Okay, that was the end of that
story. Now let's go to the people of paradise and Allah subhanho wa
Taala will tell them this as opposed to the Conversely
speaking, no, none of that conjunction is there. None of that
transition is there. It's just suddenly it's just done. That's it
is just to make us quickly switch to that and to think about it and
to be impacted by it. That's why Allah subhanaw taala says, yeah, a
year 200 us will multiply in, but you soul at peace, you tranquil
soul, the soul which is tranquil that is confident with Allah
subhanaw taala that is totally synchronous with Allah subhanaw
taala has desires that is constantly feeding because the
person has worked hard, he spent his Ramadan that Allah subhanaw
taala gave him to subdue the heart with the shaytaan out of the way,
and they've managed to control themselves from the from from the
knifes rearing their heads and controlling them. They've taken
control of the knifes it suddenly become more intimate in it's
become tranquil so Allah subhanaw taala says, yeah, a year to her
natural motivation, energy law rhombic you return to your Lord,
you return to your Lord.
Well pleased are all the earthen Meridia well pleased than well
pleasing, well pleased than well pleasing. You're going to be
pleased yourself and you will please others as well. Rather the
atom Maria for the Holy theory birdie. What? Holy Jannetty now
you go as my true servants, because you really weren't an ad,
you really were a true servant. You go as my servants, and we're
the holy Jannetty you enter my garden.
Paradise is a garden mostly it's represent in fact nearly always is
represented as a Jana. Jana means garden. And the reason why Jana is
called Jana. The same word from which Jin come is from each
dinner, which means to cover up the greenery and the lushness of
this garden will cover everything. So it's such greenery that your
eyes have never seen. It's so holder. It is so green and lush
that your eyes never seen anything like that. You won't be cooped up
inside like you are in London, in your homes when it's raining
outside, you will be outside enjoying the most beautiful things
out there. And this is exactly what people have understood. That
is why if you go to the Alhambra in Spain, behind it, what they
call today is the Henry leaf, which is actually the janitor
Latif that was made by the rulers of the under Lucia the Muslim
rulers, they made the palace Alhambra Palace just totally
matchless in its in its beauty. And then they have this vast
garden it's fountain it's called agenda to life. Today they call it
the Henry leave, they've still preserved it Subhanallah but in
the hereafter will be the true Jana. True Jana. That is what the
mantra in the nutshell motiva India is going to be May Allah
subhanho wa Taala grant us this Neph sudomotor In May Allah allow
us in this month of Ramadan to turn our nerves from this evil
inciting one to the reproaching one to eventually the calm
tranquil one that is
satisfied with ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada the knifes never never it's
the knifes will never
become wild there will never desire anything else is happy with
the way Allah subhanaw taala wants it of course you have to train it
to be like that many people they come that I I do something and I
feel no sincerity I feel I'm doing it to show others. So should I
leave the axe? No, you don't leave the act you have to work on it.
These things have to be learnt and trained. You don't just get them
like that. They have to be learned so you continue to do the act and
continue to purify your intention. You continue to act in this world
and you continue to subdue, subdue the heart. May Allah subhanho wa
Taala grant is Sophie qualquer Darwaza Anil hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
Alameen Allahumma and the salah Monica salaam Tabarrok Dettol
jewellery with the Quran, Allah Khomeini, a young girl at Cana
studies Allahumma yahan Maryam and La Ilaha illa Allah Subhana Allah
in the Quran Amina Lolly mean just Allahu Ana Mohammed Omer who
Allahumma salli wa salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa early see
the no Mohammed uma birdie cosa Lim, O Allah, O Allah, we are Your
servants who are considered to be sinful. Oh Allah was self
professing sinners, Oh Allah, we have many dark deeds in our hearts
that we are some that we have remembered and others that we
don't remember. Oh Allah, there are many bad deeds that we've done
in the brightness of day and the darkness is of nights in front in
public and also in secret. Oh Allah, we're also so bad that
we've encouraged others to commit sins on many occasions. We've been
evil influences. Oh Allah, if you were to judge us with your
justice, then we stand no chance. But Allah we know that when it
comes to your father and your grace, then no sin as big as it
may be stands any chance? Oh Allah, that's why we ask for your
mercy. That's why we ask for your generosity. We ask for your
forgiveness. Because in front of your forgiveness, as great as our
sins may be and they truly are, they will be nothing. Oh Allah,
make us worthy of your forgiveness. Make us worthy Oh
ALLAH because we are the destitute and the needy of Allah you say in
the Quran yourself? Yeah, you know so and Tamil for Cara or people
you are the destitute ones. So Allah we confess to that and we
acknowledge that we agreed to that. And you say in the Masada,
Turin football, you also say that,
Verily the charity is given to the destitute. So Allah by looking at
your own words, we say that we ask you to show your charity upon us
in the form of your forgiveness and your mercy and your envelope
in mercy of Allah, we ask that you forgive all of our sins of Allah,
there are Hadith that are related about all a person's bad deeds
being turned into good deeds. Oh Allah, we ask that you do that for
us. Oh, Allah don't make us of the wretched ones don't make us of the
deprived ones of Allah. There are many people that will enter into
Jannah without any kind of questioning and reckoning. Oh
Allah, we ask that you don't take us to task on that day either. Oh
Allah, we ask that you make every stage of the Hereafter easy for
us. And you make our lives reflective of this. You make us
janitors and you're only in this world of Allah, you make us do
those acts that are beloved to you and make those acts beloved in our
hearts. Oh Allah, you make your disobedience despicable in our
hearts, so we don't want to do it. Oh Allah, every one of us hate to
do sin. That's why we're sitting here to be inspired by this month
of Ramadan. Oh Allah Allah, the greatest of your bounties of this
month to totally envelope us to take over us. Don't let us miss a
moment of this without taking advantage of it. Oh Allah you
become our guide because otherwise the shaytaan is our guide. Oh
Allah the shaytaan has been our guide for too long. Oh Allah the
shaytaan has been misguiding us all this time. Oh Allah we ask
that you become our guide and our nurse becomes attached to you. Oh
Allah I will not turn from being the Amara to be being the lawanna
and to the mattina Oh Allah we want to be that knifes that you
have mentioned in the Quran that you address in the Quran surah
Traphagen. O Allah, O Allah allow us to take heed from these
messages of the Quran, grant us the tofi. To understand the Quran
and to follow it of Allah grant us the ability to see the truth and
to follow it. Oh Allah to see the truth as the truth and to follow
it and to see the wrong as the wrong and to abstain from it. Oh
Allah we asked you to protect us and our children now progeny and
our families and the Muslims around the world of Allah. There
are many challenges that we're facing both here and abroad. Oh
Allah, we ask that you make us worthy to rise to these challenges
and to deal with them. You fortify us with your your team of Allah
the European is such that if we have our Yaqeen like the Sahaba
had they attain, then nothing will faze them. Oh Allah Oh Allah we
grant we ask you to give us an understanding of the truth as it
is out there and to remove the confusion from our minds about
what is good and bad out there. Oh Allah. This is a major challenge
for all of us. Oh Allah, we ask that you forgive us. We ask that
you treat us with Your mercy.
Your Mercy knows no bounds of Allah we know that you're the one
who has set down any mercy that's in this world and everybody uses
that 1% of that mercy. Oh Allah we ask that you give us from Your
mercy because it knows no bounds of Allah. You're the one who will
address us as Your servants even though we've been transgressing.
You say yeah, but here Latina so for Allah unforeseen la doctrina
to me Rahmatullah you're saying that do not become hopeless of
Allah. Do not despair in Allah Oh Allah this is exactly what we are
asking you for our Allah this is exactly what we're following. We
don't want to despair in you this is a month of Ramadan these days
are going past so many days have passed already and we've wasted so
much time. Oh Allah this month will end and we don't know if we
see another Ramadan of Allah. This is the time for us to fortify
ourselves and strengthen ourselves and get a Courbevoie enough's. Oh
Allah but so many days of wasted and we still haven't changed. Oh
Allah we still haven't taken full advantage of your Quran. Oh Allah
we still haven't taken full advantage of the mercies that are
abundant of Allah we've taken we haven't taken benefit of Allah
each moment of Ramadan is so valuable. Grant is the ability to
understand its value and to take real benefit from it. Oh Allah, we
ask that You grant us the Kenya on our deathbed. And you don't give
us a wretched ending. Here you protect us from a wretched ending.
Oh Allah grant us your love and the love of those who love you. Oh
Allah grant is good company and the love of those who love you. Oh
Allah grant us your love and make us of those who do your thicker
constantly and constantly remembrance of you. Oh Allah, we
ask you finally to send your blessings abundant blessings on
our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for all that he
has done for us and all his guidance that we have received
from him and granted his company on the day of judgment in the
hereafter engender to fear DOS, O Allah make the best of our days
the day that we stand in front of you Subhan Allah because Allah is
with you and you'll see foon was salam and arias more serene, will
hamdulillah
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