Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Great Prophet Ibrahim and King Nimrod
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The H definition of the new H definition is discussed, including struggles with parents and children with negative cultural views and the use of animals in various narratives, including the story of the man who refused to be a god and the use of animals in various narratives. The speakers emphasize the importance of finding a way to change and finding a way to change in order to overcome these struggles. They also touch on the controversial actions of Sir incredible, including his use of a hand on a woman and his use of a hand on a woman in the night.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
salatu salam ala UD mursaleen while he was off behavoir Baraka
was a limiter, Sleeman. Kathira on Isla Yomi Dean a mother
called Allahu terracota, Allah, Quran and machi they will for
calling Hamid Ibrahim akana mutton oniton Lillahi Hanifa. So the Kola
Halim,
today we're going to be looking at the life of Ibrahim alayhis.
Salam, in the short time that we have, it's not enough to look at
his entire life. Well, definitely not in a way that we can try to
draw some lessons from it. So rather than just read through the
several selections of verses that discuss the life of Ibrahim muddy
salaam, we're going to try to
we'll try to provide an overview. But rather than that, I'm going to
try to cover aspects that are generally not covered because
every year during the eat the sacrifice, Eagle Aloha, you'll
generally hear the story about a smarty lady Salaam and how Ibrahim
Al Islam sees the dream, to sacrifice his son, and he tries to
obey the order. So I'm not going to speak about that in detail
because that's generally covered. I want to start right from the
beginning and speak about the other challenges that he faced
before that before that challenge with his son. First and foremost,
Ibrahim alayhis. Salam is a prophet after a series of
prophets, the mighty his salaam, and so on and so forth.
Afterwards, he seems to be a fifth or sixth or seventh grandson after
new Haile Salam. So no Halle Salam is considered to be the second
father of the nations. And the reason for that is new Haile Salam
during his time, as you know, there was the there was the there
was the floods. And it's only the believers with him that had
survived. And thereafter the progeny began again, and no honey,
his Salam had three sons, and wherever you look, whenever you
look at any ancestry or genealogy, you will always end up a new Halle
salon through one of his sons, Assam, Ham and Japheth. So these
are the three sons of new honey Salam, that pretty much all the
progeny is all his descendants come through. So likewise, if you
look at Ibrahim Ali, he's salaams ancestry, his genealogy it's
Ibrahim ignore that is that it just depends on how you say it.
Daddy, daddy, his father's name. There's a difference of opinion
whether whether his name was Azur or Tarik because, as is the name
mentioned in the Quran, however, most of the genealogies mentioned
as 30 Some Hadith mentioned yesterday as well. It says that
one of them was probably his title, or his nickname, and the
other one was actually his, his given name. So it's Ibrahim ignore
Azur orthotic, a Bruna who ignores our rule. Ignore our who ignore
Furness ignore. Ignore Shirley, ignore our function, ignore some
ignore no Alayhis Salam.
So as you can see, we've got just several names between him and no
Hala, he's Salam. So you can see it's very close to that period.
Then what you have is his mother's name was there's again difference
of opinion as to what her name was, whether it was a MILA omega
or Boonah. Or, again, she was also from that same genealogy. She was
from that same, the same descendants of Urvashi IGNOU Sam
ignore
Ibrahim and Islam was generally referred to as it would be fun, it
would be fun because he loves to have guests he would hardly eat
alone, he loves to have guests is very hospitable in the individual.
And
other than that, his father died, or Amazon had him when he was 75
years old. That's when he brought him out. He his son was born. And
likewise, it seems like the tradition continues because he
brought him on Islam had his first son, most likely when he was 80
something years old.
What's interesting, though, is that Ibrahim Al Islam, his father,
had Ibrahim
and he had another son whose name was the whole and how Iran. So he
brought him on is on the two brothers and he brought him on
Islam seemed to be the middle brother. He was the middle
brother.
And Haoran so you had the Hurun haram his other two brothers.
Haram is the one whose son was Luth Ali salaam, the famous nephew
of Ibrahim Ali Salaam.
And Ibrahima Islam came from Babylon from Babel in Arabic is
called bobbins. Babylon when currently Iraq in that area.
That's where he came from. It says that at a young age, he left with
his father, his father himself. He got he was married to sada
alayhis. Salaam, who is they say of his family, there's difference
of opinion as to exactly who she is. But he says that she was one
of the family members, one of his cousins, maybe or somebody else in
the general family, he got married too. So his father left with him.
His father left with him and his, his nephew, and his wife. And they
went to a place called Haoran, which was closer to the to
Jerusalem, because that's eventually where they ended up. So
he got to Hara Haoran. Now, that's where Allah subhanaw taala says,
initially, he has a discussion with his father, he has a number
of issues, he has a number of different dialogues, you're
probably aware of some of them, he has a dialogue with his father,
that you shouldn't worship idols, then he has a then he has a
dialogue where he seems to be self reflecting over who is God, what
is God who is the creator, and thus he looks at the moon and the
sun and the stars, and then he comes to a conclusion. And then
after that, he has another dialogue with the idols themselves
and the people who are worshipping idols, which was his, his tribe,
the people who his father hailed from, so we're going to quickly
look at those inshallah that will give us an idea because that
there's a number of lessons in that Allah subhanaw taala says in
the Quran, row, the villa Hamina Shatori Ragini Bismillah R Rahman
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the Annika nori Ibrahim America who does it without the worry?
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or Koba called Rob be farlam. Further call Allah or hibel
feeding. So it looks like he's searching. So Allah subhanaw taala
says, Remember when Abraham said to his father as well? How can you
take idols as gods. Later on, he'll describe why he doesn't like
idols as Gods because he doesn't see that they move. He sees them
as extremely passive objects that are there that people have to come
and serve. And people come and present food in front of food
rots, then they have to take it away. He doesn't see how a god can
be an immovable object, something that's very passive and so on. So
then what he does is, he seems to look elsewhere. So you can see
that there's a kind of transition. So he looks away from the idols,
he's looking up into the heavens. He tells his father, he says, How
can you take idols as God, I see that you and your people have
clearly gone astray. It doesn't seem that at this time, he's angry
enough to go and break the idols. That happens later, though, I'm
not sure if it's out of anger, or it's actually a very, it's a
strategy, right? So that we're going to look at that later. In
this way. We showed Abraham, God's mighty dominion over the heavens
and the earth so that he may be a firm believer, that's what Allah
says, in the Quran. When the night grew dark over him, he sees a
star. Now, stars are always around, this wasn't the first time
that a star appeared. And he had this interaction with it, right?
But when you start looking, then you start noticing things. When
you start searching, then everything around you seems to be
providing an answer or an attraction. Right? So for example,
if you're looking to buy a particular type of car or handbag
or something, you'll eventually start seeing them everywhere.
Whereas until now, you've ignored them. You may have seen dozens of
them, but you never paid attention. So likewise, at
nighttime, when the when the knight grew dark over him, he saw
a star and he said, This is my Lord. Because it's shining. It's
elevated. It's high. It seems to be above and transcendent beyond
everything else. It doesn't seem to be passive. It seems to have
some aura and some, some illumination about it. So he said,
this must be my Lord. Now there's difference of opinion whether this
was a personal reflection, or whether this was something that he
was actually dialoguing with somebody on saying, Look, this is
your Lord and trying to actually take them on a journey to say this
is not your Lord, because he first says, This is my Lord, but when it
set when the stars set, when they were overcome by by the other
lights, he said, I do not like things that set. He is looking,
he's a very intelligent man. He is actually looking for something and
he seems to think he knows what he's looking for. Then he saw
The moon rising, the moon is clearly much larger than any of
the stars in our sight. Although the stars may be very, very, very
large as in their reality, but because of them being so far they
seem to be just small twinkling specks in the sky and the moon, it
seems to be much larger. So he says, When he saw saw the moon
rising he said, This is my Lord as Allah subhanaw taala says in the
Quran for the morale camara buzz even kala Harada Robbie Fela Fela
cada Illa Mia De Niro, Bella Hakuna, and Amina will call me
lean, however, when the moon also sets when the moon also said, he
said, now he seems to be asking for help. He seems to be asking
for help, because until now, he doesn't call on to anything else.
He doesn't invoke anybody. But now that when the moon sets as well,
he suddenly says,
if my Lord does not guide me, I shall be one of those who go
astray. I'm going wrong too many times. I consider the stars My
Lord, they set I considered the moon, my Lord, that set as well.
Now, I need to ask, it seems you can't ask you can't ask for
something if you don't believe in it. So clearly, there was that
belief in there and this is not far fetched. The reason for it is
that we as Muslims, most people have probably heard this Hadith
from Rasul allah sallallahu sallam, and people misquote it and
say, every child that's born is born a Muslim, that is not what
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said he did not say that Kulu melodeon
EULA do al Islam he didn't say that. He said Al fitrah every
child is born on the fitrah the primordial nature, I like to
translate this generally as natural faith. What I mean by
natural faith is that I'm going back to win when Allah says in the
Quran, with other Abu coming, Benny, the Memento hoody, him who
reata whom was a shadow whom Allah and footsy him, allow us to grow
become called rubella, Shahidullah, Allah and fusina,
which is that when Allah created Adam alayhis, salam, he extracted
all of his progeny that was to come about until the Day of
Judgment, so every single one of us and everybody that will come,
and that has already come, and He manifested himself in front of
them. And then he asked them, aren't I your Lord? Now, they had
no reason to say no, because they just come from that divine realm.
And this was their inception. This was the beginning. There was no
corruption, pollution, distraction, or adulteration. So
then you said, Bala, of course, you're our Lord. So now, when
people come into the world, when people come into the world, they
come having had that experience, though they can't remember that
experience in the world. However, there is that inclination only
towards that side, that's what you call natural faith. Because then
the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, then the parents, they
either turn their children into Christians, or Jews or major ones,
or today, secularists or capitalists, or communist, or
whatever you have, right?
He had that natural face. So he seems to be calling out and
saying, If God does not, he think if my Lord does not guide me, so
he's already accepted a load somehow. And that's natural. I
remember once we were having an open house, we were having an open
house in our masjid. And after the, at the end of the talk, this
individual comes by, and he said, I need your help, I want you to, I
want you to help me understand who God is, you know, because I want
to understand him, but I can't. My background is atheist. So what
happens in anybody's life, what happens with any any of us is that
whenever we see any experience outside, whenever we experience
anything in our lives, we will generally translate that interpret
it, understand it, through what we already know, whatever our mindset
is, however, we've been taught to understand things. So if a person
has already been always been a denier of God, then they're
constantly going to be trying to interpret things away from God.
However, it seemed like this man was having a rebellion inside as
though the truth was trying to speak. And he really wanted help,
he said, and likewise, Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran,
that when when people who deny God when they get into the middle of
the ocean, and that is a really an amazing kind of depiction, as
Allah subhanaw taala puts it, because we're, if you're on land,
we're used to being on land. And we don't feel as helpless on land
as we do in the ocean. Because on land you we generally know that
you can duck or jump down or go here or go there. We relate more
to the land than we do to the sea. And if you're in the middle of an
ocean, and then the waves start rolling up, then that is a much
more precarious and a vulnerable situation. And that's where Allah
subhanaw taala says people generally call out to the Lord in
that kind of situation. So he's
Ah, then I, this is my Lord and this is great. So yes, so I shall
be I shall. if my Lord does not guide me, I shall be one of those
who go astray. Then the next thing he sees is Allah Mara shumsa Ziva.
He suddenly then sees the bright sun come about, as I mentioned to
you earlier, this was not the first time they who have seen the
sun, but this was the first time he was seeing it with those eyes,
right with those eyes of reflection looking for something.
He's a man on a mission, who's looking for something for the
mouth or shims above the water called rugby.
For them,
called a call me in knee, bury me to Shikun.
Finally, he comes it's, he says that
when he saw the sunrising, hidden cry, this is my Lord, this is
greatest, this is the greater, or this is the greatest. This is the
biggest thing I've seen so far. It seems to dominate everything else
it brings light everywhere. But then when the sunset as well, when
the sunset as well. He said My people, I disown, I descend on all
that you worship besides God. Now from this, you can tell that there
was some he doesn't seem to be speaking to himself. He seems to
be speaking to others. He's reporting back to others. He is
mentioning his ideas to others. He says, now I can understand that
God is beyond everything. He is not seeable. He is not someone you
can observe he is out of this universe. So he seems to have come
to some understanding there. And then he says, Then he says, and he
seems to have gained Gnosis and recognition of God. And that is
what Allah promises to anybody who's sincerely searching for God,
Allah will always help them. So that's why Allah subhanho wa
taala. He carries on he says, in the word Jatoba, je ne la the
first or last summer, where do you want to go honey, if on Amina
Mushrikeen. So then he says, I have turned my face as a true
believer towards Him Who created the heavens and the earth. I'm not
one of the polytheist he suddenly recognizes that I cannot see my
God, because God created everything that I can see. So God
is beyond that. He comes to that realization. And when he comes to
that realization, he declares it very clearly. And then he says,
How can you argue with me about God when He has guided me? Well,
hi, Joe como waha, Joe coma, his people started to argue with him,
debate with him. Now remember, for a debate, you don't need to be on
the truth. You just need to be able to speak, you just need to
put some arguments forward. And there's a whole, there's a whole
science of rhetoric and logic that goes behind, how to speak, how to
speak, how to speak correctly, how to build your arguments, right?
That proves in itself that not all arguments or sound arguments are
based on premises arguments are based on premises, the premises
have to be true for that argument to be sound. So anybody can come
with any argument. That's why if anybody's studied logical
rhetoric, you'll understand that is a straw man argument, where you
just build up something that is totally
fallible, and you try to people or convince people to think that this
is what it's all about. So likewise, it doesn't take too much
to argue. So his people argue them, but he said, How can you
argue with me about God when He has guided you, I do not fear
anything you associate with him? Unless my Lord wills, nothing can
happen. My lord encompasses everything in his knowledge. How
can you how can you take heed? Now it carries on Allah subhanaw taala
doesn't speak about Ibrahim and Islam all in one place. He speaks
about him in different places. And the whole purpose of the Quran is
that it's not a book of stories. It's not the although we have a
chapter of Ibrahim and we have a chapter of no hand we have a
chapter of,
of, would you call it of Mary and so on. It's not all their stories
are not restricted to those chapters. The reason is that the
Quran is a book of knowledge. The Quran is a book of lessons, the
Quran is a book of reflection. So Allah subhanho wa Taala wants to
scatter the stories, the relevant parts of the stories wherever he
wants, so that as we're reading, we will think about something and
then after that, Allah will speak about it again and will reflect on
it again. So now in the second part, he says, will fulfill kita
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mentioned to in the Quran the story of Abraham, he was a man of
truth, a prophet, he said to his father, Father
idea worship something that can neither here nor see no benefit
you in any way. Now, what's happening here is a typical kind
of scenario of where you disagree with your parents. I know today
people do it much more than in earlier days. Because today, they
were characterized more by individualism than before when
people will characterize more by tribalism, and in that kind of a
scenario, not only father and
parents and children, but also the whole tribe used to generally be
on one belief. That's why in Madina Munawwara, you had the
leaders of the ocean hazards when they became Muslim, their entire
tribe just followed, they just all became Muslim. So essentially,
what you have is today, it's different. Everybody thinks for
themselves, parents, especially first and second generation, gap
problems. We parents have nightmares in terms of keeping the
children within the so called desired culture. No child wants to
follow the culture of what the parents might consider back home,
because the children consider this home and not anywhere else. So
there's always this now how do you deal with that kind of a
situation? Look how Ibrahim Al Islam is dealing with it.
He is not turning up his face, for example. He is not just he's he's
trying actively to intelligently have a discussion with his father.
He's asking him a question. He says fine Father, Father, like,
yeah, a booty, oh, my father is not just
turning his nose up at him. He's not saying it with a frown. He's
not saying it in a very ugly way, as some of us sometimes do with
our parents. He says, Oh, my father, why do you worship
something that can neither hear nor see no benefit you in any way?
It can't hear, it can't see. And it can't benefit you in any way.
These are fundamental traits of any being that is supposed to be
of some kind of assistance to anybody. And none of these can do
that for you. He says, further knowledge that has not reached you
has come to me. Now, imagine saying that to your father, I know
something that you don't. We all think that, especially if the if
our parents don't speak very good English. And they've they're
immigrants are first generation. And you were brought up here
speaking without an accent, or suddenly discovering how things
work. And parents are sometimes in the dark about certain things. We
sometimes act very condescending towards our parents. He says, I
mean, how you going to come across and trying to tell your father I
really know something that you don't know. That is such a
difficult, that's such a difficult proposition is his father
knowledge that has not reached you has come to me so follow me, I
will guide you to uneven path. I will guide you to an even path, do
not worship the shape on shape on has rebelled against,
against the Lord have mercy father, I fear that a punishment
from the Lord of mercy may afflict you, and that you may become
Satan's companion in hellfire. His father answered, his father's too
tired, too old to change his religion. This is generally the
problem. As people get older, if you understand the Blackboard, you
know, in the days of the black hole, you actually do have a
blackboard here.
So if you look at the blackboard, they generally have to keep
painting over it and refreshing its blackness. Otherwise, over
time, it doesn't remain very black anymore. And also over time, marks
become ingrained in it. And it's much more difficult to get rid of,
well, even on a whiteboard, eventually, it gets more difficult
to get rid of something that has been on there for too long, right?
So likewise, when it comes to human beings, we become more set
in our ways. It's a, to be honest, if you took a survey of human
beings, it will be an absolute minority who will remain flexible
enough as they age, most eventually become tired of
pursuing different things. They want to be in a comfort zone, and
they don't want to change and try new things that happens to most
people. There's probably only a minority that are mashallah always
vibrant, even at the age of 70. So let's go and do that. Let's go and
do that. And that's just the way human beings generally are. So his
father is probably too old for this. And nobody's too old for
this. But just as a person, I remember I went to one of my
teachers, who is quite eccentric is a he's a, he's a genius, but
he's very eccentric in the way he deals with things. And he says,
I've written this book on Arabic grammar. I've written this book,
this book in Arabic grammar, I've given it to very selected
individuals to read I'd like to give it to you to read. I said,
Okay, wonderful, he says, he says in order he says up today
It
like, are you tired? Like, what do you mean? I'm tired? It was
morning time, right? I said, No, I'm not tired. He goes, Are you
tired? What he meant is, Are you are you have you given up studying
and researching? Like you're you're just satisfied with what
you have, and you're not going to progress anymore? That's what he
meant by saying, Are you tired. And what he's underscoring there
is a lot that happens to a lot of people. So it happens to a lot of
people. But that cannot stop you from looking at the truth, much of
our problems, much of our problems in our communities, in our mosque
committees, just in in general, it's issues to do with
inflexibility, it's issues to do with people, resisting change,
resisting positive change. One is negative change, but resisting
positive change. People who don't want to come out of their comfort
zone who don't want to move out and make a difference, because
they're just too comfortable. Even though they know it's wrong. They
know it's a hassle even they still don't want to make a change.
That's why he says his father answered Abraham, do you reject my
gods, I will stone you if you do not stop this keep out of my way.
Now, this, as you'll see with this, and as you'll see, later on,
when he when he later on has another discussion, because in
this discussion, I'll actually keep that point for later. In this
one, it says, Finally, Ibrahim arniston realized is not going to
get anywhere with his father, he's not going to get anywhere there.
And it's harmful for him to be there in all of this. So he wants
to go out and he wants to find another place to worship Him
worship His Lord. So then he says to him, he says,
For now, I will leave you and the idols you all pray to I will
abandon them. But I will pray to my Lord and trust that my prayer
will not be in vain. When he left his people, and those they served
besides God, we granted him Isaac and Jacob and made them both
prophets. That obviously happened much later. But in this case,
Allah just wants to kind of sum up the story. So then he says that
now as we carry on, this one's the kind of dramatic event will occur
Athena, Ibrahima rooster whom in Kapalua could not be here it mean
is currently a bee. He will call me ma, the Timothy Realty and
Tamil hierarchy phone. He seems to have gone back to his people. And
he seems to be challenging them again. Because he had the other
challenge about the moon and the sun with the people in Iran,
because they were the worshipers of the of the stars. However, his
own people are worshipers of idols. These this is back in
barbil. It seems so anyway, when he goes there to Babylon. He says
to his father and to his people to his people. Maha they hit the
Murphy Realty and from the hierarchy phone, what are these
idols that you seem to be that you are so devoted to? That you're
just constantly on them? You're give them up? You're so you're so
devoted to these idols. So
this is their answer, call which is another RBD.
This is what we found our forefathers doing. Color liquid
quantum and tumor, Alba openfit are learning Mubin. Now you can
see he is much more brazen here. In the first one, he was polite to
his father, in the way he dealt with him. He says I'm going to
pray for you, but I'm going to leave you and I'm going to go on
worship my lord elsewhere. But in this case, he's here for a
challenge. He's here for the debate, and he's going to do
something. So he says and if you understand Arabic, Carla called
Kuntum, quantum and to compete on any movie in which so much
emphasis that you are surely surely for definite, you are in a
clear,
you have clearly gone astray, you are clearly misguided. Now that's
a major challenge is to start with, then he says call nowadays a
call center will help you terminal or a bean. Now this tells me this
particular verse tells me that they hadn't been challenged too
often. And it really got them thinking because they asked him
Have you come to us with the truth something you really think is the
truth are you or are you just messing around?
Now what does that tell you about somebody? If they say that to you
one is that they recognize that okay, you are messing around or
that you are deluded? Now they are asking actually asking him that do
you have reason to believe that you have brought the truth or
until I mean Allah Rabin, those who are just playing around
jesting, and just joking and just trying to make a mockery of
something because you don't really care all about Rob buco mob
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He says, No, it's your Lord and the Lord of the heavens and earth
that created them. And I am of those who bear witness to this. So
I am serious about this. I am absolutely serious about this.
Look at the answer that they give first, the answer is, this is what
we found our parents doing. Question, are our parents and
authority? That's the question. Are our parents gods? Are they an
authority. So today, what you have is, you must marry your cousin
sister who's in Pakistan.
Why? Because that's the way our people do it. You are already
given to her from when you were born, it was already written. And
that's why I went into a friend of mine, his house, he's a, he's a,
he's a, he's a I mean, he's a, he's a doctor, very wealthy man,
everything my wife sees in their kitchen, family photos, and she
sees a girl that we don't recognize as being part of the
family, they've got a young son, we don't see them recognizing, we
don't recognize that girl. So my wife asked, Who is this, then that
seems to be among all of these other family photos is oh, this is
so and so you know, my son's cousin sister in Pakistan, and
they're gonna get married. And the guy is 12, he is about eight or
nine years old at the time, many of you fixed up as well like that
already.
So now, it's very difficult to get this into their minds that look,
this is incorrect, that this is not something I'd like to do.
Because for them, it's, it's their child on one side who they
supposed to love. But it seems like they love their culture more.
And I'm just trying to underscore what these people are going
through. It seems like they love their culture so much that they're
going to be willing to give up their child. Because I we've had
cases where a child, well, he's an adult, now, he married somebody
that his parents didn't, because he didn't marry the person they
had originally fixed him up to or expected him to be fixed up to
their family, obviously put a lot of pressure on them, the extended
family put a lot of pressure on them. So now he finally moved out
of the house. It's two years afterwards. And they're still
holding the grape. This still holding the grudge, they won't let
him come back into the house. They don't want to see him anymore. So
it's become the culture and what forefathers did is more beloved to
a person or it's stronger, at least it's stronger, at least than
your own children. Can you can you can you understand how strong
culture is now, you can give up your children for that. Now,
clearly inside, it's not a you give up and you've made a choice
that you're comfortable with. You're very uncomfortable. These
parents are not happy clearly. But they want the best of both worlds.
But this culture above them is so strong, that that is going to rule
their life. And likewise, you've got that situation here. So
although what we're talking about in terms of our culture is not
about a conference ship situation. Right? It's just it's it's it's a
situation of of harm, for sure, though. This is what they're going
through their answer is not an answer. This is what we found our
parents doing well look beyond that. There's a world that exists
beyond that. There's a reality beyond that. This is not a
reality. That's what the issue is. That's why he then says
he says what hola hola Akita nos nama combated the interval Lumad
Berrien. Now he says, By Allah, I'm going to,
I'm going to do something with these idols after you go, I'm
going to do something. Now. It's mentioned in the tough series,
whether he said that opened me or whether he it's most likely he
said that to himself. So this something is planning himself,
although it does say in some durations that this is something
that some of them heard, they probably didn't take any notice.
They were very comfortable in the idol worship, it seemed nobody
nobody had ever touched them. Everybody believed there were no
other beliefs at the time, this man who's coming Ibrahim, or this
young man was coming and challenging them they didn't take
much notice it seems they didn't take much notice. So then carry it
carries on for Gerardo whom Judah then Illa kabhi Rolla whom, la la
whom lie on your own. So in this one, there's another selection of
verses, which tells you in detail what he did. He went in, he said,
Don't you eat? Because he saw that when people had gone out, they had
left a lot of food there for the idols. So he goes up, and he says,
Don't you eat?
So he's speaking to the idols. Now, there's nobody else looking
at him. But maybe he's just trying to satisfy himself and saying,
Don't you eat? Can you not do anything? Can you know you have
nothing? There's nothing that you can do anyway, in this place. In
this verse, Allah subhanaw taala says, which I'm reading from
certain Ambia for jeraldo Whom Judah then Illa Kabira la, la la
la he
Last year when he broke them into pieces, he destroyed all of them,
except the big one. So there was a big one there, la La, la, he urged
Iran so that they could come back and resort to that big one.
Now, it's almost like it's speaking from their perspective.
Because if it's their God, that God should be able to help them.
So he's saying he destroyed all of them, except the large one so that
they could have somebody to resort to they can ask the big one what
happens?
Then call over to be here. Then he says called lumen ferula, HERBIE
early Hatena. In who lamina verde mean,
they came back, who did this with our gods, he must be an oppressor,
he must be of the oppressors. Now, this tells you itself that they
don't know what they're speaking about. Because when you say I am
an oppressor or somebody's an oppressor, oppressed means
somebody who does something wrong to someone, how can you do wrong?
Some how can you do wrong to a god and a deity that is supposed to be
powerful in their concepts? Now, this just tells you that a deity,
a god is supposed to be in your mind that all powerful, if you've
reduced something else to be your God that doesn't have the power,
then there's clearly a problem with your understanding. So he's
saying, Who are they saying, who did this? Who did this? With our
gods, he must be of the oppressors. Carlos Amir Anna 30th
Guru whom you call Lula who, Ibrahim. So now some of them
speaking, and they're saying, you know, there was a young man fatten
a youth. There's a young man who we noticed was speaking about
them, meaning he was saying bad things about them. He's
complaining about them. His name is Ibrahim Karlova. To be here,
either, are you in zilara Lumia schoon. Bring him in front of
people, so that they can witness this event how we deal with this
man. This is exactly what he brought him on Islam wanted. Now
in the other cluster of verses when he comes in, anyway, Galu
will be early Hatena Ibrahim. Now they can't prove he did it. But
they saying did you do this to our Lords? Oh, Ibrahim, did you do
this to our Lords? callable further? Who can be room had the
first clue in the code?
What's his answer? His answer is no. It was this big one who did
this? Why don't you ask them if they speak?
Now, is that a lie?
Clearly he did it. He say no. He says big one who did it. Now
there's a number of reasons that are given here. The best
explanation that I've seen so far is that it was the big one who
made me do it. He got me so angry that he did. He He is the one who
did it, meaning he's the cause of it. Because he's the big one who
got me really disgruntled by this, and I broke all of them. Ask them
if they speak for Jericho, Isla fusi him for Kalu in TUMO the
moon, they
felt remorseful. They went into self reflection. they regretted it
in the sense that
they were defeated. And one reason why they were defeated is as I
told you before, it doesn't seem like they thought anybody would
ever do anything to these idols. So they had gone off, not left
anybody to protect their idols and come back to find this carnage the
the monokey Suvarna Rosie hem locker there it will email to you
cool. So now, it's almost like you can hear the anger. They saying
they are saying you will know that they don't speak. How can you tell
us to tell them to speak to them when you know that they don't
speak. So then Ibrahim Ali Salam finds his path and he says a
terrible dude. I mean dunlea Himalayan Federico che and when I
adore Rukh Khan, then are you worshiping besides Allah something
that doesn't benefit you nor can they harm you or Finn locum he
gets his access or Finn Lacan often Lacan will be upon you so
bad it is so bad it is what am I terrible don't mean do Nila and
for those that you worship besides Allah Allah attack you don't you
still don't get it? You still don't understand. Now.
All you had Riku will so early her to come in go to infer in in now
what happens when a person loses their argument has nothing to say
or is not very bright. How do they respond? If they're decent people,
they will accept and they will move along. Most people they don't
do this, this arrogance, this pride. What happens is they they
turn to aggression. When you lose your intellectual ability to
discuss with somebody and have a dialogue
with somebody, then you it leads you to aggression, And subhanAllah
SubhanAllah. Unfortunately, this is what's happening with many of
our brothers out there who are committing these acts. They feel
helpless. They feel that they can't argue, they feel it's all
lost. They've lost their hope in Allah, it seems. And they feel
that the only way to bring about a change is to go and kill innocent
people.
This is what you call an aggression. And it's not just
happening with those so called extremist. It's also happened and
you you needed to have heard Bush after 911. He sounded like the
Pharaoh. He literally sounded like the Pharaoh. He said, who he is
like you're with us, or you're against us. It was almost like
he's making that complete distinction. And this is what
happens when you feel that you can't intellectually argue with
somebody I see. If we if we look at this country, you've got about
3 million Muslims in this country. And when you look at the big
cities like London, Manchester, or Birmingham, in fact, Birmingham's
non Muslims aren't even supposed to be allowed. And they
apparently, right. You know, according to certain reporters,
if you look at the big cities, maybe even Sheffield, I don't know
too much about Sheffield, but big cities that you know about, they
are filled with Muslims, right? We've got 3 million Muslims, but
Muslims, they are everywhere. If you come down to London, we've got
a population of 8 million or so out of which 1 million is Muslim,
that's more than one in 10 are Muslim in London. That's why
wherever you go in London, you're bumping into Muslims, right? You
go into Oxford Street, and you see about three to four Muslims per
10. You know, that's all those guys from all those countries,
like Arab countries are coming to dump their money here, for some
reason, they don't like their money and put it somewhere else.
So they come and dump it on Oxford Street, right Hamdulillah. So now
what you've got here is that Muslims are coming in. And they
have a tradition that they so much love. Now, they love their
tradition. They love their tradition so much that they wear
it on themselves. They go mosque, they have certain demands at
university and at work, we have to pray at certain times, we have to
wash, we need a prayer place, and so on and so forth. It goes
against the norm of the society that we live that we live in. Now,
that creates a challenge, that creates a challenge, it's in your
face. And mashallah, in this case, the women are leading this because
those that were hijab, they are clearly they are clearly and
boldly putting themselves out there as Muslims, because that men
can sometimes disguise themselves and can pass off as you know,
something else and other but not women, they can't get away with
that. We just don't have another parallel for that. So what you've
got is you've got it in your face. Now, a lot of people, they are
dis, they are discomforted by the fact that this is messing up our
way of life that they used to what we found our forefathers doing.
That's what it is. Now, has any body who's committed any of these
atrocious attacks, has anybody ever said that we hate your way of
life, they're always talking about Syria, or whatever the case is.
But what these people feel the most the people on the street for
the politicians, it's all. It's all corporate, it's all money
making. It's all about helping some corporation or the other or
the defense industry, right? And it's all about making sure your
country gets enough funding from the people who have these, you
know, these different agendas for the normal person on the street,
though, they are led to believe that these people will come and
change your system.
And clearly you can see that there is a challenge to that system.
Now, there are certain things that non Muslims have assimilated into
very easily and enjoyably. Right. But when it comes to other things
is very difficult for them. So what they've assimilated into is
the food for example. Asian foods, not necessarily Muslim food, but
it's Asia is Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi food, right. That is
top food here in America. It's not it's Mexican food in America, but
in England, it's Indian food as such, you know, in some of its
varieties, that's fine, they're fine with that. You have Muslims
with hijab marrying on EastEnders, so it's reached to that level,
right? You have
mashallah, you have bake offs with hijabi women. So you have all of
these different things that are happening. So they're willing to
accept certain things like this. I mean, you have the prime minister
who went up and he spoke so highly and so in such a celebrating way
about the halal socks, which is the Islamic finance because
there's a lot of money that's coming in from the
to wealthy Muslim countries, which they want part of. So they're
embracing all of that. But when it comes to all of these other things
they want to, they want they don't want to emulate. So it leads to
racism. Racism is essentially an aggressive response to something
that you cannot intellectually deal with. Why does a person
become racist? Is because they don't know any better. They can't
find within their own framework somewhere to include and tolerate
and deal with the differences that they are seeing. Otherwise, why is
it in Switzerland? Or in France, for that matter, or in Belgium,
for that matter? Why is it that you've got a minority and absolute
minority especially in Switzerland, an absolute minority
of Muslims, number one, among the Muslims are absolute minority of
niqab ease women who cover their faces, and they want to bring a
law for them.
Like out of everything that you could bring a law about, and you
could introduce a law for you introduce it for the niqab. Why is
it that what is the bothers you so much about a piece of cloth on the
face? And they are very clearly they're very clear in there that
if the if the face is covered for any other reason, it's fine. It
just cannot be coming for religious reasons. So you can tell
that it's a clear understanding that it's this issue that they're,
they're confronted with, it's this dilemma they're confronted with,
people need to open their minds, unfortunately, the freedom of
speech that we always celebrate, it's not for everybody. It's the
same kind of reaction that these people are having here. That's why
the reaction that we had after the reaction that we had after after
911 was against the Taliban. That reaction by killing so many
innocent people in Afghanistan, and then in Iraq, what did it
create a created al Qaeda, which is a bigger monster, then you went
after that and start to do more aggression. And then after that,
you get another even more evil monster, which is the ISIS. Now,
if you know if that carries on, and more people are killed,
innocent people are killed, killed on all sides, then what kind of a
monster is going to be created next, I fear that I fear that this
is the turmoil that we are in. This is the turmoil that we are
in. Now, what's happening with a lot of people out there, a lot of
Muslims out there is that they are
choosing their path. Now. There's a lot of Muslims who are just on
the edge, when they see that Muslims are going to be aggressed
against, they're going to change their religion, they're going to
dilute their religion, if they don't change it, they're going to
try to assimilate and just try to be more white than white. Right?
That's not a very fair term, though. But you know what I mean,
they're going to try to do the best that they can to try to avoid
any kind of hindrance by overcompensating for the
differences. Now, what does Ibrahim alayhis salam do? And what
is he then given this is what I want to mention from here is that
he says,
After all of this call, who hurry to who wants to come in quantum
far in in, burn him, and assist your Lords assist your gods, if
you're going to do something, assist your gods. So they are
invoking and rallying everybody in the name of their gods, to try to
get everybody emotionally active, that we need to burn him.
Now, Allah subhanho wa Taala doesn't tell us how they made the
fire and so on. But we learned that through some Hadith, it says
that they then started collecting wood. So they found a large pit in
an open ground, there was a large pit in the ground in the ground,
they tried to find as much wood as possible firewood from all over
the place. In fact, it says that everybody was just so so wound up
by this, that women if they couldn't have children, for
example, they you know, they sometimes take a vow that if I
have children, or if this happens to me, or if that happens to me,
then I'll give sadaqa or whatever, they started saying that if if my
job gets done, I will go and find wood to go and put into that
place. They don't even know Ibrahim on Instagram, most of them
don't even know you guys, but they've been rallied to such a
degree that everybody now wants to take pots. So now they're
collecting all of this firewood. Now they collect the firewood and
they start the fire.
When they start the fire, it is too hot for anybody to go and
throw Abraham or push him inside. Because it is so blazing and the
inferno is so great that there's no way they can even get close. So
there's a man among them, who decides to develop a contraption.
So he designs the catapult and they say that that was the first
catapult in the world. So he put they designed this capsule, put
him on there and then they fling him inside. Now as he's being
flung inside now how many seconds may that be? This is not up
parachute he has he is being flung inside and has to be in a force
for him to be taken from that distance into the fire. The angel
of wind comes to him, the angel of wind comes to him and says, your
your command, what do you want? Gibreel comes to him, right? All
these angels that comes in what can we do for you? He says, I
leave it to Allah has been Allah Who, whenever lucky, has been
Allah, whatever lucky when I read this, and has when Allah when
Allah Joaquin is not just used here, but it's used by Allah
subhanaw taala and other places where others were being aggressed
against and there it has, it's one of the most powerful doors that
you can read, but you don't read it blindly, not knowing what it
means you read it with meaning then then you see that its benefit
will come to you has when Allah Allah is sufficient for us. When
it will work he'll and he is the best of patrons, best of
caretakers, the best of those that can control things for you and
your affairs. He said has one Allahu animal Joaquin, Allah
subhanho wa Taala says, yeah, now row Cooney Barudan wa salam and
Allah Ibrahim
Jana Okuni, Bergen, wa salam and Allah Ibrahim, oh fire become
cool, wa salam, and an abode of peace.
For Ibrahim, Allah might have written here that if Allah did not
say, Solomon, and he just said become cold, it would have been so
cold in there,
that that would have been critical as well. Because when Allah gives
a command of some sort, he said, be cold, and salam. And now what's
interesting is that he's flung into this, the part where he is he
stayed there for a very long time, several days or more, because that
fire was and they kept.
They kept adding more fuel to is the pod that he was in. It was
completely fine. He said, I've not spent he says afterwards. I've not
spent any time, more peaceful, more greater and greater wellbeing
than that. Yeah, as I mentioned gibril Isilon comes to me, he says
to him, yeah, Ibrahim, Aloka, Hydra or Ibrahim Do you have a
need? Now imagine how fast all of this is happening. And he says, a
mighty Lake fella. I have a need but not to you. I have no need
with you. And the the angel of rain came about and he says Mata
Omar for all civil matter. When am I going to be commanded? I'll send
the rain. The rain will extinguish this right away for Cana Amarula
he etc. But Allah's command was even faster. Allah's command was
faster. Yeah, narrow Cooney burden. wa salam O Allah, Allah
Ibrahim. So suddenly, this becomes totally a peaceful place for
Ibrahim alayhis salam.
There's a number of different narrations. You see Allah
subhanaw. Taala doesn't go into extreme detail because the whole
purpose is not to tell a story and not to entertain, but it's rather
to take a lesson. However, people get bored without some kind of
juicy detail. That's why we add the detail here. Alright.
And within it Insha Allah, we can have our reflection as we go
along. So what happens then is Ibrahim alayhi salam was almost as
if he was in a green meadow, enjoying himself with all that
coolness. And what's amazing is that people could actually see him
in there. People could actually see him inside unscathed, totally
sound and not burnt at all, and not in any kind of misery. But
they can't come to him and he is not going up to them. He's just
enjoying it while he's sitting there. Abu Huraira the Allahu Anhu
relates that
one of the best expressions that come from Ibrahim alayhi salam is
when he saw his
sorry, the father of Ibrahim Al Islam. This was one of the best
things that he ever said in his life. When he saw Ibrahim Al Islam
like that. He said, net Murghab Rob Baka Ibrahim, what a beautiful
Lord Your Lord is Oh, Ibrahim, but there's no proof he became Muslim
or not afterwards. But when he saw him in that state, something may
have changed. Ibrahim and Islam wanted everybody to watch him
because that would be a game changer for everybody. One is an
argument that you provide another one is a scene that they all see
and they see that nothing happens to him, if not Asaka relates from
crema that the mother of Ibrahim Ali Sami see a mother is a mother
at the end of the day what Allah has given and chipped a mother out
with the love for their children is more than anybody else that
chip is just a jeep. So she looks at her son and she calls out yeah
Bucha Yeah, or either a G od a G illegal for other Allah further
Allah Yun Ji mean hurry now how luck, my son, I want to come and
see you. My son, I want to come and see you pray to your Lord,
that He gives me a safe passage through this fire to you a safe
passage to you
For Kelowna, and he says, Absolutely. He
prayed to Allah subhanaw taala. And she came, nothing of that fire
touched her. She had a safe passage through it. And she came
she she hugged him embraced him, she kissed him. And then after
that she returned
this day different opinions as to how long you stayed there 40 days
or 50 days. But he says that Ibrahim Al Islam is reported from
him that these were the best of days and nights that I've ever
that I've ever spent. And I wish that that same experience could
have been continued for me thereafter. But this is the world
and the world changes, so nothing happens. And then he moves out, he
comes out of it. And then after he comes out of the fire,
remember these were his people. This was not a dialogue or an
exchange with any leader. Now the leader of the time, the ruler of
the time, rather was named root.
Neruda Nimrods. There's actually a city that's called nim. That's
actually
would you call it name rude that's named after this heritage, but as
many differences of opinion as to who exactly he wasn't where
exactly did he exist? But all I can mention is that
this argument, this debate between Ibrahim alayhis salam and num
route took place after he came out of the fire. So he must have come
across num route and all of his people and
as Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, Surah Baqarah LM dollar
in a lazy
Jaya Ibrahim Ifeanyi Robbie and who
is called Ibrahim or Rob Bell Z or he when you meet Paul. He will
meet Carla Ybarra he moved in Hola, hyah TB Shamcey Meenal
machinery Leafa TB her Amina Mohammed Babu, heater lady careful
wala hula, they call them avoiding mean.
Oh prophets have you not thought about the man who disputed with
Ibrahim about his Lord, Allah subhanho wa Taala doesn't mention
the name of num roots. In the Quran, he just says the one who
debated with Ibrahim alayhis salam. And this is a man who Allah
had given the power to rule he had given him a great an extensive
sovereignty over much of the world at the time. In fact, what's
mentioned is that this was a king who, who ruled the world. He's one
of the few kings that actually ruled much of the world. And when
we say the world in those days, this was very close to new honey
salaams time. See it when you say new holiday salaam,
know Haile Salaam and his time everybody else was killed, there's
a difference of opinion was whether the flood was local, or
was it universal? Now, one of the theories here is that even if it
was local, it's fine, because there weren't many people that
were living elsewhere, civilization hadn't probably
spread as far. Because when you look, during the time of
Volker name, he does go extensively out of the socialist
society. And then he goes extremely east and then Western,
he finds he finds one group of people here, one group of people
there as such a community of people. So it seems like maybe,
you know, like the extensive spillover we've had right now. And
the you know, the entire world has people living around it right now.
Maybe it wasn't like that. So Allah subhanaw taala knows best.
Exactly. But the point here is that what's related in history
that there's only been four individuals.
There's only been four individuals who have actually ruled the entire
world to have been believers and to have been non believers in
Allah subhanaw taala. The two believers were Zilker named
Zilker, nine, and the other is Salim Ali, salaam nurseryman. Al
Islam was unparalleled. Even among the four he was unparalleled,
because he had sovereignty over the birds and animals over the
winds and over the jinn. So that's a whole he was in a whole
different level completely. Then the two that were non Muslim, that
were non believers. They were numbered and bought to Nasr.
That's netiquette. Nizar and num roots. We know a lot more about
Nebuchadnezzar because he seems to have come later. Right. And he's
the one who had who, who destroyed Jerusalem first. So there's a lot
more information about him, but he came from Babylon as well. Now
number Ruth is this one that we're speaking about? Allah had given
him extensive rule, but unfortunately, his he wasn't very
intellectual. When I say he's not very intellectual, look at the way
he speaks. Have you not thought
about the man who disputed with Ibrahim about his Lord, because
Allah had given him power to rule. Clearly Allah is saying here that
his whole debate, and his whole argument is based on the fact that
he was intoxicated by his wealth. Not because he was very
intelligent or anything like that, because you would never have
spoken the way you did if he didn't have rule. And if he had
intelligence, because look at what he says, when Ibrahim or Islam
said to him, so there is this man, Ibrahim or Islam suddenly visit
meets him and he starts claiming Lordship, he starts claiming
sovereignty starts claiming godhood. So if Imam Islam said
that it is my lord who gives life and death, so that's a primary
Psalms first argument to him, My Lord is the one who gives life and
death if you give life enough, tell us. So he tried to silence
him that way. But apparently, the person he couldn't answer what his
response was I to give life and death. But the way he expressed
that was, he got somebody he called two individuals, one as a
free man on the streets, he brings him in and kills him. He says,
Look, I've just given death. And he calls another man who was
imprisoned, and who was supposed to go to the gallows probably and
be killed, he brings him out and he says, Okay, I set you free. So
he says, Look, I've just done the same thing. I also bring life I
also give death. Now, Ibrahim is I'm realized that this man, his
providing the specious arguments, because there's not related to
what your primary son was asking you about real life and real
death, in terms of giving birth to somebody. So then Ibrahim Ali
Salam said to him, then Ibrahim and Islam said, God brings the sun
from the east, you bring it from the West, this delete this
disbeliever was completely dumbfounded. God does not guide
those who do evil. So you can clearly tell that he wasn't a very
intelligent man who, who's who, who mentioned who made this. And
he can only do this because he's got the power to go and kill
somebody or set somebody free. That's why he resorted to what he
had available under him. But Allah subhanaw taala doesn't like that.
So
this number who was actually the ruler of Bible of Babylon, and his
name is numb root, a blucon IGNOU. Coach IGNOU Sam, Abner. So he's
also from a great grandson of new hires. And of course, every human
being is, and he's from some as well.
There's there's other versions about this because you can never
be definite at that level.
Num roots,
they say ruled his kingdom for about 400 years, because
apparently, in those days, lives are much longer. No Holly salaam,
remained in this world for more than 950 years. So you can imagine
that this 400 years was not much either. But he was extremely
tyrannical. He was a tyrant. And he was extremely rebellious. And
he was very violent, and he was an oppressor.
When he brought him out in his Salam call him to the worship of
Allah subhanho wa taala. That's when this thing happened. So after
all of this happens, finally, what happens is
Allah subhanaw taala sent an angel who confronted them routes and
said to him, you bring your entire army so he doesn't come as an
angel. It comes in the form of a human being or something and
challenges number route and says to him, you bring your army, and
I'll bring mine and we will see who wins. So Nimrod gets together
his entire army. He comes in all of this style, all of his valor.
It comes with all of this adornments around him. Allah
subhanaw taala just sends small mosquitoes. One mosquito gets into
his nose. A single mosquito is the ruler of the world
that has seldomly been seen like this, it gets an mosquito in his
nose, and it bothered him for a long period. In fact, it says that
he would get so aggravated imagine a mosquito buzzing around in your
nose, and you can't do much about it. And in these days, you have
these apparatus about pulling about sections and so on so forth.
It stayed in his nose for a very long period, and he would have to
smack himself, you would get people to take shoes and smack his
head just to get some relief. That's how he finally died. That's
how Nerud finally died. Anyway, we'll end up we'll end here in
terms of the detailed
in terms of the detailed coverage. That's all we could cover today.
But what I see as the Brian Melissa was my conclusion is that
this is a man who Allah subhanaw taala has chosen to test. He left
his hometown. He's not in the comfort of his local of his local
community. He had to leave his father. He had to leave his
people. After that. Allah subhanho wa taala. He had his wife sorrow,
then he had his death. Then there's a very interesting story.
They were going through Egypt, and there was a king there who was
just a
would you call it he was a
what's the word?
He was given to vise, every beautiful woman that he would just
take for himself. Unless they were the sister of somebody. If you
told him that it was your wife that she would take her, he felt
that he had the right. So that's where Ibrahim Ali salaam told him
that no, that's my sister. When he came home, he told surah if he
asked you say that you are my sister, because at that time in
the entire world, there were only one couple that were Muslim. So
this was a Muslim brother and sister that he referred to, to
save himself from that. Anyway, he said that King still tried to get
her but every time she would pray, and the king would be stopped. And
then he would ask her to pray for him to be relieved from this
blockage. And the story is wrong. She he finally gave her he said,
This is the shaytaan or something, I can't touch her. And he he sent
her back but he sent with her a slave girl as a gift, which was
harsher Alice and Mo agile are harder. And she gave that to
Abraham gave her to Abraham Ali salaam Ibrahim Ali Salam then
had a child with her while he couldn't have one rissalah Because
salah Alia salam until then was barren. And then after that there
was some issues and he had to get gone drop hudgell Alayhis Salam in
Makkah Makara by with the foundations of the Kaaba that were
there from before, and then that whole story continues there. So
all of these challenges all of these challenges, but Ibrahim and
Islam always, always won with flying colors, because his
submission to Allah subhanaw taala was when he was willing to do
whatever Allah wanted. Now, so many times in his life, he seems
to have confronted a dilemma where he could have stayed in a comfort
zone, he could have stayed and just changed his way or just gone
with the status quo. But he didn't do that. This is a lesson for us.
These are very challenging times for us. Right. And this is the
message that I want to give today that these are very challenging
times for us already discussed you that there's a lot of people on
the fringe who are pretty much given up. And they've just don't
want to even assume, assume themselves as being Muslims. Allah
will give strength, there is always difficulty because Allah
has not promised ease in this world. He's left that for Jana.
But Allah will give ease for people who strengthen their faiths
with the faith with Allah subhanaw taala they will come troubling
times. But after every difficulty comes ease because Allah says in
the grocery usara with every difficulty comes ease with every
difficulty comes ease. So yes, these are challenging times. These
are low times right now, but in sha Allah, Allah subhanaw taala
can raise this up. But unfortunately, there's going to be
quite a few people that are going to lose themselves in the process.
The the train of Islam is moving along and it will continue to
move, but there will be people who will drop off because the heat
will get a bit intense. We ask Allah to help us and give us the
Iman of Ibrahim Ali salaam, because look what then Allah gives
Ibrahim Alayhi Salam. After his time, there was no prophet that
came out of his family. So all the prophets after him all the
prophets after him. Now remember, Ibrahim Hassan did not speak
Arabic. He was from oral from Babylon. They spoke a different
language. He moved to Jerusalem where they spoke Hebrew, right?
And his son is Marilla he Salam he had him settled in Makkah. And
when he was settled, and they found the water and the long
story, there was the tribe of Judah home that came from Yemen
and they started settling there. That's where they learned the
Arabic From that's where it's my dad is Salam. From him came all of
the Arabs, but from his hochkar Islam Kamal Kamya Kuba Ali Salam,
jacobellis, I'm had 12 children, and out from among those 12 tribes
you had all the Bani Israel as well. Now, every single prophet
after the prophets that after the Prophet Ibrahim Ali Salam is a
child of his is a grandchild of his every single one of the four
main books, the Torah, there's a board the Evangel and the Quran,
they all come Among prophets, in his in his in his children. That's
why he is well revered today, though most people don't know what
he really stands for. But he is well revered as the patriarch of
the Christians, the Jews and the Muslims. The main thing is that
Allah rewards them greatly. In fact, the Prophet salallahu Salam
when he went to the heavens, on the first heaven, he sees other
Malay salaam, and so on, so forth, until the sixth heaven when he
meets Haruna salaam, and on the seventh heaven, with his back to
the Kaaba of the angels. Alberto Mahmoud is Ibrahim Ali Salam, and
the Prophet sallallahu sallam. It's known that the Prophet
Ibrahim alayhi salam after Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam is
the most superior of all prophets.
Allah has rewards than a great for a person who then perseveres. So I
asked Allah subhanaw taala for perseverance for all of us. These
are times that Allah subhanaw taala we need Berdan wa salam and
we need coolness, and we need wellbeing and we ask Allah
subhanaw taala to shower us with that and some of the resilience
that Ibrahim Ali said
I'm had and historical and Allah working with Darwin and in hamdu
Lillahi Rabbil Alameen