Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Sign of a Guided Heart
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam
ala so you're going more saline or the early he or Sahil Baraka
seldom at the Sleeman Kathira laomi. Deen Allah that Allah
subhanaw taala in the Quran speaks often about actions linked to
guidance. So there's numerous places in the Quran where Allah
subhanaw taala says that,
because of this action, they were given guidance, because of this
particular deed, they were given guidance, or because of this
particular deed, they were given misguidance they were taken off
the path. So now a number of things that we're going to discuss
today related to that is that what is the connection between our ML
and guidance? And then when we say guidance, if we've done a deed and
you've received guidance, then how can you do another deed and then
get more guidance. So essentially, that tells us that there are
different levels of guidance. So we're going to discuss that. And
then of course, similarly misguidance. In that regard, the
best thing for us in this regard is the knowledge that the more
good deeds that we include in our life, the more good deeds that we
do, then there is clearly a benefit in that regard, in the
sense that it will continue to take us closer to Allah because
Guidance means being closer to Allah subhanaw taala. And the more
bad deeds that come into our life, then that is how much we're going
to become deviated. So we cannot be fully guided, until we have
eradicated pretty much all the bad deeds in our life. Because every
bad deed that is committed, it just takes us away from the path
of guidance.
So
at least to
at a certain age in your life to be accomplished.
We definitely have to have more guidance or more actions that take
us to guidance than actions that take us to misguidance we
definitely have to have that dominate, and then work towards
eradicating all the bad deeds, and having complete * of good
deeds. So that's basically what it's going to be about based on
the Quran and the Hadith.
So Allah subhanaw taala in the Quran, numerous places he joins a
deed in the Quran, that joins the deed, with guidance and likewise
with misguidance. So, there are numerous actions that are not
necessarily just physical deeds, but they are also actions that
relate to the heart, the way we think and so on, which we which
generally bring about with them guidance. So, number of actions
will, will be associated with the limbs of the HUD two which which
will demand guidance, which will demand that we be closer to Allah
subhanaw taala
and likewise, misguidance. So, any action of goodness and piety, it
will provide the fruits of guidance, and every time we
increase in those deeds, then it will increase in the guidance. So
it provides its fruit, and then after that it just continues to
increase. Likewise, if you do any Fujimura, which is any form of
transgression or any form of sin, then the opposite will happen, it
will take us to misguidance which is opposed to the road of
guidance. The reason for this is Allah subhanho wa Taala loves good
deeds, he loves acts of piety, or Amala. He loves it. And based on
any actions of good deeds that a person does, he responds, and he
rewards with Huda welfare law, rewards with guidance and success.
So this is a ticket of your success. This is a bonus for your
success. Allah subhanaw taala hates misdeeds bad deeds for jewel
Fisk, etc. And that's why whenever that happens, then Allah subhanaw
taala provides
misfortune provides the opposite of Fela, the opposite of success.
It provides misfortune and it basically takes the person away
from the path. Likewise, Allah subhanaw taala loves the people
that do these good deeds. He loves the good deeds, he loves the
people, they become beloved to him, and any person that becomes
beloved to him, then he brings their hearts closer to him. So
with every good deed that we're doing, we're getting that much
closer to Allah because the heart will get closer to Allah, as as
much as the level of piety that a person does. That is how much
they're going to become closer to Allah subhanaw taala and likewise
with as much misguidance or as much deeds of impiety that is how
much it's going to take a person away from Allah subhanaw taala
Allah subhanaw taala says, for example, I live meme that Ecole
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now this underscores something very important because it speaking
is the first part of the Quran where Allah
says that this is the book. There's no There's no doubt in it.
It's a guidance who then little McDuck in it's a guidance for the
people with Taqwa. So, the Quran is a guidance, but the Quran
doesn't guide people who are not receptive to it.
Now that has to be understood that as Allah says right at the
beginning there, that it's guidance for them to takim. Now,
this includes two aspects in it. This is incorporates two aspects
in this, this aspect here. Number one,
Allah subhanho wa Taala will guide it will guide with the Quran, the
one who has Taqwa.
Right, the one who has taqwa, and the one who fears God's anger. So
for example, let's take before the revelation because the Quran came
down at a particular time. Let's take those people who were around
before the Quran was revealed, and the people who the Quran has
continued then to benefit. So there's going to be two states
before the Quran came, the people were in a different state, there
was no guidance, but there was a desire in the heart to gain
guidance. Whereas right now we know there's the guidance, they
were just finding trouble following it. Whereas in those
days, they didn't have a reveal book. Anything that was available
at the time was was confusing, was changed was altered. So that's why
the people who didn't want to anger Allah subhanaw taala, the
Supreme Being in their minds, they just didn't know how to do it
properly. But they had this idea. So before the book was revealed.
Now at that time, despite whatever faith a person came from,
one thing that was established by them in their minds is that Allah
subhanaw taala doesn't make lumen oppression. Any good person will
understand that any good person will come to terms with the idea
that oppression is a bad thing. Oppression is a bad thing. On
chastity and immorality is a bad thing. That's another bad thing.
And facade fill or just corruption in the world in general imbalance,
all of that is a bad thing.
So they would dislike people like this. They would dislike people
who do that they wouldn't do it for themselves. They loved idle,
justice, piety with others, doing good for others, general
generosity, and truthfulness, just reform in the world. People
seeking reform. That's the kind of thing that they would like and
they understood that this is what Allah would like as well. And
Allah would like people who do those kinds of deeds. So when the
Quran came down in the time when Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam received it, Allah subhanaw taala then rewarded the people
of piety of that piety, in their limited sense. Allah subhanho wa
Taala rewarded them with this, and he gave them guidance to believe
in the Quran. So they took on the Quran, why did they get that Jezza
and Laham. This was a reward for them having those ideas and
inclinations towards piety from before. So the Quran came down to
these receptive hearts to reward them as well. And Allah subhanho
wa Taala then forsook the people of impiety. And the people who are
unjust, the people who were into transgression, and they were not
able to be guided by this Quran. So that's how this Quran worked
for the people who were there at the time. It separated the people
out people accepted, yet there were others who did not accept it.
There were others whose who fought with it, who struggled with it.
They had good somewhere in their heart. But it took a while for the
the evil to be washed away. They did not embrace straightaway, they
embraced after five years, seven years, you know, it took a while
for them. And yet there were other people who never embrace like
Abuja, for example. Ebola have they never embraced despite Ebola
hubs connection, close connection with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. So this was all based on the state of their heart, and of
course, the Dolphy of Allah subhanaw taala Now, the other
thing is that people who have the Quran in their midst, and it
wasn't revealed to them it was it's, it's been available and
accessible. So a person believes in Allah subhanahu taalas book, he
obviously believes in the Quran, and he gains guidance from it in
general he gets us general path. Now this is most of us, our world
view that we must pray five times a day we must fasted Ramadan, all
of that we understand from the Quran. However, that's not enough.
That's just a an ambiguous kind of general path. It's a generic kind
of path, but we're not very particular in this regard yet, in
the sense that we're not fully conforming to everything in the
Quran. We have a general idea
Yeah, we accept what's in the Quran. We believe in its message.
And of course, because of that, we get a level of guidance, first
level of guidance we get because we believed in the Quran, and we
taken the general ethos of the Quran, right? Now, as soon as we
start getting more detail that this is what Allah wants us to do,
this is what Allah wants us to do. If you do this, you get this, then
suddenly you get more detailed understanding. And thus based on
that you get more detailed form of guidance as well. Now, there's a
lot of people who we consider nominal Muslims are born in a
Muslim household. So that's why they believe in certain things
kind of hanging on, they do the prayer, and so on. Some people are
just about hanging out, they just about do or Eat Pray. They're very
lazy, for example, there's some people who are less lazy, but
they're not. It's not about laziness. It's just that they've
given more effort. And thus, Allah subhanaw taala has provided them
with a greater sense of guidance is where they're at least praying
everyday and not just restricted restricting it to eat salads, for
example. So these are all different levels of guidance.
And one thing that we have to understand is that for Intel,
Hidayatullah, learn the highest Allahu hedaya has no knee higher,
which means guidance has no ending. Nobody can say that I am
at the peak of guidance. There is no guidance beyond this, because
Allah is infinite. He is not attainable completely. So guidance
just continues and continues and continues because there's no end
to guidance. There's always a level beyond it.
So for phoca hedayati he Hidayat an aura Hidayatullah. Chakra,
above the guidance that a person has, there's always going to be
another level of guidance. So there's always room for
improvement.
We're folk a typical hedayati Hidayatullah okra and above that
guidance, there's going to be another guidance for Calama a
tackle. Tackle Abdu Rabbu iltacon Illa Hidayat in Ohara. Every time
a person does an act of piety, an act of dukkha then he suddenly
ascends to a higher level of higher level of guidance. When he
does another one, he goes to another higher level.
Now there is always going to be room for increase in guidance, the
more a person has Taqwa. Now, that's why no two people can ever
be alike. Because there's just so many levels. And you can never
both get to the same level as such. You know, expect that we are
at the topmost level. Now there's nothing to go beyond that. Okay,
you've accomplished and I've accomplished it as well. There's
always more levels. In that regard.
Every time a person takes on more taqwa, he gets accordingly that
much more guidance. Every time a person that has taqwa, Allah
subhanho wa Taala increases his guidance. Every time his guidance
increases, his Taqwa increases.
So he gets that silly solidification in his heart. Allah
subhanaw taala says for example, Caja comin Allah He no room Wakita
bumo been. Yeah, DB Hila who Manitoba ideal Juana who Sula
Salam where you read your home in Illuminati Elon nor be izany Where
he him a la Serato Mr. Kim, these are the verses that that have this
idea within them.
From for you has come from Allah subhanho wa Taala the light neuron
Wakita bumo beam and also the Clearbrook has come a light and
the killed Clearbrook from Allah subhanho wa Taala to you. For what
reason? Yeah, DB Hilah who Manitoba? Eduardo, Allah guides
with it. Allah guides through it. Those who follow His pleasure,
follow the deeds that please Him.
Now what is that saying? That the Quran is not just just not just
for that initial guidance and to set you on a path, but the Quran
is also the Allah subhanho wa Taala guides through it. People
who already want the pleasure of Allah subhanaw taala they have
already committed to the initial phase, but Allah just guides with
it Eve them even more Subala Salam, where does he take them
now? He takes them to the paths of peace. The paths of well being of
salaam Sula Salaam and the salaam that you will get will be in Jana,
Salaam and it can be my Sabato, this will be the angels they will
say Salaam Alaikum Salam Alikum Peace be upon you now Bhima
Sabato, because of your patience. So that's what Allah subhanaw
taala will provide them and where you reach your home, he will also
remove them, take them out of the blue nomads of the darkness is ill
and nor to the light be even he through his permission. The
darkness is of the world or essentially when a person cannot
see the right. He doesn't have enough light to see the light with
and thus he just inclines towards the dark deeds of the world as
bright
it and shiny as they seem, they don't have real light but they are
bright and shiny. Where are the hem ELAA Serato stalking and He
guides them onto the straight path that's inserted through either
then inserted to show that Allah subhanaw taala says Allahu eEdge
Debbie la Hema Yahshua y d y yeah de la humane you need Allah. So
now this is what you must be looking at in here is that this is
all speaking about a level above the initial guidance. This is not
about accepting the faith. This is beyond accepting the faith. So
Allah subhanaw taala says that Allah eEdge, to be in a Ichabod
means to select, to choose for yourself something so Allah
subhanaw taala chooses for himself or selects to him. Whoever he
wishes, were he and he guides those la he may use him he guides
towards Him, those who do Inaba who like to turn to Allah subhanaw
taala to return to Allah Inaba means you get sick of everything
else and you say no, let's just go there now. So that's the idea of
the world as well that oh, look, we've we've seen everything of the
dunya This is useless. This is redundant. This is just an
adornment. Let's go back to thinking about Allah subhanho wa
taala. Allah subhanaw taala selects people who think in this
manner. So it's that higher level of guidance. Then Allah subhanahu
wa Allah says in surah Al Arabiya, say that Kuru may Yasha. The
people who will receive this admonition who will see through
this and gain this lesson are the people who fear Allah. Fear
provides the core, the core means reminders, remembrance, the
ability, you see, we read the Quran often.
Many of us read the Quran, often even the Hafez of the Quran, they
read the Quran often, but we never benefit from the meaning as much
as we'd like to. It's only sometimes and that very special
day when a verse has been pointed out to us that it makes sense,
though we've read it hundreds of times before.
It requires a heart you could have thought about you could be
teaching Tafseer, you could be reading Tafseer over and over and
over again. But it's only the 12th time or the 100th time that you
actually read it that it really found a place in your heart. It
was although that verse was just made for you, that is the core
that is the core. And that is given to the people who fear when
they in a special state of fear the heart is conducive for that
verse effecting him in that way. That's what you call the record.
So again, this is speaking about a higher level. Then Allah subhanaw
taala season sort of awful. Why am I at the Kuru Ilana unit very
similar, that it's only the people who finally returned to Allah
who've given up with everything else and whose focus they've made
a conscious decision to focus on Allah subhanaw taala they will
gain this third core, the core is very important. Then sort of unis
Allah says in the medina manual, where I'm you know, Saudi hurty,
you had the human boom be Imani him, that Verily those people who
believe and who do good deeds is not talking about. He's not
talking about coming into Islam. First. He's talking about people
who are already in Islam. They believe they are doing good deeds,
Allah guides their Lord guides them due to their Iman, where does
he guide them to today man, He guides them further beyond into
the upper levels of this guidance. So Allah subhanaw taala his first
level of guidance is Iman,
when people have believed, then Allah subhanho wa Taala
guides them to further levels of guidance. The Eman keeps
increasing. They get further levels of guidance. For example,
Allah subhanaw taala says, Where's the doula who Lavina Daddo who
than the people who have gained guidance, Allah subhanaw taala
increases them in their guidance.
Now this can only mean that there are various different levels of
guidance, you're already on the path, you know, you're already
you're already going through the stages. And once you start going
through the first stage, then you can get through the second stage,
there's no way for you to get through to the second and third
stage until you get onto the first stage. Once you're on that first
stage, you're on the path, then you just have to keep trying and
Allah will give you greater levels of guidance. Allah subhanaw That
was in sort of medium then Allah subhanaw taala is in Switzerland
fall. Yeah, you a Latina. In the tequila, you're just looking for
con. This is in Switzerland fall is Allah says, oh people who
believe if you fear Allah if you have Taqwa. If you inculcate more
Taqwa into your Jarrell, come for con and Allah will provide for you
the four con. Now what is the fourth con? Right? The fourth con?
is the light that Allah would provide somebody to be able to
distinguish between right and wrong.
There's a lot of people who get misled into things that were wrong
without realizing. Because the eye, the basilar, the no reason
there, it's easily to get involved,
could be doing some good deeds etc as well. But it's easy to fall
into the wrong deeds. Because that kind of awareness isn't there that
alarm bells don't ring hard enough if they ring at all. But when a
person is provide that neuron that guidance, then the alarm bells go
off straightaway and a person avoids avoids the place avoids it
completely. That's the fourth con. The Furqan is what Allah provides
of light by which a person is able to distinguish between right and
wrong between things that will be of assistance for him and benefit
him and give him victory. And those things that will actually
take Allah subhanaw taala says in the field Lika
liquidly Abdi Muneeb there is a sign in this Quran, there's a sign
in the story that we've told for everybody who is turning to Allah.
Are we understanding something very important from here?
Allah subhanaw taala then says in the fee 30 color is liquidly
suberin Shaco. In that is a sign for everybody who is sober and
shocker. Everybody who's not just normally solid and shocking, but
somebody who's subpar and who Shaco, which means intensely
patient, and intensely grateful. The more grateful we are, the more
we get, the more we understand, the more Allah opens it up. And
the more Sabha we have, the more Allah subhanaw taala opens it up.
These are the two states of the believer that required and the
more a person takes this on, the easier that it becomes. So
essentially what this is telling us about
what all of this is telling us about is that the more you do, the
more Allah subhanaw taala provides. And number two, to
really benefit from the Quran, you have to increase your acts of
piety.
You have to have that heart that will understand and take those
lessons. Otherwise, you won't you'll be reading the Quran, you
won't get those lessons because the heart isn't conducive for it.
That heart the more there's always a Quran will always offer more,
will always offer more. And the more we increase in righteousness
and piety, the more that will come out of the Quran. And that's why
it makes sense because sometimes he listened to righteous people.
They come they mentioned a verse And they bring such a great,
amazing point from that verse. And I have not read that in any scene,
because that's something that Allah has opened up for that
heart. And that's an absolute possibility. Not everything that
the Quran has on offer has already been written or said. You have to
remember that not everything that the Quran has an offer. Because
Allah the Quran is the words of ALLAH, just Allah is infinite. The
wisdoms of the Quran are infinite. So yes, there have been numerous
hundreds 1000s of devices that have been written, the Quran has
been discussed and elucidated by so many righteous people of Allah
subhanaw taala, but it still has to offer more, it has still a lot
more to offer. So Allah subhanho wa Taala
mentions in here very clearly this final verse that we read that the
Quran if you want to benefit from the Quran, it's the people at
Hulu, somebody with a Hulu Shoukry that are going to be able to
benefit from the Quran. You have to have supper, we have to have
sugar to benefit from the Quran. And
it's the people of taqwa, the people of Russia, the people of
Inaba. These were the words that were used in the verses that we
read. The words that were used for the people who Allah provides
benefit to was a hello taqwa, the people of Taqwa. YNAB, which I
meant was people who returned to Allah subhanaw taala. And who will
hush here, people who fear Allah subhanaw taala. All of these
states come together generally. If you have Taqwa the reason you have
Taqwa is your fear Allah subhanaw taala we fear Allah subhanho wa
Taala then you feel like everything else is redundant. And
I must just focus on Allah subhanaw taala we do have states
of returning to Allah subhanaw taala but unfortunately, they
don't stay very long. So many of us, the challenge that we have is
that we get an inspiration. We have that good day, or we have a
bad day and we turn to Allah subhana wa Tada, we think let's do
that extra Noah fill that extra tahajjud that extra dua, so we've
turned to Allah subhanaw taala. But that turning doesn't remain
long enough. We go back and we fall back into the same things
over and over again, we get back into the adornment of the world.
And I think the main reason for this is that the dunya is just too
big in our sight.
You know what I mean by that? The dunya is just too much in our
sight.
If the Archaea becomes bigger in our sights, and the dunya suddenly
becomes smaller, and we can actually see, you know, it's like
Eclipse. Right now. This dunya has eclipsed our
Akira, we can't see that after the sun is blazing. But you know, when
there's an eclipse, a solar eclipse, and the moon comes in
between, can you see any part of the sun, the whole dunya becomes
dark. But likewise, the Archaea is supposed to be bright,
illuminating the believers. But the our dunya is so in our face
that despite the fact that the Ark era is much greater, larger and
infinite, it's obscured it how can a small moon
How can a small moon encompass the sun, which is so many times
greater, so many times greater? Likewise, how does the dunya
encompass? It's because it's in our line of vision, the closer a
thing is to us, it will obscure our vision from everything else.
So the dunya has obscured our vision of the hereafter. Now, if
we can reduce this dunya by just dismissing it, using it but
dismissing it, not making it our goal, then the arcade or suddenly
will start peeking out. We'll start seeing more of the Akira
until the arcade and for Rasulullah Salah some as you know,
he said this dunya for him is just like the wayfarer going through on
his journey and finding a tree to sit under for a while to sleep or
restaurant or for a while the shade. And then he moves on. This
world is just like a shade for him. Because he's accurate is
very, very clear. Very clear. So how can we get our athletes to be
clear?
Even do we see our akhira? When was the last time that we actually
saw our Akira? We actually had some ideas about arciero Where
we're going to be what it's going to look like what do we need for
it? That's the question.
That's why Allah subhanaw taala says surah Taha Baja Manzana
alagille, Khurana matushka Illa keratin Lima Yasha.
We did not reveal this Quran to you so that you could become
unfortunate.
That's not why we reveal this Quran for you. inlet of keratin
lemon Yaksha. It's only a Reminder for those who fear.
Then Allah subhanaw taala says Surah Nazjatar in Nama and the
moon Viru Mei Shah, you came as a warner to the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam but you will only want those people who fear the
hereafter who fear otherwise you're not going to be able to
warn them.
Any person who doesn't believe
in the hero, who doesn't hope for the hero, who doesn't fear the
hero, further attend Pharaoh who ayat I.
Ie Nia, while Qurani. No sign in this world in the cosmic sense, or
no Qurani ayat signs will benefit a person who doesn't feel Allah
subhanaw taala they will co pass the signs, and he will have no
effect on them whatsoever. What is our state we see signs? Does it
have any effect on us? does it benefit us?
That's the things to think about. That's why Allah subhanaw taala
speaks in Surah to hood, about the punishments of the different
nations who disobeyed the messengers who belied the
messengers and what kind of punishment they get in this world.
What kind of punishment they got in this world? What kind of
result they ended up with. We hear these stories, but do they
penetrate our do they make us feel Hey, we could that could happen to
us. It doesn't. We just think that they're from another era. They are
from another time and place that was them. We're not as bad as
them. That's the way it makes us feel. But for the people who have
fearful hearts of Allah subhanaw taala and understand the reality
of the hereafter and how delicate a matter that is, then all of
these things will affect them.
That's where Allah subhanaw taala seasons fortitude, right after
mentioning all of the stories of the destruction of the people of
the past, he says in the Phaedo Nicola Eitan, naman halfa addable,
our hero
in all of this is a sign for the people who fear the punishment of
the Hereafter.
Otherwise, nobody who fears that nothing because it's obscure in
Eclipse Eclipse strike now with the dunya it doesn't doesn't
really help us.
Now, the person who doesn't believe in the hereafter, no fears
its punishment, then it's obviously not going to be a sign
or a lesson for them. It's not going to be a lesson for them.
It's a lesson but it's not a lesson for them. It's a lesson
only for some people, people who are of that nature, the way they
dismiss it, what are their thought, what is their thought
process? their thought process is? Oh, there's always been good and
evil in the past. There's always been people punished. That's just
the nature of the world. They don't attack they don't attach
Allah subhanaw taala to it. Oh even occurs in this world. What's
the big deal? They don't provide
The subject behind it, they don't think about the reasons and causes
behind it, the way to benefit from the ayat is to suburban sugar.
something good happens you, thank Allah subhanaw taala. And when
something bad happens, you are restrained for the sake of Allah
subhanaw taala.
That's an active sense. It's something you do for Allah
subhanaw taala thinking about it.
The reason is that our entire Iman,
if you look at the,
the essence of our faith, it actually all comes down to
southern chakra.
After all of the different aspects of our faith, it actually comes
down to southern sugar. And the reason is that half of our iman is
sober. And half of our iman is sugar.
Now, depending on how much sub A seven does or how much sugar they
do, that's going to be the level of our iman.
How much are we willing to do sub now, you know, again, I think I've
clarified this before many times a sub is more than when a calamity
comes upon you that you bear it, it's more than that we do suffer
on a regular basis. And that's because sober is the two other
aspects of sobriety sober, on obedience, to wake up for Fudger.
Right to perform the prayer to do will do beforehand, to take out
time to do it. All of that requires a level of patience to be
able to do this. Otherwise, the natural attraction in a human
being is to just relax and enjoy or do something that they more
enjoy doing. So if a person has to pray, and is forced to do these
things, then he has to do somebody to do it, to do good deeds.
Likewise, if there is something that is entertaining, but It's
haram, there is something very lucrative and seemingly
profitable. But it's doubtful. And a person restrains himself from
that all of these pyramid schemes and all of these kinds of things
that bolt people off the feet, and waste their money and waste their
time and effort, right? All of this if a person withholds from
it, because he thinks it's wrong. Now, remember, a lot of these
pyramid schemes, they're not necessarily wrong in the sense of
haram in terms of the agreement or the transaction.
But they are deceptive. Because they make you greedy. I'll give
you an example. Some of them, the whole transaction is wrong. What
are you buying? What are you selling? Do you understand, or
it's got interest based in it, if you do this much, they will give
you this much extra your money is guaranteed, it could now there's a
lot of these schemes which are not like that they are actual buying
and selling something. So you're buying something, you're selling
something, and you're getting a lot back. And when you get a lot
back in something, generally what happens is, you feel like you're
gonna put all of your investment in there. So I spoke to somebody
recently about one of these things. And he says, Look, it's
very clear, the transaction seems to be very clear. So I said, Okay,
have you made any money? He says, No, I'm not making any money right
now. Because every money every bit of money I make, I put it back in
there to invest further.
So in terms of the actual transaction, there's nothing
wrong. It seems like a halal transaction. You know, the problem
is, it's developed in such a way that you get greedy, and you keep
investing, you see profits in the beginning, so you keep putting
money back in. And then after that, it's suddenly all collapses.
So it's a scam at the back of it. That transaction in the front is
halal, but the scam is in the background. Whereas in others,
it's halal haram for Muslims, because the transaction itself is
problematic. So just because something is halal, doesn't make
it wise, you have to understand that that's in any business
anyway. Now you have to remember that anything that is giving you a
lot back, and I've learned my lesson, that anything that
promises to give a lot back, just be careful with those things.
Right, just be careful with those things, because they're just
harmful. And that is the same thing of the duniya. That is
what's obscured our era, the initial flush of the benefits
doesn't mean you can't use the world. Just understand where it's
coming from. You've got the means use it if you want to. But just
understand where it's coming from don't get intoxicated by it.
So
the conclusion of all of this is that
sober and sugar is at the bottom of all of these things and with
Southern sugar Allah subhanaw taala opens up the Quran for us.
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everything that I have me myself, my existence and everything that I
have at my disposal comes from this God who administrates the
affairs of this world and is its creator. And I've recognized him
for his oneness. Recognizing Allah is giving sugar to Allah subhanaw
taala he takes that as a thanks, and thus he rewards for it.
And Sobor is to avoid the knifes that's what somebody is.
Now, if a person is a mushrik, following his knifes and desires,
he cannot be Siberian shirker.
And that's why these ayat can benefit him. As soon as his heart
turns soft, hands out, looking for guidance, the Quran will be open
for him. That's why there are so many non Muslims who this happens
to. They are just in that state where their heart is soft, and
they're looking for something, they suddenly come across a Muslim
who tells him what a verse in the Quran, that verse in the Quran
didn't benefit that Muslim as much as benefiting that non Muslim,
because their hearts were prepared for it.
That's one thing that new Muslims have over a lot of existing born
Muslims, that their hearts have suffered and not on they've been
looking for something. Whereas the believers, they have just accepted
what their parents have given them, it's been easier for them,
so their heart isn't as receptive sometimes. That's why non Muslims,
sometimes they prosper and develop an advanced much faster than
people who are born Muslims. Not to say that the door is closed for
Muslims, born Muslims is not the case. But a person who has just
come into Islam, their heart is just more malleable. And he's
looking and Allah subhanaw taala then just open to him because he's
looking for guidance. He doesn't think so you know, knows it all.
The other deceptions that Muslim born Muslims have is that they
have a lot of culture that parades itself as religion, or people
parade that culture as their religion. So they have a lot of
misunderstanding. Of course that can happen to a new Muslim as
well. Because the people he joins, they can show him culture as Islam
as well. They can show him the view that's a challenge basically
for everybody. But the Quran is open. That's the main thing that
is open. That's why
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our hearts are closed. We can't understand anything. Bella Anna
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their hearts are closed. What it is is that Allah has cursed them
has cursed them because of their cover. So very few of them will
believe. They say our hearts are closed. We can't understand
anything. We can't see it. And Allah subhanaw taala says when we
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straight, just as they did not believe in the first instance.
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on the people's initial actions.
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just hated somebody from the beginning that holla you are never
going to believe it's always because of something that they
did.
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of Allah who who Luba whom Allah hula had in common ferocity, and
it's when they became crooked that Allah made their hearts crooked.
They did the crookedness first, then Allah made their hearts
crooked, so now they just lose out all the time. That's why you have
a lot of people who are born in Muslim households, and now they
say they're atheists, or they've got questions with Islam and so
on. And there's no way you can help them either. Because their
problem is really disclosing of the hearts. They're not very
intellectual.
Right? They're not really intellectually challenging Islam.
They just have some fundamental issues. A lot of the questions
that they apparently will give to you are just a facade for deeper
problems inside which is this kind of problem
and you just can't help some people these people you can only
make dua for them. Because if Allah removes that lock, then it's
okay otherwise you can sit with them all day and try to explain
them they'll still you won't get it they won't get it
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hearts based on what they would do, because of what they do rust
is created and now this is talking about the extreme misguidance that
they are misguided and they are blocked and prevented right now as
well. You know as the Hadith mentions, if you miss three Juma
is on if you miss three Juma has taken them lightly, you will also
get a seal on your heart, which means that you're not a Kaffir
yet, but you're not going to get any goodness notice no reminders,
and eventually you might as well end up as a careful because you
just won't have any inclination unless you make some serious dua
to Allah to remove that lock on the hearts. Allah protect us
because we may have done a deed which has provided a lock on our
heart if we just don't progress. If we can't seem to progress,
we're in that rut all the time. We do a bit of thicker we do a bit of
this but we just can't move on. Really Allah subhanaw taala help
us That's why
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They forgot Allah first so then he forgot them. Meaning when you when
Allah forget somebody, he just leaves them by the side he doesn't
help them and he doesn't assist them. That's basically what all of
this is about. Allah Ecole Adina taba Allah Who are the coulby him
but terbaru Hua home. These are the people who Allah has placed
the seal on their heart. Thus they just continue now to follow their
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guidance Zarda, whom who the Allah subhanaw taala gives them more
guidance. Well after whom Taqwa him and gives them the taqwa. This
is the distinction between the two types of verses.
So that's basically the conclusion of it all. The more good deeds we
will do and the more we ask Allah the more fear we will inculcate
the more Taqwa we will try to gain and all of that the most powerful
thing is what the machine is telling us is that we have tried
to outwardly do it so much. We pray, we sound but our prayers are
empty. Our Quran reading is devoid of what it needs. That's why they
make us sit down and reconnect our hearts. Because if the heart is
fired up, then all of these things will start benefiting if the heart
is dead. We do all of these acts sometimes, but they don't benefit
us. It's about enlivening the heart, which will then give life
to all of these things. The heart that is full of Taqwa of Hashem,
and things like that. And the way you gain that, essentially, is by
remembering Allah subhanaw taala bringing him back into after all
these years of sin and pollution, and, and the toxic waste that has
been deposited in our heart by all of our deeds. May Allah subhanaw
taala help us through these Quranic verses. May Allah subhanaw
taala help us welcome that Ron O'Neal Hamdu lillahi rabbil
aalameen