Quranic Reflections – Surat Al-Ankaboot 46 – Surat Al-Ahzab 35
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The speakers discuss the importance of living according to laws and working within the laws. They stress the need to live according to laws and achieve goals, while also acknowledging the importance of cross generational relationships and empowerment for individuals to achieve their goals. The speakers also touch on the importance of learning Arabic and finding one's wisdom through experience, as well as the benefits of investing in relationships and being truthful towards the covenant. They stress the importance of avoiding punishment and being a part-time commitment to the covenant.AI Generated Transcript ©
Night of Ramadan. Now some scholars,
some scholars, not not the majority of them
don't,
see, this night to be the 1st night
of the last 10 nights. However,
the most more prominent opinion is for sure
that's tomorrow, and it's the it's 21st. Because
the way it works is that the the
month is into, 3 tens.
So the 10 does not the beginning doesn't
start with the night 0. It starts with
night 1 to 10,
11 to 20, and then 21 to 30.
So but some scholars,
see this night as being the beginning. The
Hanafis go back actually to 17th night, to
19th night. They they actually pull it back
even a little bit more. And there are
different opinions across the board within the within
the, opinions of scholars, regarding what what we
don't have the thing up. Is, is Fayed
gone or is he still here?
Yeah. I mean, someone called him so he
can put up the, I I I can't
really figure out. Yep.
So, Adam,
tonight's the last night of 2nd,
3rd of Ramadan and tomorrow
we begin, we begin the the last 10
nights of Ramadan. And as I promised you,
the the cascade, you know, began a week.
It just it just, really quickly
it goes through and we just we don't
even feel how how,
how Ramadan ends up ending.
And we,
you don't know if we'll see another one
grant us the ability to live many Ramazans
one after the other and he grant us
the of, of that. And then
we will, start we will continue within Surah
Al An Kabut. We have maybe a little
bit left of it, page maybe 3 pages
or so. It'll be recited a little bit
in Isha. And then at the beginning of
the tarawee, it'll be done. And then we'll
be, we'll go through An Kabut. We'll go
through a room. We'll go through Luqman. We'll
go through a and
then we'll go through a a portion of
Surah Al Ahzab. So the cluster that I
had started talking about last yesterday, the the
5th cluster of Surah in the Quran. And
these are all within the slides. You can
always read, like, the these summaries. I I
have them in the slides for you to
read and and kinda reflect upon if you
want to.
From Al Ankabut, from Al Qasas forgive me
until, a sajdah. These surahs,
these 5 surahs, they talk about relationships, the
different relationships that we have within our existence,
in our lives. And talked
about the relationships we have with people and
their stories.
Looked at the relationship we have with difficulties
and labor with life itself, with everything that
it offers. It offers ease, it offers difficulty.
Just your relate the fact this is an
ongoing relationship that you have with life and
you have to learn to master that and
and learn how to deal with it appropriately,
to strive and to persevere and, etcetera.
Talks about a relationship with the sunan of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. With the laws of
Allah
with his ayat.
This is not specifically what happens to us
in our lives, which is how what looks
like. It looks at.
What happens to us in our lives,
the the
and the that comes to us. That's what
Ankabut looks like looks at. Arun looks at
the our relationship with the laws of this
universe. What laws? The laws of haqq, the
laws of change, now the laws of of
of power, the laws of wealth, the laws
of the laws that that govern communities, the
laws there's a law in this world that
if if if you are united,
and just, you'll be strong.
That's the law. That if you lack unity
and you lack justice, you'll be weak and
you will lose
and you will not prevail and you'll have
no success. That's the law. That's his law
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So when you sit around
wondering why isn't things better? When is this
going to end? Well,
that's that the ball is in your court.
And the answer is that the ball is
in our court. You want to end this
to end? Well, follow his laws.
Use the sunan of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Those the the laws of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala dictate that in order for a civilization
or a nation to be successful or prosperous,
it needs certain things. It has to have
unity and it has to have power and
it has to have knowledge, it has to
have wealth. That's Allah's sunan. Yeah. That has
to live in a place that has resources.
These are
these are the laws that will that's what
Surah An Kabu talks about. It's what the
room talks about. Our relationship with Allah
governance laws.
What how the world works. How the world
works. We have to under we have to
know how the world works. And we have
to work within the limitations of how the
world actually works. We can't go against we
can't swim against the tide at all times.
We can't work against
the laws that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has
put within this world and expect things to
work out differently for us. That he's going
to break all of the flaws and the
rules. He won't, subhanahu wa ta'ala. He actually
demands that we live according to those to
those rules, according to those laws. That's what
he demands
And that's what that's what you'll find all
throughout Surat Rum.
You'll find all these verses that start with
Allah does this. Allah creates this. Allah this
is what he did. So you understand how
what he did. Live by
give example. I don't know. Maybe we're we'll
talk about it, maybe not.
He created you from weakness and then you'll
become strong and then there'll be weakness again.
That's the law.
If you're gonna wait to be a good
Muslim until you're in the weak state, then
it's not gonna work. The ummah is going
to fail because the law is your strength
is in the middle. Now you're strong now.
You're strong now. You were weak before,
you're gonna be weak later, you're strong now.
So now you're going to use that strength
for the sake of Allah If you decide
to postpone it until you're weak again, then
you worked against the laws and the and
the outcome won't be as good.
The outcome the outcome won't be as good
because you didn't use the laws. You come
to me in your thirties. You want to
memorize the Quran.
It's not wrong, but it's gonna be way
more difficult than if you listen to me
when you were 13.
When you were that young and you listened
and you did it then, it'll be much
easier. You can still do it, but it's
much more difficult.
You wanna learn Islam?
Forties versus twenties, not the same thing.
Doesn't mean you can't do it. It just
means not the same thing because these are
the laws. This is the these are the
laws he's talking about.
Our relationship with those laws. The fact that
we have to respect them. We have to
work within their limits so that we can
achieve the goals that we want to achieve.
And that's what Surat al Rum basically talks
about. And it begins by telling us the
story of how a room were beaten and
how they won again. And how that what
that meant to us. And how we celebrate
that the Muslim celebrate that. And if the
ayah comes up, I'll explain. Surat Luqman looks
at the relationship
between generations.
The relationship of 1 generation with becoming generation.
And it some and it and it sim
summarizes that with the relationship of Alukman Al
Hakim with his son. And the advice that
he offers his son and and the continue
in the commentary of, of that part of
the Surah, details
that a little bit more.
The relationship that we have
cross generational.
It's very important. If you don't have an
appropriate if you don't understand what that means,
like, if we don't,
capitalize
on these cross generational
relationships,
then we we there's a lot that we
lose. There's a lot that that that we
miss out on. Because the generation before you,
they did well. They did good things and
bad things.
Certain aspects of their lives went really well
and others didn't.
Before you go and you start fighting with
the world, maybe take a moment and listen.
See what it is that they have to
offer you. Benefit from them. And if you
do that, they may benefit from you and
the benefit becomes mutual.
And that relationship is important because, you know,
the struggle of of power between the old
and the young is doesn't necessarily have to
be that way. And you don't always have
to have presidents in their seventies.
You
don't always have to have people who are
extremely old running things. You can have younger
people, but that requires a proper relationship
between someone who is young and someone who
is old. You have to have the old
generation feeling the respect.
The younger generation has to receive the proper
coaching and advice and empowerment. They have to
be trained. They have to be trained with
the presence of the people who have done
this before, who have experience. And that relationship
has to exist for a while in order
for us to have something that that's valuable
at the end. The prophet
is a master of the trade. He's a
master of the craft.
He knew how to do this flawlessly. He
did this with effortlessly.
Honestly, effortlessly, he did this.
It's one of the aspects of his character
that I'm that I'm just very
and I'm taken by all the time. And
it's like wherever I read, I I see
it. I see how how good he was
at it, at making sure that he made
everyone feel that they were significant, that they
were valuable, especially the younger generation, that they
were taken care of, that they were list
heard, that they had any potential, that they
were going to be something in the future
where you put them in positions. He would
watch them. He'd bring them back, give them
feedback, teach them again, give them another shot.
Like, he did this all throughout his life.
It's like in the midst of everything that
he's doing, he just did this as well.
Just like the underlying
theme of his existence, which is very hard.
Like, we need you have to go you
have to be trained to do this. You
have to go through, like, ongoing, like, this
academic studying and to learn how to work
with you. He did it as a side
gig.
Just just on the side he did it
as a side gig. People didn't even notice
he was doing it. As he ran the
the nation and and and educated and taught
Yani Islam and followed the rules, he was
he was empowering a whole another generation of
people that grew up loving him. And when
he passed away, they couldn't accept life without
him. And then they the only way the
only thing they could do was go and
spread his legacy
which is why we are here today.
It's that it's it's what he did for
them that and that and that that's not
easy.
Right? Then Osama have been saying, you take
these names and you study, you look at
these individuals that, just the reason that we
sit here today. And
continued to teach Islam until his in in
into his late nineties.
There's a narration that Abu Hanifa madam.
There's a narration that Abu Hanifa lived yeah,
Ani. I'm sorry. And and has lived long
enough that Abu Hanifa sat in his halakkah
one day. Abu Hanifa actually heard from the
prophet alaihi salatu wa sallam student, Anas ibn
Malik. Anas was a kid with a 10
year old running around in his house
But he empowered and he taught and he
educated, so this man grew to become someone
who dedicated his entire life to spreading his
legacy. That's what Sulekhman teaches. It's a beautiful,
beautiful Surah, and it's not very long. So
the says that talks about the final relationship,
the relationship we have with Allah
And like any relationship, relationships can
all relations can become,
for the lack of a better word, maybe
a little bit boring.
Relationships can become boring after a while.
Routine can enter them. They become lack not
as fulfilling. If you have a friend, you've
talked about literally everything. If you're married,
after a couple of years of marriage,
you stare at each other and there's not
much left to say. You've said everything. You've
talked about everything multiple times.
So you just kinda sit there and silent,
which is not the worst thing. I mean,
silence is
underrated in my opinion in general.
But sometimes relationships, you can have a little
bit of,
yeah. It can it can it can be
put into a situation where it's not as
fulfilling as it was, not as exciting as
it was. And that's the case for every
relationship you have in this life.
And your relationship with Allah is no different.
If you do not take the effort, put
the effort in, no? Or take the time
to ignite the relationship you have with the
loss of pounds, that will also become boring.
And you'll stand there.
The whole thing is just
someone watching you pray like this poor person
is just it must be torture.
This person looks extremely bored out of their
mind, extremely upset that they have to do
this, but they're doing it. That's not the
their their sides can't stay still in bed
at night.
They want to stand in prayer.
Like, their sides.
Means they keep on moving. Keep on they
they keep on trying to get off. It's
like they're sleeping, but they can't sleep.
They what they want to do is you
want to stand up and be with Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And they said they supplicate their lord with
desire and with fear.
That's that's how they feel. That that's how
a Muslim's heart should feel. But to ignite
that relationship requires work. It doesn't happen on
its own. That's what talks about. That this
relationship is important, invest in it as well.
It's not going to continue be continuously be
exciting if you don't take care of it.
If you don't feed it and and nurture
it and
and make sure that you're it it can
become boring too.
So it's no different than any other relationship.
I mean, it's the last one in this
beautiful, cluster that talks about relationships, and it's
the most important relationship of all. And that's
why we recite every
Friday in Fajr. Right? The first of has
to be and there has to be in
it. You have to go down. You pray,
you pray on the day of then the,
I can bet good money that the imam
is going to read from and somewhere in
it. He's going to in the in the
and make sujood.
Because it's every morning for that
reason to remind you the importance of the
relationship with Allah
The day of Jummah is very ritualistic. Everything
around it is very yeah, there's all these
sunan, that that are attached to the day
of Friday of the because it's important.
The cluster the 6th cluster of Surah in
the Quran that starts with. We're only gonna
read a few work a few light a
few pages of it. This is a long
cluster. I spent the, the last
2 two two years almost since I since
we opened this, the center
doing tafsir of this cluster in Arabic on
Fridays. We started through, and we just finished
this cluster
literally
the the the the weekend before Ramadan.
We entered. So so
And when it talks about the concept of
of commitment or or obedience to Allah
I'm going to talk about it in detail
tomorrow because we're gonna be in that cluster
for a few nights. So I'll leave it
at that because we're only gonna read a
few a few, a few verses of it.
Talks about obedience
when it's difficult.
It talks about
submission to Allah sub other one is hard,
when it's specifically when it's hard. Whether the
hard the the difficulty is physical, whether it's
financial, whether it's social, whether it's reputational, whether
it's psychological. This sort of goes it's the
longest one in the group, and it goes
through all these different scenarios. We'll talk about
that a little bit more next, tomorrow
Alright.
That's,
yeah, very no voting today at all. 4
is the most so I'm gonna ignore all
of you and just do whatever I want.
So let's do let's do, 51 of Lan
Kabut.
Try and get one for each Surah
The answer is
His question
towards the end
of when they were the ayah before it,
people are asking, why doesn't he have physical
miracles like all the prophets before him? That's
what we know. We know that Musa Al
Ashtaif and performed,
multiple different types of miracles and brought out
the she camel and everyone had something. Where
is yours? Yeah,
Muhammad
For the answer was,
is it not enough for them?
That we descended upon you the book
to be recited upon them
Indeed, within
that. Indeed, you will find within these recited
verses, you will find compassion and mercy,
and you'll find remembrances that are valuable for
people who have faith and have belief. The
answer is yes. It's enough, You Rabbi. The
question is is it not enough that we
sent you this? And the answer is yes.
It is.
The Quran Quran is more than enough. If
we needed more, he would have given us
more
He never gives us less than what we
need. He would never
offer you
a a door to guidance and then not
equip you with the tools that you need
to get through the door and actually hold
yourself to the, to to the path. Never.
He gave the prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam
the Quran and nothing more than the Quran
because it's more than enough.
Because it's tikifaya. It's all that you require.
You don't need more. You have all that
you need within that book and it's always
available. So all you have to do is
just pull it off the, the shelf and
start reading and learn and then commit yourself
to exactly what it is that he's saying
here
This idea and I and the reason I
love this verse is because we have this
there's a part of us
that
makes us feel or the way it's it
comes off is as if we we wanted
something more. So we look for other stuff.
Like we try to say, the prophet Alaihi
Salam, the moon and the moon.
No one saw the moon.
Alright? Very few people saw the whole moon
thing. Very few. It didn't happen more than,
if it if we accept that it happened,
it happened once and
it didn't happen again. Musa alaihi wasalam threw
his staff like multiple times. Like multiple times.
Every time someone want to see it, he
showed. No problem. Risa Alaihi is the same
thing. This moon thing with the prophet alaihi
sallam,
was once
only even mister Oud tells us about it.
Only once Sahabi actually witnessed it to tell
us about it.
Has nothing to do with it. Has nothing
to do with it. That's talking about. Nothing
to do with that. This need on the
inside that he had miracles, alayhis salaam. That
he put his hand in the in the
food. This is his the food. There's more
food than they're supposed to be. Yes. These
things happen. And that's the of the prophet,
the signs of his prophecy. But they were
not miracles. He never he never challenged people
with them. He never came out and said,
this is this is what no. He never
did that, alayhis salatu. The only thing he
challenged with was the book of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. He challenged everyone with it here.
Just bring something. Go ahead. Do do anything.
Nothing.
They could out of we're not able they
weren't able to they didn't know what it
it was too it was beyond it was
out of their league out of their league?
It was out of their league, so they
couldn't do anything with it. So
the answer is yes. It's
more than enough. We were given all that
we need to find our way to
Alright. Room,
22.
The, the common mistake of this verse, but
that's okay.
So as
I explained to you, it talks about the
relationship we have with Allah
laws, with his signs, with what he put
here. So he starts in these verses, he
counts all of these signs Some of these
verses are recited at, weddings a lot. It's
the only verse that is recited at any
wedding. Go to any wedding.
All, you know, 100,000,000,000 weddings have happened for
Muslims.
It's the only verse that they recite in
every wedding.
There's many other verses that talk about this,
but that's the one that always comes up.
Right after
and from his signs, subhanahu wa ta'ala, amidst
the law that he put you, the sunun
that he has, subhanahu wa ta'ala, the creation
of the cosmos and the earth.
And the difference in your tongues, in your
dialect, and in your in your
your colors. What do you mean by by
your races? He means by that race is
the word loan doesn't all doesn't mean in
Arabic actually a color. It is used for
as a parallel
to describe,
different colors. But means different species or different
types. That's what actually means.
So is you have different cultures and different
backgrounds and different, races.
So amongst his science, subhanahu wa ta'ala, is
the creation of the cosmos and the earth
and the diversity
of your dialects, of your tongues, and the
diversity of your races and your cultures and
your backgrounds.
It's amongst the signs, subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's
something to be celebrated.
It's something to be looked at and said
when you see it. Just like when you
look at this cosmos and look at the
earth and you say
the beauty of everything he made. When you
look at people and you find and you
hear their different tongues and you see their
races and their cultures and the differences of
who they are, you say the same
thing.
The beauty of what he made
Islam was never designed to come and erase
culture or cultural identities. That's not what Islam
is here to do. Islam is not here
to Arabize people.
No. That's not that's not the goal of
Islam at all.
Not at all. The Quran does not want
that. The Quran wants celebrates people's backgrounds and
their cultures and their identities. It comes in
it points out the good and the bad.
It says within your culture, take a look.
What is good? Emphasize.
What is not good? Remove
and hold on to who you are and
hold on to your tongue. Just learn the
tongue of the Quran so you can understand
it.
The world today, I sit here and I
speak English to you. You know how weird
that is to me? You have no idea
how weird this is to me.
No one understands. Everyone thinks it's fine. It's
very weird that I sit here and I
speak English. Everyone who knows me back home,
they look, what are you doing?
What why?
What do you mean why? Why are you
speaking
English?
Because that's what people speak. Yeah. But the
Quran is in Arabic. That's how you learn
Yadeen. Well, how is it? It's very great
when I first came here. It took me
a year and a half to figure out
the terminology.
The nomenclature of Islamic, of Islam is very
difficult. I've never done that before. I never
studied any Islamic discipline. People ask me this
question all the time. Can you recommend they
say the word recommend and I say no
before they can pick even can finish their
sentence. Because they're gonna ask me to recommend
a book in English. I was I don't
know. I have I have no clue.
I have read 0 books about Islam in
English. 0. None.
That's not how I learned it. It's very
it's very awkward when you sit in here
on the member.
So this is a true story. 2 years
less than 2 years ago,
my teacher,
somehow I don't share anything with him
for different reasons,
but he he somehow found found this page
and he found the kutba. So he took
it and he shared it with some of
our my our more senior teachers.
And, oh,
and, oh, the comments.
Yeah. And it was just a bloodbath. I
was ripped to shreds mostly because I they
could not comprehend. How is what are you
doing?
You're speaking in English? Are the member
of They could not wrap their heads around
it.
They were fine for the first couple of
minutes when it was the,
But right after the verse was done, yeah,
they they weren't happy anymore. Then I got
bombarded by it's it's difficult. People don't don't
accept that. Islam is not here to erase
your tongue or erase your culture. But learn
learn Arabic for the Quran's sake so you
can understand what it's saying so that you
don't need someone you you don't need a
middle person to explain to you what the
book of Allah is saying so you have
access to that. But amongst his signs is
the diversity
of your tongues, your dialects, and your cultures
and races. That's amongst his signs.
There's nothing negative about it. It's only positive.
It's only something that we look and say,
subhanallah. That's why an aid, I love I
love it. When we do aid outside and
everyone comes in with their, their cultural,
Yani,
garments, what they wear. Their their their their
cultural stuff.
Pakistani and Hunud. Everyone, they come, they're dressed
they're dressed in what they would dress. It's
beautiful. That that diversity is beautiful. And the
way that they celebrate Eid, the diversity of
that and the and the norms that they
have and the these are beautiful things.
Islam is just interested in taking a look
at them and making sure that if there's
something harmful or Haram to remove it and
keep all the good stuff.
Indeed within that.
There are signs.
The is a scholar or a scientist.
Is the plural.
Some recitations say for people, for in general.
But ours
means to people who are knowledgeable
to people who are knowledgeable.
Alright.
Let's do,
it got 0 votes, so we're gonna do
it just out of spite. So room 50.
We got 0. No one put anything for
this one. Yes.
Look
at the consequences
or the results or the effects,
of the compassion and mercy of Allah
Look. This is what he said to do.
Look at the effects of Allah mercy.
How he grants
earth that was dead life
after it died and it was there's nothing
on it. How he grants it life again.
Indeed, that ability that you just witnessed,
is an ability that that is capable of
bringing back the dead on the day of
judgment.
It will resurrect the dead as well.
Is capable of all. But this ayah is
celebratory.
Look. Look at the beauty of Allah
mercy as it as it affects the world
and see how a dead piece of land
is granted life again. And remember that that
ability will bring back your life after you
die too. And he is capable of all
of all
Tell me that deserves 0 votes? No. That's
totally worth it.
Let's do Luqman, 27.
And and when they and then they they
watched my by the way, they told me
to stop yelling, but I I didn't listen
to that piece.
And this I will
be beautiful verse in Surat Luqman after we
hear Luqman alaihi salam talk to his son
and give him advice. Beautiful advice, by the
way. I didn't have seal of Suleiman,
after
during Ramadan, like, on the weekends as I
do always in Surah.
In 2,000 and,
no, 20 or 21 or something. It's on
it's on, like it's it was at I
think it was at my my it was
it was the, the Wonderland in Fanshawe
where I it was just me, Sheikh Haman,
and Sheikh Ahmed, and, Sheikh Abu Ambar, and
his brother Khaled. That's it. It was COVID
and all the Masjid were closed, so we're
playing there. So I think that's why I
did after. So it's a it's a beautiful
so it's totally worth your time to at
least study study the, the pieces of advice
that offered. But at in the commentary of
that, we have this
verse. If every he said and and indeed
if
all the trees on earth were pencils or
pens.
And the ocean was going to be the
ink for that pen.
Supplied by 7
fold oceans.
And 7 in Arabic means always infinity. Because
every time you finish the 7th day of
the week, time doesn't end, you just start
all over again. So that's the the usage
of 7. So if they oh, the bodies
of water in the world were the ink
for the all the trees that were pens,
and you had an infinite supply of ink
of of
The wisdom of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would
not run out.
The knowledge of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the
words of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would not
run out. The infinite knowledge and the infinite
wisdom would continue these these trees
with that ongoing supply of ink would continue
to write his knowledge and his wisdom
forever.
Indeed Allah is the most
wise.
There's no end to how much you can
learn. This Surah talks about the generational relationships.
He's telling you there's a lot of wisdom
out there. Allah's wisdom is infinite. It's endless.
There's the example he gives. It's endless.
If all of the trees on earth were
pens and you had an infinite supply of
ink, you could write forever and ever and
never his wisdom would end. Ask someone young.
Learn a little bit of wisdom. Listen to
someone older than you. When they sit and
say,
don't do this. Do that. It's way better.
You'll be happier in the long run. Listen
to your parents and your grandparents and the
people who who've lived life. Listen to what
they have to say.
It's such a waste of life if you
don't.
There's a lot of wisdom that you don't
have access to. Allah's wisdom is infinite, but
there's wisdom around you, access it.
That's how you that's how you win time.
That's how you make sure you do a
lot well in your life. You you learn
from people before you. I I find it
so
abnormal for for, you know, younger people to
to be so resistant to listen to their
parents, to their fathers and mothers and grandparents
who are offering them advice and they just
don't wanna hear it. Like, I find it
very awkward. Listen. Yeah. I mean, they have
wisdom. Even if they don't have a lot
of knowledge, they have wisdom. Wisdom comes from
experience, doesn't come from books.
Maybe you have, you've read a lot of
books and you have you've read more books
than your dad did, maybe. Maybe you have
more knowledge, maybe, but you don't have more
wisdom.
You haven't been long enough. You haven't been
around here long enough to have it, so
listen to those who do.
There's a lot of benefits in doing that.
Alright.
Let's do aya,
we're doing well today, inshallah.
16 of sashdah.
16 of
So we're brought back to this again.
So the that talks to us about the
relationship we have with Allah
as the most valuable of all. At the
end of the cluster of Surah that talk
about relationships and looks at them from different
angles. This last one here talks about the
relationship we have with Allah
And like every other relationship, if you do
not
invest in it, it will it won't grow
and it won't survive. This work this is
true for every relationship. Any relationship that you
don't invest in will die off. Any friend
that you don't speak to, a relative that
you don't care for, if you don't put
in the effort with your spouse, if you
don't spend time with your children, if you
don't spend time with your parents, those relationships
will die off. They'll become useless. They'll become
meaningless. They'll become empty. They'll become a burden.
There's nothing beautiful in them anymore. They become
boring. You sit with with the person you
have nothing to say. You don't know what
to talk about. If anything comes out of
your mouth, it's usually the beginning of a
fight or a disagreement or some some form
of
bringing up,
previous problems or previous, conflicts.
You want their relationship to work, you have
to invest in it. Your relationship with Allah
is no different. There's no difference. If you
want a true relationship with Allah you have
to invest your time. You have to invest
your heart into it or else it will
become boring. You know, it will become timid.
And then it'll lose its meaning to you,
and then slowly people drift away. When they
ask me why can't I I'm struggling with
Salah or struggling
with staying
a strong Muslim,
you don't have a good relationship with Allah
yet. That's all. Once you do, you'll be
fine.
Once you build a relationship with Allah something
that means something to you, something that has
profoundness and meaningfulness to you, then you'll be
fine. No matter where you're dropped, you can
be parachuted anywhere into time or space, you'll
still be fine because you have that relationship.
This aya here that we recite every Friday
morning in Fajr, in the Purse al Rakan,
almost
across the world,
almost everywhere.
The imam will stand and recite
and then they'll go sujood, and then they'll
come back and you'll recite at least 1
ayah before they do record, at least 1.
And that 1 ayah is this 1.
Is when something does not want something else.
Is when I I I give you a
cold shoulder. I don't I I I avoid
I avoid speaking to you.
Something is avoiding contact with something else.
So what is it that's avoiding contact with
something else?
Their size are avoiding contact with the beds
Their mattresses, they don't want to be on
them.
Their sides are fighting. They don't want to
be on the mattress.
Why?
They supplicate their lord.
In in fear of just punishment.
In desire
of the reward they were promised.
Whatever we give them, they they spend.
They give for the sake of Allah. Whatever
they have, they they put forward for the
sake of Allah
But this
phrase,
is such a
powerful phrase. It's so descriptive.
It's like you can't
you've been that, like, way in your life
before where you can't sit.
You can't wait for something. Some someone's coming
or you there's a, an appointment coming up
or there's something you're gonna do very soon,
and you're so excited about you can't sit.
When you were a kid, you felt that.
Maybe you get older, you don't you don't
you don't get excited about things as much
anymore. But when you're young, you for sure
feel that.
You can't wait. You can't sit still because
of what's coming. You see that passion?
That passion? You could have that if you
wanted.
You could have that passion with Allah
Where for you sleeping, you want you need
sleep, but you just can't wait because whenever
the night whenever the night
sets, you know that Allah
He represents himself to the to the the
the lowest
sky, and he calls upon his, his servants,
Al Malik.
I am the king.
Who will who will supplicate me so that
I may respond to them?
Who will ask seek forgiveness so I may
forgive them?
Who will ask me and I and I
will answer them.
You know that that's what
Allah is doing so you can't help yourself.
You want to get up and and sit
there for a moment and just make dua
and speak to Allah and pour your heart
out
and and express your fear and your anxiety
and your hopes and your dreams and your
pain and stand there, recite his book and
enjoy the sound of it coming out from
your own mouth and and exalt Allah and
and praise Allah and supplicate and seek forgiveness
and enjoy what that that's how he felt
He'd be
Aisha tells us he would be lying in
bed
waiting he's waiting for her to sleep.
He's waiting for her to fall asleep. I
mean, they
had their night and they're waiting for her
to sleep. And she's sitting there not sleeping.
So he's getting a little bit anxious. I
he's getting bored. He's actually not sleeping. So
tell her,
Is it okay if I leave and I
go and I pray?
I like you to stay here. Eyes all
wiped. I want you to stay here in
bed, but if that's what you want, go
go for it. So he'd go standing. That's
how he felt. He would be waiting for
his wife to fall asleep so he can
so she wouldn't bother her and get get
up and and do
Why?
They they can't stay still. They want they
want to go up to their lord. That's
a relationship
worth having.
That's a relationship worth having. Others, I don't
know. I don't know if other relations are
worth having or not.
Let's do a zab, 23
Oh, actually.
So Surah Al Azza, as I explained a
little bit,
there's going to be a new cluster of
surahs that talk about submission and obedience and
adherence to his rulings
which is which is is probably the most
important thing that we have in our deen.
A full troop of surahs were were dedicated
to talk about it. We did tafsir of
them in Arabic throughout throughout the last 2
years here in the center.
I may do them in English at some
point as well. Is
the longest of these Surah that talks about
submission
and obedience when it's hard.
Specifically when it's hard. All of the talks
about the different the different
types of difficulty. Whether they're physical, whether they
are social, financial,
spiritual, psychological, personal, reputational, whatever they are. It
covers, like, 6 different types of difficulties, and
it gives us examples. The beginning of this
Surah tells us the story of the battle
of the trench, which will be you recite
tonight.
In the midst of
it or at the end of it, sorry,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
reminds people of what happened on the day
of Uhud. So it's he did a little
bit of a flashback at the end.
Amongst the believers.
There are people.
They were truthful about that which they accepted
the covenant of
you you you took a covenant with God.
That covenant being
in
and get Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala has bought from
the believers their soul, their lives, and their
wealth, and he will give them Jannah in
return. That's the covenant.
That's the covenant. He he bought and he
was sold. This is an agreement now. So
some of amongst the believers are people
They were truthful towards their covenant with God.
Some of
them, they passed away.
They died. So a figure of speech means
that they
die.
And there are people who are still waiting.
Their turn has not come
yet.
And they did not change
actually anything.
Whenever in Arabic, whenever you find the verb
followed by,
the root of the word, it's called.
When it happens, it's always to emphasize that
this the actual
the essence of this of this action.
So means to change things around. Yeah. To
change around the agreement or change the, the
conditions of the agreement or can change the
way you're gonna go about this agreement.
They didn't change anything within the agreement. They
left it exactly the way it was. Some
of them passed. Some of them are still
standing, waiting their turn whenever it may come.
This was to celebrate
within the Quran
the the efforts of the men and women
who stood their ground during Uhud and then
later on during Al Khandaq.
You can be a part of this. You
don't necessarily have to be on the battlefield
to be to do so.
You don't have to be on the battlefield.
All you have to do
is They were truthful to the covenant they
had with their Lord. What is the covenant
that you have with Allah?
What is the covenant? What is the agreement?
Part time?
Is it a part time commitment of some
sort? Is it no. The covenant is all
that you got.
All your life and all you got for
the sake of Allah, you strive and you
work towards the betterment of this nation and
the wellness of this ummah. That's the covenant.
You'll be truthful to the covenant until you
die, until you pass away.
This verse talked it with the people who
passed away early because they died on the
battlefield, but many of us won't.
The percentage of the Ummah that actually died
on the battlefield are very very small. Talking
about 1 to 2%. That's it. The rest
of the Muslims know. They can still be
truthful towards Allah's covenant. It just requires them
to do that for the entirety of their
lives.
In the Quran, you have 2 when you
you've heard that. Right?
Those who, you know, obey, they'll find themselves
with
the people who are taking in Allah
bounty
from the prophets.
So
pious people, people who are piety, people who
are good, who did the job. A Shaheed
is a martyr. But who is a Sudip?
So this is the differentiation I was taught
when I was younger. I love this differentiation.
A shahid is the one who died for
the sake of Allah. Al Sadiq is the
one who lived for the sake of Allah.
That make sense?
Al Sadiq is the one who lived his
life for sake of Allah, lived a long
time, was around for 70, 80, 90 years,
stayed on the track. It's hard. It's not
easy.
It's not easy to stay to to stay
in a path for that long of a
time. That's why
from
from the same word that I just used
in this verse.
They were truthful. They were truthful to the
covenant that they gave.
So if they stay truthful to the day
they die, they'll be called
which is why Ubaka was called that.
Because he accepted this early on and he
was truthful to the to the to the
end of his life, alihirubu Anulla.
So even though this verse talks about you
know, this verse talks about the people who
fell on the day of Uhud, You have
access to it.
It it it refers to the people who
are falling in in Palestine and Gaza today.
Those who are standing their ground in their
land, refusing to leave, refusing to be pushed
out of their land again. That is shahada.
When you stand, you say I'm going to
live and die here. And if you keep
if you if you tear down my house,
then that's what's going to happen. I'm not
leaving. It's my land. That's marxism. That's true
marxism. When you refuse to leave your land
then you suffer be be because of it.
So they are falling early.
They have they are honest with their covenant
with Allah. They're truthful towards their covenant with
Allah. They're dying early. Now it's just about
you and I being truthful towards our covenant
with Allah. We may live a bit longer.
May Allah grant us the ability to do
We'll got another one.
We'll got another one.