Adnan Rajeh – Surat Al-Mumtahanah Summary
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The transcript discusses the cluster of Surahs in the Muslim community, including the cluster of Surahs from the 28th of AD to the present day, and the difficulty of organizing political behavior and showing love and affection towards enemies. The transcript also touches on the importance of showing love and forgiveness, finding it difficult to see the point of view of an offense, and the need for acceptance of Islam and social and ethics in the way people deal with one another. The importance of women in Islam is emphasized, and the need for acceptance and social and ethics is also discussed.
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Surah Al-Mumtahina Surah Al-Mumtahina In the
name of Allah,
the most Gracious, the most Merciful.
And all praise is due to Allah, Lord
of the worlds.
O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our
Prophet, and our beloved Muhammad, and upon his
family and companions, all of them and after.
Today, inshallah, we will talk about Surah Al
-Mumtahina.
The third Surah in the cluster of Surahs
from Al-Mujadilah to Al-Tahrim, which is
the 28th Juz' in the Qur'an.
And as I pointed out yesterday, from Qaf
to An-Nas are four clusters of Surahs,
And they summarize everything that the Qur'an
talked about in detail in earlier clusters and
in earlier longer surahs.
And it's all kind of condensed and summarized
in these surahs.
And this cluster from Mujadidat al-Tahrim, all
of the surahs are madani.
And they all talk about organizations or organizational
aspects of the Muslim society.
Within the new country that the Prophet ﷺ
and the Muslims had created, a lot of
problems are going to obviously occur.
And there's going to be a lot of
challenges.
And how to organize the lives of Muslims
with themselves, with others, in different situations.
Leadership and challenges of unity.
And a difficulty of people who don't agree
with you and don't necessarily see eye to
eye with you.
All of that is addressed in this juz
'ah.
Surah al-Mumtahina today will address the organizational
aspect of Muslims with non-Muslims that are
in combat with you.
With non-Muslims who are not in combat
with you.
And with people who switch over to Islam.
Meaning people who are on the side of
being in combat with you.
And now come over to becoming Muslim.
They're joining.
And how to deal with all of that.
And this is what the surah kind of...
And it's a very very important surah.
Especially for this day and age.
Because of a lot of misconceptions that we
have about our own faith.
And that have spread out to others who
aren't Muslim about our deen.
And today insha'Allah this will become clear
to you.
The surah begins by Allah ﷻ saying, يَا
أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا عَدُوِّي وَعَدُوَّكُمْ أَوْلِيًّا
تُلْقُونَ إِلَيْهِمْ بِالْمَوَدَّةِ وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا بِمَا جَاءَكُمْ مِّنَ
الْحَقِّ يُخْرِجُونَ الرَّسُولَ وَإِيَّاكُمْ أَنْ تُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ
رَبِّكُمْ Allah ﷻ is saying, all those who
believe, do not take my enemy and your
enemy.
So the first word here is animosity.
So Allah ﷻ is pointing out that you
have an enemy, someone who has been in
combat with you, and in this surah it
points out, يُخْرِجُونَ الرَّسُولَ وَإِيَّاكُمْ They removed you,
they kicked you out of your homes.
They transgressed against you first and they continue
to do so, and they're your enemy.
So don't do something called, تُلْقُونَ إِلَيْهِمْ بِالْمَوَدَّةِ
Don't show them affection.
Don't show them love in your behavior.
Now it's a weird use of the term,
but that's what the term says.
تُسِرُونَ إِلَيْهِمْ بِالْمَوَدَّةِ وَأَنَا أَعْلَمُ بِمَا أَخْفَيْتُمْ وَمَا
أَعْلَنْتُمْ وَمَن يَفْعَلْهُ مِنكُمْ فَقَدْ أَضَلَّ سَوَاءَ السَّبِيلِ
You hide in your heart's love towards them,
and Allah ﷻ knows what's inside of you,
but if you do it, if you show
them affection, meaning if you stand by them,
if you're taking them as your allies, when
they are showing you animosity, when they're fighting
you, then that is a mistake.
إِنْ يَثْقَفُوكُمْ Because if they catch you, يَكُونُوا
لَكُمْ أَعْدَاءً they will solidify the fact that
they're your enemies.
وَيَبْسُطُوا إِلَيْكُمْ أَيْدِيَهُمْ وَأَلْسِنَتَهُمْ بِسُوءٍ They will harm
you physically and morally.
لَن تَنْفَعَكُمْ أَرْحَامُكُمْ وَلَا أُولَادُكُمْ The fact that
they're related to you is not gonna make
a difference, shouldn't make a difference to this
situation.
But why would Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
use that term, don't show them love?
Because that's the default.
That was the default situation for the Muslims.
Muslims show everybody love.
The only group that they're not supposed to
be showing love to, not feeling.
Feelings is a different thing.
It points out the feelings, that's fine.
It's about what you're going to do.
وَمَن يَفْعَلْهُ If you're gonna show it, if
you're going to actually take them as your
allies, stand by them.
You're not supposed to do that only with
those who are trying to destroy your nation,
trying to ruin Islam.
They have shown animosity against the deen.
That's the only group you're not supposed to
be showing love and affection in your treatment.
Because the way that the surah is worded
is peculiar.
The only way it makes any sense is
that the default situation for Muslims is to
show love to everybody.
And you're just thinking, well, that's an assumption
that you're making.
Be patient.
The surah is not done yet.
And if you don't believe me based on
this wording of these verses, you're gonna believe
me in a moment.
And then the ayat continue giving the example
of Ibrahim.
قَدْ كَانَتْ لَكُمْ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ فِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَالَّذِينَ
مَعَهُ إِذْ قَالُوا لِقَوْمِهِمْ إِنَّا أَبْرَآءُ مِنكُمْ وَمِمَّا
تَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ كَفَرْنَا بِكُمْ There's an
ayah where the example is Ibrahim A.S.
and those with him, towards Ibrahim, toward their
people.
They had to leave their people.
They had to stand against their people who
were trying to destroy their faith, who were
trying to force them and coerce them out
of their religion.
Ibrahim A.S. had to do that towards
his own father, who did not accept him
believing in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who
wanted to coerce him out of the team,
who kicked him out of the house.
Ibrahim continued to make istighfar, continued to make
dua for him, and Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala told him, no, if he continues to
show animosity to Allah and his deen, then
no, don't do it.
Because the default is that we make dua
and we show love to everybody.
It's only the one group, the group that
continues to try and harm the deen, those
who don't believe in our rights to be
Muslim, those who go after Islam and Muslimin
in physical and moral harm.
That's the only group.
And that's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is reminding the sahaba, لَن تَنْفَعَكُمْ أَرْحَامُكُمْ The
fact that you're related won't help you.
Look at Ibrahim A.S., he had to
do this before you too.
The verses are trying to convince the sahaba
to take this stand, this strong stand against
those who are showing them animosity.
Because the sahaba didn't want to.
The sahaba had learned from the Prophet A
.S. to show love to all.
And that's how Islam was brought forward.
We show love to everyone.
And then it's just a group of people
who are, the word in fiqh is harbiyyin,
those who decide to go to war against
you.
Those who are trying to destroy you.
Those who are working against your existence and
against your rights.
That's the only group that we withhold love.
There's a dua at the end of that
example, رَبَّنَا لَا تَجْعَلْنَا فِتْنَةً لِلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَاغْفِرْ
لَنَا رَبَّنَا O Allah, don't make us a
fitna for the disbelievers.
I mean, O Allah, don't allow there to
be war between us.
And then they kill some of us.
And the fact that they killed some of
the Muslims is a reason for them to
be punished later.
We don't want any of that.
That's what the ayah is saying.
You make dua that hopefully there's no combat
and there's no conflict.
And they don't end up harming us, because
if they end up harming us, that's going
to be a fitna for them.
They're gonna have to be punished for that
yawm al-qiyamah.
We don't want people to be punished.
And then one of the most amazing ayahs
in the mushaf.
I want you to listen to what He
says, subhanahu wa ta'ala, here.
He says, عَسَى اللَّهُ أَن يَجْعَلَ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَ
الَّذِينَ عَادَيْتُمْ مِنْهُمْ مَوَدَّةً May Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, one day, produce between you, or
create between you and your enemies, love.
This is the wording of the Qur'an.
Not peace, not a truce, not an agreement,
not tolerance, not common ground, not some level
of understanding.
The word was love.
At the beginning of the surah, He told
them, تُلْقُونَ إِلَيْهِمْ بِالْمُوَدَّةِ You're showing them love
as they're being enemies to you.
Don't do that.
Don't take them your allies.
Don't do that right now, because they're fighting
you.
But keep on doing the right thing.
Keep on living the way you're living, and
behaving the way you're behaving, and be the
best Muslims you can be, and defend yourself
and have integrity.
And insha'Allah, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
will produce and create between you and your
enemies a day where there will be love.
Love, مَوَدَّةً And if you don't, you're like,
that's impossible.
Finish the verse.
وَاللَّهُ قَدِيرٌ And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
is capable of all.
But what about all the days of hatred
and the blood?
وَاللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ And Allah, subhanahu wa ta
'ala, will forgive and will show mercy for
all the mistakes that happened before.
And this is in the midst of this,
why this surah is so important.
It explains exactly how we see non-Muslims.
It makes it very clear.
Unless they are showing animosity towards us, unless
they have declared that their goal is to
destroy Islam and Muslims, then we show love.
And even those who declare that they want
to destroy Islam and Muslims, we withhold love
from them at that time, and hold our
ground, and hope that we don't have to
go into conflict, and we pray that the
day will come where Allah, subhanahu wa ta
'ala, will fill the gap between us with
love.
Because He is capable of all, subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And that's just the Qur'an.
This is not something I'm making up.
This is not some narrative that I enjoy.
This is what the Qur'an is saying.
Go read the verse.
Surah Al-Mumtahinah is the third surah in
Surah Al-Mujadalah Al-Tahrim, chapter 8, verse
20.
And this is the chapter that talks about
the organization of relations between Muslims in their
Muslim communities, as was the case in Surah
Al-Hashr.
There are citizens who betray, and citizens who
don't betray, but we don't agree with them.
And there are citizens who have financial needs.
So this organization that took place in these
two surahs is completed in Surah Al-Mumtahinah,
when Allah organizes the relations between Muslims and
non-Muslims.
There are warriors and non-warriors, and there
are those who converted to Islam and those
who were warriors.
How do we deal with these three groups?
This is Surah Al-Mumtahinah.
Allah says, Do not take My enemy and
your enemy as allies.
If someone is your enemy, if someone wants
to harm Allah and His Messenger, harm Muslims
and destroy the Ummah of Islam, do not
take him as an ally.
Do not make him your ally.
You throw love at them.
How do you throw love at your enemy?
They bring out the Messenger and you.
So you hide love for them.
And I know that you have love in
your heart for them.
This is what is bad about it.
But the problem is who does it from
you.
That is, who throws love, who protects them.
This is the problem.
As for persisting in love, this is the
origin.
The origin in Islam is that you love
all people.
This is the origin in religion.
And when this verse came, it convinced Muslims
not to throw love at their enemy.
That is, we only exclude from all people
those who are our enemies.
Those who are our enemies, we exclude them
from throwing love at them.
And the rest of them, we throw love
at them.
Verses that convince them, if they throw love
at you.
Look, do not throw love at them.
If they throw love at you, if they
hold you, they will be enemies to you
and extend their hands and tongues to you
in evil.
Your relatives and your children will not benefit
you.
On the Day of Resurrection, He will separate
between you.
It will not benefit you.
Then He gives the example of Abraham, peace
and blessings be upon him, and those with
him.
When they said to their people, We are
innocent of you.
And Abraham, when he asked forgiveness for his
father, the origin, to ask forgiveness, even if
the origin was that we love him, and
to ask forgiveness for him, and to pray
for him.
Then when it became clear that he was
an enemy of Allah, he became innocent of
him.
When it became clear that there was enmity,
that this person betrayed Allah and His Messenger
and revealed it, he became innocent of him.
We do not throw love at him.
Then the verse after that, Our Lord, do
not make us a trial for those who
disbelieve.
We do not wish to have a war.
Then they kill us, and we become a
trial for them and they are punished because
of us.
We do not wish this at all.
And we pray that this does not happen.
Then there is a verse in the Qur
'an, perhaps it is one of the greatest
verses in the Qur'an.
And perhaps we did not understand it well,
and for that reason, we, as Muslims, And
we thought that our religion orders us to
do things that we do not like, but
it did not order.
And it was confused with non-Muslims and
they thought that our religion is a religion
that orders things that it does not order.
Listen to what Allah says, Perhaps Allah will
make between you and those you are enemies
of love.
Not peace, not a truce, not an agreement,
not an understanding, not a coexistence.
No, He will make love.
Another important thing, He was telling you not
to throw love at them.
Yes, if they are your enemies, do not
throw love at them.
Keep your love for them.
But perhaps Allah will make things easier if
you stick to this.
He will make between you and those you
are enemies of love.
He will bring back love, pure love.
I said, I am a Muslim.
I said, I am a Muslim.
I said, I am a Muslim.
I said, I am a Muslim.
I am a Muslim.
I said, I am a Muslim.
I am a Muslim.
I said, I am a Muslim.
I said, I am a
Muslim.
I said, I
am a Muslim.
I said, And may Allah make today, between
us and our enemies, a day of love.
If we are able to hold on to
this love, while they are our enemies.
How can a person be normal, while he
is still * the earth and committing atrocities?
How?
How can this be against the truth of
the Qur'an?
But we hope that one day there will
be love between us and them.
If the rights return to their owners, and
justice is able to be established on earth,
and people return to their homes, love will
happen.
But before that, how?
The verses after that are two in Surah
Al-Mumtahina.
That explain, in case you didn't believe me,
in case what I explained to you, you're
interpreting the verses just so that it's not
based on interpretation.
He states it, subhanahu wa ta'ala, as
clearly as any verses in the Qur'an
are in stating what our perspective is.
I don't understand, till this day.
And it took me a while to figure
out, how is it that certain Muslims behave
in certain ways after these verses existing in
the Qur'an.
And what I found out is that those
who continue to be on the extreme side
of behavior are people who refuse these verses.
They just bluntly say that these verses don't
count anymore.
Naskh, they've been abrogated, they've been removed in
terms of practice.
It's a late Madani Surah, listen to what
he says, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
لَا يَنْهَاكُمُ اللَّهُ عَنِ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يُقَاتِلُوكُمْ فِي
الدِّينِ وَلَمْ يُخْرِجُوكُم مِّن دِيَارِكُمْ أَنْ تَبَرُّوهُمْ وَتُقْسِطُوا
إِلَيْهِمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُقْسِطِينَ Allah does not
deny you, or deprive you, or prevent you
from the non-Muslims who did not fight
you, who did not remove you from your
land, meaning they did not declare war, and
they did not oppress you.
They didn't do either of these things, for
you to show them birr.
Birr is a word that Allah uses with
our parents.
We're supposed to show our parents birr al
-walideen, which is the highest level of good
behavior that exists in Islam.
The ayah is saying, the non-Muslims who
have not oppressed you, who have not declared
war upon you, He does not prevent you
from showing them birr, and showing them qist.
Qist is the better side of justice, meaning
more than justice.
Justice with tenderness and kindness, that's what it
means.
Al-adl is very blunt.
Qist is much more of ease, meaning you're
going to get adl and fadl.
You're going to be given what you're owed,
and a bit more on top of it.
An tabarroohum wa tuqsitoo ilayhim, and indeed Allah
loves those who do that.
Innama yanhaakumullah.
However, Allah does prevent you and deny you.
Aani allatheena qatalookum fiddeen, wa akhrajookum min diyanikum,
wa dhaaharu ala ikhraajikum, an tawallawhum.
He denies you and prevents you from taking
allies.
Just taking allies.
Don't make them your allies.
Don't make them your best friends.
Don't go to them and ask for anything.
They're not your allies.
Whom?
The people who declared war upon you, who
removed you from your land, or helped others
remove you from your land.
Meaning those who declared war, oppressed you, or
helped others oppress you.
If they do that, then you don't show
that your alliances are with them.
Waman yatawallahum minkum faulaykum mubalimun.
If you do that, then you're an oppressor
like them.
Then you're just as bad as they are.
But people who aren't Muslim, who have not
oppressed you, who have not mistreated you, who
don't hate you, or not try out there.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, you
should show them birr, you should show them
qist, you should continue to show them love.
This is what the ayahs are saying in
the Qur'an.
It's beyond me how our reputation has become
something so different than that.
And that is what the Qur'an states.
I swear to you, there's a linguistics of
it.
Go read it if you don't believe me.
You don't need an interpreter.
You don't need a mufassir.
It's just that's what the words mean.
Two verses being stated extremely clearly right in
the middle of Surah Al-Mumtahina.
عَقْلًا وَفِكْرًا وَإِنْسَانِيَّةً إِلَّا أَنْ يَنْسَخَ هَذِي الْآيَاتِ
And indeed, these verses have been rejected.
Meaning that they exist in the Qur'an,
but are not used.
And listen to what Allah says, لَا يَنْهَاكُمُ
اللَّهُ عَنِ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يُقَاتِلُوهُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَلَمْ
يُخْرِجُوكُمْ مِّنْ دِيَالِكُمْ أَنْ تَبَرُّهُمْ وَتَقْصِطُوا إِلَيْهِمْ One
non-Muslim who has not fought you, nor
wronged you, this is what is forbidden.
To be kind to him.
This is the highest level of good treatment.
This is to be with parents.
Being kind to parents.
To be ordered to be kind to this
non-Muslim.
Who has not wronged you, nor fought you,
nor opposed you.
And to be kind to them.
Kindness is higher than justice.
And justice is with grace.
This is what we were ordered to do
with non-Muslims.
The one who has not fought us, nor
wronged us.
This is what Allah forbids you.
And those who have fought you in the
religion.
And have driven you out.
And have demonstrated to drive you out.
But if he fought you.
Or wronged you.
Or supported your wrongdoing.
Then he forbids you to be kind to
them.
Don't make him your guardian.
Don't go to him.
Don't go to him.
And be kind to him.
And work with him on treaties.
And admit to him.
How?
And he still wrongs you.
And he still opposes you.
And he still drives people out of the
land.
And he still helps to drive them out
of the land.
Islam is a religion that is based on
love and forgiveness with people.
We invite them to Allah.
And if they believe, it is good.
And we don't invite them to guidance.
Unless they have fought you.
Or wronged you.
Or supported your wrongdoing.
Then don't make them your guardian.
The verses are clear, my brothers.
I don't know how our hearing has changed
to what it has become.
And these verses are in a civilized surah.
In the utmost clarity.
Maybe you didn't believe me when I told
you that the origin is love.
So forbid the Companions to give the gifts
of love to the enemies.
Maybe I said this and you are explaining
it from yourself.
Then read the verses.
You don't need an interpreter.
These verses don't need an interpreter.
It is enough for you to know the
simplest words in the Arabic language.
And how to put the sentences.
The issue is in the utmost clarity.
And Allah Almighty made it.
These verses are a witness for us on
the Day of Judgment.
By both sides.
فَالَّذِينَ يُسِئُونَ إِلَىٰ مَنْ لَمْ يُعَادِنَا وَلَمْ يُظْلِمْنَا
وَإِلَىٰ الَّذِينَ يُطَبِّعُونَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ عَادَوْنَا وَظَلَمُونَا
وَأَسَاءُوا إِلَيْنَا هَذَانِ الطَّرَفَانِ النَّقِيضَانِ يَعْنِي سَيُوقَفَانِ
أَمَامَ هَذِي آيَاتِ اللَّهِ The verses continue.
And then Allah ﷻ gives us...
So this is how you deal with Muslims
who are non-Muslims, who are in combat
with you, who are fighting you, who are
against Islam trying to destroy you.
And non-Muslims who aren't.
And the difference in terms of how we're
supposed to deal with them.
And then the verses after that are if
people come to you as Muslims who left
a camp that was once your enemy.
إِذَا جَاءَكُمْ الْمُؤْمِنَاتُ مُهَاجِرَاتٍ فَامْتَحِنُوهُنَّ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ
بِإِيمَانِهِنَّ فَإِنْ عَلِمْتُمُهُنَّ مُؤْمِنَاتٍ فَلَا تَرْجِعُهُنَّ إِلَى
الْكُفَّارِ And the example was regarding women.
Women at the time didn't have rights to
move around freely within the region.
They always needed someone with them.
So the Qur'an is saying if a
lady comes to you saying, I'm Muslim and
I left what I was...
Then if she can prove that she's Muslim,
you need to make sure, you have to
be smart.
You have to make sure that your enemy
isn't sending spies in, you know, espionage and
try to figure out how many people you
have and how much...
what your arsenal looks like and how many
weapons you have and whatnot.
You have to make sure that they're actually
Muslims and if they prove that they're Muslim,
then you don't send them back.
How do you send them back to someone
who's going to oppress them?
You hold on, you keep them here.
And if the people...
and if she was a married woman and
the husband asks for the mahr, the dowry
that he's...
then you give it to him.
وَآتُوهُمْ مَا أَنفَقُوا۟ Wallah, ayah ajeeb, it's a
very...
it's a mind-blowing verse in the Qur
'an that if the husband who's a kafir,
who's not just a kafir, not just a
disbeliever, but from a camp that is showing
animosity towards you, and comes and says, well,
my wife came to you and you're not...
and you didn't force her to come back,
because in Islam she has the right to
go wherever she wants and believe whatever she
wants to believe.
And he asks for the dowry, then the
Muslims gather the amount of dowry and give
it to him and pay him back.
And then if that same thing happens, if
a wife from a Muslim, a man, decides
she doesn't want Islam and leave, وَإِن فَاتَكُمْ
شَيْءٌ أَزْوَجِكُمْ إِلَىٰ ٱلْكُفَّارِ and she leaves, and
she leaves Islam, and you're capable of asking
for the dowry, then go for it, and
if you can't, then you can't.
These are the verses in the Qur'an,
giving women in Islam the ability to make
their choices.
If they come to you as Muslim, they
can stay, and if they leave, then they
can leave.
Don't ask for them back, but ask for
the dowry back, because it's حق, because it's
the right of the man.
If she's gonna leave without ending whatever financial,
whatever she owes financially, that needs to be
taken care of.
And then the verse after that talks about
the details.
What is the بَيْعَة based on?
When someone comes and accepts Islam, leaving كفر,
what is it that they have to agree
to?
وَإِذَا جَاءَكَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتُ يُبَيَعَنَكَ عَلَىٰ أَلَّا يُشْرِكْنَا بِاللَّهِ
شَيْئًا وَلَا يَسْرَقْنَا وَلَا يَزْنِيْنَا وَلَا يَقْتُلْنَا أُولَادَهُنَّ
وَلَا يَأْتِيْنَا بِبُهْتَانِ يَفْتَرِينَهُ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْنَا وَأَرْجُوا
بِيهِمْنَا وَلَا يَعْصِيْنَكَ فِي مَعْرُوفٍ فَبَايَعَهُنَّ You make
six points.
Don't perform shirk, don't murder, don't steal, don't
perform zina, don't perform ghiba, nameem, and lie,
don't ethically hold a certain standard.
وَلَا يَعْصِيْنَكَ فِي مَعْرُوفٍ And live by the
good values of the society that you're coming
into.
If they can agree to these six clauses,
then accept them.
وَاسْتَغْفِرْ لَهُنَّ اللَّهِ And ask Allah to forgive
them for whatever happened before.
وَاللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ The last verse, لَا تَتَوَلَّوْا
قَوْمًا غَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ Do not take allies
in those who have shown you animosity.
It's very clear.
Those who have declared war upon you, those
who have oppressed you, don't choose them as
your allies.
It's very simple.
Surah Al-Mutahina is a very direct surah.
It doesn't have a lot of figures of
speech in it.
It just tells us things as they are.
And it organizes for us a certain aspect
of life that we definitely need to understand
in Islam.
How to deal with non-Muslims who are
declaring war against us?
How to deal with non-Muslims who don't?
And how to deal with new Muslims coming
in?
And what is it that we ask people
to abide by?
Listen to that last verse again.
What are they...
First of all, the fact that women...
We'll talk about women in this cluster of
surahs because they're everywhere in it.
And it's very important because in terms of
organizing life for Muslims, the rights of women
and the status of women had to be
addressed almost in every surah.
It was addressed in Surah Al-Mujadila.
The first word was the story of Khawla
ibn Tha'laba.
It's addressed again here.
It's gonna be addressed in the surahs moving
forward.
And we'll talk about it inshaAllah at the
end in some detail when we come to
Surah Al-Tahrim.
Because that's gonna be important.
They're right.
They have the right to make their choice
in terms of their own deen.
What do we ask for people for?
If you're entering Islam, you stay away from
shirk.
And then a bunch of ethics and values.
You don't murder.
You don't kill anybody.
You don't steal.
You don't commit zina.
You don't commit social...
sins and you continue to encourage all that
is good.
وَلَا يَعْصِنَكَ فِي مَعْرُوفٍ Anything ma'roof that
you're asked to do by the leadership of
your society, you're okay with.
Because you may not have the same mindset
as everyone else.
But whatever good this society is encouraging and
advocating for, then you should be a part
of it.
And that's all they're asked to do.
Everything else will come later.
Salah, and siyam, and zakah, and hajj.
These are things between them and God.
If they are truthful about their Islam, they
will do these things.
And they'll look for them themselves and try
to figure out their rituals.
But there has to be something to organize
life.
We're gonna live together.
We have to live together.
There has to be a couple of things
we agree upon.
We can't be going around killing one another,
and stealing from one another, and committing zina,
and for there to be lack of good
social ethics in the way that we deal
with one another.
And we have to support each other on
the good initiatives.
And that's what Surah Al-Mumtahinah talks about.
تُخْتَمْ سُورَةِ الْمُمْتَحِنَةِ بِمَا تَسُمِيَتَ السُّورَةِ بِهِ
المُمْتَحِنَةِ تَمْتَحِنَا الْمُؤْمِنَاتَ الَّذِينَ الْوَاتِئَتَيْنَكَ
يُؤْمِنَّ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ قَوْمٍ هُمْ يُعَادُونَكَ فِي عَدَاوَةٍ
مَعَكَ فهؤلاء المؤمنات يعني النسوة كان في عند
العرب المرأة التي تخرج عن زوجها ترد إلى
زوجها لكن الآية تقول إذا ثبت لك وامتحنتهن
أنهن مؤمنات ما ترجعهن إلى الكفار وإذا سألوكم
المهر فتعطوهم المهر الذي كان لهم عجيب آية
عدل عجيب الآية وإذا تركتك زوجتك وذهبت إليهم
ارتدت عن الإسلام فطالب بالمهر أعطوك أعطوك ما
أعطوك فخلص قضية راحة تحاولوا أن تجمعوا المال
بينكم وتعطوا الرجل الذي تركته زوجته حتى يتزوج
غيرها فيعيلوا بذلك أهله ويستر بذلك نفسه ثم
تأتي آية البيعة إذا جاء الإنسان مؤمن لا
يشرك بالله ولا يقتل ولا يسق ولا يزني
فعلى هذا يقوم المجتمع الإسلامي قبل الصلاة والصوم
والزكاة والحج والذكر والقرآن وغير ذلك يقوم على
أن نتفق أن لا نقتل ولا نسق ولا
نزني ولا نؤذي بعضنا وأن نشجع بعضنا في
المعروف فهذه سورة المبتحنة سورة عظيمة مهمة أسأل
الله سبحانه وتعالى يكون قد وصل معناها وكذلك
بنفشل صلى الله عليه وآله وبركه يقول لا
إله إلا أنت الصحف الكتوب إليك وصلى الله
وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه
أجمعين جزاكم الله خير وبارك الله فيكم السلام
عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته