Adnan Rajeh – Surat Nuh Summary
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The importance of understanding the four major categories of Surahs and their associated behaviors and behaviors is emphasized in the discussion of Islam. It is important for individuals to be educated and relevant to their religion and history. The discussion also touches on struggles with a prophet, including his desire to defend himself and his lack of response to actions. Disrespectful and negative media, including prophets and the narrative of the universe, can lead to negative behavior and need to be mindful of one's actions to build a character that will benefit from the future.
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Today, inshallah, we'll talk about Surah Nuh.
Surah Nuh is the fifth surah in the
cluster of surahs from Al-Mulk to Al
-Mursalat, the twenty-ninth juz' of the Qur
'an.
And it talks to us about da'wah,
what the Muslim needs in order to perform
proper da'wah, what proper da'wah looks
like, why it's important for us to do
it, and what the methods are.
Each surah looks at a different angle from
these different topics under the umbrella of da
'wah.
And that's why this juz' is very important,
I think, for everyone to, not only to
learn, but to practice.
And the first four surahs that we talked
about in the juz' gave us what the
Muslim needs out of the four major categories.
The Muslim, how much knowledge you need, what
you need to know, Surah Al-Mulk.
What ethics and values you need to have,
Surah Al-Qalam.
What spiritual connection and affection you need to
have in Surah Al-Haqqa.
And then what behaviors need to be a
part of your character in Surah Al-Ma
'arij.
And all four together, put together, is what
a Muslim needs in order for him to
perform proper da'wah, him or her.
And what I mean by proper da'wah
is that if you don't have these four
categories, the minimum that is needed, that is
required, that is in these surahs, then your
da'wah is not going to be performed
properly, and people won't respond to it, and
there'll be something missing in it, and it
will look awkward, and it won't seem as
sincere and as genuine, and it probably won't
serve its purpose.
And that's why it's important to understand these
concepts that the surahs are talking about and
actually take them very seriously.
It's almost worth doing a completely separate series
just to talk about in detail what each
surah looked at in terms of these four
categories.
Surah Al-Nuh gives us an example of
da'wah.
And Surah Al-Jinn is going to do
the same thing, but they're going to do
their opposite.
Surah Al-Nuh gives us an example of
da'wah, how it's supposed to be done,
and how sometimes it doesn't work.
It's almost a conundrum.
You have someone who's going to do it,
show us exactly how it's supposed to be
done.
Here's an example, exactly how it's supposed to
be done and how it's completely not going
to work.
And then Surah Al-Jinn is going to
be the opposite.
And that's the value of Tabarak because it
teaches us all these hidden messages in terms
of understanding what to expect when you perform
da'wah.
You only do your best, you only try
your hardest in spreading the message and representing
Islam to the best of your ability.
But then who accepts and who doesn't and
who follows and who doesn't, you can't control
that, as long as you're doing it the
right way.
Which is what Surah Al-Nuh is going
to emphasize a lot.
As long as we're doing it properly.
So the Surah from the name Al-Nuh
tells us the story of Al-Nuh in
a very condensed and summarized manner.
So the Surah begins by saying, indeed we
sent Nuh to his people to warn them
of the painful punishment to come if they
don't change their ways.
So he comes to his people and he
says, oh my people, indeed I am a
clear and proper messenger to you, to warn
you.
And worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, be
aware of him subhanahu wa ta'ala and
emulate what I'm going to do or follow
my commands.
What you'll get in return for these three
things is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
forgive your sins and he will not punish,
he won't give you enough time to change
your ways and to lead a good life
and then you'll find reward.
So they refused as the story goes and
he wasn't able to get many people to
believe in him alayhi salam out of maybe,
we're talking 950 years of da'wah, 83
was the highest number that the historians gave.
I mean that's one person every 13 years
that would accept his message.
So Yawm al-Qiyamah, Nuh in his mind,
he has to have a good explanation to
why it is that after spending all this
time performing da'wah, he doesn't have much
to show for it.
I mean this is an important aspect of
understanding Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's commands and
our role.
We have to explain why things didn't work
when they don't work.
Because if they're done properly, then most likely
they're going to work.
And it's our job to do our best
and to deliver the results and to achieve
the objectives and achieve the goals.
But if we don't achieve them, the Qur
'an teaches us that it's not necessarily our
fault.
Sometimes it's not going to happen, it wasn't
meant to be, it wasn't decreed, it wasn't
destined.
But before you just decide that, you have
to make sure that it wasn't because of
you.
Before we decide that, oh people just won't
accept Islam or people don't care about Islam,
before we make that judgment, that very dangerous
judgment, that very dangerous decision to say something
like that, we have to make sure that
we have exhausted every resource and we're doing
it 100% properly.
We didn't do anything wrong, we didn't make
any mistakes.
Nuh alayhi salam is the example of this
when we learn this surah.
It's a very important message that this surah
carries.
So when you listen to the verses that
I'm going to talk about in a moment,
it's as if, I want you to imagine
yourself standing behind Nuh in line as we're
going to be judged by Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Now as we stand in line, you're standing
in front of Nuh and you're listening, and
you're watching Nuh alayhi salam prepare his argument.
Nuh alayhi salam is preparing his argument.
What he's going to say yawmul qiyamah, how
he's going to defend himself because he's only
coming with 83 people and he had a
very long time to perform da'wah, way
more, the percentage of people he has is
very very low.
So listen to what he says.
قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِي لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا فَلَمْ
يَزِدَهُمْ دُعَائِي إِلَّا فِرَارًا وَإِنِّي كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ
لَهُمْ جَعَلُوا أَصَابِعَهُمْ فِي آذَانِهِمْ وَاسْتَغْشَوْا ثِيَابَهُمْ
وَأَصَرُوا وَاسْتَكْبَعُوا استِكْبَارًا He said, Oh my Lord,
I called my people to your message night
and day.
Night and day, meaning he never stopped.
فَلَمْ يَزِدَهُمْ دُعَائِي إِلَّا فِرَارًا And the more
I called them, the more they didn't want
it.
And every time I called upon them, so
that you may forgive them.
He's explaining to Allah سبحانه وتعالى an aspect
of what his message actually had in it.
I would call them and tell them that
your forgiveness is what they're going to get.
They would increase in their refusal of it.
To the point they would put their hands
in their ears.
And they would cover their faces with their
clothing.
And they would fill their hearts with arrogance
and stubbornness.
They didn't want to listen to me.
ثُمَّ إِنِّي دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًا ثُمَّ إِنِّي أَعْلَنْتُ لَهُمْ
وَأَسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِسْرَارًا And I gave them du
'a in public.
And I gave them du'a individually.
Sometimes secretly and sometimes openly.
Day and night, publicly, privately, individually, secretly, openly.
I kept on doing that.
I never stopped.
I never gave up.
He's explaining to Allah سبحانه وتعالى his persistence
and his consistency in offering this du'a.
And people would...
But now comes the tricky part.
Okay, Noah, you established that you weren't lazy
on your job.
That you would do this every single day.
And that you tried different methods.
You tried every method that you could think
of.
You spoke to them in different ways, in
different settings, in different groups, and they wouldn't
listen to you.
Now comes the question.
What exactly did you say to them?
What was your narrative?
What was the religious narrative that you offered?
This is where things become extremely problematic, especially
today.
If you offer a religious narrative that is
not relevant, that does not make sense, that
is not objective, that is extremely biased, that
does not answer big questions, that does not
offer real solutions, then you are at fault
for what you've been doing.
If people aren't accepting Islam and Muslims aren't
committing, it's because of the content of the
narrative.
You can start a channel, and speak about
Islam 24x7 on it.
If the content of your narrative is not
proper, people will not listen, and you will
be held accountable for that.
It's not enough that you just do a
lot.
It's not just about quantity, it's also about
quality.
So Noah عليه السلام established right at the
beginning, in his argument, he wants to defend
himself in front of Allah.
Allah سبحانه و تعالى, Why, Ya Nuh, don't
you have more than 80 people?
I gave you a very very long time.
Here is the first part of my argument,
Ya Rabb.
In terms of quantity, I did my job.
I talked day and night.
I never stopped.
Every method, I tried everything.
They wouldn't listen.
Now he has to explain what he said.
Because maybe the problem was what you were
saying, Ya Nuh.
Maybe you weren't educated enough.
Maybe you weren't relevant enough.
Maybe you weren't connected to the groups enough.
Maybe you didn't know what you were talking
about.
Noah عليه السلام, of course, was the opposite
of that.
And that's what we're going to learn from
this...
The words that Ayat I'm going to talk
about in a moment, are basically a khutbah
of his, or a sermon, or a lesson
that he gave.
And I want you to listen to the
elements of this lesson, and tell me where
we are from what Noah عليه السلام offered.
Surah Nuh, Surah Al-Khamsah, Part 29.
The section from the kingship to the messengers.
This is the section that talks about Da
'wah.
The Muslim's share of everything, so that he
can make a good Da'wah to Allah.
Examples of Da'wah.
Why do we need to make a Da
'wah?
We need to make a Da'wah to
Allah.
And how do we make a Da'wah
to Allah?
All of this is discussed by this section,
and discussed by these chapters, all of them
from different angles.
And the first four chapters, discuss the Muslim's
share of knowledge, of the four basic issues
that a person needs.
Your share of knowledge in Surah Al-Mulk,
and your share of values and morals in
Surah Al-Qalam, and your share of spirituality,
and the connection, and the promise, the motivation,
the fear, and the desire, in Surah Al
-Haqqa, and your share of good conduct in
Surah Al-Ma'arij.
This is what a person needs to make
a Da'wah.
If a Muslim doesn't have any of these
elements, the Da'wah won't be fulfilled.
Rather, it may fail miserably.
If a Muslim lacks qualities and values, or
lacks knowledge, or lacks good conduct, or lacks
spiritual connection to the words that he says,
he won't reach the meaning, won't lead people,
won't benefit, won't benefit, and won't benefit from
his words.
This is what this chapter talked about.
Today, we talked about Surah An-Nuh, and
this chapter shows an example of Da'wah.
An excellent example, an example of Da'wah,
but also shows how this example failed in
Da'wah.
Not because of its style, and not because
of its content, but because things are like
that.
Sometimes you put in all your effort, and
then things don't go as you want.
But the question is, if you put in
all your effort and it doesn't come to
fruition, then is it your right to blame
people?
Is it your right to say that people
are the ones who have the problem, and
the people don't understand, and people don't understand,
and they left the religion?
Or is it your right to ask yourself
about the effort you put in?
Or is it your right to ask yourself,
did I put in all my effort?
Was my style correct?
Was my content correct?
There is a lot of audacity among those
who talk about religion, and those who talk
about religious matters, to blame people for misguidance,
and blame them for corruption, and blame them
on what basis?
Listen to Noah, peace be upon him.
When you listen to these verses in Surah
Nuh, you feel that you are standing behind
him, peace be upon him, waiting to be
judged.
And he is preparing to defend himself.
This is Noah, one of the great messengers,
peace be upon him.
He is preparing to defend himself.
He prayed to Allah for 950 years.
He brought with him 80 men.
In the standards of this world, this is
considered a failure.
He didn't fulfill his request.
His people didn't believe.
His son and his wife didn't believe with
him.
What is the reason, Noah?
The question is, what is the reason?
He has to explain, and prove that he
didn't fail.
This is what we lack.
We have religious institutions in the Islamic world,
and outside the Islamic world, and supplications, and
prayers.
We lack this feeling.
You see, people didn't respond to me.
Whose fault is it?
We lack this feeling that maybe it's my
fault.
Maybe I made a mistake in the way
I presented the speech.
Maybe the official narration that I came up
with, and the religious discourse that I spread
among people, needs to be reviewed and reviewed.
And the principles that I spoke about, don't
concern people, and don't affect their lives.
And don't answer their questions, and don't provide
them with solutions.
Allah, the Almighty, says, We have sent Noah
to his people, to warn your people.
He said, O my people, I am a
clear warner to you, that they should worship
Allah, and fear Him, and obey Him, that
He may forgive you of your sins, and
delay you.
But they did not respond to him.
This is the summary of the story.
The story of Noah is finished in this
surah.
Now, let's listen to Noah.
He is defending himself in front of Allah.
Of course, the end of the story will
be at the end of the surah.
But for us, we know the issue.
Now, let's listen to Noah.
He said, O my Lord, I called upon
my people night and day.
So my supplication did not increase them except
in flight.
And every time I called upon them, to
forgive them, they put their fingers in their
ears, and covered their clothes, and insisted, and
were arrogant, and arrogant.
Then I called upon them openly.
Then I announced to them, and I kept
secrets to them.
The Hadith begins, peace and blessings be upon
him, with how much?
As for the time, O my Lord, I
did not fail.
Night and day.
I spoke to them in full, I spoke
to them individually, I spoke to them in
secret, I spoke to them openly.
I came to them time and time again,
and reminded them of forgiveness, and there was
no benefit.
They became more insistent and hated.
They insisted on me, and I returned to
them, and they did not despair.
It is not the case that I came
to them, and they covered their clothes, and
insisted, and I said, No, I will return,
and I returned.
And every time I returned to them, time
and time again, and every time I came
to them, they became more distant from me,
and they followed me.
The time was excellent.
I did not fail in the time, O
my Lord.
I did not sleep.
I did not be lazy.
I did not be lazy in calling to
You, O my Lord.
This is good.
This is excellent.
So why did they not believe?
The problem, O Noah, is not the number
of times you called them.
The problem is not the number of times
you called them, O Noah.
The problem is the speech.
The problem today, my brothers, is the speech.
You can make a channel, and sit in
front of the screen, and talk about twenty
-four or twenty-seven religions.
But if your speech is a failed speech,
a wrong speech, a speech that does not
explain anything to the audience, and does not
contain awareness, and does not contain knowledge, and
does not contain a sound way of thinking,
people will respond to you, and you will
be held accountable on the Day of Resurrection.
You will not be able to say, By
Allah, I sit and talk to people day
and night.
We understand, but what did you say?
So the question became for Noah, peace be
upon him, What did you say?
Let us see what you said.
So Noah, peace be upon him, is now
explaining, and what we will hear now is
a speech for Noah.
I mean, it is strange, by Allah, this
speech that we will hear, a speech for
a prophet, you say, by Allah, we are
in another place when we speak.
So what did he say?
This is what he says.
فَقُلْتُ اِسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ
عَلَيْكُمْ مِدْرَارًا وَيُمْدِدِكُمْ بِأَمْوَالٍ وَبَنِينٍ وَيَجْعَلْ لَكُمْ
جَنَّاتٍ وَيَجْعَلْ لَكُمْ أَنْهَارًا The first thing I
told them is istaghfar.
You need to ask for forgiveness.
Why?
Because if you ask for forgiveness, you build
a civilization.
Because once you ask for forgiveness, you are
capable of identifying your mistakes.
Once you identify your mistakes, then you are
less likely to make them again.
Which means every day you get better.
Every day you take a look at the
mistakes you made yesterday, and you take out
a few of them, so the next day
you are not making those same mistakes, so
that means you are a better version of
yourself from yesterday.
And today you do the same thing, so
tomorrow you are a better version, and the
day after that, and every day the community
gets a bit better.
And we move forward.
This is istaghfar that builds a civilization that
allows communities to prosper.
And he explains that if you do that,
يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِدْرَارًا khayr will start coming
to you.
You'll see more khayr when you get better,
when you treat everything around you better, when
you treat each other better, when you treat
your environment better, and you treat your community
and your better to everything around you, then
khayr is going to start to happen.
More rain will come, more food from the
earth will come, bigger families, more wealth.
Everything will get better.
If you get better, then everything around you
is going to get better.
That's the first thing he told him to
do, عَلَيْهِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِدْرَارًا You have to
change our character.
You have to make a change.
You have to make a change that is
embedded in our relationship with Allah ﷻ, that
will lead to actual achievement in life.
And then he goes like this, مَا لَكُمْ
لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا Why is it that
you don't have the proper respect for your
Lord?
وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًا And He created you in
stages.
أَلَمْ تَرَوْ كَيْفَ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ سَبَعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ طِبَاقًا
وَجَعَلَ الْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا وَجَعَلَ الشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًا Didn't
you see how Allah ﷻ created the cosmos,
one layer upon the other?
And there's light in the moon, and there's
a burning sun above you that gives you
energy.
وَاللَّهُ أَنْبَتَكُمْ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ نَبَاتًا Indeed Allah ﷻ
grew you out of the earth like a
plant.
ثُمَّ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِيهَا And then He'll have you
go back to it again.
Once you die, you'll go back into the
earth.
وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ إِخْرَاجًا And He'll extract you from it
again.
وَاللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْأَرْضَ بِسَاطًا لِتَسْلُكُ مِنْهَا سُبُلًا
فِي جَاجًا Indeed He made this earth easy
for you to move around on.
It's like a carpet.
You can just walk wherever you want.
لِتَسْلُكُ مِنْهَا So that you may go and
search and see the different pathways that exist
in it.
لِتَسْلُكُ مِنْهَا سُبُلًا فِي جَاجًا This is His
khutbah.
There's more science and nature in His khutbah
than you will find in all the khutbah
that are given in the Islamic world today
in a year.
He speaks of more science, of more natural
phenomena that you're supposed to be looking at
and benefiting from.
He's talking about the creation of the cosmos
and the moon and the sun, and our
creation in stages coming from the earth going
back into it, the ease of movement on
earth.
At a time I'm sure they weren't very
advanced technologically or scientifically back at the time
of Nuh عليه السلام.
And yet he's using, that is the narrative
that he uses عليه السلام.
He speaks to them of the future.
He gives them the evidence that they need
in order to build their iman in Allah
سبحانه وتعالى from the surrounding universe that they
live in.
This is Nuh عليه السلام's khutbah.
استغفروا ربكم If you change your behavior, things
will get better.
You will start to see the prosperity.
And you need to know Allah سبحانه وتعالى,
know what He created, where you came from,
where everything came from, how it works, how
the systems are all intricately working together.
This is Nuh عليه السلام's khutbah.
This is his narrative.
This is the narrative that Allah سبحانه وتعالى
is going to okay يوم القيامة.
He's going to be okay with it.
I don't know if other narratives will be.
I don't know if you offer a narrative
that lacks logic, that lacks science, that lacks
the proper understanding and relevance of the world
around us and lacks actual change in behavior
that can bring prosperity.
I wonder if a narrative like that will
be accepted يوم القيامة.
If we talk about things that are trivial
or that are controversial, and controversial I mean
in a negative way, where they don't offer
any change in people's behavior but they fill
people's minds with hatred and bigotry, then what
exactly are we doing?
Nuh عليه السلام, this is a khutbah that
was given 10,000 years ago.
We get to listen to it from the
Qur'an.
This is a khutbah from the Qur'an
10,000 years old.
What do you think someone is speaking 10
,000 years ago about?
استغفروا يرسل السماء ويمدجكم ويجعل لكم ما لكم
لا ترجون لله وقارا خلقكم أطوار I created
you in stages أنت رو كيف خلق الله
سبع سماء He's talking about creation.
He's talking about the stages of how life
exists on earth, and what comes from the
sky.
He's talking about the universe to look at
it, to take from it the knowledge and
the science that you need in order to
believe in Allah سبحانه وتعالى properly and then
revere Him properly and then follow His path
properly.
This is what prophets did.
This is the narrative that Allah سبحانه وتعالى
is okay with and will accept.
I don't know about any other narrative and
how He would deal with it سبحانه وتعالى
So Nuh عليه السلام at this point has
proven to Allah سبحانه وتعالى that I, in
terms of quantity, I did my part.
In terms of quality, here is an example
of what I used to tell them.
So he's able to defend himself that he
did it right.
He did it properly.
This time it wasn't his fault.
Because nine times out of ten, when people
don't respond to what you're doing, you're not
doing it right.
That's how society works.
Nine times out of ten, if people don't
like what you're doing, they don't respond to
it, they're not engaged, then you're doing it
wrong.
You need to...
It's your job, it's your obligation, it's your
ethical and religious obligation to revise everything, not
to blame societies, not to blame people.
Learn this from Nuh.
He is standing there on the Day of
Judgment trying to defend...
He knows he has to defend himself.
He knows he has to defend himself.
Isa عليه السلام is going to have to
defend himself.
يَا عِيسَى أَأَنتَ قُلْتَ لِلنَّاسِ اِتَّخِذُونِي وَأُمِّيَا إِلَٰهِينِ
مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ Isa, did you tell the
people to worship yourself and your mother?
He didn't, but he has to defend himself
on the Day of Judgment about it.
Go to Surah Al-Ma'idah and you'll
see a long defense trying to explain that
he didn't.
But he has to, because if people did
something and a lot of them did it,
9 times out of 10, it's your fault.
There are exceptions of course.
The Prophets are examples of those exceptions.
Now the question is, are we as well?
As I stand and we give our khutbahs
and we do our things, and no one
is engaged and no one is benefiting, can
I say the same thing?
Oh, it's people.
I'm doing this 100% correctly.
Who has the guts to do that anyways?
Who has in their hearts fearfulness of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, reverence of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, and the guts to say,
no, it's people's problems, not mine.
I'm doing it right.
I know what I'm doing.
It doesn't exist.
It never does.
We are not as good as Nuh a
.s. And Nuh a.s. did not say
that.
Nuh a.s. explained in detail how he
tried everything, how he changed his methodology.
He came from every angle that he could
and he was giving a very modern perspective.
The content of his narrative was very modern.
He was talking science.
He was talking logic.
He was talking creation.
He was talking phenomena of the universe.
That's how he was trying to explain.
He was talking about building civilization through changes
that start in the heart.
It's beautiful.
The details of the khutbah are beautiful.
It's worth even having a full session just
about it.
And then the surah continues to say what
happens.
قَالَ نُوحَ الرَّبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِينَ وَاتَّبَعُوا مَنْ لَمْ
يَزِدُهُ مَالُهُ وَبَلَدُهُ إِلَّا خَسَارًا وَمَكَرُوا مَكْرًا كُبَّارًا
وَقَالُوا لَا تَذَرُنَّ آلِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا
سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا وَقَدَ أَضَلُّوا كَثِيرًا
وَلَا تَزِدُوا الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا ظَلَالًا And
the surah names the idols, and there's a
symbolism for each of those idols.
I'll leave it because I'm running out of
time.
But each of those idols names a symbol
for a problem that we struggle with.
And then at the end of the surah,
when no one believes, مِمَّا خَطِيَاتِهِمْ أُغْرِقُوا فَأُدْخِرُوا
نَارًا فَلَمْ يَجِدُوا لَهُمْ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ أَنصَارًا
And because of their sins and the refusal
of Nuh عليه السلام's message, they were all
drowned and they were punished.
And Nuh عليه السلام said, وَقَالَ نُوحُ رَبِّ
لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ دَيَّارًا When
Nuh عليه السلام was told by Allah سبحانه
وتعالى, no one is going to believe in
you, it's done.
Nuh عليه السلام until that moment, he had
hope, he kept on going back with more
and more because he knew, I have to
have results to show, I can't come Yawm
al-Qiyamah with 50 people.
I have to be able to change and
turn this around.
And he was told, لَيُؤْمِنَ مِنْ قَوْمِكَ إِلَّا
مَنْ قَدْ آمَنُ Look, no one is going
to believe, it's over.
At that point, Nuh عليه السلام made dua
against his own people.
It's hurt him, but he had to.
And the reason he did it, إِنَّكَ إِنْ
تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّ عِبَادَكَ وَلَا يَلِدُ إِلَّا فَاجِرًا كَفَّارًا
Now he's afraid for the believers that he
has.
That if they continue to live their lives
the way they're living it, they're going to
lead his followers astray.
So he made that dua.
رَبْ يَغْفِرْ لِي وَلِي وَلِي دَيَّا وَلِي المُؤْمِنِينَ
رَبْ يَغْفِرْ لِي وَلِي دَيَّا وَلِي مَنْ دَخْلَ
بَيْتِي مُؤْمِنًا وَلِي الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَلَا تَزِلِي
الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارًا And he makes a beautiful
dua that we use quite often.
Ya Rabb, forgive me and forgive my parents
and forgive everyone that has دَخْلَ بَيْتِي He
not entered my house, but entered my deen,
became a part of my covenant, became a
part of my faith.
Everyone who entered, my deen, mu'min.
And all the believers, male and female.
And as far as the oppressors, those who
harm others and transgress against others, may you
punish them.
That's a du'a that is only made
in a situation where Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala tells you that these people are done,
that there's no hope anymore.
The importance of this surah is understanding that
when things don't work out, we have to
hold ourselves accountable first.
We have to wonder what we're doing wrong.
Da'wah has to be done properly, both
in quantity and in quality.
And when it does not show results, we
have to question ourselves first, time and time
again.
And we keep on questioning ourselves until Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that no
one's gonna believe and it's their fault.
Whenever that happens for you, go ahead.
Look to people and say, it's their fault,
it's their problem, I'm doing it right, go
ahead.
But if he doesn't do that subhanahu wa
ta'ala, and FYI, he won't, then you're
stuck with living like Nuh a.s. did
until that last moment, which is just keep
on questioning yourself and trying harder, and changing
your methods and changing the way you're doing
it.
Nuh a.s. was told, it's it, stop.
وَلَا تُخَاطِبَنِي فِي الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا Don't talk to
me about them, Ya Nuh, anymore.
Don't ask, give me more time, let me
try again.
Ya Rabb, give me another chance.
Because Nuh a.s. was persistent, he didn't
wanna stop.
But he was told, that's it, it's over.
They're going to be punished, and Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala made his decision.
So Nuh a.s. made dua for it
to be quick, so that he can hold
on to whoever he has in terms of
his believers, and his followers a.s. But
the concept here is extremely, extremely important, and
very, very valuable.
And like a lot of our problems today
as Muslims, is the solution is if you
just understood, if you just understood Surah Nuh,
and put ourselves in the mindset of Nuh
a.s. And you'll see that things will
change once that's the case.
I hope that was beneficial.
Subhanallah wa bihamdik.
Shadu an la ilaha illa anta astaghfiruka wa
atubu ilayk.
Wa sallallahu wa sallam wa baraka ala nabiyyina
Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
Jazakumullah khayran.
Barakallahu feekum.
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.