Adnan Rajeh – Tafsir of Surat Al-Raad Part 8
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The importance of understanding laws and strong understanding of them is emphasized in the context of surah. The speaker discusses the need for a wake-up call and the importance of understanding laws and the need for a strong understanding of them. The speaker emphasizes the importance of living according to laws and finding the right person to be at the end of life. The speaker also warns against asking questions and emphasizes the need for clear guidance and clarity in the process. The importance of learning and finding the right person is emphasized, and the discussion of cusp and the belief that everything is possible is discussed.
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If everyone allows me to, to do that,
I'll do it.
Otherwise, we'll
Surat,
I've wanted to do tafsir of it for
a long time,
and
I'm
semi I semi regretted doing it
during these during the weekend of this year,
in Ramadan, just because
I've a 6 a 6 pager
needs a little bit more than 4,
4 weekends to to comfortably do tafsiram and
explain.
I think I probably needed like a, 9
days instead of 8. But nonetheless, I think
insha'Allah if you attended it and you've listened
to the bulk or the majority of
these duroos,
hopefully you have an appreciation of what the
surah was teaching and what it was trying
to explain to us,
especially the importance of,
of haqqah.
This surah, that's its main theme,
is is righteousness,
is the truth
as the ultimate law, as the most important
law that exists within the world around us,
and and the fact that without understanding this
law, without adhering to what this law actually
requires from us, then we will not succeed.
And I think
I think as an ummah we we need
a little bit of a reminder of that
or some degree of a of a wake
up call.
That Allah
created these laws
and he expects us to abide by them.
He expects us to to live by these
laws.
You can't you can't imagine that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala created the world in a certain
way,
and yet he's going to grant you success
and victory if
going against all of the laws that he
created. This this would not come to a
certain degree of cognitive dissonance that is that
is concerning.
What Allah
put on earth, Yani, the law of Haqq
and the law of change,
and the basics that we understand, meaning if
you work hard, you achieve. If you don't
work hard, you don't achieve. If you if
you're united, you're strong. If you're divided, you're
weak. These are the basic laws. How if
we imagine that somehow we're going to go
against all those laws and still everything's gonna
work out for us, that means we don't
understand.
There's a lot that we don't understand. Like,
there's there's a lot of that needs to
be fixed, and that's what Surat Rad basically
is is is is trying to explain to
us. That you have to understand that
aside from the laws of fiqh
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have in in
his sharia, which are important. We have to
know them. We have to learn these laws
and we have to live by them as
well. There are laws that precede the laws
of fiqh, which is the laws that govern
the universe and govern the world that we
live in. Those are his laws.
Right. They're his laws. We don't sometimes we
don't understand. Gravity
Newton didn't invent it. He just described it.
Gravity is God's law. That's what Allah
made. It belongs to God. He made it
The law of the law that those who
are righteous will prevail, that's his law. The
law that those who are powerful will will
succeed, that's his law. That's what he he
made that law.
We sometimes
we sometimes disconnect these basic
natural laws from Allah. We think of something
natural and we disconnect it from Allah
And I don't understand why
all the laws of nature are his laws
He's the one who created them. I want
you to the next time
you study
physics or you study chemistry, you study biology,
and you're learning about the laws that govern
the world, remind yourself that these laws are
not man made.
They're man described. They're God made. They're His.
He owns them. He put them here. You
don't precede God. You don't come before Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. They came after. He made
them Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And since he made
them, he expects us not only to observe
them, he expects us to honor them and
he expects us to use them
appropriately.
And if we decide to go against them,
not to sit around asking questions why it
didn't work out.
Like we we we shouldn't
We should have enough
and clarity not to sit around and ask
God, why didn't this work out? Yahweh, why
didn't this work out? Well, you followed none
of my laws. None of them.
You are not united. You are not strong.
You are not educated. You You had What
did you think? What did you expect?
What did you think was going to happen?
You thought this was going to work out,
honestly you did. Your problems way
beyond whatever I can explain to you through
surah. If you think an Ummah that is
divided, that is uneducated,
that
is far away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
that has no power, that has no resources,
that produces nothing, that has no sense of
togetherness, that somehow is going to prevail.
And then I say this and someone jumps
and says, Allah,
Yes. Of course.
But he also put these laws in place
for us to follow.
And if we don't follow then
it's it's disrespectful
to turn to him and say, well why?
Forty men ran down a mountain.
They paid for it for 6 years.
40 men. 40 out of 700.
What is that? What's 40 out of 700?
I did this math before, by the way,
and I and I can't remember it. It's
less what is this? Less than 1%.
Am I right to say that? No.
It's 2 point something percent. It's just it's
less than 10. Right? That's it. 40 men.
They divided by 700? Yeah. Yeah. Point 0.
Yeah. Is that okay? 15 1.5.
Right?
1%. Yep. No. No. No. It's not so
so it's 1.5. What else?
I am physician. I I lost math years
ago. I I I lost my mathematical computer,
but we don't have to get into the
semantics of this.
Yeah. Guys, what? Yeah.
So you're talking about less than less than
5% of people. Yeah. Less than ran down
the mountain. They paid for it for 6
years.
The prophet alaihis salam paid for it physically.
The sahabah paid with it through their lives.
You're talking about some of the greatest names
that ever lived. You're talking about Khamzab ibn
Abdul Talib, Mus'ad ibn Umayr
and Anas ibn Nadur. These people fell that
day.
Yazid ibn II and his group, the prophet
didn't look the same. Didn't look the same.
There was a scar on his face. There
was a tooth that was broken. They continued
to assassinate Muslims for years to come. All
of them all of it because they the
day of Oud happened because they
for 6 years they paid for this.
One mistake.
One mistake. They paid they lost and they
paid for
it. We honestly think that we can we
can afford to go against all of his
laws
and still hope for an outcome that is,
I don't I don't get it.
I really don't. And that's why I'm I
chose this surah because it it gives you
laws. Here's the law. Change. You want change?
You have to change. If you don't it's
not everything stays the same. It's impossible.
What you see today when people come to
Masajid, this is not this is this is
the intention of change. It's not change. It's
the intention of change. When people come to
Masajid and they fill the room and start
praying, that is the intention
of change. It is not change.
Change happens after. Change happens outside. Change if
you
change is what's going to come next.
This is just the big this is just
the intention.
This is just the I need the Yeah.
That's all it is. And and that's important
to take take into consideration to understand if
we actually
hope that within another another generation we'll see
something different in the world, then we have
to take we have to study this Surah,
we have to study this law, and we
have to live by it in order for
us to achieve the objective. We'll start in
InshaAllah, ayah number 38. We'll InshaAllah conclude the
Surah at ayah 43, bint alaykta'ala. So we'll
start from ayah number 38 in Surah
So after the verses that we explained yesterday
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala pointed out a
few truths
to the to the court regarding
disbelief, regarding mockery, and regarding
lacking
substance in in the claim in the claims
that you make, lacking the ability to define
what you're saying and actually using words appropriately,
I took some time in explaining that and
how that
that's what they're accountable for. He says, subhanahu
wa ta'ala here, and this is for the
prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam, and this
this was something for him to contemplate.
We have sent prophets before you.
And we made for them, we gave them
spouses, and we gave them offspring
and children.
Meaning the claim that the kuffar would make
in Nuhiyari, why are we why are
we accepting him, why are we believing in
him, and he's just
This this ongoing rhetoric of why is it
that we're leaving in a person.
Where is the Prophet who eats food like
us and walks in the markets and buys
things and has a family?
They were using this this was the argument
that they were using. In order for us
to believe in what you're saying, you have
to give us something different.
And the argument in the Quran is
We would never send anything but a human
being. If you were to send a malak,
he would look like a human being. Eat
like a human being, walk like a human,
talk like a human. You wouldn't know wouldn't
know that he was a was a medic.
It has to be a human being. It
has to come be someone like you. How
else are you going to learn? How else
are you going to emulate? How else are
you going to follow? You can't follow someone
who is not similar to you. You can't
follow someone who has whom you have nothing
in common with. It makes no sense. Actually
actually, if he sent that, your argument would
be amazingly strong. If Allah subhanahu wa'ala sent
a malak or sent something else and say,
hey, be like this person. Well, I'm not
I'm not like that. Whatever it is that
you send, I'm not like this at all.
I can't be like them. Make me like
them and I'll be like them.
So he sent Rusul, human beings like yourself.
Rusul al kablik.
This is a this is a fact. The
rest of the surah as I explained this
to you are just truths. Just truth, just
facts, just laws. Here's here's what happened. Rusul
Al An Al Qabrik have been sent many
times.
And all them had spouses and they had
children.
Many prophets.
The beauty of our of our perspective as
Muslim is that not only do we expect
accept all of the prophets that exist in
the old testament and in the bible and
the the prophets, the 25, they're accounted in
the Quran. But we accept every other prophet,
the ones that we don't even know, which
is what this ai is trying to explain
many, many times before. Allah subhanahu wa'ala sent
prophets. We accept them all.
We believe every major faith was a was
was basically a prophet that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala sent with a book. And, of course,
the hand of man manipulated that teaching. It
ended up something that it's not,
and that's what we have right now. You
end up with this end product that is
completely different. There are remnants of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala's teaching in it. That's why all
of the faiths are certain parallels you can
draw between faiths. They all talk about some
degree of accountability. They have the idea of
jahannam, they have the idea of nawr, they
have the idea of creation. They have these
parallels. These parallels actually prove that the that
the original story is the same.
Sometimes it's used as an opposite argument that
oh people just copycat. No. No. This is
this is evidence that no matter where you
go on earth, you find the same basic
story. Some there are variations but the same
story. And the reason being it's the same
story is that the origin is the same.
They all came from prophets and then the
hand of man manipulated. So Allah subhanahu wa'ala
is telling the prophet,
We have sent many prophets before you.
And no prophet was able to bring a
miracle
except through the permission of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. Again, telling the prophet alaihis salatu wasalam,
the reason you don't have one is because
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not give you
the permission to have anything aside from the
Quran that we just talked about in the
in the verses before. Meaning,
the concept of the of the importance of
the significance of the Quran that it was
discussed in the page before
The prophet alaihis salatu wasalam was being told,
look, you don't have something because I'm sure
for in his mind and the mind in
the hearts of the Sahaba as well, maybe
maybe having a,
you know,
some physical
extraordinary phenomenon
helped the credibility along a little bit.
It may be something
something he could do every once in a
while, alayhis salatu wa sallam.
You know? Like a ta da
that everyone has to listen.
Musa alayhis salam had it. Asa had it.
So he's probably wondering, like, why no. You
have the Quran. The whole idea is you
have the we don't need you don't need
you need If we gave you something, it
would be saying that the Quran is not
enough. If we gave you something, it would
be an admission from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Yeah. The Quran is not enough. Here's here's
an accessory. Here's here's some help. You don't
need it. You have this. You don't need
it.
You absolutely don't need it.
Was it true is that the truth or
not?
Has it not has that not been proven?
Look at this. You're talking 2,000,000,000 people, one
of the largest faiths on the planet.
Most argue it's the largest because, I mean,
the numbers regarding Christianity are convoluted,
and they're putting together groups
of Christians that have nothing in common whatsoever,
and it points out the majority of the
I mean, the majority of the people that
they're counting as Christians are actually non religious
altogether.
Like it's not it's not fair, but that's
fine. Let's let's let's let's say that it's
the 2nd largest faith on the earth. It's
like about 2,000,000,000 people.
That prophet came
with nothing extraordinary.
It came with a book and today has
2,000,000,000 followers on the planet.
Yeah. Enough or not enough.
You're summarizing? This is this is what I'm
trying to explain. All the other prophecies before
they had they had something. They had some
what you know, some miracle, something that was
that broke the laws of physics for a
moment. The laws that he's talking about in
the Surah Al Farhad. All the laws that
he explained to us at the beginning of
the Surah.
Some prophet came and broke them.
Water is fluid? Nope. Not anymore.
Right?
Broke these laws. So the Roth came says
these are the laws. They're not breakable and
we're going to give you a book that
actually teaches you to honor those laws. And
when you honor those laws, that's when you're
going to be success successful, and time will
prove it and time did
and time did. And we are an umrah
whose miracle is a book.
Go home with that today.
You're an you're a part of an whose
miracle is a book. It's a book.
That's your miracle. That's what you have. That's
what you That's what when Musa hits those
stuff and and Isa alayhis salam resurrects the
dead and Salih alayhis salam breaks the boulder
in the mountain, you hold a book. That's
what you're going to do. And if you
feel less,
yeah, less impressive,
less powerful
because of it, then you just you have
not understood.
This book teaches you how to live according
to the laws that he put here, and
that's stronger than anything else. It's way more
powerful than any other. Yeah. Any
show of a of a break of those
laws for a moment.
Breaking those laws for a second just for
people to be impressed. Now this is more
Every matter that is destined has a decreed
time.
Every issue in this world, every
matter in this world,
everything
that goes through the course of time has
a decreed moment where it ends or where
it begins or it becomes powerful or when
it ends.
Nikul li ajalim kitab. Everything.
There's always everything runs its course in this
world. Everything runs its course. And when does
the course end? It ends whenever whenever the
kitab says so. Whenever the decree time that
was given by Allah
is given.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala erases and deletes whoever
he wants.
And he confirms whatever he wants.
He has the master of records.
I talked about this a lot in the
aqeeda courses because I think it's important and
this is a really strong powerful ayah. It
could take a long time talking to you
about it and explaining certain aspects of qaba
and qadr through it. I'm gonna summarize it
quickly for you so you understand what I'm
what I'm trying to say. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala has multiple records.
There's a record called the luh al mahfood.
On in that record, everything that has ever
happened and will ever happen, isn't it? It?
No one sees or knows anything within that
record aside from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. There
is no living creature that has read that
record or seen what it is. It's loah
al mahbooh. This is concealed.
It's the concealed luh.
Luh is yaniyah scripture.
Umulkitah,
the Master of Records. This is something
that creations have access to and they see.
And this is what the maraikha writes. And
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, as far as
this record goes,
He will erase certain information and put other
information. Mean this is where your behaviors have
effect. This is where your dua, where your
choices, where your decisions will change the course
of how things work out for you in
your life.
If you were create if you were born
in a situation
where
the higher likelihood of your destination was going
to be failure or is going to be
disbelief and you made choices to change that,
this is where,
If you had made choices that were dusting
you to jahannam and you made a choice
in your life that turned your Amey dua,
that's where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala yam told
the fact that you're going in that direction
and put in something different.
All of that information, all of those changes
that are occurring are documented Filloo hil Mahfool
and they never change.
All of those variations and all those
changes that are occurring, Allah yamgo
yusbit and you make choices and then Allah
shay all of that is already documented below
al Mahwoo, but no one sees it. No
one has access to it.
Umul Kitab is where Mala'i can see and
maybe some other creations have access to as
well.
And that's what the Malay comes and writes
when the when they say
That's Umul Kitab.
That's basically the the destination based on your
circumstances and then you get to make changes
to that. Your choices in life will afflict
will affect that and will will influence it.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will erase certain things
and he will confirm other things
as you go along. But all that information,
the end outcome of it all with all
of the variations of details
is in the law al mahfoo
which no one has access to but Allah
So just as a side thought as you
kind of wrap your head around this. When
you say what's already written in Allah subhanahu
wa la ilaha ill mahood. So I ask
you this. What is written?
What what's in there?
Like, I don't know. If you don't know,
then what does it matter?
If you don't know, how does it matter?
If you're like, well, it's written. I know.
But what is written? Is it written that
you're gonna do well or not gonna do
well? I don't know. Then then how does
that affect you? If you don't know what's
written,
it's majhool. It's unknown. If you don't know
what the number is. If you don't know
what the actual writing is, then why are
you so preoccupied that it's written? If you
don't know what's written, you have no idea
what's there. If it was given to you
that it's written, Shaqih,
I'm not gonna make it and then you
can have an argument with me. Yeah, It'll
be a more much more and more and
much more interesting discussion you and I will
have in business. But you don't know what's
written. So what exactly are we discussing?
Like I don't understand what when you come
and say, well, it's written and I can't.
What is written? That's the first thing that
comes out. It's already written and I can't
hold on. What is already written? What I'm
going to do? Which is what?
Which is what? What is it that you're
going to do?
And then the person just, well, I haven't
decided yet. Exactly. You haven't decided yet. Decide.
Decide what you're going to do and that
will be written. There's no point of having
a discussion on things being written when you
don't know what is written.
I'm just arguing this from a different perspective
instead of arguing. I usually explain aqidah differently.
But I'm just giving a simple side argument.
The human being loves to hold on to,
yeah, any,
to futile yeah, any points in in discussion
and conversation. I I spent the majority of
my twenties in debate, by the way.
I used to I used to used to
drive for a couple of 100 kilometers just
to go debate people. I had a few
friends. This is all we did And we
would debate them just
as the opposite of whatever they were.
We had no interest of being we just
whatever they were. What were you? And then
we we we would argue as the opposite.
And the point was using they were Muslims,
Yani. They're similar. And the point was to
say that, yeah, Haqq is not always just
in one small little group of maybe a
couple of hundred people. The haqdah is actually
the the Islam is a river. It's not
really a line. So maybe you have an
opinion here, but there's other opinions that can
be acceptable as well. And when you have
and sometimes and sometimes the discussions that come
up with with the khutbah and qadr are
very, very futile and they're very weak and
they lack any, yeah, any substance really. It's
already written. You get you hear this all
the time. Yeah. What is? Just ask that
question. Ask them what what is written? What
I'm going to do, which is what?
And then they have to either say whatever
Allah wants me to do, which means, oh,
so you have no control over your actions
at all. You feel right now that you're
you you want to get up, but you
can't. You don't you wanna be here. But
you have no choice because Allah has to
keep that is that what you're saying?
Listen to how ridiculous that is.
Everyone chooses to do whatever they want to
do. So you choose what you're going to
do. And whatever you do is what's going
to be written. And the outcome of your
choice is what's going to be written there.
So don't get caught up. The problem would
be if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wrote it
and then he shared it, that would be
a problem. If he shared it with you,
and then, okay, what are we gonna do?
How how do you have this discussion? But
since you don't know, then really there's no
point of having this discussion altogether.
He erases what he wants. He confirms what
he wants. He has the master of records,
and
you still have influence on it. And that's
one of his laws.
Alright.
So he says
either
you will live long enough to see
some of what we have promised the disbelievers
in terms of punishment,
or you die before that.
End of his life, alayhis salatu wasalam, was
a promise that he was going to live
to fulfill 1 more or 1 or 2
more things, which was the Hajj and But
in Makkah, he was never promised alayhi salatu
wa sallam that he was going to actually
live long enough. Sallallahu alaihi wasallahu alaihi wasallam.
He wasn't told that. And that's a really
important part of our of
Either you live long enough and you see
some of what we have promised the kuffar
in terms of their failure, in terms of
their and their and of their defeat, and
the success of this dawah and the success
the success of the of the message of
Al Haqq or
you die before that.
So so remember exclusively, your job is balaar.
This is education.
It's to make sure that you explain things
to people. You warn them and you give
them the the info.
Will take care of the of judgment. We'll
judge people.
The prophet
with this verse,
he's being told exactly what all of us
are being told. And this is this is
like the
it's the most widespread and the simplest piece
of advice for all of us. You don't
know.
You have no idea what you're destined for.
You don't know how long you're going to
live and what exactly you're gonna
end up being able to witness and see
within your life. All you know is what
it is that you're here to do. Yeah.
Which is what? For the prophet alaihis salaam
is
very clear. He is
that's what he has to do. He he
has
to
You are you are obligated to to educate
and explain. Right?
You live long enough to see the, the
outcomes. You don't live long and if it
works out, it doesn't work out. That's all
in the air. Allahu Alem.
It's really not your it's not your part
to know this or to dictate it or
to you know so
Before I do this, I need to know
conditionally will it work out because it's not
gonna work out. I don't wanna waste my
time. No. No. Same thing goes for you
and I. We have a job to do.
We have a job to do. It's a
mission. We have to fulfill it. We have
to live our lives fulfilling that job that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us. This is
what he put us here on earth to
do. Whether we see the outcomes or we
don't, it works out in our lifetime or
it doesn't, whether everything we do ends up
failing or it succeeds has nothing to do
with it. We used to just do it.
What's your job?
Balal plus a bunch of other stuff that
we have to do. I mean the prophet
alaihis salam at that time was balal. His
in Mecca was balal. It turned into something
much more much more complex later on when
he moved to Medina, and he was ruling
a country and he was it was it
turned But at that point in Mecca, Baral
just explain. Just go and speak to people,
which he did sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He wouldn't have spoke to everyone he could.
He reached out to every human being he
possibly could, alayhis salaam.
So we have to just identify what is
it that we have to do? What are
our obligations?
The final insha'Allah fajr in Youani, which is
going to be Tuesday since Eid is Wednesday.
I'm going to share with you like a
Ramadan, an end of Ramadan, Yani.
Reflection
and plan for moving forward.
Monday, I usually, usually we do Isma'atul UHisma.
I've completed the names. I want to do
Monday will be the finale of that series
of Ismail Al Khusra. Then Tuesday, since it's
30th morning, and if I have to sit
here and talk, then you have to sit
here and listen because it's nayani. But if
I have to be here then you have
to be here. You're not gonna get to
pray for children and go home. You have
to sit here and listen to me because
I when I'm done then we'll all leave
together. Then I'll share with you a couple
of points and ideas of what it is
we should be thinking of doing because the
Quran is really very, very big on the
concept of, look,
stop asking and focusing on aspects that you
of life and existence that you don't have
control over, that you were never asked to
to look into or to take interest in
to begin with.
Focus on the piece of the work that
you're responsible for and just do that and
leave everything else because you can't control it
and it's beyond your reach.
He if the prophet, alayhis salatu wasalam, sallallahu
alayhi wasalam, sallallahu alayhi wasalam, is being told
you live, you die. Who knows?
This to me is
I always thought when I was a kid
that he's he must have been because that's
that's how we
all the movies are like that. You know,
the one is always told that eventually you'll
make it, and then they're in a big
problem and they're wondering if they're gonna make
it or not or something. The prophet, alaykal
salam, was never told. No. You you you
may make it. You may not. No promises
at all. You have one job, alaikal balaal
alaikhisab.
You explain and educate, we'll hold accountable.
But how is it gonna work? Not not
not your
not your business.
But I need to no. You don't need
to know. But I want to see that
no. You no. You don't have to see.
But can you show me no. I'm not
gonna show you. Just do your piece.
Just do your part, and that's it.
Yeah. Subhanallah.
This is
this is the simplest piece of, of advice
that we have. It's like
and yet it's so hard to follow.
It's just so hard to follow.
You know, if if you're a parent children,
nanny, they test you with this. You explain,
look, just
we just need you to go
clean your room. That's it. Just go clean
your room.
But then what is Fulayana doing? And And
when are we gonna go? And but yeah.
I'm baby. Just look at me. Look at
me. Just go and I I'm planning everything
else out.
Clean your room. But whenever you're gonna go
and then if I'm late and
Yeah.
It's just one thing. I need one thing
from you and they still don't do it.
They still don't do it. Like he all
goes in a room and won't won't clean
it. But but this is a problem of
the human nature is that we want we
want we want everything explained beforehand
it's not gonna work for us any any
differently.
And then he explains
a little bit more.
That we come to the earth
and we control.
We take sovereignty
from all sides of it, from those who
think that they are invincible.
From their size. Means we take it back.
We take back from people who think that
they owe it and it's theirs.
Allah is the one who gives decree. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala who makes decisions.
When he gives a decree, no one gets
a follow-up. No one gets to change that.
No one gets to question it after it
happens or make any any dent in it.
When he makes a decree, he gives a
decree. That's it. This is what's going to
happen. It's going to happen whether you like
it or not.
When you resist it, it's going to occur.
And he is the one with the with
the fastest reckoning, and he is the fastest
of judgers on subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This ayah is just to strengthen what we
just learned.
You don't need to know all the details.
You don't need to know to be in
you don't need assurances of any sort. Why?
You didn't see that Allah
That
he encompasses the earth and he takes it.
He takes sovereignty away from those who think
that they have it. And he is the
one who gives decree and no one follows
up and no one changes that which he
decrees and he is the fastest of judges
subhanahu wa ta'ala? And the answer is yes,
Bella, of course.
Then then then calm down.
Then rest assured that things will run however
he wants them to run. Just focus on
your piece. Where is my piece of the
puzzle?
Alright. This is what I have to do.
Then I'll I'll dedicate myself to doing that
until I find until I meet him again.
Figure out what it is you're going to
do. This is my advice to you. Find
out. His his his obligation was was balar,
alayhi salatu wa salam.
He had to do that. It's hard.
But that isn't
fun. It's not fun at all.
Talking to people who don't want to listen
to you is not fun.
Honestly, this is a part of his character
that we don't really think about very often.
Speaking to people who don't want to listen
to you
will take away years off your life.
Speaking to people who don't want to listen
to you, who don't want you to speak
to them is is one of the most
painful things you'll do in the entirety of
your existence.
And the prophet
had to spend the majority of his life
doing that, going and speaking to people who
did not want to listen time and time
again.
He earned his position
to preach to his followers. He earned it.
He had to he had to earn every
moment of it by spending years upon years
upon years performing balayr to those who had
no interest in what he had to say,
those who would curse him publicly when he
did, those who would mock him as he
spoke, those who would curse those who would
mistreat him and physically push him around as
he was trying to preach
because his job was balar. He never complained.
See we don't take that seriously because we
don't There's no complaints. He did it so
gracefully. He made it seem as it was
effortless. He made it seem as if it
is effortless and it's not. It's very hard.
At some point you're like, Yaro, do I
keep on talking to these people who are
physically who don't want to listen to me?
He never asked a question. He was told.
Every morning he gets up and he goes
again. And he moves from one tribe to
the other, on group to the other, relentlessly
with resilience and grit, never giving up, never
complaining about it,
He did it so well that we just
don't even take time to reflect on the
fact that he did that.
Because I sit here and I talk to
you, and you're you're here because you want
to listen. You don't have to you're not
stuck here. And it's still hard to talk.
It's still not easy because everyone has a
different, you know, a different taste and different
flavor of what they want and what works
for them. Imagine sitting and talking to people
who don't want to listen to you every
day. Well, I can't imagine doing it. I
would have failed it a 100%.
There's so many aspects of his of his
experience, alayhis salaahu alayhis salaam where you see
something, I I can't do that.
But he knew what he had to do,
and he did it. The the question is,
do you know what you have to do,
and will you do it?
Don't ask don't be preoccupied with that which
is not your job. Why have you not
seen that Allah
He he snatches back the sovereignty from all
sides of earth from those who think that
they have it. And he decrees and no
one no one challenges his decree, and he
is the one who will hold the people
account. His reckoning is fast and swift.
And so that you know, all of the
people who came before Maqarul, meaning they they
plotted they plotted.
The people who came to the other prophets
in the past and they've all they've all
plotted. Waqar Maqarul. They they brought their plots
and their secret counsel and their secret and
their conspiracies. They brought them. They brought their
game.
All plotting belongs to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
He is the one who moves everything. He
is the one who controls it all. No
one is plotting outside of his will. No
one can fool Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. No
one can take something from Allah that he
does not want to give them or is
not going to leave them to give leave
them to have. No.
Every soul, whatever it is that it is
gaining in his
on earth, in his life, he knows.
And the concept is everything you do. Everything
you do.
Positive, negative, giving, taking, it doesn't make a
difference. Whatever everything you do is called cusp,
and and this is something you when you
study akhir, the word cusp is a big
deal. Word cusp is something that,
and saraviyyah have disagreed upon for a very
long time and continue to do so in
terms of how they define it because it's
a hard word to define. To make it
simple, it's everything that you are and everything
that you are doing.
He's watching every naps, what it is that
is gaining, what it is that is doing.
And that his believers will find out on
the day of judgment who is going to
get the ultimate placement.
Who has a uqbadah? Who has the ultimate
placement? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They'll find out.
They'll go follow find out on the day
of judgment. You don't know now? You'll find
out later. You'll find out later.
Let's take the last,
And the disbelievers will say you're not really
a prophet or a messenger because you didn't
bring us a
extraordinary
phenomenon or a miracle. That's what
they'll
say. I am satisfied with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala as a witness between me and you
and
those who have the knowledge of the previous
books or have the the knowledge of scripture.
Those who have knowledge of scripture
know
that the prophet alaihi salatu wasalam brought that
which is the truth.
Those who understand previous,
previous examples of prophecies and messages know that
the example of Muhammad
is undeniably
the example of a of a of a
true prophet and true messenger. A messenger of
Haqqah.
They know it. It's just hard to leave
something you've been stuck with for a long
time and you've defended for a long time.
I don't envy someone on the other side
of the rails. I don't.
If I I can't imagine. I don't I
don't I I have empathy for them. I
hope you do too.
If you're stuck with a
with a lousy
theology and a lousy narrative,
a lousy Dean, it just doesn't work, and
you've you've had it for a long time,
and you've had to defend it for a
long time, and then you run into something
much better. It's very hard to to drop
that which you have and go to something
new and admit that for a long time
you were preaching something that was not the
truth. It's very hard.
So you don't have empathy for someone who's
in that position. They make du'a that Allah
guides them. But at that time, that's what
they told him, alayhis salaam, let's tell mursila,
you're not a prophet.
Fine.
This is what you say, yeah, Muhammad.
I am satisfied
and it's enough for Allah
to be the witness between me and you
and those who have knowledge of the book.
You'll
bring us all 3 of us, and you'll
judge who is it that was truthful and
who who's adhered to Haqq and who didn't?
Who accepted Haqq and who did not?
Who went by that which was
the truth to them? Who lived their truth
and who did not? And that's what's going
to happen, yom Mirkiyam. We'll have Allah
He will he will be the witness. He
will be the one who's
will hold us accountable for how we decided
to live our lives.
It's gonna be a very difficult argument if
you didn't make good choices. Now you're going
to lose this discussion. You're going to lose
this debate.
You're going to lose it. If you didn't
make the right choices in your life, you're
going to stand there and you're going to
lose
because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Once he shows
you the exact once you see the bigger
picture, once you zoom out, it's going to
be very obvious what you should have done.
How you should have lived your life becomes
becomes extremely simple. Extremely simple. But then
but then that's then later on when when
when you when Allah zoomed out for you
and showed you the story and you saw
exactly where where your role was and how
simple and how easy and how clear it
was,
But it'll be too late.
And the prophet alaihis salaw alaihis salaw alaihis
salaw alaihis salaw alaihis salaw alaihis salaw alaihis
salaw alaihis salaw alaihis salaw alaihis salaw alaihis
salaw alaihis salaw alaihis salaw alaihis salaw alaihis
salaw alaihis salaw alaihis salaw alaihis salaw alaihis
salaw alaihis salaw alaihis
salaw
alaihis
salaw alaihis Say kapabilahi
shaheedim baynu baynu baynu baynuq. Allah is our
witness between you and you and those who
have the knowledge of the book. And yomul
qiyamah. He'll judge between us. Continue to do
what you what you're here to do. That's
what this ayah is saying. Just continue focus.
What are you doing? What is your job?
You know what your job is? Yeah. Continue.
It's very hard.
It's easy to get distracted. There's too many
things happening in life. You can always no.
No. Even those who are calling you a
liar to your face. You Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. How hard it must have been
to hear the fact that he was being
told that he's a liar. Never lied in
his life alaihi wa sallam.
He's receiving wahi from Jibreel every day. He's
sharing it they're saying these to him. Fine.
You would think
that his answer would be, here.
Here's something to shove in their face as
a as a way no. Just say kafabillahi
shahidam bayna. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is enough.
He'll he'll judge between us. And he's saying
he's not being offered alayhis salatu wa salam,
here's something extra. No. There's nothing extra. There's
nothing. This is it.
These laws, that's it. It's all you're gonna
get.
Do your job. You live, you die, do
your job. People People accept you, don't accept
you, do your job. They plot, they don't
plot, do your job. They believe you, they
don't believe you, do your job.
Just do what you're here to do. This
is enough. It will eventually work out. Focus
on what you
have. And I can't imagine a better message
at the end of Ramadan than that. And
that's why I chose Surat. I hope you
found, insha'Allah, the meanings of the surah to
be beneficial.
Hope you enjoyed, the Surah and insha'Allah, you
know, this will inspire you to memorize it
and to take these,
these teachings and the and these,
learning points of, as as implementable in your
own life and something you've been sharing
with others.
Try to show up a little bit early
if you if you want to attend it
because it usually gets pretty pretty busy pretty
quickly on 29th.