Ahmad Saleem – In-depth Tafseer of Surah Kahf – Understanding Quranic Lessons – Part 13
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The transcript describes a test and a sequence in shuns and strikes, including a woman who refuses to give up on her. The speakers discuss various topics such as forgiveness, religion, forgiveness, and the importance of finding one's own guidance. They also touch on the use of words and the "monster" concept in Arabic language, as well as the struggles of women in practicing daily litanies and the rise of the global south. The segment ends with a request for donations and a message for people to support and donate.
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So, we stopped at ayah number 53 last
time, and a little bit of a sequence
prior to that is Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala describes about the day of judgment.
And then over there, Allah says in ayah
number 52, وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ And on that day,
Allah is going to say, وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ نَادُوا
شُرَكَئِيَ الَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ On that day, it will
be said, go ahead, call all of your
partners that you claim to associate instead of
me as gods.
This particular ayah, sometimes some of the scholars,
they have said that this is one of
the first times these individuals who had done
shirk, they will obey Allah SWT.
Because Allah is like, go ahead and call
everybody that you used to associate partners, they
are like, okay, we are going to go
and call.
But that's why they say, طَاعَةٌ غَيْرُ مُجْزِيَةٌ
It's obedience, but that obedience is absolutely of
no avail.
So they will submit to Allah, they will
obey to Allah, but on a day that
submission is of no avail to them.
غَيْرُ مُجْزِيَةٌ بَلْ زَعَمْتُمْ شُرَكَئِيَ الَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ فَدَعَوْهُمْ
فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَهُمْ They are going to call,
they are going to listen to Allah, and
Allah is like, go ahead and call them,
they are going to go call.
And when they are going to call all
the people that they associated as gods other
than Allah And over here this refers to
shirk, i'tiqadi, that I actually believe that something
else is hasha other than Allah has all
the power, or amali, was it my money,
was it my kids, was it this, what
was it?
Was it the quest for dunya?
What did I use as an excuse not
to obey Allah?
And I placed that in between me and
Allah, and I said, no, no, it's okay,
as long as I get this, although Allah
is the one who will provide, no, no,
but if I work and I make sure
I get this, I will get it.
But at the end of the day, Allah
is the one who gives, not you, not
me.
So فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَهُمْ Nobody is going to
respond to them, فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا They will not
respond to them.
وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُم مَوْبِقَا And Allah is going to
create between them مَوْبِقَا وَبَقٌ Multiple meanings.
One is a partition type of a thing,
right?
The second, and this is a more harsher
meaning, وَبَقٌ مَوْبِقَا is a barrier in Jahannam
that has been created by the excretions of
all the blood and the wounds of the
Ahlulnaar.
All of that excretion is collected and then
that becomes a barrier that is used as
a barrier for people.
That is called مَوْبِقَا وَرَأَىٰ الْمُجْرِمُونَ النَّارَ And
the people, i.e. Mujrims, the wicked ones,
the ones who, criminals, the one who associated
partners with Allah, disobeyed Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala رَأَىٰ الْمُجْرِمُونَ النَّارَ When they are going
to look at the fire فَظَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ مُوَاقِعُوهَا
They're going to believe, there's no way out
here, I'm going to fall into it لا
محالة There's no exit وَلَمْ يَجِدُوا عَنْهَا مَصْرِفَةَ
They are not going to be able to
find any escape route, any fire exit, to
get away from the fire Notice how this
word مصرفة means صرفة شيئا Is to conjugate,
صرف means to conjugate or to shape and
reshape the form of something مصرفة over here
is you have a path and to be
able to formulate a new path out of
the existing path But then Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala in the next ayah, what is
he starts They will not find any صرف
over there وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَا فِي هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ It's
a very subtle imagery here Over there you
will not find any ways of exiting but
Allah in this Qur'an has صَرَّفْنَا i
.e. we have explained to you in varying
different dispositions and manners everything فِي هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ
لِلنَّاسِ مِنْ كُلِّ مَثَلٍ Allah
has explained in this Qur'an every form
of parable and an example that you will
not need So over there they will not
find any مصرف but in this Qur'an
Allah has said صَرَّفْنَا We have explained all
the possibilities that a person might be able
to find an excuse exit out of this
Allah has given an example for that and
an example for that and an example for
that Example of dunya, example of maal, example
of children, examples, examples, examples of a person
who has a burden كَالْحِمَارِ يَحْمِلُ أَصْفَارَ All
of the varying examples So when you're seeing
everything Allah has explained all of that مِنْ
كُلِّ مَثَلٍ Every parable and example that you
needed in this life Allah has described Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says absolute
truth وَكَانَ الْإِنسَانُ أَكْثَرَ شَيْءٍ جَدَلَ The
problem is insan is very argumentative We love
to argue It is mentioned that these ayat
in actual were revealed for Ubayy ibn Khalaf
and Nadr ibn al-Haritha So Nadr ibn
al-Haritha, the story that was mentioned about
him was that Nadr ibn al-Haritha Rasool
Allah ﷺ he says What's the ayah about
Zaqqum?
إِنَّ شَجَرَةَ الزَّقُومِ طَعَامُ الْأَثِيمِ Indeed the Shajarah
of Zaqqum Now Zaqqum for the Arabs was
dates when it was mixed with fresh cream
Dates when it was mixed with fresh cream
And they would add sometimes to it if
the dates were not sweet some honey or
some * Some ghee on it That was
Zaqqum for them The actual word Zaqqum in
the Arabs That was the word Zaqqum So
Nadr ibn al-Haritha when he heard this
ayah What did he do?
To mock Rasool Allah ﷺ Because the ayat
of the Qur'an they were talking about
Jahannam إِنَّ شَجَرَةَ الزَّقُومِ طَعَامُ الْأَثِيمِ كَالْمُهْلِ يَشْوِي
الْوُجُوهِ يَغْلِي الْبُطُونِ It is so hot that
it is going to your stomachs It will
boil the stomachs Okay So all of that
Propheticism is giving about a'zaab So Nadr
ibn al-Haritha comes And he says Subhanallah
هَذَا الَّذِي يَقُولُ لَكُمْ يَنْبُطُوا أَنْنَارُ فِي الشَّجَرَةِ
وَالنَّارُ يَأْكُلُوا الشَّجَرَةِ So first thing he says
Look at the argument he is saying This
guy is coming and claiming to you that
there is شَجَرَةَ الزَّقُومِ But then he says
this is fire Doesn't the fire eat the
tree?
فَكَيْفَ يَنْبُطُوا الشَّجَرَةُ فِي النَّارِ How can a
tree grow in fire?
What kind of stupid nonsense is this?
That's what he is talking to Rasool Allah
ﷺ Then he says يَا مُحَمَّدْ جِئْنَا لَكَ
زَقُّومِ We brought for you this زقوم Go
and eat He mocked At that Allah says
وَكَانَ الْإِنسَانُ أَكْثَرَ شَيْءٍ جَدَلَ That how argumentative
is Insan Amongst all the beings The second
was The story of Ubayy ibn Khalaf Something
similar with bones And The third Was not
the story But this is the story that
is always mentioned Which is that Rasool Allah
ﷺ He entered the house of Ali and
Fatima And they were Sleeping And it was
the time for Tahajjud So he tells Ali
Rasool Allah ﷺ That you know you are
Your maqam is that you should be up
And praying Tahajjud So what did he say?
He said oh yeah Rasool Allah ﷺ Our
Ruh is in the hands of Allah ﷻ
If he wishes he can return our Ruh
It's not my fault So then Rasool Allah
ﷺ He started slapping his thigh Like this
And he said وَكَانَ الْإِنسَانُ أَكْثَرَ شَيْءٍ جَدَلَ
Right This is Ali رضي الله عنه Who
is guaranteed Jannah Even him there were times
Emotionally where he was not ready for And
Rasool Allah ﷺ is coming and giving him
some advice Even him Who is guaranteed Jannah
by Rasool Allah ﷺ He argued Sometimes with
Rasool Allah ﷺ about the affairs Like this
It was like Rasool Allah ﷺ is like
Giving them advice that wake up But he
is like come on Rasool Allah ﷺ And
this was not a joke He was upset
But that also tells us a very important
lesson That sometimes we believe Like you have
to be perfect All the time That's not
possible for a human being It's not possible
to be All the time In the same
state Sometimes our lives And what we are
going through in our lives Don't have an
impact on my spirituality That doesn't mean that
I Wholesale exited from this thing That means
that I'm just going through a rough patch
I'll figure things out I'm not disowning my
Deen It's just hard for me to do
it now But it will get better and
easier later Zajjaj Who is one of the
Mufassars of the Qur'an He used to
say Every form of How many Intellectual beings
We have always said this multiple times Three,
Angels, Jinns and And Insan So Zajjaj says
that Yes Yes The Angels and the Jinns
And the Insan So Zajjaj says Every intellectual
being argues The Angels argued with Allah Why
are you creating something وَنَحْنُ نُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِكَ وَنُقَدِّسُ
لَكَ Come on They are literally asking a
question And also saying hey The argument is
we are better The Jinns argue وَالْإِنسَانُ أَكْثَرَ
هَذِهِ الْأَشْيَاءَ So this statement وَكَانَ الْإِنسَانُ أَكْثَرَ
شَيْءٍ i.e. from all the things That
can argue Insan is the most argumentative That's
another way to understand this ayah Not my
natural disposition to argue But amongst all the
beings that can argue We are the most
as a population Does that make sense?
Then Allah SWT says after that He says
وَمَا مَنَعَ النَّاسِ And what has prevented the
people أَن يُؤْمِنُوا To believe in Allah SWT
إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَىٰ Our guidance, hidayah Has come
to them What prevented them from following Guidance
when it came to them وَيَسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّهُمْ And
they, you know, seek forgiveness From Allah SWT
إِلَّا أَكْسَبْ What prevented them except أَن تَأْتِيَهُمْ
سُنَّةُ الْأَوَّلِينَ Except that they are waiting to
do two things Allah is saying So there's
two ways to understand the first part of
the ayah The first part of the ayah
is The first understanding Is that These people
are not going to accept The deen So
first understand it in English and then we'll
go back in Arabic They will not Accept
and seek forgiveness Until they see the punishment
happening To somebody else سُنَّةُ الْأَوَّلِينَ They see
some other nation being punished and they're like
Oh I want to believe That's one way
Second Is That in the ilm of Allah
SWT They were not going to Accept وَمَا
أَمَنَ عَن نَاسُ إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَىٰ وَيَسْتَغْفِرُ رَبَّهُمْ
They're not going to accept Even if سُنَّةُ
الْأَوَّلِينَ happens to them Even if they are
being punished They're not going to accept Is
that meaning clear?
There are two ways to understand it One
is What is preventing them from accepting What
is preventing them from accepting Is they're saying
oh Allah okay if you want us to
believe Show us a sign punish somebody And
then we'll see how true you are Second
is Allah SWT is saying it doesn't matter
Even if you punish them the way People
of the first They will not accept Both
meanings have been mentioned So وَمَا أَمَنَ عَن
نَاسُ إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَىٰ Do you have a
question?
وَمَا أَمَنَ عَن نَاسَ إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَىٰ وَمَا
أَمَنَ عَن نَاسَ إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَىٰ And what
has prevented people That they believe That until
a guidance comes to them وَيَسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّهُمْ And
then they seek forgiveness after guidance They become
Muslims and they ask for forgiveness from Allah
SWT رَبَّهُمْ إِلَّا أَكْسَبْ أَن تَأْتِيَهُمْ سُنَّةُ الْأَوَّلِينَ
أَوْ يَأْتِيَهُمُ الْعَذَابُ قُبُلَ They are waiting for
the punishment to come And they will accept
that at the moment of the punishment The
word قُبُلَ Right?
Majority of the reciters Three of the reciters
have recited it as قُبُلَ The rest of
them They have recited it as قِبَلَ So
the meaning becomes even more profound قُبُلَ Means
أَنْوَاعُ الْأَذَابُ Variety of punishment قُبُلَ Is alluding
to The variety of the punishment قِبَلَ Is
The veracity You see how clear and vivid
it becomes in front of them It's as
if it is coming directly to them قِبَلَ
In front of them So both meanings i
.e. they will not believe until they see
Variety of عذاب And punishments Right in front
of their faces Only then would they accept
And we see this all the time in
our Social media environment Sometimes we can capture
videos of Even small minor turbulence In a
plane Where people feel like They have these
air pockets where the plane can suddenly Dip
What happens?
All the juice goes flying And stuff like
that And all the people Who don't want
All the beliefs that they have Everything goes
out of the window And oh my God
comes out of their mouth Because they know
at that moment It's only God who can
help I was traveling to Houston From Edmonton
Way back Sometime in late 2000 So the
lady that Sat next to me in the
plane Was a doctor Some kind of doctor
And she was heading out to some very
important Medical Conference If you've ever taken a
flight Over the Colorado mountains That whole rocky
chain It's very turbulent Because of the mountains
It's very turbulent So this lady We're having
a conversation and talking about God And she's
like I'm a doctor I'm a total atheist
And literally When the plane started shaking And
it's not even crazy turbulence It's like enough
Things were moving like that And out of
her Instinctive reaction She grabbed my hand She's
like oh my God And then she let
it go When everything calmed down And then
she turns And I turned to her I
said I thought there was no God She's
like oh come on we all know that
It's instinct of human being We all have
to call to some higher power When we're
in trouble And seconds later she's like There's
no such thing as God Right This is
the same thing that Allah says in the
Qur'an That when they are in the
middle Of the sea They don't find anyone
They ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala In
a way And they're like you know Oh
Allah just rescue us and we will never
forget you And then when the ship Reaches
the shore The person becomes as if he
had never Called on Allah ever before And
likewise is the case Of the Muslims We
see this all the time Right One of
the places that I did my co-op
There was a Some senior guy I don't
know who he was And we had a
Jummah So we had like on the floor
And we would go and pray Jummah over
there And obviously you know your regular Jummah
crowd People who work in the corporate you
know what I'm talking about You know the
regular Jummah crowd You know that there are
other Muslims that don't want to be shown
as Muslim But then there are people who
are going to come for Jummah There's usually
15-20 people that will come And they'll
do a little Jummah and stuff like that
And then all of a sudden This person
shows up to Jummah He's on my floor
He's like a C-level guy And I'm
like he's a Muslim?
I'm totally shocked Because like he You cannot
tell By any way this person was a
Muslim So he showed up to the Jummah
I still vividly remember And you know Imam
Ibrahim over there Imam Abdul Hayy Patel He
was leading the Jummah And then afterwards he
saw that He's an older gentleman So he
saw my face and I was just like
In total shock I'm on the same floor
with this guy How is he a Muslim?
Imam Abdul Hayy was like much more senior
30 years in that same company He's like
Actually you know The bonus season is very
close by So you know a lot of
people remember Allah during this time And also
there's gonna be a restructure So there's a
possibility of a Very senior promotion that some
people So they all show up for Jummah
During that time That's when they remember Allah
This is not normal We do this all
the time I wanna donate something InshaAllah I'll
get the promotion Because we're seeking dunya From
the a'mal of akhirah We're seeking dunya We
have enough yaqeen That if I give for
a lot, thousand today Allah will inshaAllah turn
this For my promotion inshaAllah Or for my
bonus or for my better appraisal We do
this all the time As people working in
the corporate field May Allah Subhanahu wa ta
'ala grant us hidayah And not use the
deen For our personal gains Then Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala says Wa maa nursilu al
mursaleena illa mubashshireen We do not send messengers
Over here mursaleen is referring to Anbiya a
.s But what else could it refer to?
It could be angels So what prevents us
From using this mursaleen As any other Messages
Is that The Jummah over here Is salim
Jummah salim The plural is intact It's not
broken And when it is intact It is
for what?
It is for buqala It is for intellectual
gains And this is just I don't go
into grammar But this is an important point
So why?
Because somebody who doesn't have any knowledge of
grammar Is going to read this And he's
going to say wa maa And not nursilu
Sends mursaleen Messengers They may not think of
messengers as prophets They could say oh messengers
You know God can send messages through various
ways Through loss of job Or raise of
promotion Or loss of family or whatever It
could be anything So Allah sends us messages
And all of these messages Are meant to
be glad tidings Or they're supposed to be
things That we should be warned from And
the reason I mention this Is because somebody
on TikTok translated this ayah like that And
I was like Wait a minute How is
this ayah like that And you go there
and you realize Mursaleen can only be buqala
So it can be either anbiya or angels
Other than that You can't say events are
mursaleen And that's why Having that knowledge of
Arabic Is important Recently somebody forwarded me some
TikTok video Of hijab and how there's no
need to put hijab On using Quran And
I don't know if you know It's going
around on WhatsApp You know it's going around
In the uncle circle When my uncle who
hasn't messaged me in a while Messages me
saying Can you please respond I was like
oh interesting It's spreading And this lady is
so convincing So the only thing I told
The people who messaged me I said this
lady can't even recite The Quran in Arabic
We cannot take some person Who can't even
recite the Quran in Arabic She's using English
translations To insinuate meanings And any new meaning
of the Quran Must be pegged to the
Old understanding of Arabic We can't just come
up with a new meaning That has not
been existent in the Quran Or never been
used in the Arabic language So that's why
it's so important to understand this That's why
any of the meanings that I They're either
the sahaba Or the tabi'een Or at
least in the Quran That word has been
used similarly With a different meaning And you
can apply that meaning Allah does not send
Messengers i.e. angels Or Prophets Except their
purposes To deliver the news of Good or
warned people What happens The ones who Did
disbelieve i.e. There are disbelievers that are
not going to believe Or The opposite of
shukr That you're a Muslim but you just
don't want to Follow Allah You want to
suppress that part And the ones Who did
kufr They argue with falsehood They have nothing
to argue but falsehood All they want Is
to discredit Truth Interesting words here Yujadil Yujadil
Is actually the act of taking two ropes
Sorry two strands Of strings and turning them
into ropes You know When you take three
strands and you turn them into ropes Right
And the act of taking a rope after
it is turned And doing this With the
rope to fortify it That is called yujadil
That is why In the Arabic language In
some of the narrations you'll find That the
description of the zafair The What do you
call the zafair in Arabic?
Braids Braids are called zafair But they're also
called jada'il Braids are also called jada
'il Which means the hair has been Intertwined
like this And that braid is called jada
'il It's not that the hair is arguing
It's like one strand of the hair and
another Have intertwined and mixed with And that's
what argument is You give, another person gives,
another person gives Another person gives, another person
gives And that forms the argument It's so
amazing to actually understand How Arabic language works
It's like nothing is just Like I was
talking to her I was like What was
the example?
For example, now The word now And then
from now If you put an S on
it, what happens?
It's now Why?
Why does it change?
Why does it change?
Ease of pronunciation This is Arabic Arabic has
that Ease of pronunciation So all of these
changes don't follow A standard rule So somebody
who is learning English for the first time
Is very confusing Especially pronunciations And then the
variations in pronunciation About About, about All of
the variations that exist So it's very difficult
With English now But Arabic is a language
that goes back to the roots So does
English To some form But if it goes
back to the roots You'll find that every
meaning, every word Was created To convey A
pre-existing meaning So when we look at
The car, and a car is called It
comes from the same word It comes from
the same word To travel To traverse To
walk through And then any object that allows
us to travel And walk through becomes a
car So even if today Umar comes He
would not find the word car You wouldn't
have to explain to him What car is
The minute you say car He'll know that
this is something that takes you somewhere Because
of the root words Of how it is
formulated So they can discredit The
Haqq It's basically to discredit something No fancy
explanations for that So
what has happened That messengers came They give
you glad tidings, they give you warnings People
who don't want to listen to that message
Whether they are messengers Right, and there's in
brackets You can say messengers And anybody who
carries the work of the messengers If you
want to have that meaning You're going to
tell them this is Islam This is the
message of Islam They're going to argue with
you And most of the time The argument
is what?
To discredit If you really think about it,
it's not to accept Very few people Argue
with you to understand Most of the arguments
And that's why when people say Respond to
this guy on your message I'm like there's
no point Because their argument is not Like
if they're interested And if there is a
genuine Comment You tell the person okay message
me And it has happened so many times
I'll say if you really want to learn
about Islam Message me privately Nobody messages Because
sometimes they will come I genuinely want to
know about Islam But I have this situation
Can you explain this publicly And then they
can start an entire discourse It doesn't help
So Allah is saying that these people Messengers
have come People are spreading the message They're
going to argue to discredit this message Anything
they can do to discredit Islam And why
are they doing this?
وَاتَّخَذُواْ آيَاتِ وَمَا أُنذِرُواْ حُزُوَةً They have taken
the verses of Islam Ayaati, that's one meaning
The other, all the signs That Allah has
shown them about Truthfulness of Islam They've taken
that as a mockery Come on, it's just
a joke We don't want to believe in
this وَمَا أُنذِرُواْ حُزُوَةً i.e. the books
they have They have been warned in those
books There are warnings in those books But
they don't want to take those warnings There
are clear-cut warnings It's clearly said in
the Bible That women have to cover their
heads Clearly said Verses upon verses Where women
are required To cover their head Nobody wants
to follow that So many things That are
absolutely wrong in the Bible Nobody says anything
about it So many things that are wrong
in the Torah Nobody says anything about it
Why?
Allah is like وَمَا أُنذِرُواْ حُزُوَةً And whatever
warnings they have in their own books Or
through the Quran They have taken it as
a mockery Then Allah says
And this ayah is extremely painful And this
ayah is extremely painful It's extremely painful Because
think of every person And an ayah of
Allah has come to him Whether through him
Whether through a lecture Whether through a reminder
Whether through a whatsapp And today we have
zero excuses for not having heard of these
ayahs People know more about Islam today Than
they did in the past People have more
access to hadith today Than they had in
the past The problem is what?
The problem is many of the sahaba They
knew very little Quran But whatever they knew
they practiced So it's not a matter of
information So it's not a matter of information
It's about application So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la is like And then who
is more of a transgressor Than the one
ذُكِّرَ He has been reminded And this ذُكِّرَ
is مجهول Which means through whatsapp, through facebook,
through twitter Through a person, through a lecture
Through your own readings Through various ways Message
has come to you And you've been reminded
about the ayahs بِآيَاتِ رَبِّهِ And these ayahs
are The ayahs of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهَا The person turned
away from these ayahs May Allah protect us
from that وَنَسِيَ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَا He turned
away But he forgot that On the day
of judgement You have to go and stand
in front of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la And he forgot مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَا
Whatever his a'mal His hand had sent forth
For that future day The day we're going
to stand in front of Allah اِنَّا جَعَلْنَا
عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ أَكِنَّا Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la says We have certainly Placed a
veil أَكِنَّا We have certainly placed a veil
On their hearts May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la lift the veils Of anybody
that you know Their hearts have been veiled
So this veil Is Of a nature That
It's a secret veil So he is not
able to know That his heart is veiled
That's the problem So it's a veil People
around him can tell That there is a
veil But he or she Is not able
to know that there is a veil It's
a veil of a type which is secret
Right And it is kept In such a
manner that his heart Is completely veiled And
why is that?
Because he is able to hear, he is
able to see But the problem is He
is not able to have Understanding His heart
hears and listens And stuff All of that
information goes in But he is unable to
process that information properly My teacher used to
say that the heart Is like a transfer
function Like a mirror And if your mirror
has Concavities or convexities Then the light going
in Based on the intent Of convexity Based
on the extent of convexity Or concavity The
light is going to refract And it is
not going to have the clear impact I'm
sure all of you have taken these physics
Experiments with the prism When you put the
light in The light goes and it goes
up or down That's refraction We did all
of this in science That is concavities and
convexities A concave mirror and a convex mirror
Convex mirror, concave mirrors So many times our
hearts They end up becoming Because of deviances
Because of our sins Because of whatever we
have done And because of the lack of
cleansing and polishing Right?
We don't have no longer in our societies
We don't have gatherings where people Just get
together Only and only to remember Allah Subh
'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la No lectures The
only reason we are getting together Is to
remember Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
You go and read our books They are
filled Like Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani's book Imam
Nawawi's book Ibn...
Ibn...
What's his name man?
I had his name Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani
Ibn Hajar Al-Haythami Ibn Hajar Al-Haythami
All of these, you pick up the books
They talk about They constantly talk about Gatherings
Even in the hadith of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam It mentions that He saw two groups
of people There was a group That was
sitting and doing zikr Of Allah Subh'anaHu
Wa Ta-A'la And there was another
group That was there That was doing That
was involved in knowledge So he went and
sat With the people who were seeking knowledge
So from here There are two ways that
people have understood This hadith One they said
Ilm is of a higher category Because Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam He went And sat with
the people of ilm Hence ilm is of
a higher category When he had a choice
The second group of people they said If
you read some of the explanations of the
hadith They will tell you no no no
that's not the case Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
Always sits with the weak people He doesn't
sit with the stronger people ...
He went and sat with the people of
ilm Because their ilm They still had weakness
in ilm And their amal Has not Their
ilm and amal There was a gap there
So he sat with them so he can
push them To the level of amal Of
the people of zikr Because the people of
zikr understood The value of remembrance They received
that knowledge And now they are in practice
But the people of ilm are still seeking
What to practice So Rasulullah went and sat
with them So over here The biggest problem
is The lack of understanding So their hearts
are sealed And the reason they are sealed
Is there is no process of cleansing them
There is no process of reciting daily litanies
Constantly we have our eyes Being filled and
bombarded With things we should not be watching
And that prevents us from understanding The Quran
And anything else that happens And in their
ears There is deafness Waqran A form of
deafness They are sometimes able to hear Sometimes
they are not able to hear Sometimes a
message hits them Sometimes it doesn't And if
you guide them If you call them towards
guidance In this state Allah says Even if
they are in this state Where their hearts
are sealed And there is a covering on
their heart And their hearts are not able
to understand And their ears are somewhat sealed
If you call such a person to guidance
This person shall not be able to seek
guidance So what is it that we have
to do To work on our hearts In
order for us to be able to seek
And then Allah says For every person who
feels That their hearts are shackled Sometimes you
feel like I have done so much Allah
is reminding you It doesn't matter how bad
your heart is It doesn't matter what you
have done O Prophet of Allah He is
the one Who is so forgiving He is
The possessor of mercy Over here the ulama
they said This particular ayah Is specifically for
The sinners amongst the Muslims This ayah is
talking about The sinners amongst the Muslims Allah,
your Lord, O Prophet of Allah Is all
forgiving He is full of mercy Allah
is His sign of His rahma Allah is
like If Allah wishes to hold us accountable
Certainly He would have hastened Their punishment But
Allah says Allah says For certain people There
is going to be an appointment i.e.
appointment of what?
Two things Appointment on the day of judgement
Or appointment in this dunya Where Allah might
hold them accountable Because we know That there
are certain sins That Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la is going to hold The
person accountable In this dunya qabl-al-akhirah
There are certain sins If a person does
in this dunya He shall not leave this
world Except that Allah Will hold them accountable
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says
If he comes to hold them accountable Of
that which they have earned Allah would have
hastened Their punishment for them Indeed for them
is a promise They are not going to
find Other than that appointed time In any
refuge And
when a nation On the whole Their natural
disposition becomes That they are sinners Allah Subh
'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is like And
these societies Those nations We destroyed them When
masses become transgressors When the entire society becomes
Of a society That is wrong Or they
are persistently wrong They choose to be wrong
And Allah is like Even such societies They
can't live long Allah has created a destined
time For their destruction You're going to find
That societies in general They follow an up
and down If you've studied a little bit
of history You'll get to know that in
general The western civilization is on decline The
decline has begun And There is something, the
global south Africa, the south east Asia They're
going to rise It's like written on the
walls Of anybody who knows a little bit
of history That this is going to happen
And you can see that The rise of
the global south You'll see articles written about
that That's why there's massive Morgan and Stanley
and stuff These people are investing massively In
South Africa right now They invest buying lands
And money, they're just going crazy right now
The reason is they know That the global
south is going to rise And you're seeing
that With the power shift With the ICC
You're seeing that with South Africa You're seeing
that with Guinea You're seeing that with all
these countries That have no say in the
world scale We're going to file a thing
against them We're going to file All these
countries How are they coming?
It's not, it's a power shift And this
has always been the case If you go
back 150, 100 Almost 100, no 87 years
ago 100 years ago There's actually a letter
That was sent to the king of Somalia
From Saudis Asking the king of Somalia Be
generous to us And donate some of your
Zakat to Mecca So that Mecca can be
taken care of Yeah Huh?
It's online that document A letter went from
The Sadat of Mecca The leaders of Mecca
They sent a letter to the king of
Somalia Saying be generous to us We're desperately
looking for some money Remember House of Allah
is yours as much as ours Please support
and donate And we are in need of
your money Okay Another 50 years ago India
was the one who was basically The sole
Every single expense Was coming from India And
Turkey They were the ones that were taking
care of all of those expenses So this
is a natural Sequence of life Allah SWT
says That even those nations that we think
Should be destroyed Sometimes Allah SWT says Don't
worry Even those nations Even when they become
Transgressive We have a certain time that we're
going to destroy them And that is with
Allah SWT He knows what is His Hikmah
And when He will do all of that
May Allah SWT grant us The ability to
understand And We stopped a little bit earlier
Because I don't want to start the story
of Musa AS There is a break That's
why I wanted to end here Next week
the hub is closed So there's no classes
here And we'll reconvene post that inshallah Bi
-idhnillah ta'ala If you guys have any
questions related to this Or whatever we've covered
Feel free to ask We have a couple
of minutes I think there is also pizza
Somebody helped This
is the way Allah SWT tells a story
If you look at Yusuf AS story Yusuf
AS A story, scene And then Allah gives
you advice These are not generic These are
the purpose of the story This is why
the story is being told The story of
the people of the garden Was told to
us People who ran after money All of
that was told to us Because don't be
like that person So from there The entire
page and a half Is all about Aqeedah,
Iman building Akhirah And it's not generic It's
actually so very much linked with the entire
story And also even like Now as soon
as Allah is like وَجَعَلْنَا لِمَهْلِكِهِمْ مَوْعِدًا What's
right after this?
وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَلِي فَتَاهُ Huh?
Huh?
Again?
No, after that, what's after that?
وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَلِي فَتَاهُ Right?
Right after that Isn't it?
Yeah, وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَلِي فَتَاهُ So, what was
the nation that was destroyed?
Now I was like, okay let me tell
you Let me tell you about now a
nation that was destroyed So Allah is like,
every nation that has transgressed There is a
time for their destruction Okay?
وَجَعَلْنَا لِمَهْلِكِهِمْ مَوْعِدًا وَجَعَلْنَا لِمَهْلِكِهِمْ مَوْعِدًا Was
Banu Israel destroyed?
Like previous nations?
No, they weren't So Allah is like So
Allah is like Let me tell you a
little bit about Bani Israel Because you're going
to have to deal with them, oh Muslims
But remember Their destruction is also destiny لَمَّا
غَلَمُوا No matter how long they transgress Their
time is going to come And then over
here The story of Musa Alayhi Salaam comes
Did the Jews ask about the story of
Musa Alayhi Salaam?
No They did not They tried testing Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam For the lack of his
knowledge So Allah brings in the story of
Musa Alayhi Salaam To say, oh you're testing
my Nabi How about your own Nabi Who
didn't have knowledge Let me tell you a
story about Something that happened to him And
that's the entire link and sequence Of how
these ayat are connected What happened?
I don't know, you tell me Let's finish
it off with Dua Inshallah Allahumma
Ati Nufusan Taqwaha Wa Zakiha Anta Khairu Man
Zakaha Anta Walihuwa Mawlaha Ya Rabbal Alameen Allahumma
Anfa'ana Bima Allamtana Wa Allimna Bima Yanfa
'ana Wa Zidna Ilman Ya Kareem Rabbana Taqabbal
Minna Innaka Anta As-Sabilu Al-'Aleem Wa Tuba
Alayna Innaka Anta At-Tawwabu Ar-Raheem Wa
Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam Ala Khairi Khairi Muhammad
Wa Ala Alihi Wa Sahbihi Wa Sallam