Ahsan Hanif – Quran Tafseer – Page 13 – Covenants And Disobedience

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married my bad Welcome to another episode of outer seal page by page and inshallah Tana today we are
on page number 13 of the first Jews Surah to Bukhara. And in the previous episode, Allah subhanaw
taala had spoken to us all mentioned the verses concerning very strong in and as we've seen now
		

			throughout the surah even though we're still relatively towards the beginning of Surah Baqarah but
it is a Surah there are a number of occasions already has spoken at some length and in some detail
concerning this nation of people but he's crying. And we know that Allah subhanaw taala sent to Bani
Israel in many prophets, and he received divine revelation books that Allah azza wa jal revealed to
them over the ages and the generations and via the various messengers from Allah subhanaw taala. And
Allah azza wa jal specifies, or he highlights many Surah In the Surah, to show to us the mistakes
that they made. And that is they're often in issues or up either in belief in our worship of Allah
		

			subhanaw taala there is a certain level in a certain way that we should behave in a certain way that
we should submit to Allah subhanaw taala and Allah azza wa jal is showing to us that just because
you may have a prophet or that you may have divine revelation doesn't necessarily mean that you will
do what is pleasing to Allah subhanaw taala and Allah azza wa jal shows that the people have been a
straw eel made a number of mistakes they fall into a number of the traps are shaytaan.
		

			And one of the traps of shaytaan that they fall into and one of the misguidance is that they were
upon is that they would choose and cherry pick part of their religions and part of that revelation,
they would choose what was appropriate for them to believe in and they would ignore other parts of
revelation that they decided themselves was inappropriate for them or maybe difficult for them to
follow. And so Allah subhanaw taala gives to us a number of examples from those examples is one
Allah azza wa jal mentioned at the beginning of page number 13. In verse number 84, Allah subhanaw
taala says, are all bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim. Or a hardener? Amida pecan lettuce we corner
		

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			Tisha don't we talk and remember when we took a pledge a covenant from you that you do not share the
one another's blood or drive one another away from your homelands? You acknowledge it at the time
and you can testify to this. Allah subhanaw taala. In this surah he mentions a number of pledges, a
number of covenants that he took from Benny Salatin. And the meaning of these pledges and these
covenants is that this is the Shediac that they were given. These were the instructions that they
were given either on the tongues of their messengers or in the divine revelations that they received
from Allah subhanaw taala. Allah azza wa jal says that from the covenant from the pledges from the
		

			things that they agreed to, when they accepted their religion, just as we as Muslims have agreed to
do a number of things, you can't be a Muslim, and say, I don't want to pray. You can't be a Muslim
and refuse to give us a car. These are things that we have taken the pledge, a covenant with Allah
subhanaw taala, to uphold by the very virtue of us being Muslims. So likewise, with Benny is thrown
in from the covenants that Allah azza wa jal took from them is that they would not shed one
another's blood. This is something which was always with Benny slide in the Sharia and in their
religion justice, it is the same in our religion in Islam is not allowed for us to commit murder or
		

			to shed innocent blood of others. But Allah azza wa jal is mentioning this by way of highlighting
the situation of Bani Israel in or the Jewish tribes that used to live in Medina during the time of
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. We know that before the hijra, the tribes of Medina, the
two premier major tribes of Medina that would later formed on Tsar, those two tribes of arms being
the ocean, the huzzah Raj were engaged in civil war. They were two tribes that lived in the same
place but because of their competing interests, they will often often be fighting and killing
amongst them. Within Medina and surrounding Medina, there were three Jewish tribes that settled Ben,
		

			Ben or Eva and Bernardino, CA. And these three tribes took the sides of one of these two Arab
tribes, either the ocean the cartilage, and so they would have essentially allies and they would
have an alliance between them.
		

			themselves and between these two Arab tribes, so some of them are with some of those Jewish tribes
or with the Oh, some of them are with the hostage. So when they would be fighting with one another,
most of the husbands, their allies from amongst the Jewish tribes would take their site and would
help them in that killing. And what they will do as a result of the killing is that they would break
this covenant from Allah subhanaw taala, that they are killing one another. So when Jewish tribe is
fighting another Jewish tribe, what the Holy Jonah and forsaken Allah told in June and for sacrament
Dr. Recommend Allah said, do not drive one another from your homelands, because part of the fighting
		

			was to exile part of the fighting is that you take the wealth of others, part of the fighting is
that you take any prisoners of war, and then once they had settled their disputes or that particular
stage of fighting was over, then they would give back their you know, they would run some one
another in terms of the, of the of the prisoners of war and their wealth and so on and so forth.
		

			So Allah subhanaw taala is saying that this is something which you were doing, despite the covenant
that Allah azza wa jal took from you. And this is very similar to the situation unfortunately for
many Muslims, that there are a number of covenants that Allah azza wa jal picks up on us by virtue
of us being Muslims that we know from the Quran, from the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, how often do you see Muslims not playing? How often do you see Muslims not giving Zakah how
often do you see Muslims engaging in the Haram murder, taking alcohol, engaged in interest in Riba
and so many other things that they are engaged in, even though they know it is something which Allah
		

			subhanaw taala has prohibited? And that is why Allah azza wa jal concludes, verse number 84. And he
says to sum up Aurora, Tom, welcome to the show, don't you acknowledge it at the time, and you can
testify to this? Allah subhanaw taala then in verse number 85, he continues and he says, seeing that
despite this despite this covenant that you have taken, what is your reality from toma Allah Utako
to Luna full circle moto Cody Jonah fairy coming Camille the in the VA Haruna la him believe me?
Well, the one yet here you are, Allah says killing one another and driving some of your own people
from their homes, helping one another in sin and aggression against them. Allah azza wa jal says in
		

			84, in verse 84, these are the covenants that we took, you won't kill. You want to examine one
another from your homeland, you won't, you won't make one another leave their homes and so on and so
forth. You own sin and transgress against one another. Allah azza wa jal is saying that is the
covenant we took a now you hear meaning you the people of many slide in the time of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, this is your reality, that you are choosing to engage in the very
things that you are prohibited from, you are choosing to break the covenant and oath that Allah azza
wa jal took from you.
		

			Allah subhanaw taala continues and he says, what he to come Musa ra to do Houma Hua, Mohammed Ali
Khan kraju, if they come to you as captives, you still pay to set them free, although you had no
right to drive them out. So now when they're fighting these Jewish tribes, and maybe one Jewish
tribe is fighting the other, and this tribe overcomes the second, and so they have captives of war
prisoners of war that they take once the fighting is stopped. So what they've done essentially is
that they removed those people during war, and as a result of the war from their homes, they've
taken them as captives as prisoners, they have imprison them. And the prisoner as we know has very
		

			many less rights than a person who is free. So now this person was a captive and prisoner of war,
once the fighting has stopped, they know that what they did this very action of this is wrong, it
goes against the teachings and it goes against the the guidance that they will given in the divine
revelation. So now rather than just returning them, they will ransom ransom them instead, taking
money in exchange for the freedom of these prisoners, even though they did what was wrong in the
first place. So now it is as if there is a double wrong. And that is where Allah subhanaw taala
says, effort, meno Nabi barbil kita we will check for owner beberg, Allah azza wa jal says, So do
		

			you believe in some parts of the scripture, and you reject other parts of it? Is this your reality
that you believe in the parts of the Scripture, some of it, the one that suits you, and you
disbelieve in other parts of the scripture that don't suit you. So for example, they believe in the
pot that says that they can ransom, the ransom is something which they are allowed to then take that
because it gives them money. But they disbelieve in other parts of law, as we just said to them
don't kill, don't expel people from the homelands. They reject that part of the Scripture. And this
is one of the major downfalls or pitfalls of any person or any of the nations that came before. And
		

			that is that over time, they would choose certain parts of their religion that they would consider
to be convenient and they would accept them and the parts that they consider to be inconvenient for
one reason or another. They would refuse to obey them. And that is why even the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said to us as the Muslims, indeed you will follow the footsteps of those who came
before
		

			You, meaning that you will do as they did before. Today, you only have to look around our own
families, our communities, our neighborhoods, the Muslim ummah in general, to see that often is the
case that we as Muslims, and none of us are exempt from this. We as Muslims, often choose parts that
we like, and leave the parts that we don't like. The things that are easy for us, we'll say were
muslim, but the things that we find difficult some of the camps, some of the rulings, some of the
commands of Allah subhanaw taala, some of the prohibitions of Allah azza wa jal, we leave them and
that is essentially choosing parts of the book to believe in and denying other parts of the book,
		

			Allah subhanaw taala gives a warning at the end of estimate 85 And he says, for managers will may
argue that he can come in his young will hire dunya or Yeoman Yama to rot Dona Isla shut down either
but while Allah will be laughing in Mad Men when Allah azza wa jal says that the punishment of you
for the punishment for those of you who do this will be nothing but disgrace in this life and on
human Qiyamah the Day of Resurrection, they will be condemned to the harshest torment. Indeed, Allah
is not unaware of that which you do. Allah subhanaw taala gives these people a stark warning and
that is the threat of punishment in this life. They will have disgrace or they're bullies evil
		

			hayati dunya, oh, his Yun, Phil hayati, dunya, they will have disgrace in this world. And the
disgrace that Allah azza wa jal gives to those people is that ultimately they will always fail. So
in the time of the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
would conquer the whole of Medina, he would then go on to conquer all of the Arabian Peninsula. And
so the, despite the wanting to be people of power and privilege of prestige and so on, Allah
subhanaw taala, disgraces them in this life and humiliates them, just as those people who engage in
Haram and they choose the Haram instead of the Hulen, Allah subhanaw taala will take away baraka and
		

			blessing from the world, from their families from their offspring, Allah subhanaw taala tries them
and test them in so many ways. Those people who have wealth, even the greatest amount of wealth, if
they don't have contentment of the heart, they don't have inner peace and happiness, they don't have
joy. And all they feel is that they've been attacked in one way or another. Or they feel that people
are always after their positions and their wealth, that they can't trust anyone around them, that
everyone around them is only is only with them because of what who they are or what they possess.
That is not a life of contentment. And so that person despite having the trappings of the dunya, and
		

			despite having the adornments of this life, despite having all of the treasures of this world, they
still live a life of disgrace of humiliation, they find that they have no inner peace and inner joy.
And you only have to look at a segment of those people that you find in the news or on the internet
and so on that you will find that their lives don't really necessarily have the peace and
contentment that the outsider will think that they would possess by simple virtue of them possessing
money or fame or houses and cars and so on and so forth. And that is what Allah azza wa jal warns
them off. And then he gives an even harsher warning subhanaw taala and that is when they will return
		

			to Allah azza wa jal on the Day of Judgment they return to an even harsher punishment. Illa assured
		

			that you will have a greater punishment before Allah subhanaw taala and Allah azza wa jal is not
unaware. Allah subhanaw taala is not ignorant of what it is that these people are doing when they
choose to believe in parts of the book, and they reject other parts of the book. Allah subhanaw
taala summarizes these people and what it is that they do their actions. And he says in verse number
86, of hanno Tada, all he can let him finish Tara will hire the dunya era. These are the people who
buy the life of this world at the price of the Hereafter, they have sold the akhira the hereafter to
buy the 50 6070 years or whatever it is that they have of this dunya they have essentially made an
		

			exchange. You see Allah subhanaw taala says to the believers as we mentioned later on in the Quran
when we come in Sharla Tada to Surah to Toba in Allah hush Tara Nina Nina Fusa home will
		

			be another human agenda. Allah azza wa jal has purchased from the believers, their lives and their
wealth and exchange he will give to them Jana. So for the believers they sacrifice their life, they
sacrifice their wealth in obedience to Allah subhanaw taala so your whole life is one of worship.
Your whole life is one of submitting to Allah azza wa jal, your wealth is used to doing that which
is highlighted and is pleasing to Allah subhana wa Tada. So you essentially exchange what you have
been given of your life in this world and your wealth for what is pleasing to Allah subhanaw taala
and in return Allah azza wa jal gives to your agenda. Allah subhanaw taala says that the
		

			disbelievers have made a different bargain, they would have made a different transaction
		

			And that transaction is one in which they sold off the Acura and instead they have bought the sport.
As for the believer, we've sold the dunya for the eternity of the happiness of that era by Allah
subhanaw taala His mercy and His permission.
		

			And so Allah azza wa jal says that those people who look at this life and it is one of the most
difficult parts of the dunya, that when you're in it, you become indulged within it, when you live
within this dunya. The trappings of it make it difficult to focus and super focus on what it is that
you have to really spend all of your time and effort on. And that is the era. And that is because
when you're in this world, within the daily grind of this dunya within the problems that you face in
the challenges the hopes and dreams that you have for yourself, and for your children and for your
offspring, it is difficult to sometimes divorce yourself from that and to take a bigger perspective
		

			or to see something which is further beyond the next 510 1520 years of what is the dunya but that is
what Allah azza wa jal commands the believers to do, and that is the way that meaning should be. So
Allah subhanaw taala says that when it comes to the disbelievers because the Eman in Allah azza wa
jal is weak or non existent because the Eman and belief in human Piana the Day of Judgment is weak
or maybe non existent because of that weakness or non existent faith in those aspects of belief.
Those people have no issue or they don't find it so difficult to make that exchange. Or perhaps it's
because of the belief as Allah azza wa jal mentioned in the previous verses that we already covered,
		

			that they think that at the very worst, Allah will only punish them for a day or a couple of days or
a few days. It is a small time of punishment, and in return, I will enjoy the dunya and do as I
please deliver as I please, that type of thinking. It is from the whisperings of temptations of
shaytaan and it is from the ways that shape upon destruction person from Allah diverts a person away
from the path of Allah subhanaw taala until they go further and further away. So Allah azza wa jal
says that those people have bought the life of this realm in exchange for the hereafter. And what is
not said but it is implicitly understood is what a terrible transaction that reads, it is lost
		

			making to spend your life of this world doing as you please and living how you please not submitting
to Allah, even though you have no guarantee that you may live beyond a few days or weeks or months
or years. And in exchange, you have sold off what is eternal happiness, what is eternal bliss and
reward from Allah subhanaw taala and that is where Allah azza wa jal concludes, was 86. And he says,
fella, you have one woman either boo Allah whom Yun Soran Allah azza wa jal says that torment will
not be lightened, nor will they be helped those people, that punishment will never become lightened,
the punishment of the fire never has any respite, there is no rest, there is no turning down of the
		

			temperature of the fire. There is no less fire on Sundays than other days. Never will it be
lightened Wallah who knows Sauron or no nor will they ever be helped? the eternity of the fire means
exactly that, that the eternal punishment of the fire at its gravest or most heightened rage will
continue to be like that for the rest of eternity.
		

			And then Allah subhanaw taala gives the people of Bani Israel, He gives them this reminder of the
blessings that Allah azza wa jal placed upon them, that they know better, that they you should know
that they should make this transaction of this world for the next that Allah azza wa jal gave to
them. A divine revelation sent to them prophets and messengers so that they will be aware of what it
is that is truly lasting and beneficial. Allah subhanaw taala says in verse number 87, one other
Earth in motion Kitagawa, Faina mean body able Rasul Allah azza wa jal says, Indeed we gave to
Musashi CERAM the Scripture and we sent down messengers after him in succession. Musashi salatu
		

			salam was not the first of the prophets of bene Israel, they would be many that would come after him
in succession, the likes of the wood, and saline man, and you're here, and Zakariya and reciting
usato Salam and others whose names that we do not know of some of them their stories are mentioned
in the Quran, but the names are told to us and other times we know that they came but we don't know
the story. It's not all their names. Allah azza wa jal says that this is from Allah's greatest
blessings upon you that Allah sent you not only prophets and messengers, but he gave to Revelation
in by way of the Torah that was given to Mousavi salatu salam, Allah azza wa jal says, well, Tina,
		

			you said the NAMA Yemeni, a unit you are a Yoda now who are those? Allah subhanaw taala says, and
likewise We sent down Jesus the son of Mary We gave him clear signs and strengthened him with the
Holy Spirit from the blessings of Allah subhanaw taala upon the
		

			extension have been destroyed, which is the Christians at them will come is that they had further
revelation by way of reciting salatu salam, and that Allah azza wa jal gave to him the Injeel Allah
subhanaw taala gave him the gospel, and Allah azza wa jal gave to him help by Roger codice Rohan
padas, according to the vast majority of the scholars with * is a title for the engergy plenary
salatu salam, and that Allah azza wa jal helped him with the miracles that He gave him by way of
Jubilee Valley salatu salam and he strengthened him and honored him. And these are all from the
blessings that Allah azza wa jal bestowed upon the people of Bani Israel. How do they respond to
		

			Revelation? How do they respond to the Prophets and Messengers? Allah subhanaw taala says, ethical
lemma Kumaraswamy gemara Hawa fosu Comos that boultham February February on the tama ferry upon taco
tune, so how is it that whenever whenever a messenger brings you something you do not like? You
become arrogant, calling some imposters and killing others. Allah subhanaw taala says
		

			that these prophets and messengers that came to you, when they would come to you with guidance from
Allah azza wa jal, they would come with a message of Allah subhanaw taala they would come with
instructions from Allah azza wa jal, so what would they do to them is stuck Berto you would show
arrogance? Like for example the Prophet of Allah azza wa jal reciting salatu salam, when he goes to
Jews refuse to accept it. When our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came, the Jews and
the Christians refused to accept him. So they show a level of arrogance that they believe that their
prophet or they wait is the only way and that they're not willing to accept the message or further
		

			instruction from Allah Subhana Allah Allah. So Allah azza wa jal says FurFur recon can debitum some
of them you denied, you rejected, you call them false prophets, you made them out to be imposters
like these are the salatu salam and like our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will further your
contact to loon and a group of amongst those profits you murdered and you killed. And it is said for
example, that the prophets ZACHARY And Yaya Allahi wa salatu salam were from amongst those prophets
that were killed and Allah azza wa jal knows best. But the point here being that Allah subhanaw
taala tells us that from the ways that people used to react to their Prophets and Messengers is that
		

			they would kill them, they would kill them and they would slaughter them. And that is therefore a
warning from Allah subhanaw taala. So Allah azza wa jal says, and what is a worse way, or what is a
more a more evil, more horrible way of responding to the revelation that comes from Allah, and the
messengers and prophets from Allah azza wa jal sense that you respond by killing them, by rejecting
them by calling them to be false. And this is exactly what the Quraysh tried to do with the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the coalition other people who have previous prophets. They don't
have previous revelation that are like the Jews and the Christians that can claim that they had
		

			different prophets that came over time and revelations that they understand how this works, the
Quraysh when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came to them, at times they attempted to kill
him. And other times, they just simply call them a liar or imposter, or mad or crazy or a poet, oh,
all of those terms that we are familiar with that Allah azza wa jal mentions in the Quran. So their
reaction is similar to the reaction of the people of Bani Israel, and what they did to the prophet
as well. But the people have been instructed Allah Azza did the same should know better, because of
the revelation that they had, because of the guidance that they were given. So likewise, we as
		

			Muslims today, when Allah azza wa jal has given to the Quran, what claim can you make the you didn't
know? What claim that do we have before Allah subhanaw taala that we had no knowledge that we didn't
understand? When revelation has been given to us and we have the Quran before us in all of its
beauty and all of its glory. And we have the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
preserved or recorded, studied, taught even till today. How can they make on claim that we don't
know that we have no knowledge? It is also a type of rejection of the guidance of Allah subhanaw
taala and that is why Allah azza wa jal in the final verse on this page, page number 88. He says, So
		

			what do they say instead, these people were called who buena will they say our hearts are
impenetrably wrapped against whatever you say they've been covered. To the extent that no knowledge
will come to us we don't understand no guidance will penetrate this. This is the excuse that they
have of Allah we couldn't understand our hearts were covered and sealed in such a way that we didn't
understand this further message and instruction that came from you. Allah azza wa jal responds Billa
Anna whom Allah will be called free him for Polly Elam, Menon, but Allah has rejected them or custom
for the disbelief for indeed they have little faith. Allah subhanaw taala says that is not an
		

			excuse. They chose to disobey Allah to display
		

			even reject. And so they went further into that rejection, but this is the excuse that they use. And
so when a person says My heart is covered, I can't understand my heart cannot receive guidance, then
Allah azza wa jal makes the case that to be the case, and Allah subhanaw taala prevents them from
receiving the credits that they themselves say that they cannot receive. And so Allah azza wa jal
give us warning to us as Muslims, that we shouldn't behave in that way that we shouldn't be people
who welcome guidance, that we should be people who go and study and learn what Allah azza wa jal has
taught us and has given to us of this guidance. Let's be follow in the footsteps of the people of
		

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