Ahsan Hanif – Quran Tafseer – Page 103- Divine Attributes And The Human Responses

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The history of Islam is discussed, including actions of Prophet Azizaigns and disrespecting people, and the actions of different Islamist leaders. The speaker discusses the actions of Prophet sallama, including killing people and causing evil and corruption, and the worship of Islam by the Prophet. They emphasize acceptance of Islam and not denying its reality, as it is too late to believe in it. The importance of belief in the Prophet's teachings and changeability is also emphasized.

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			Muhammad.
		
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			Welcome to another episode of the tafsir page
		
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			by page. InshaAllah ta'ala. Today we are on
		
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			page 103 which is in the 6th juz
		
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			Surah Nisa.
		
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			In the previous episode, we mentioned a number
		
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			of verses that Allah Azzawajal began in the
		
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			passage
		
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			regarding the people of the book and how
		
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			they demanded from the prophet of Allah
		
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			that he cause a physical book to be
		
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			revealed and descended amongst them that they could
		
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			witness and see. And Allah is saying to
		
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			the prophet
		
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			that if these are the types of demands
		
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			they are making upon you, then it is
		
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			not something out of the ordinary for them
		
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			because they made greater demands from their own
		
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			Prophet that they did accept and believe in
		
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			the Prophet Musa.
		
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			They asked and demanded that Allah should come
		
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			to them face to face so that they
		
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			could see him and Allah Azzawajal
		
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			punished them for that and then Allah took
		
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			from them a covenant and pledge that they
		
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			would accept the commands of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. In the verse that we begin with
		
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			today, which is verse 155,
		
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			Allah mentions how they broke the covenant and
		
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			pledge that they made with Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala says,
		
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			and so for breaking their pledge, for rejecting
		
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			Allah's revelations,
		
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			for unjustly killing their prophets,
		
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			for saying our minds and our hearts are
		
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			closed,
		
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			no Allah has sealed them in their disbelief
		
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			so that they believe only a little. Allah
		
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			is saying that this is how they responded.
		
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			They made this pledge that they would follow
		
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			and accept the commands of Allah Azzawajal, Allah
		
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			says that they broke that pledge.
		
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			Not only that but they disbelieved in the
		
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			signs of Allah ASSAWALL. They rejected
		
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			Allah's
		
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			signs and his revelations and from those revelations
		
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			is that when this Prophet came meaning the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Muhammad
		
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			with the signs that showed them that he
		
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			was truthful and truly a messenger of Allah,
		
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			the signs that they had in their scripture
		
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			that they would believe in him that they
		
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			would follow him they rejected and they disbelieved
		
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			in those signs of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			those verses and revelations of Allah
		
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			and because they would kill their prophets unjustly
		
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			as we said before that some of the
		
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			prophets of Allah they killed unjustly such as
		
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			what is said concerning the Prophet Zakaria alaihis
		
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			salatu wasalam and they even attempted to kill
		
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			as we know the Prophet Isa
		
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			our hearts are closed meaning that we are
		
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			not going to accept any of
		
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			these words that you are bringing from Allah
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah says
		
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			Allah is the one who caused their hearts
		
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			to be sealed because of their disbelief.
		
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			So they only believe a little.
		
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			Allah then goes on in verse 156 to
		
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			say:
		
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			and because they disbelieved and uttered a terrible
		
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			slander against Mary, Mariam. Mariam as we know
		
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			is the mother of Isa alaihi was salam.
		
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			What is the terrible slander that they said
		
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			concerning Mariam alaihi salam that they accused her
		
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			of being unchaste, of being immodest?
		
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			Mariam Alaihi Salam has a child, Isa Alaihi
		
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			Salam, a miracle from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			born without male intervention. She had no husband,
		
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			no male with her and Allah gave to
		
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			her a child. What did they say about
		
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			her? She must have been a prostitute, she
		
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			must have been someone who was unchaste,
		
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			immodest, had this child form an unlawful relationship.
		
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			And so they slandered her, they slandered her
		
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			honor and Allah praises her in the Quran
		
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			as one of the greatest women that Allah
		
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			has created. But despite that and despite her
		
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			being the mother of a Prophet and Messenger
		
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			of Allah
		
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			they slandered her and demeaned her in terms
		
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			of her character, in terms of her modesty,
		
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			in terms of her honor. In verse 157
		
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			Allah says
		
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			And what they said, we have killed the
		
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			messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of
		
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			God. They did not kill him nor did
		
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			they crucify him, though it was made to
		
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			appear like that to them. Those that disagreed
		
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			about him are full of doubt with no
		
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			knowledge to follow, only supposition.
		
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			They certainly did not kill him. Look at
		
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			how Allah is now listing all the ways
		
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			in which they disobeyed
		
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			Allah from the beginning of today's episode. Allah
		
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			favored them by giving them prophets and messengers
		
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			and revelation
		
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			by Allah
		
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			giving them many of his blessings
		
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			but they disbelieved in Allah's signs. They rejected
		
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			Allah
		
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			in terms of his revelations,
		
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			they killed their prophets or some of them
		
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			unjustly, they refused to accept the prophets and
		
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			messengers that came after Musa salaam,
		
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			they slandered
		
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			the awliya of Allah, the people close to
		
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			Allah from his other prophets and messengers. And
		
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			now Allah is saying and because of what
		
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			they claimed
		
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			that they killed Jesus, the son of Mary,
		
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			the messenger of Allah
		
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			and
		
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			that is that they killed or they attempted
		
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			and they claimed that they crucified Isa Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. But as we know when the prophet
		
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			told us salallahu alaihi wasallam in his authentic
		
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			sunnah that Allah
		
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			saved Isa
		
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			from their schemes,
		
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			from their plots and their plots and Allah
		
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			raised him to the heavens.
		
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			Allah says here,
		
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			they didn't kill him
		
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			nor did they crucify him
		
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			but it was made to appear like that
		
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			to them. And it is said in some
		
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			of the narrations that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			exchanged
		
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			his Messenger,
		
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			Musa 'alayhi salaam, with a man who looked
		
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			like him. Oh that Allah ajawajal placed upon
		
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			this man the image of Isa. So he
		
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			resembled him the resemblance of Isa Alaihi Salaam.
		
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			When they crucified this individual,
		
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			they thought and believed that it was Isa
		
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			Alaihi Salam that they had killed. And this
		
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			is an example of
		
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			their arrogance, their rejection
		
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			of the signs of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			That a person would go and kill
		
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			a Prophet or Messenger of Allah 'alayhi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			Just as the Quraysh tried to do with
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			and
		
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			all of this is a type of
		
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			consolation for the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			that if this is the way they are
		
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			behaving with your Messenger of Allah, then this
		
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			is what they did to their own Prophets
		
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			and Messengers that were sent to them, This
		
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			is the way that they behaved with Musa.
		
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			This is the way that they behaved with
		
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			Isa alai musaratus salam and these are the
		
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			prophets of Bani Israel. These are their prophets
		
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			from their nation, from their people. As As
		
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			for you, oh Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam, you're
		
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			not even from amongst their people. You're not
		
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			from Bani israel and because of that the
		
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			enmity towards you will be greater.
		
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			And if they tried to kill you or
		
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			assassinate you or harm you, then they did
		
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			that with the Prophet salawllah before. If they
		
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			reject you and your revelations and the words
		
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			Allah
		
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			has given to you. They did that the
		
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			same with those Messengers and Prophets who came
		
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			before. So all of these things that you
		
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			see, meaning the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam during
		
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			his time, what he is experiencing,
		
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			the different interactions he is having with them,
		
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			it is not something new. But rather this
		
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			is the way they were with their own
		
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			prophets and messengers
		
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			Allah sent to them. So Allah is saying
		
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			that they tried to kill the prophets and
		
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			messengers of Allah and they did to some
		
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			of them. But when he came to Isa
		
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			Alaihi Salatu Salam, Allah raised him up to
		
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			the heavens.
		
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			That's why Allah says those that disagreed about
		
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			him are full of doubt. Is he a
		
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			Prophet? Was he a Prophet? Was he not
		
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			a Prophet? What happened to him? Did he
		
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			die? Was he resurrected? What happened to him?
		
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			They don't know.
		
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			They
		
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			have no knowledge of this.
		
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			But they simply follow their
		
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			supposition, their thinking, their thoughts.
		
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			But one of the things that definitely did
		
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			not happen is that he was killed. He
		
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			was not crucified.
		
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			And when you understand this from the Muslim
		
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			point of view, therefore from the Islamic point
		
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			of view, those people who believe that Jesus
		
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			died upon the cross for their sins and
		
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			so on, our belief as Muslims is that
		
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			he didn't die, that he wasn't crucified.
		
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			And therefore Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala what did
		
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			he do instead? Allah mentions in the next
		
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			verse
		
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			158,
		
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			Allah raised him up to himself.
		
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			Allah decreed
		
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			that the Prophet
		
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			should not die upon that cross, should not
		
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			be killed or murdered, but rather he should
		
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			be raised up to the heavens. And there
		
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			he is living
		
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			in a manner and way that Allah
		
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			knows best, that Allah
		
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			has decreed.
		
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			And Allah tells us
		
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			that
		
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			or we know rather from the sunnah of
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam met the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam
		
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			upon his night journey. So when the Prophet
		
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			went on that single night journey from Mecca
		
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			to Jerusalem to the heavens and back, when
		
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			he went to the heavens at every stage
		
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			of the 7 heavens, he met different prophets.
		
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			And in the 2nd level of the heavens,
		
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			he met the 2 cousins,
		
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			Risa and Yahya alayhi
		
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			wasalam. And so Allah
		
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			is allowing Risa
		
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			to be in the heavens. He is meeting
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			and
		
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			living there in a man and a way
		
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			that Allah has
		
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			decreed. And what we know also from the
		
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			authentic sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
		
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			decree that
		
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			Isa will come back down to earth and
		
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			descend to earth towards the end of time
		
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			as is mentioned in numerous Hadith of the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			and that is at the time when the
		
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			Dajjal will appear so that the Dajjal which
		
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			is one of the greatest if not the
		
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			greatest fitna and trial and tribulation that Allah
		
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			will send upon humankind
		
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			he will stay upon earth for a number
		
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			of days and he will cause corruption and
		
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			evil and he will spread corruption upon the
		
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			earth and he will kill and he will
		
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			force people to believe in him as a
		
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			God besides Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And the group of the Muslims will be
		
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			few in number, but they will be holding
		
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			fast to the religion of Allah and
		
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			their need at that time will be the
		
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			Mahdi as Prophet
		
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			Prophetised.
		
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			It is at the time that Allah will
		
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			cause and allow for Isa
		
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			to descend and he will descend as mentioned
		
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			in the Hadith on the wings of 2
		
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			angels by the white minaret of Damascus
		
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			and he will descend there and then he
		
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			will join the battle that is now beginning
		
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			between the army of the Mahdi and the
		
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			army of the Dajjal.
		
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			And when
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			will appear, he will pray with the Muslims
		
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			as is mentioned in the narration, with the
		
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			Mahdi leading them in Salah and then the
		
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			battle will begin.
		
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			And as soon as the Dajjal sees Risa
		
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			alaihi salam, some of the narrations
		
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			will say that he will lose
		
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			the powers and abilities that he had because
		
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			the Dajjal has many powers and abilities that
		
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			Allah will give to him as a test.
		
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			The way that he can walk across the
		
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			earth in very short spaces of time, the
		
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			way that he can do certain things in
		
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			terms of producing treasures and so on and
		
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			so forth. He will have certain powers that
		
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			Allah will give to him and certain strength
		
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			that Allah will give to him. But as
		
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			soon as he sees Risa alaihi sallam, one
		
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			of the narrations says that he will lose
		
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			them the same way that salt dissolves in
		
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			water, as quickly as salt dissolves in water,
		
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			and so then he will flee from the
		
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			battlefield and Isa 'alayhi salam will give chase
		
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			to him and he will catch him and
		
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			he will kill him. And then the army
		
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			of the Muslims will be victorious.
		
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			But the point here being that Isa Alaihi
		
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			Salam will descend upon the earth. He will
		
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			then remain upon the earth for
		
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			a period of time that Allah decrees and
		
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			that is the time that the Prophet told
		
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			us it
		
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			will be a time of plenty
		
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			it will be a time of justice and
		
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			fairness, there will be no oppression, and the
		
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			people will live in goodness and happiness and
		
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			justice and peace, and that will be a
		
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			time in which the people will worship Allah
		
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			and enjoy their worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala until eventually Allah decrees that this Prophet
		
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			of Allah
		
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			Giza will pass away.
		
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			And that is why in the next verse,
		
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			verse 159,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then says,
		
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			that is not one of the people of
		
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			the book who will not believe in him
		
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			before his death,
		
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			or who will not believe before his death,
		
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			and on the day of resurrection he will
		
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			be a witness against them.
		
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			Question here is Allah azza wa jal is
		
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			seeing that there is not one of the
		
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			people of the book, one of the people
		
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			of the scripture
		
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			except that they will believe
		
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			in Jesus alaihis salaam before
		
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			his death. The scholars of tafsir differ here
		
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			as to who his death refers to, whose
		
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			death is being referred to. Allah is saying
		
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			that there is not one of the people
		
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			of the book
		
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			except that he will believe in Isa Alaihi
		
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			Salam, meaning that he will believe
		
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			in the correct belief concerning Isa Alaihi Salam.
		
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			That Isa Alaihi Salam was a messenger and
		
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			a prophet of Allah, that he wasn't the
		
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			son of Allah, he wasn't a god besides
		
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			Allah that he wasn't worthy of worship. They
		
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			will believe in Isa
		
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			as he should be believed in. Accept him
		
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			for what he was and that is one
		
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			of the greatest messengers and prophets of Allah
		
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			alayhi salaam.
		
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			So they won't be one of the people
		
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			of the book except that he will believe
		
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			in Risa
		
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			before his death. Before whose death? Some of
		
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			the scholars said, meaning before the death of
		
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			that person from the people of the scripture,
		
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			meaning that at the time when their soul
		
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			is about to be extracted from their body,
		
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			the Angel of Death has come to them
		
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			now, they will know the reality of the
		
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			issue. They will know at that moment now
		
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			what the true religion is and what the
		
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			true belief concerning Isa
		
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			should have been because at that time they
		
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			will be under no illusion
		
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			concerning
		
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			this God or that God or this religion,
		
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			they will know what is the truth. But
		
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			by then it will be too late as
		
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			the Prophet told us that the path and
		
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			the door of Tawba, repentance is open so
		
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			long
		
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			as the soul doesn't begin to leave the
		
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			body and so long as the sun does
		
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			and the wise from the west. So the
		
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			door of Tawbah is open for people to
		
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			accept Islam, to repent to Allah, to send
		
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			back to Allah for
		
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			that moment when death comes to them and
		
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			their soul is now being extracted from their
		
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			body, then even if they know the reality
		
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			and the situation,
		
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			it is too late not to accept. It
		
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			is too late for them to believe at
		
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			that time. That is one position amongst the
		
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			scholars of tafsir.
		
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			Another from amongst the scholars of tafsir said
		
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			no that his death refers to the death
		
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			of Isa alaihis salatu salam. There is not
		
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			one of the people of the book who
		
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			will believe in Risa, meaning at the time
		
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			when Risa alaihi salam descends again to earth,
		
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			except that they will believe in before Risa
		
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			alaihi salam then passes away. Meaning that from
		
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			that time when Risa descends
		
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			and it will be from the major signs
		
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			of Yawmul Qiyama, his descent, he will come,
		
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			he will defeat the army of the Dajjal,
		
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			the people will
		
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			have justice and peace and he will rule
		
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			in accordance to the Sharia of our Prophet
		
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			Muhammad
		
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			And so then the people who are the
		
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			people of the book will know the reality,
		
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			they will know that Isa alaihi wasallam wasn't
		
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			calling to something else, he wasn't calling to
		
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			any type of shirk. This is the same
		
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			religion and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is
		
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			the final and the seal of those Messengers
		
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			and every Prophet was told as we mentioned
		
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			before that if the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam comes out in your time, then
		
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			you must support him,
		
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			then you must aid him and
		
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			you must be from amongst his followers. And
		
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			so, Isa Alaihi Wasallam would essentially
		
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			therefore
		
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			rule in accordance to the Sharia and the
		
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			laws of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			So that is also a position amongst the
		
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			scholars of tafsir. The first one refers to
		
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			the people of the book at the time
		
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			of their death before Isa
		
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			descends and the second refers to them once
		
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			they know
		
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			what is the truth and so they believe
		
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			in him which essentially means that they believe
		
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			in Islam and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			And both of those are possible and Allah
		
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			knows
		
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			best.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says and there is
		
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			not an Anam Yomul Qiyam, he will be
		
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			a witness against them. As Allah 'azawwajal will
		
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			mention when we come towards the end of
		
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			Surah Mahidah, that Allah will
		
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			ask in front of all of the people,
		
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			Risa did you ever call to the worship
		
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			of yourself and your mother? Did you say
		
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			take me and my mother as God besides
		
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			Allah?
		
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			And Risa alaihi salam will absolve himself from
		
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			this. He will refute this and reject this.
		
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			He will say, oh Allah, how can I
		
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			claim something
		
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			that I have no right to? How can
		
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			I claim to be worshipped besides Allah, to
		
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			be a God besides Allah, to be the
		
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			son of Allah
		
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			when I have no right to this? And
		
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			so he will be a witness against those
		
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			people. He will be a witness against those
		
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			who claimed that he was a God besides
		
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			Allah azza wa Jal. That is what Allah
		
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			is saying here.
		
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			He will be a witness against them.
		
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			In verse 160, Allah
		
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			then says,
		
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			Allah says and for the wrongdoings
		
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			done by the Jews, We have obeyed them
		
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			certain good things that have been permitted to
		
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			them before for having frequently departed others from
		
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			Allah
		
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			path. We mentioned before in the tafsir of
		
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			Suratul Baqar when we were speaking about the
		
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			story of the cow that took place in
		
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			the time of Musa alaihis salam, we were
		
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			mentioning how when the laws of Allah Azzawajal
		
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			would come upon the people of Musa 'alayhi
		
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			wa sallam they would often be argumentative
		
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			and they would debate and they would question
		
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			and they would ask until those laws would
		
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			become more and more restrictive upon them more
		
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			and more difficult for them to follow and
		
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			that is what Allah is saying here that
		
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			because of the oppression that they had, we
		
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			made
		
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			haram for them some things that otherwise would
		
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			have been halal. Why? Because of themselves,
		
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			because of the way that they were, because
		
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			of the demands that they were making.
		
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			And also because of the evil that they
		
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			did and the fact that they tried to
		
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			bar others from the paths of Allah
		
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			And from those sins that they committed, Allah
		
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			mentions in verse
		
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			61.
		
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			For taking usury when they had been forbidden
		
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			to do so and for wrongly devouring other
		
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			people's property
		
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			for those of them that reject the truth
		
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			We have prepared an agonizing torment. So Allah
		
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			says, not only were they people who were
		
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			being difficult in terms of the laws of
		
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			Allah azza wa Jal, they would often find
		
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			ways that they considered to be loopholes that
		
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			they made for themselves. Allah 'Azza wa Jal's
		
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			religion and his sharia doesn't have loopholes
		
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			but they themselves using their own logic
		
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			found ways that they tried to circumvent
		
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			the laws of Allah
		
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			in his Sharia. And so Allah says and
		
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			because of that they engaged in major sins
		
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			such as devouring the wealth of people unjustly
		
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			and such as
		
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			taking riba and dealing an interest.
		
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			And so they would sometimes change the name
		
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			rather than calling you. Usually they call it
		
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			interest. Interest is a nicer name, it's in
		
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			your interest, it's in my interest. So they
		
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			would change the name and they would say,
		
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			no, Allah didn't forbid this, Allah forbid usury.
		
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			We're not doing usury, we're doing interest. And
		
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			that is why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam said that from the things that will
		
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			happen in this ummah is that people will
		
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			change the names of things in order to
		
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			use them and they were haram.
		
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			So rather than something being
		
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			or rather than people knowing that it is
		
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			haram, people use it in the guise of
		
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			a different name. Change its name, change the
		
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			packaging. It's essentially the same thing, but we
		
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			just change the way that it looks and
		
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			seems and so we then tell people that
		
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			it's okay. Allah warns us against this and
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that this is
		
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			one of the major things that they fell
		
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			into the people of Musa'ali salatu salam,
		
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			and
		
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			their disbelievers from amongst them will have a
		
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			painful punishment.
		
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			In the final verse that we are going
		
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			to take today, verse
		
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			162, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala then speaks about
		
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			those people who believe.
		
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			Believe in Allah, believe in all of his
		
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			prophets and messengers, believe in all of the
		
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			revelations of Allah Azzawajal.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			For those of them who are well grounded
		
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			in knowledge and a faith, do believe in
		
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			what has been revealed to you meaning the
		
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			prophet and
		
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			what was revealed before you. Those who performed
		
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			the prayers, paid the Zakah, believe in Allah
		
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			and the last day, to them we shall
		
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			give a great reward. Allah
		
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			says that from amongst them are those people
		
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			of knowledge. They study their scriptures and realize
		
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			what is the truth. And that is for
		
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			example like the famous companion Abdullah Alaihi Salam
		
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			Ra'ilahu
		
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			Anhu Wa Ta and others from amongst them
		
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			who studied and learnt and realized
		
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			because of the knowledge that they had which
		
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			shows to you the importance of knowledge for
		
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			the Muslims as well. That in order for
		
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			you to safeguard your religion,
		
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			safeguard your connection with Allah
		
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			safeguard your worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			knowledge is so important. Here look how Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala after mentioning all of the
		
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			harm and the evil that they did, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala makes an exception to that
		
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			rule and he says those people who don't
		
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			just have knowledge, they don't just claim to
		
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			be learned people, are
		
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			They have deep knowledge, they're well grounded in
		
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			that knowledge, meaning that they are people who
		
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			truly have understanding.
		
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			Because lots of people can claim to be
		
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			imams, or rabbis, or monks, or priests, or
		
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			whatever. Doesn't necessarily mean that they have understanding.
		
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			They just qualified or studied or have that
		
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			title. Allah praises the people of our rusukh,
		
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			those are the people who have deep and
		
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			full and correct understanding of what Allah sent.
		
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			Those people from amongst them will believe in
		
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			what the Prophet
		
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			brought in terms of revelation,
		
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			as well as believing in everything that Allah
		
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			revealed
		
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			before him. Those are the people who established
		
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			the salah and they give the zakah and
		
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			believe in Allah
		
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			and believe in your Al Qiyama. Those are
		
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			the people that Allah will give to them
		
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			the greatest of reward.
		
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			And bless Allah that he makes us from
		
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			amongst those people who have knowledge and act
		
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			upon that knowledge that Allah gives us the
		
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			understanding of the Quran and the Sunnah and
		
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			that Allah makes us from amongst those people
		
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			who understand those sources and act upon them
		
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			in a way that is pleasing to him
		
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			and with that we come to the end
		
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			of today's episode.