Ahsan Hanif – Quran Tafseer – Page 184 – The Consequences Of Disbelief

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The history and actions of Islam have caused negative consequences, including evil behavior and false accusations. The importance of following rules and following guidance is emphasized, as well as avoiding false accusations and breaking treaty. The importance of trusting in Islam's punishment, as well as belief in actions is emphasized. It is crucial to not allowing people to get away from treaty and use it as a means to subvert actions, as it is not a means to win and is not a means to win. The importance of trusting in Islam's actions is emphasized, and physical means and practical steps are also emphasized.

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			I seek refuge in Allah from Satan the
		
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			accursed.
		
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			And if only you could see when the
		
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			angels take the souls of the disbelievers, how
		
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			they strike their faces and their backs, it
		
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			will be said, taste the punishment of the
		
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			fire.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says because on
		
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			the day of Badr as we know it,
		
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			it's not only specific to the day of
		
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			Badr.
		
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			But on the day of Badr, for example,
		
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			a number of the Quraysh died.
		
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			A number of them were killed on that
		
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			battlefield, including a good number of their leaders
		
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			and their chieftains and their nobles who were
		
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			from the major enemies of Islam and the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And Allah azzawajal after saying or mentioning in
		
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			the previous episode, it was said in those
		
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			verses, the mindset, the difference in the mindset
		
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			between the two groups of people or the
		
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			two armies.
		
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			Allah azzawajal now says that when those people
		
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			met their end from the disbelievers, if only
		
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			you could see it when the angels came
		
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			to take their souls.
		
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			And how they were striking them on their
		
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			faces and on their backs, meaning in extracting
		
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			their souls.
		
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			Because the soul of the disbeliever, as the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ told us in that famous hadith
		
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			of Al-Bara' ibn A'azib, it's a
		
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			long narration.
		
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			But the hadith says that the soul of
		
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			the disbeliever holds on and it clings to
		
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			the body.
		
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			It doesn't want to leave because it knows
		
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			at that moment now the reality of the
		
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			situation.
		
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			It knows the truth and it knows that
		
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			once it leaves, it will be punished and
		
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			that it will be shrouded in an evil
		
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			way.
		
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			And that it will have nothing except the
		
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			fire and the punishment and the torment of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And so it holds on and the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ described in the hadith, it's as if
		
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			you take some type of a metal hook
		
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			and you're taking it through a ball of
		
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			wool, of cotton wool that is clinging together.
		
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			And you have to drag it through and
		
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			out the other end.
		
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			And that is how much friction and how
		
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			difficult or how much that soul tries to
		
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			hold on.
		
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			And so the angels strike it and they
		
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			beat it until it eventually comes out.
		
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			And that is why Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala says, Because what they will have after
		
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			that is an even greater or worse or
		
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			further worse punishment that Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala has prepared for them.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then says in
		
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			verse 51, ذَلِكَ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ
		
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			لَيْسَ بِظَلَّامٍ لِّلْعَبِيدِ This is what is caused
		
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			by your own hands and what you have
		
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			stored up for yourself.
		
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			For Allah is never unjust to His creatures.
		
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			It is because of what you did, because
		
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			of what your hands earned, because of your
		
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			actions, because of the things that you did
		
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			and the deeds that you performed.
		
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			That is the reason why.
		
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			These were the people of arrogance.
		
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			These were the people of conceit.
		
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			These were the people who showed off, who
		
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			didn't worship Allah, never had any humbleness before
		
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			Allah, didn't want to believe in Allah, didn't
		
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			want to worship Allah azza wa jal, didn't
		
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			want to accept the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
		
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			and his words, didn't want to believe in
		
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			the Akhirah, didn't want to accept the fact
		
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			that there would be an accounting or a
		
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			judgment on Yawm al Qiyamah.
		
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			And so because of everything that they did,
		
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			disobedience of Allah, evil sins, kufr, everything else,
		
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			now this is your result.
		
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			ذَلِكَ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ It is because of
		
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			what you did.
		
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			وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ لَيْسَ بِظَلَّامٍ لِلْعَبِيدِ And Allah azza
		
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			wa jal is not unjust to His creatures.
		
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			Allah didn't, Allah is not the one who
		
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			forced you to do this.
		
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			Allah azza wa jal isn't just punishing you
		
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			for no reason.
		
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			It is because of what you did and
		
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			the decisions that you made and the direction
		
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			that you chose in the dunya that Allah
		
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			azza wa jal is now going to punish
		
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			you.
		
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			And they are not the first to be
		
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			punished.
		
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			There were nations that came and made similar
		
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			choices and they too were punished.
		
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			And Allah azza wa jal gives us those
		
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			examples as a reminder.
		
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			Beware, be careful, you know that people came
		
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			before you and you can see even today
		
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			the signs of their destruction and their punishment.
		
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			So take heed and listen from them.
		
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			And that is what Allah azza wa jal
		
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			gives to us the example of Pharaoh and
		
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			his people in verse 52.
		
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			كَدَأْ بِآلِ فِرْعَوْنَ وَالَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِ
		
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			اللَّهِ فَأَخَذَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِذُنُوبِهِمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَوِيٌّ شَدِيدٌ
		
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			عِقَابٌ They are like Pharaoh's people and those
		
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			before them who ignored Allah's signs.
		
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			So Allah punished them for their sins.
		
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			Allah is strong and severe in His punishment.
		
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			You are not the first people to disbelieve
		
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			in Allah and you won't be the last.
		
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			But from those who came before you from
		
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			the past nations, there are people who took
		
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			similar directions of travel, made similar decisions, did
		
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			similar things, disobeyed Allah in similar ways and
		
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			disbelieved in Him in similar ways.
		
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			Like for example the people of Pharaoh.
		
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			وَالَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ Those who came before them,
		
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			Aad and Thamud and the people of Median
		
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			and all of those nations, the people of
		
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			Lot, all of those nations that Allah mentions
		
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			in the Quran.
		
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			What did they do?
		
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			كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِ اللَّهِ They disbelieved in Allah, the
		
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			signs of Allah, the revelations of Allah, the
		
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			messengers of Allah.
		
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			فَأَخَذَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِذُنُوبِهِمْ فَأَخَذَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِذُنُوبِهِمْ
		
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			فَأَخَذَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِذُنُوبِهِمْ So Allah took them and
		
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			punished them as a result of their misdeeds
		
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			and their kufr and their disbelief and their
		
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			sins.
		
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			And indeed Allah is قَوِيٌّ شَدِيدٌ عِقَابٌ Strong
		
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			and severe in His punishment.
		
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			But Allah عز و جل only does this
		
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			because of the disbelief of people.
		
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			And look at how those nations, as we
		
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			mentioned before when we were going through this
		
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			in detail in Surah Al-A'raf.
		
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			How Allah favoured the people of Pharaoh.
		
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			How Allah blessed the people of Ad and
		
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			Thamud and Median.
		
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			How Allah gave to each one of them
		
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			many many different things that would help them
		
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			in the dunya.
		
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			But when the message of Allah came, they
		
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			rejected them.
		
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			And when they turned away from Allah, and
		
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			instead of showing gratitude, they showed ingratitude.
		
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			Instead of obedience, they showed disobedience.
		
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			Instead of belief, they displayed disbelief.
		
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			That is when the punishment of Allah comes
		
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			upon them as Allah says in verse 53.
		
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			ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَكُمُ غَيِّرًا نِعْمَةً أَنْعَمَهَا
		
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			عَلَىٰ قَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ
		
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			سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ He did this because Allah would
		
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			never change a favour He had conferred on
		
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			a people.
		
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			Unless they changed that which was within themselves.
		
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			For Allah is all-hearing and all-knowing.
		
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			Allah says that, meaning the punishment of Allah
		
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			that fell upon you.
		
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			Those nations that came before you, the way
		
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			that they were destroyed.
		
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			Despite the many blessings that Allah showered upon
		
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			them, despite the many bounties that Allah gave
		
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			to them.
		
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			Allah wouldn't do that to them.
		
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			لَمْ يَكُمُ غَيِّرًا نِعْمَةً أَنْعَمَهَا عَلَىٰ قَوْمٍ Allah
		
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			wouldn't change or take away the blessings that
		
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			He conferred upon them.
		
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			And those blessings are there so that they
		
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			would show gratitude.
		
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			That they would be able to worship Allah.
		
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			That they would see the signs of Allah
		
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			in that which Allah عز و جل gave
		
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			to them.
		
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			Allah سبحانه و تعالى doesn't change that, doesn't
		
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			punish them.
		
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			حَتَّى يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ Until they themselves are
		
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			the ones who change.
		
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			From obedience to disobedience, from belief to disbelief,
		
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			from gratitude to ingratitude.
		
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			They reject every single sign of Allah.
		
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			And they harm the prophets of Allah and
		
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			they harm the believers who believe in Allah
		
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			عز و جل.
		
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			And they prevent people from the path of
		
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			Allah سبحانه و تعالى.
		
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			And that is when Allah عز و جل
		
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			destroys them.
		
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			That is when Allah decides to punish them.
		
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			That is when Allah عز و جل holds
		
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			them to account for the evil that they
		
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			did.
		
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			وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ السَّمِيُونَ عَلِيمٌ And Allah sees all
		
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			and He knows all and He hears all
		
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			سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى In verse 54 Allah عز و
		
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			جل gives again the example of the past
		
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			nations.
		
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			كَدَأْمِ آلِ فِجْعَوْنَ وَالَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِ
		
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			رَبِّهِمْ فَأَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ بِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَأَغْرَقَنَا آلَ فِجْعَوْنَ
		
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			وَكُلُّهُمْ كَانُوا ظَالِمِينَ They are indeed like Pharaoh's
		
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			people and those who came before them who
		
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			denied the signs of their Lord.
		
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			We destroyed them for their sins and we
		
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			drowned Pharaoh's people for they were all evil
		
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			doers.
		
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			So again Allah عز و جل gives the
		
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			example of the past nations.
		
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			The past nations Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى gave
		
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			to them many blessings.
		
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			And Allah gave to them many favors.
		
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			And Allah عز و جل even in the
		
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			time of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
		
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			gave to the Quraysh many favors and that
		
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			is why Allah عز و جل dedicates a
		
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			whole surah to them in the Qur'an.
		
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			Surah Quraysh لِإِلَٰهِ قُرَيْشِ إِلَٰهِهِمْ لِحْلَةَ الشِّتَاءِ وَالصَّيْفِ
		
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			فَالْيَعْبُدُ وَرَبَّ هَذَا الْبَيْتِ أَلَّذِي أَطْعَمَهُمْ مِنْ جُوعٍ
		
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			وَآمَنَهُمْ مِنْ خَوْفٍ That is a surah that
		
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			speaks about the many blessings, the many favors
		
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			that Allah conferred upon Quraysh, the ease that
		
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			Allah gave to them, the safety that Allah
		
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			gave to them, the provision that Allah brought
		
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			for them.
		
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			Despite Makkah being a barren land, a place
		
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			that no one would travel to usually, not
		
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			a place for trade and commerce, but Allah
		
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			عز و جل gave to them all of
		
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			the blessings because Allah honored Makkah.
		
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			And therefore the people of Makkah that were
		
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			residing within it were honored also.
		
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			Allah عز و جل gave to them their
		
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			travels and their caravans of trade in the
		
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			summer and the winter to Ash-Sham and
		
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			Yemen.
		
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			And so they were people that Allah favored.
		
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			But that favor is only good if those
		
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			people use that favor to come closer to
		
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			Allah عز و جل and believe in Him.
		
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			But when the Quraysh turned away or a
		
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			good number of them turned away, then Allah
		
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			عز و جل tells us what happened to
		
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			them in this surah and on the day
		
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			of Badr.
		
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			And likewise the people who came before.
		
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			In the past nations Allah عز و جل
		
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			mentions in so many places in the Qur
		
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			'an the many things that they received in
		
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			terms of blessings, the many favors that Allah
		
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			placed upon them.
		
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			But when they turned away, they rejected Allah,
		
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			they rejected their messengers and prophets that Allah
		
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			sent to them, they denied the revelations and
		
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			the signs of Allah عز و جل, then
		
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			they deserve the punishment of Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			And that is why Allah عز و جل
		
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			says, كذبوا بآيات ربهم.
		
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			They rejected the signs of their Lord.
		
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			They didn't believe in anything.
		
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			They didn't accept any of it.
		
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			فَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ بِظُنُوبِهِمْ So we destroyed them as a
		
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			result of their evil, their sins, their disbelief.
		
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			The people of Nuh, the people of Ad,
		
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			the people of Thamud, the people of Lut
		
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			and the people of Madian, the people of
		
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			Pharaoh destroyed and we see signs of their
		
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			destruction even till today.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because of the evil that they committed.
		
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			وَاغْرَقَنَا آلَ فِرْعَونَ And we drowned the people
		
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			of Pharaoh.
		
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			وَكُلٌّ كَانُوا ظَالِمِينَ Each one of them was
		
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			an evildoer.
		
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			Each one of them were people who were
		
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			oppressive.
		
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			Allah didn't oppress them.
		
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			Allah didn't do injustice to them.
		
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			Rather they were the ones when they turned
		
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			away from Allah and they disbelieved in Him,
		
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			they were deserving of the punishment and the
		
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			wrath of Allah عز و جل.
		
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			And so Allah سبحانه وتعالى sent it upon
		
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			them.
		
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			And so likewise Allah عز و جل in
		
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			this surah is giving us these lessons.
		
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			That those people who turn away from Allah,
		
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			they too will be punished.
		
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			It may not be the punishment that Allah
		
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			sent down to the previous nations because Allah
		
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			promised not to destroy the Ummah of the
		
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			Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in that way.
		
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			But that doesn't mean that they can't be
		
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			punished in other ways.
		
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			Like for example what happened on the Battle
		
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			of Badr to the leaders of Quraysh.
		
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			Likewise when people are destroyed or they die
		
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			and they lose their lives and their wealth
		
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			in other ways, Allah still punishes people in
		
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			ways that He chooses سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			Allah سبحانه وتعالى then goes on to say
		
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			in verse 55 The
		
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			worst creatures in the sight of Allah are
		
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			those who reject Him and will not believe.
		
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			Allah عز و جل says and He will
		
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			mention three things, two in this verse and
		
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			one in the next verse, verse 56.
		
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			The three major attributes that make people from
		
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			the worst of Allah's creations, from the worst
		
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			of Allah's creatures.
		
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			The first two are the ones that are
		
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			mentioned here in this verse and both of
		
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			them are to do with the issue of
		
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			Tawheed and Iman and belief.
		
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			Allah سبحانه وتعالى says that the worst of
		
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			creatures in the sight of Allah are those
		
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			who have Kufr and they don't have Iman.
		
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			They disbelieve and they don't have faith.
		
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			They reject the signs of Allah, they reject
		
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			Allah, they reject Yawm al-Qiyamah, they reject
		
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			the messengers of Allah, the revelations of Allah
		
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			عز و جل, and they refuse to accept
		
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			Islam.
		
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			They refuse to have Iman.
		
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			They refuse to have faith and belief in
		
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			Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			They are the worst of creatures and the
		
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			worst of people in the sight of Allah
		
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			عز و جل.
		
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			And then Allah سبحانه وتعالى gives a third
		
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			and further attribute of them in verse 56
		
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			and He says الَّذِينَ عَاهَدْتَ مِنْهُمْ ثُمَّ يَنْقُضُونَ
		
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			عَهْدَهُمْ فِي كُلِّ مَرَّةٍ وَهُمْ لَا يَتَّقُونَ Who
		
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			whenever you make a treaty with them, they
		
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			break it for they have no fear of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So they have Kufr, disbelief.
		
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			They have no Iman, no faith in Allah
		
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			and they are people who are treacherous.
		
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			They have Khiyanah.
		
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			They are people of treacherous, of treachery.
		
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			They are people who deceive.
		
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			They are people who break their treaties and
		
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			their oaths that they made with you.
		
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			These are the worst of people in the
		
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			sight of Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because they have no fear of Allah عز
		
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			و جل.
		
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			And that is why as we mentioned when
		
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			we were going through the Tafsir of Surah
		
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			Al-Ma'idah.
		
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			When Allah عز و جل at the beginning
		
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			of that Surah says to the people of
		
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			Iman, أَوْفُوا بِالْعُقُودِ Uphold your covenants, your treaties,
		
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			your oaths.
		
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			Because that is the difference, one of the
		
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			major differences between the believer and the disbeliever.
		
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			That our word is something which carries weight
		
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			because we take an oath seriously.
		
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			When we make a promise or we take
		
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			an oath or we say something by the
		
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			name of Allah عز و جل, that is
		
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			something which holds a weight within our hearts
		
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			because we are conscious of Allah and fear
		
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			Allah.
		
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			I know that we will stand before Allah
		
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			عز و جل to be held to account
		
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			for Him.
		
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			But those people who don't have Iman, they
		
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			don't believe in Allah.
		
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			It doesn't make a difference to them if
		
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			they break their treaties because they don't fear
		
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			any punishment of Allah.
		
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			They don't fear any divine wrath or anger
		
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			of Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			And so for many of them, it is
		
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			easy to break the treaties that they make.
		
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			And that is why Allah عز و جل
		
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			then speaks in the next couple of verses
		
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			about the way that the believers should treat
		
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			them.
		
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			Meaning the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم should
		
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			deal with these people who have this attitude
		
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			towards the treaties and the covenants that they
		
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			make.
		
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			And we see an example of this later
		
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			on in the life of the Prophet صلى
		
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			الله عليه وسلم in the treaty of Hudaybiyyah
		
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			and then what will lead, the circumstances that
		
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			lead to the conquest of Mecca when the
		
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			Quraysh broke the treaty that they made with
		
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			the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
		
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			And so here Allah عز و جل is
		
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			speaking about these verses concerning those people.
		
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			And again, these are verses that Allah عز
		
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			و جل is addressing within the leaders of
		
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			the Muslims in the way that they make
		
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			treaties between their nations and their peoples and
		
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			the way that they should deal with this.
		
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			Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى says in verse 57, فَإِمَّا
		
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			تَثْقَفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْحَرْبِ فَشَرِّدَ بِهِم مَنْ غَلْفَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ
		
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			يَذَّكَّرُونَ And if you meet them in battle
		
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			then make a fearsome example of them to
		
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			those who come after them so that they
		
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			may take heed.
		
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			Meaning that these people who have no Iman,
		
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			disbelieve in Allah and they broke the treaties
		
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			that they make with you.
		
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			Then if you meet them on the battlefield,
		
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			then be harsh with them.
		
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			Make an example of them, meaning defeat them
		
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			and be harsh with them so that the
		
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			people will know that it's not an easy
		
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			thing to break their covenant with the Muslims.
		
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			So Allah عز و جل is speaking here
		
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			about a group of people that had a
		
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			covenant with the Muslims, a peace treaty for
		
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			example.
		
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			Then they are treacherous and they break that
		
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			treaty.
		
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			If you meet these people or messenger of
		
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			Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم or leader of
		
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			the Muslims, you meet them on the battlefield,
		
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			then show to them the strength of the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			So that other people will know that they
		
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			shouldn't just break their treaties.
		
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			Because some people uphold their treaties, why?
		
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			Because of their fear of Allah.
		
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			Because they know that Allah will hold them
		
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			to account سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			And this is by the way for Muslims
		
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			today as well.
		
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			Muslims that will uphold the covenants that they
		
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			make, the treaties that they make, the contracts
		
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			that they sign, the oaths that they take,
		
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			whatever it may be, the promises that they
		
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			make, they do it because of their fear
		
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			of Allah عز و جل.
		
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			And that is something which makes them mindful
		
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			and conscious of that treaty and the terms
		
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			of it.
		
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			And there are other people today, Muslims and
		
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			non-Muslims, that do so because they fear
		
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			repercussion.
		
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			They fear punishment.
		
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			They fear that someone in authority will come
		
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			and hold them to account.
		
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			So people obey the law because they fear
		
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			going to jail.
		
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			They fear the police.
		
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			They fear that they will be taken to
		
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			prison, whatever it may be, or fined or
		
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			whatever it is.
		
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			That is how people work.
		
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			The believer is the one who should, even
		
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			though they are aware of those other punishments,
		
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			first and foremost, they should be fearful of
		
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			Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى and uphold their covenants
		
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			accordingly as a result.
		
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			And as for those people who don't fear
		
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			that, then sometimes the Muslim ruler has to
		
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			give those punishments, has to have those things
		
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			in place, just as in every society, Muslim
		
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			and non-Muslim, we have these laws and
		
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			people are told that there are certain punishments
		
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			and penalties that will be incurred if you
		
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			do A, B, C, or D, and that's
		
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			because people understand that level of authority.
		
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			They understand when there is force upon them,
		
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			that they must do certain things that otherwise
		
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			perhaps they would be unwilling to do.
		
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			So likewise here, the Muslim ruler is told
		
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			that for other people to understand that they
		
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			shouldn't break their treaties, that if there are
		
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			terms to a treaty, they should stick with
		
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			them.
		
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			If a group does break them, then B,
		
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			or make a fierce example, a fearsome example
		
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			of them, so that those who come after
		
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			them will take heed.
		
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			That those who come after them will take
		
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			heed.
		
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			Allah Azzawajal mentions in verse 58 another group
		
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			of people.
		
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			وَإِمَّا تَخَافَنَّ مِن قَوْمٍ خِيَانَةً فَانْبِذْ إِلَيْهِمْ عَلَى
		
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			سَوَاءٍ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْخَائِنِينَ And if
		
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			you learn of treachery on the part of
		
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			any people, then throw their treaty back at
		
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			them for Allah does not love the treacherous.
		
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			And Allah Azzawajal says here that this is
		
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			another group of people.
		
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			You have a treaty with them and a
		
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			covenant.
		
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			But you can see all of the different
		
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			signs that show that they are going to
		
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			break the treaty or they're about to break
		
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			the treaty or they have broken the treaty
		
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			in one way or another.
		
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			Those people then shouldn't be allowed to get
		
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			away with this.
		
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			They shouldn't be allowed to, if you like,
		
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			pull the wool over the eyes of the
		
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			Muslim ruler.
		
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			Shouldn't be allowed to do all of these
		
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			things that are breaching the spirit of the
		
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			treaty and the terms of the treaty and
		
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			then be allowed to get away with it.
		
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			Rather Allah Azzawajal says فَنْبِثْ إِلَيْهِمْ عَلَىٰ سَوَٰىٰ
		
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			Then throw the treaty back to them and
		
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			tell them that it's no longer a treaty
		
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			between us and you.
		
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			Meaning we don't think you're upholding your treaty.
		
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			You're not doing this the way that it
		
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			should be done.
		
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			You're not doing this correctly.
		
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			You're using this as a means to subvert
		
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			us in this way and that.
		
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			And so therefore this treaty between us and
		
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			you is no longer valid.
		
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			And so Allah Azzawajal is telling the Prophet
		
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			the way that he should deal with these
		
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			people.
		
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			Just as when the Quraish broke the treaty
		
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			of Hudaybiyah, the Prophet s.a.w. told
		
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			them we're going to come and conquer the
		
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			city of Mecca.
		
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			And even when Abu Sufyan came and others
		
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			came to try to plead with the Prophet
		
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			s.a.w. and they went to the
		
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			likes of Al-Abbas رضي الله عنه the
		
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			uncle of the Prophet s.a.w. that
		
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			he shouldn't proceed on their behalf and so
		
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			on.
		
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			Because they knew that they had done something
		
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			wrong.
		
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			The Prophet s.a.w. said No, no
		
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			longer is there a treaty between us and
		
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			you.
		
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			You broke it.
		
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			Now don't come trying to pretend or to
		
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			make false excuses.
		
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			You openly knew what you were doing.
		
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			You willingly broke it.
		
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			You thought that there would be no repercussions.
		
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			And now that there are going to be,
		
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			you're not willing to accept the results of
		
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			your actions.
		
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			And that is why Allah s.w.t
		
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			says إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْخَائِنِينَ Allah does
		
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			not love those who are treacherous.
		
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			And again as we said that even though
		
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			Allah s.w.t is speaking here about
		
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			those people who are rulers and treaties between
		
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			nations and so on.
		
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			This is a general principle in our religion.
		
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			That Allah does not love those who are
		
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			treacherous even amongst the Muslims.
		
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			People who make oaths and they break them.
		
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			They say something and they're false in what
		
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			they say.
		
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			They're given a trust and they betray their
		
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			trust.
		
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			And that is why the Prophet s.a
		
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			.w. said that these are from the signs
		
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			of hypocrisy.
		
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			They are signs of hypocrisy.
		
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			Because the Muslim should be someone who his
		
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			word is his bond.
		
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			His word is something which has weight to
		
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			it.
		
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			His word is something which he speaks or
		
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			she speaks and she knows that Allah s
		
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			.w.t is recording it and Allah is
		
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			a witness over it and that Allah s
		
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			.w.t will hold them to account for
		
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			it and so Allah s.w.t does
		
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			not love those people who are treacherous in
		
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			their words.
		
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			Allah s.w.t then says in verse
		
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			59 وَلَا يَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا سَبَقُوا إِنَّهُمْ لَا
		
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			يُعْجِزُونَ The disbelievers should not think that they
		
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			have won for they cannot escape.
		
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			Meaning no matter what they do, no matter
		
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			what treachery they may perpetrate, no matter what
		
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			evil they do, no matter what plans they
		
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			have, they should never think that they have
		
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			won because even if they are able to
		
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			overcome the Muslims in some ways, even if
		
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			they are able to best them in some
		
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			way or another, they will never escape the
		
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			punishment of Allah.
		
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			They will never escape the counting of Allah
		
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			a.s.w.t and that is the
		
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			beauty of our Iman that even if there
		
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			are people who are oppressed in this life
		
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			and there are people who are oppressors and
		
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			no one holds them to account, no one
		
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			brings them to court, no one punishes them,
		
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			no one holds them to account, they have
		
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			not escaped.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because they will come to the greatest of
		
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			all courts, before the greatest of all judges
		
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			and kings and there they will be given
		
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			their true justice or the justice that is
		
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			due to them.
		
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			And Allah a.s.w.t, no one
		
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			can escape His punishment, no one can escape
		
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			His accounting.
		
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			In the final verse that we will take
		
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			in today's episode in verse number 60, Allah
		
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			a.s.w.t then tells the believers
		
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			that they should prepare that just as they
		
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			have belief in Allah, trust in Allah a
		
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			.s.w.t, they have that iman in
		
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			Allah a.s.w.t, they have that
		
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			dhikr of Allah s.w.t, they have
		
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			humility and humbleness before Allah a.s.w
		
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			.t, that is the spiritual side, but the
		
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			believer always takes the practical steps as well.
		
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			And so you have tawakkul in Allah but
		
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			at the same time you also do what
		
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			Allah has commanded from the things that He
		
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			has made permissible for you.
		
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			Allah a.s.w.t says in verse
		
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			60, وَأَعِدُّوا لَهُمَّ اَسْتَطَعْتُمْ مِن قُوَّةٍ وَمِن رِبَاطِ
		
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			الْخَيْلِ تُرْهِبُونَ بِهِ عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ وَعَدُوَّكُمْ وَآخَرِينَ مِن
		
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			دُونِهِمْ لَا تَعَلَمُونَ هُمُ اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُونَ وَمَا تُنفِقُوا
		
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			مِن شَيْءٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ يُوَفَّ إِلَيْكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ
		
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			لَا تُظْلَمُونَ Prepare whatever forces you can master,
		
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			including war horses, to frighten off Allah's enemies
		
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			and yours and warn others unknown to you
		
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			but known to Allah.
		
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			Whatever you give in Allah's cause will be
		
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			repaid to you in full, and you will
		
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			not be wronged.
		
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			Allah is really saying that yes, you have
		
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			the belief in Allah, the trust in Allah,
		
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			but at the same time prepare physically the
		
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			forces that you have and that you can
		
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			master.
		
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			من قوة The strength that you have, whether
		
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			that be the weaponry, whether that be the
		
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			armor, whether that be training.
		
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			As the Prophet ﷺ said in the hadith
		
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			of Uqba ibn Aamir r.a, in Sahih
		
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			Muslim, أَلَا إِنَّ الْقُوَّةَ الرَّمِي That from that
		
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			strength that you can master is to practice
		
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			archery, رِبَاطِ الْخَيْل War horses that you train
		
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			and the people that ride them.
		
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			These are the physical things that you do,
		
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			and that is a general principle in our
		
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			religion.
		
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			You trust in Allah for your rizq, but
		
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			it means that you must also go and
		
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			try to earn that rizq.
		
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			As the Prophet ﷺ told us, if you
		
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			truly trust in Allah, then Allah will provide
		
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			for you as He provides for the bird.
		
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			Leaves in the morning with an empty stomach
		
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			returns with a full one.
		
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			The bird trusts in Allah, but it still
		
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			leaves, still searches, still looks, still hunts, still
		
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			finds, and so that is from the practical
		
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			things that you have to do.
		
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			So trust in Allah, believe in Allah, but
		
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			also take the physical means and the practical
		
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			steps.
		
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			تُرْهِبُونَ بِهِ عَدُوَ اللَّهِ وَعَدُوَكُمْ That you may
		
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			cast fear into the hearts of Allah's enemies
		
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			and yours.
		
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			وَآخَرِينَ مِن دُونِهِمْ And other enemies that you
		
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			are yet not to know.
		
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			لَا تَعْلَمُونَهُمْ Other enemies besides these people because
		
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			the Muslims knew of certain enemies, like the
		
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			Quraish is an enemy, we know them, these
		
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			are our enemies, but there are other enemies
		
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			that are unknown to you.
		
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			Other tribes in Arabia and beyond Arabia that
		
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			you are yet to come into contact with,
		
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			you don't know them.
		
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			But your actions and the way that you
		
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			prepare and what happened for example in the
		
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			Battle of Badr, it caused reverberations across all
		
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			of Arabia.
		
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			Everyone took notice.
		
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			Everyone stood up and said, what's happened there?
		
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			So you may not necessarily know, but people
		
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			are noticing.
		
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			لَا تَعْلَمُونَهُمْ اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُهُمْ You may not know
		
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			them, but Allah Azzawajal knows them.
		
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			وَمَا تُنْفِقُوا مِنْ شَيْءٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ And
		
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			that which you give in the path of
		
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			Allah Azzawajal يُوَفَّأْ إِلَيْكُمْ Allah will give to
		
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			you full in its return, meaning in terms
		
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			of its reward وَأَنتُمْ لَا تُظْلَمُونَ And you
		
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			will not be wronged in any of that.
		
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			And so this religion is a religion that
		
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			is practical.
		
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			It is not just a religion that is
		
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			only spiritual or that religion that only focuses
		
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			on the heart, but rather it focuses on
		
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			the whole, the whole package, the heart, the
		
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			soul, the body, the spiritual side, the physical
		
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			side, the means, everything that a person needs
		
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			to do in order to worship Allah Azzawajal
		
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			and in order to live their life fulfilling
		
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			the commands of Allah Azzawajal as a Muslim.
		
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			And with that, we come to the end
		
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			of today's episode.
		
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			بارك الله فيكم وصلى الله على نبينا محمد
		
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			وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله
		
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			وبركاته