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Which is the final page of Surah Al
il Imran
in the 4th jaws.
In the previous episode, we mentioned
the
we began the final passage of Surah Al
Imran,
and those are the verses that began from
verse 190 onwards,
which Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala begins by telling
us the importance of reflecting over the creation
of the heavens and the earth,
the alternation of the night and the day
that the people of Iman
are those people who reflect upon these signs
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. They contemplate over
them and they ponder over the signs and
the lessons that Allah gives there in. Allah
goes on to mention that those people who
remember Allah as the stand,
as they sit, as they lie upon their
sides and as they're reflecting, they realize that
Allah didn't create all of this ingest or
play with that purpose.
And they ask Allah
to save them from the fire.
And they know and they acknowledge that those
who enter the fire
are those people who have suffered all loss.
They are the ones who have lost out
on everything that have been humiliated
and they know and acknowledge that Allah is
the one who can safeguard them from that
fire.
They turned to Allah in dua by saying
that we responded to the one who called
us to your iman to believe in you
and worship you alone meaning the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. We heard him say believe in
you, O Lord, and we believed. So they
ask Allah for forgiveness for their sins, expiation
of their evil deeds, and that they should
die with the righteous and be from amongst
the righteous.
And they ask Allah
that they that he grants them and bestows
upon them everything that he promised to them
by and and through their messengers, through the
messenger that he sent to them. And that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala doesn't disgrace them on
Yomul Qiyama for indeed the promises of Allah
are always true. Those are the duas in
the passage that we began it's tafsir in
the last episode and so today we continue
with this final passage from verse 195 onwards
and now we have the response that Allah
gives. So those are the duas that the
believers make as they ponder and they reflect
upon Allah subhanahu ta'ala's creation. They make those
duas to Allah subhanahu ta'ala and they turn
to Allah subhanahu ta'ala in supplication.
Allah subhanahu ta'ala tells us that you response
to them and he accepts those duas.
Allah
says,
Their Lord has answered them. I will not
allow the deeds of any one of you
to be lost whether you are male or
female.
Each is like the other in terms of
reward.
I will certainly wipe out the bad deeds
of those who immigrated
and were driven out of their homes, who
suffered harm for my cause, who fought and
were killed. I will certainly admit them to
gardens graced with flowing streams as a reward
from Allah. The best reward is indeed with
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So Allah is saying that he responded to
these duas. He accepted them, and he responded.
And what is the response of Allah
Anyone who does good deeds whilst having Iman,
those good deeds are never lost. If you
worship Allah with sincerity
and your actions are in accordance to the
sunnah of the Prophet those actions are recorded
and saved and preserved by Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Whoever performs those actions
whether male or female.
Allah says you are like one another in
this regard.
So we know in our religion and one
of the things that, you know, often people
make a big deal of when it comes
to Islamic law is that men have greater
rights over women.
Men get double the share of of of
of inheritance than women and all of those
types of issues. And yes, there is an
element of truth to that that in certain
issues,
in certain positions Allah has given to men
a greater responsibility
than he has to women. And in certain
issues
maybe men can get something more than women
in certain types of shares and rewards and
so on.
However, when it comes to the major issue,
which is the issue of reward of akhira,
when it comes to the issue of reward
of good deeds, when it comes to the
major crux of iman and belief and good
actions,
then men and women are equal and that
is why Allah says elsewhere in the Quran.
Whosoever does good deeds whether male or female
and they are believers,
then we will give to them in goodly
life. So when it comes to your standing
before Allah
your actions of good deeds, men and women
are equal in the ability to perform them
and in the reward that they receive. Men
don't get more reward in their deeds simply
and by virtue of just simply being men.
And women don't get less by virtue of
just simply being women. But Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, has given to them equality or parity
when it comes to this particular aspect, and
that is the most important aspect. The other
issues are to do with the dunya in
terms of the laws that we have, in
terms of the way that society should work
or the family structure should work. Allah has
ordained
this from his wisdom and his knowledge, subhanahu
wa ta'ala. But when it comes to the
crux of the issue, the most important aspect,
then men and women are equal in their
regard. Allah says so therefore those actions will
never be
will never be wasted.
So those who migrate for the sake of
Allah
Those who were exiled from their homes for
the sake of Allah 'azawajal.
Those who were harmed for the sake of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Those who were fought
or were killed for the sake of Allah
Azza wa Jal Allah says that he will
wipe away all of their evil deeds and
that he won't admit them into gardens under
which rivers flow. This is a
a reward from Allah and with Allah is
the best of rewards. So Allah
answers those duas, answers the duas of those
people who turn to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
So to contemplate over Allah's creation, to turn
to Allah in terms of Ibadah, to ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from his favor and
from his grace and from his bounty, to
ask Allah aza a wajal for more and
to make dua for that is something which
is pleasing and beloved to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And so as we mentioned in the last
episode, the believers are those people who when
they see these signs, they turn to Allah
So as you're reflecting upon the heavens and
the earth, it leads you to worship and
to make dua. For example, you heard about
a major disaster, natural disaster that took place.
There's a major earthquake,
a hurricane, something happens, a major loss of
life and devastation,
that should make you turn to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. Make tawba to Allah azza wa
ji. See forgiveness from Allah
This is the way that the believers should
be. That when it comes to their life,
they're constantly trying to connect it back to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And that is the
difference between the believer
who is constantly in the mode as Allah
says of making zikr of Allah, remembering Allah
being conscious of Allah
as they are standing and as they are
sitting and as they are lying on their
sides. That is the difference between that type
of believer and those people who are not
mindful of Allah, who are heedless and neglectful
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his rights.
And so the believer is the one who's
constantly engaged in making the Quran of Allah
constantly engaged in seeking knowledge and learning about
their religion, constantly engaged in different acts of
Ibadah
that they can make whether it's charity or
making dhikr of Allah or saying something which
is good or helping people and others. All
of these actions are something all of these
things are something which the believer does because
he makes us from amongst those people who
are people of understanding, people of reflection and
contemplation.
In verse 196, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then
continues and he says,
But do not be deceived by the disbelievers
trading to and fro in the land.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says don't be deceived
by what Allah may have given to others
in terms of the dunya.
Because sometimes what we do as Muslims is
we think that if Allah loved us or
we are the ones that Allah has favored
with Islam then how come I am poor?
How come I am suffering? How come those
people who don't worship Allah, they don't love
Allah, they don't believe in Allah, they have
the trappings of the dunya, the luxuries of
the dunya and the comforts of the dunya
and I'm here with my tawhid and my
iman and I have very little comparatively.
But it's not the case. It's not so
simple because amongst the non muslims and the
disbelievers are many who are also poor and
many who are also in in financial difficulty
and distress.
And amongst the Muslims there are many who
are wealthy that Allah has favored and given
to them that type of wealth and blessing.
So there are equal amounts or there are
both categories of people in Muslims and in
non Muslims as well. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is saying but the believer knows that Allah
doesn't value these issues in terms of the
dunya.
So when he gives them to this person
or to that person it's because they are
worthless to Allah. But what Allah gave to
you in terms of your iman, in terms
of your belief, in terms of your tawheed
that is something that Allah values and holds
extremely precious. And therefore, it is only given
to those to whom Allah favors
and to whom Allah chooses.
And so Allah
has bestowed you with the greatest of His
blessings and favors, far greater than those other
blessings of the dunya and its trappings and
its worldly comforts and luxuries.
And so therefore, when you have that correct
mindset,
then that issue isn't something which is going
to cause you problems. So the believer is
the one who isn't deceived,
who isn't despondent because he sees others
enjoying
the
dunya.
Do not be deceived by the disbelievers trading
to and from in the land. They may
have that wealth, they may have that trading,
they may have but don't be deceived by
it. Why? Because Allah
says in verse 197
this is only a brief enjoyment
after which how far will be their home
and there is a miserable resting place. So,
yes, they may have it here in this
world
but on yawmul qiyama they will not have
any portion of Allah's reward or any portion
of Allah's blessings. So what they have even
if they have it here, it is for
a relatively short period of time and if
you have lost it here you don't have
it here then Allah has promised it to
you with your iman and your righteous deeds
Allah has promised it to you for eternity
in the next life. And that is why
it is said that a man once came,
a poor disbelieving man once came to the
famous scholar of Islam, Abdullah ibn Mubarak, Rahimahullah
Ta'ala, the famous imam of hadith and fiqh
and scholar of Islam.
And he said to him because Abdullah ibn
Mubarak, Rahimahullah was also someone who was extremely
wealthy. Allah blessed him with a great deal
of wealth. And so he came to him
and he said how can you say that
this life is the prisoner of the believer
and the paradise of the disbeliever when you
oh Abdullah
are enjoying all of your wealth and stuff
and I'm a poor man don't have anything
to my name. So even Mubarak, oh heyamullah
replied and he said it is a prison
for me
with regards to what Allah has prepared for
me in the next life. Compared to what
Allah has for the believers, this dunya even
with all of its trappings and luxuries is
still like a prison. And it is a
Jannah, a paradise for you compared with that
which Allah has saved for you in the
how fire in terms of punishment.
And so the perspective is something which is
extremely important. And so Allah azza wa Jal
offering in the Quran you will see and
likewise the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in his
sunnah they give us perspective.
They tell us how to focus and how
to think. They tell us what it is
that we should focus on and what it
is that we shouldn't focus on. Because often
as Muslims,
sometimes because of the way that the dunya
is and because of the trappings of Shaytan
and the traps and whisperings of Shaytan, we
also become or we lose our way and
we lose our focus and so Allah as
we mentioned in the in the episode that
we did a couple of couple of episodes
back when Allah speaks about the reality
of the dunya and the reality of death.
Those types of verses are there to give
us a clear understanding
of what is our reality and what it
is that we should be focusing on. If
someone was to come to one of us
today and say, today is your last day
upon this earth. It's your last day in
the duniya.
Today, you will die. So these last 12
hours or these 24 hours that you have,
that's all that you have left and then
you will die.
What would you do? And what would I
do? How would we use that last day?
How much would we do in terms of
worship, in terms of dua, in terms of
seeking forgiveness, in terms of trying to right
the wrongs that we've done? All of that
because we know for surety
that we have a very limited amount of
time.
It helps you to reprioritize,
refocus.
But the believer should always be someone who
is prioritizing and refocusing
because they know that the reality may come
at any moment. As Allah says in the
Quran,
when their appointed time comes.
It will not be brought forth
by a single moment nor will it be
delayed
by a moment. And so Allah
is telling us that yes, you may see
others enjoying the dunya,
enjoying its trappings, luxuries, benefits, and so on,
but remember that it is.
It is a brief enjoyment.
It is something which Allah has given to
them in this life as a test and
trial and Allah
has said to us
but then after it, Hawfai will be their
home, Wabi Salmi had, and what a miserable
resting place. So even if they enjoy it
for a temporary amount of time in this
life,
then their eventual abode is back to hellfire.
Because that is where they will go if
they don't believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Whereas the the believer, the Mu'min,
if in this life they have very little,
if in this life it is a life
of hardship and difficulty, if in this life
they don't have a great deal of the
dunya,
then they have something far more precious and
that is their iman. And if they have
alongside that iman, rebada
and good deeds and good conduct and good
character
then by Allah's mercy and by his by
his by his gentleness and his kindness Allah
will forgive them for the sins that they
have performed and Allah Azza wa Jal will
increase them and enter them into Jannah. And
that is why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala then
says in the following verse 198
But those who are mindful of their Lord
will have gardens graced with flowing streams where
they will stay as a reward from Allah
and what Allah has is best for those
who are truly good. So Allah is saying
that for the disbelievers don't be deceived,
Their enjoyment is brief, then they will go
to the fire. But as for those who
are mindful of their Lord, they have fear
of Allah
They're conscious of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They're
engaged in the ibad of Allah and the
remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
For them is jannat,
gardens. Not just 1, multiple gardens with all
that they contain of all of the blessings
that we know that they have that are
mentioned in the Quran and the sunnah of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And it
is sufficient as a description of what the
Prophet told us sallallahu alaihi wa sallam over
Allah Azzawajal first mentions in the Quran.
Quran. No soul knows what Allah has contained
therein of pleasures.
As a reward for that which they used
to do. And as the Prophet told us,
salallahu alaihi wa sallam, concerning Jannah and its
reward,
that in it
is
in
it is that which no eye has seen,
no ear has ever heard and no mind
has ever imagined.
It's something which you cannot explicit or you
cannot imagine possibly what Allah has prepared therein.
It is like nothing that you have seen
in the dunya,
nothing that you have heard about in the
dunya, nothing that your mind and heart of
the dunya can possibly contemplate or imagine. That
is what Allah has promised you in Jannah.
There will be flowing streams grace therein
and you will stay therein forever.
As a reward and as an abode from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That is a beautiful
conclusion to this verse and that is what
Allah has is always best for those who
are good. For the people of goodness and
piety, what Allah has for you is always
good. You may think that it's good for
you to have dunya
and wealth and property and land and cars
and so on but Allah
knows that for you it's not good. For
you it will be a problem and a
trial and a fit that it will lead
you to arrogance and pride and other issues
and oppression and so on. So Allah withholds
it for you, from you. And instead he
will give to you what you need and
suffice you with it. And Allah, Azza wa
Jal, prepares for you a greater reward.
For that which is with Allah.
Allah. It is always better for those people
of righteousness
and those people of goodness.
In verse 199, which is the penultimate verse
of Surah Al Imran, Allah then says,
Some of the people of the book believe
in Allah
and what has been sent down to you
and what has been sent down to them,
humbling themselves before Allah azza wa Jal they
will never sell Allah's revelation for a small
price these people will have the reward with
their Lord Indeed, Allah is swift in his
reckoning. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala from his
justice as we've said before from his knowledge
and wisdom, his justice and fairness, Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala is that Allah does not oppress anyone.
And so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala often tells
us that from the people of the scriptures
are those who have sold their shameful disbelief,
who have done evil, who have concealed what
Allah has revealed and diverted people away from
the path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Put
in this verse Allah Azzawajal says that from
amongst them also are a group that have
held firm upon onto the iman of Allah
Azza wa Jal and this is in particular
in the times of the prophets of Allah
ahi Musa Alaihi Wasallam and those people who
follow them in the way that they were
meant to with tawheed and believing in their
various prophets and upholding their laws and shari'as
that Allah revealed to them. They believe in
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in that which was
revealed to you and in that which was
revealed to them.
And they humble themselves before Allah
They did not purchase
the signs of Allah for a small price.
And this is something which you will find.
So from amongst the people of the scriptures,
when those who for example in the time
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam accepted
Islam and even before the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam came, we know that we had
the likes of Amor ibn Nufail and Waraka
ibn Nofal and others from amongst the Quraysh
who were people that were trying to uphold
the religion of Ibrahim alaihi salatu was salam.
They didn't want anything except that which Allah
had given to them of the pristine religion.
And likewise from the people of the book,
those people were also upon that as well
before the coming of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Allah says concerning them
Those people they will have their reward
with
their
Lord.
And indeed Allah
is swift in his reckoning.
Allah
then in the final verse, verse 200,
he then specifies the believers and gives them
the guidance or give gives them the commands
that will lead them to success.
If they uphold these things and abide by
them, they will have ultimate success. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says,
O you who believe,
be steadfast,
more steadfast than others
and be ready
always mindful of Allah so that you may
be successful.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
commands the believers with 4 things.
Number 1 is patience and this is something
which we mentioned before when Allah was
speaking about the
importance
of having sabr and taqwa together and that
is from the issues of high determination.
Sabr patience upon the decree of Allah upon
all harm and upon all evil in the
path to Allah the
believer is faced with many challenges and many
many obstacles and one of the greatest ways
to overcome them is to remain
firm, to remain patient with that which Allah
has decreed. And part of that patience is
to remain patient upon your continuous worship of
Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Patient upon your iman,
patient upon your trust in Allah, patient upon
continuously making dua, patience upon fulfilling your obligations
and your Ibadat. To Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
your acts of worship patience,
and be more steadfast
than others.
Al Musaba
is to continuously
be in a state
of
patience and steadfastness,
and it is also something which requires
the help of others at times as well.
So being patient
and then being more steadfast than others in
terms of patience. So you can maybe be
patient on one occasion or two occasions, but
then after a while you may lose that
patience. Musabara
is to continuously be patient, to be mindful
of being patient,
and to also ask for help when you
need help, so to surround yourself with good
people, to those people who will be with
you, and they will help you remain patient
and steadfast on the path to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. Number 3,
and be prepared.
And that is that you are prepared
to overcome the challenges that you face, to
overcome the enemies that may come in your
path of shaitan and his armies and devils
and so on, whether from the humans or
the jinn those enemies that come into your
path that try to divert you away from
Allah azza wa jal lead you away from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be prepared to face
them Be prepared to be patient
patient in facing them and dealing with them.
And number 4, what taqullah
fear Allah
Be mindful of Allah be conscious of Allah
If you have these 4 things,
patience,
continuing to be steadfast,
rebat
which is to
always be prepared and the taqwa of Allah
Azzawajal being mindful of Allah Azzawajal and fear
of Allah
then you will have prospered.
Allah says do these four things that you
may prosper, that you may achieve success in
this life and in the next. And that
is the end of this passage, the final
passage of Surah 2 Adi Imran, these amazing
verses from 190
to 200 that speak about these important issues
and the rewards that Allah has therefore prepared
for the people of Iman, for the people
who turn to him, for the people of
contemplation,
for the people who spend their life dedicating
themselves to the worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and to his Iman and with that
we come to not only the final passage
this the end of this passage but to
the end of Surah Al Nisa,
sorry, Surah Al Imran,
and therefore also the end of today's episode.
Insha'Allah,
in the next episode we will begin with
the tafsir
of the 4th surah of the Quran, Surah
Al Nisa. May Allah give us the ability
to continue
taking benefits from it and acting upon it.
taking benefits from it and acting upon it.