Ahsan Hanif – Quran Tafseer – Page 98 – Divine Grace And The Rewards For Righteousness
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The hosts of Islam explain the importance of avoiding promises and false hopes in Islam, as it can lead to negative behavior. They also emphasize the need for individuals to show debts and actions to avoid punishment, including belief and actions. The importance of morality and being fully submit to the Prophet is also emphasized.
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Welcome to another episode of our tafsir page
by page. InshaAllah ta'ala. Today we are on
page 98,
which is in Surah Al Nisad, the 5th
Jews of the Quran.
In the previous episode, we mentioned a number
of verses in which Allah established a number
of principles
from amongst the most important of them is
the principle that Allah
will only forgive the people of Tawhid and
they are the only people that will enter
into paradise
And anyone who commits shirk, they will have
no forgiveness.
Those people who die upon shirk have no
forgiveness and they will be the ones in
the fire. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
told us the reality of those people who
worship other than Allah azza wa Jal and
that they are in reality following the path
of Shaitan,
Following his traps, following his tricks, following his
plans.
And that Shaitan
does certain things and has certain ploys and
schemes and tricks in order to misguide those
people and divert them away from the path
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But in reality,
everything that Shaitan does or says or calls
to, it is false. Everything that he does,
all of his promises are false. All of
the hopes that he gives to people are
false and people will realize that when it
is too late. If
they don't learn
about Allah
and come to the path of Tawhid.
We begin in today's episode with verse 122
and Allah aza wa jal after mentioning in
the previous episode
the path of those people who follow Shaitan
and their end result
and their destruction.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in what we are
going to begin with today, verse 122,
now speaks about the believers and their reward.
Allah says
But we shall admit those who believe and
do righteous deeds into gardens graced with flowing
streams
there to remain forever.
A true promise from Allah and who speaks
more truly than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah
says after mentioning in the previous
few verses in the last episode as we
explained
the path or those who follow the path
of Shaitaan
and then the punishment that they will receive
as a result of their choices and actions.
Here Allah speaks about the people of Iman.
Allah says,
those who believe,
believe in Allah, believe in his messengers, believe
in his books and angels, believe in the
resurrection of yomukiyama,
believe in the decree of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala whether good or bad. They believe in
it firmly and they act upon it. Those
people of belief
and then they couple that belief with
with good deeds.
They work towards
the pleasure of Allah Azza wa Jal, they
fulfill their obligations, they do what Allah Azza
wa Jal commanded, They stay away from the
prohibitions. They do as much as they can
to the best of their ability in the
worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. They are
people of prayer,
people who fast in Ramadan, people who give
their Zakah, people who perform the Hajj if
they are able to do so. These are
the people that Allah azza wa jal loves
and is pleased with. And so as a
result they will get the reward of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Ta'ala. Allah Azzawaj says that we will enter
them into the gardens beneath which rivers flow
they will remain therein forever.
Wa Adalallahi Haqqah. This is the true promise
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala meaning everything that
has proceeded
that the believers will enter into Jannah, that
only the believers will go into Jannah, that
anyone who dies upon shirk will never enter
into Jannah, they will remain in the fire,
that the promises of Shaitaan are false and
the promises of Allah
are true and look at how Allah is
giving a comparison now. The previous verses that
we took in the last episode, Allah says
Shaitan gives to them promises and false hopes
and all of Shaitan's promises are false hopes.
And here Allah is saying when it comes
to the path of Tawhid,
the path of Allah
believing in the words of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
the promise of Allah is true.
And who is more truthful than Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala.
Allah Azza wa Jal then says in the
next verse 123.
It will not be according to your hopes
or those of the People of the Book.
Anyone who does wrong will be requited for
it and will find
no one to protect or help them from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah
says that it is not according to your
hopes,
nor the hopes of those people of the
scripture, the Jews and the Christians. So Allah
in these few verses now some of the
ones that we took at the end of
the previous episode and the first one that
we took today, Allah has established a principle.
Die upon shirk, you enter into
the hellfire. Die upon tawhid, you will eventually
go into Jannah, and you will remain in
either of those two destinations forever once the
people of Jannah have all entered into Jannah.
Whoever remains in fire will remain therein forever
as well. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, this
is the true promise of Allah azza wa
jal. And then he says, and it's not
up to you.
It's not according to your desires, your hopes,
your wishes, what you want.
Nor is it according to the desires and
wishes and hopes of the people of the
scripture because as we mentioned previously
in Surat Al Baqam and its Tafsir,
some of them would say that Allah Subhanahu
Ta'ala will punish us for a short while
a few days and then we will go
into Jannah.
And some of them would say we are
the chosen ones of Allah and some of
them would say that we have the, you
know, so long as you believe in for
example Jesus Christ, you will go into paradise
and so on.
Allah is saying it's not up to you.
It's not according to your desires or what
you want. You don't get to choose and
decide who goes and who doesn't go. Rather
Allah is the one who has done so.
Allah is the one who chooses. Allah decides
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given to
us his true promise and what that entails.
So Allah
is saying that it is not up to
you.
So many of us would love for certain
people to go into Jannah. Many of us
would love for certain we don't even own
our own destination.
None of us has a guarantee for ourselves
or our parents or our children. We don't
have that guarantee from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
let alone giving a guarantee towards others. It
is not up to you nor is it
up to the people of the book.
Whoever does evil Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
requite them for it. They will be given
its just results.
And in this verse Allah is speaking not
only about those people who do evil in
terms of shirk and in terms
of of of disbelief in Allah
but Allah is also speaking about those people
who do evil in terms of sins, major
and minor. Whoever does this, this is the
command of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this is
the principle and the law that Allah has
laid down. And that is that whoever does
evil will be punished for it. Unless Allah
chooses to forgive them if they are from
amongst the believers
or they do something which is good that
expiates that evil, make tawba do something good
and Allah explains that as is mentioned in
other verses in the Quran and as is
detailed in the sunnah of our messenger.
But the general rule otherwise is that if
someone does evil they will be punished for
it and those people who do evil
when they come especially if their evil is
one of shirk and disbelief
they will have no one to help them
besides Allah Subhanahu wa'ala. No one will come
to their aid, no one will come to
support them, no one will stand before them
as intercessors because Allah
will not allow for that to happen. And
so those people therefore
are going to be receiving the punishment of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
as opposed to those who turn to Allah
Azzawajal and they do good and that is
why in the next verse 124
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala then says
anyone male or female
who does good deeds and is a believer
will enter paradise and will not be wrung
by as much as the dip in the
dead stone.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says and those who
do good deeds,
those who spend their life in the worship
of Allah,
those who do good no matter how big
or how small,
no matter
how insignificant it may seem to them or
how great it may seem. Whoever does good
deeds, whether they are male or female.
And so this is an important point here
because Allah azza wa Jal in our shaliyah
therefore we distinguish between 2 things. Number 1
is the worldly aspect of the dunya in
which Allah
has given to certain groups of people certain
responsibilities
of others like the man over the woman
in the marriage, the husband over the wife
in terms of marriage, just as he gave
in terms of respect
and in terms of
companionship,
the rights of the mother over the rights
of the father. So people have different responsibilities,
so sometimes it may well be that Allah
has given to the man certain favours, certain
responsibilities,
certain
certain duties
so
that the man in Islam, under Islamic law,
he is the one that is going to
be the imam in salah, he's the one
that's going to be given the khutbah in
Jumuah, he would be the one that is
the leader of the community and so on.
And he is the one who is in
charge of the marriage in terms of the
husband and the wife. But the woman also
has her duties. She also has certain favors
and privileges that has been given. For example,
as we all know about the status of,
of the mother in Islam.
But when it comes to religion, when it
comes to
good deeds and Iman, then they are equal.
Allah has made them equal and Allah has
given each one of them the ability to
earn good deeds just as he has given
to other and so there is poverty in
that regard in most issues and so therefore
the woman has that opportunity that's why Allah
says here,
whoever does good deeds
whether they are male or female doesn't make
a difference.
So long as all of them are believers
and as we know therefore that these two
conditions are extremely important that Allah ahsawajal is
as mentioned here. Number 1 is the condition
of Iman
that you believe in Allah and worship him
alone and sincerely and that's why many scholars
say that one of the conditions for an
act to be act of worship to be
accepted is sincerity.
Sincerity is Iman,
that you worship Allah sincerely,
so when you are doing that act of
worship or that good deed, you're doing it
only for Allah's sake. You're not doing it
for any other God or any other power
that you may conceive of or think of
and you are not doing it to show
off or to impress others or to garner
their praise, it is only for the sake
of Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la. That's the first
condition and the second condition is that the
action must be salih,
it must be righteous and what that means
in order for it to be righteous is
that it must be in accordance to the
legislation of Islam and the sharia and therefore
the guidance of the Prophet in
his sunnah.
Those two conditions
are what Allah is mentioning here. If you
have that iman and you have those righteous
deeds irrespective of whether you are male or
female
those are the people that will enter into
Jannah
and those are the people that will not
be oppressed in even the smallest amount.
Even the most minute way, they will not
be oppressed. And Allah will preserve for them
their full reward.
And that is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
then goes on to say in verse 125.
Who could be better in religion than those
who direct themselves holy to Allah.
They do good and follow the religion of
Ibrahim who was true in faith. Allah
said, who can be better than those people?
Who is better than the one in terms
of their religion
who submits themselves
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala whilst doing good?
They submit themselves wholly and fully,
completely wholeheartedly
to Allah meaning they fall and believe in
Islam completely
and they fall into the religion completely and
wholeheartedly.
So they follow all of the commands of
Allah They
fulfill all of the obligations of their religion.
They stay away from all of their prohibitions.
They have essentially
sacrificed their desires for the sake of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. They are people who
have submitted wholly to Allah and
muhsin
whilst doing good. So it's not just
about the Iman aspect as as mentioned in
the previous verse as well, it's not just
about the belief aspect that they believe or
that they submit or that their heart is
in the right place in terms of their
Iman and their belief but there are people
who then will go and do action as
well.
And if a person's heart is pure and
sincere for the sake of Allah that
Iman must translate into action. It must do
Because if something is that serious and that
deeply entrenched in the heart, then it must
manifest itself upon the body. And that's why
you see the true reality of people, those
people who hide within themselves Kufar or hide
within themselves some type of diseased heart, whether
it's arrogance or pride or stinginess or whatever,
that manifests itself from time to time in
different ways and it must do so because
that is the power of the heart as
the Prophet told us salallahu alaihi wasalam that
indeed in the body there is a muscle
of flesh if it is upright the body
becomes upright rectified
the body is rectified.
And if it is corrupt, the body becomes
corrupted. And that is the heart. That is
the power of the heart. And that is
why many of these acts of worship
such as love,
sincerity,
hope,
trust,
certainty. These are acts of worship that are
primarily found in the heart. Because when you
have the strength of the Iman in the
heart, then it manifests itself in terms of
action. And that is why Allah says that
those people who fully submit to Allah, wouldn't
you then see them worshipping Allah
how can you say that you fully submitted
to Allah and you are not praying, fully
submitted to Allah and you are not giving
zakah, fully submitted to Allah and you don't
have the character that is becoming of a
Muslim, fully submitted to Allah and engaged in
haram and practices that Allah has forbidden?
How are the 2 possible? And so Allah
is saying that there is no one better
than those who truly and fully submit themselves
to Allah and
then they do good and they follow the
religion of Ibrahim alayhi wasalam meaning the
practice of Ibrahim alayhi wasalam because his practice
of religion was tuhid.
It was the practice of Tawhid and Allah
mentions Ibrahim alayhi wasalam here because he was
a prophet that Allah mentioned
as we