Amjad Tarsin – Kahf Reflection Verses 1314

Assalamualaikum,

Wa Alaikum, as salaam, Warahmatullah, Barakatuh, and

AsSalam alaikum to everyone following along, and a special

salaam to my beloved brother and beautiful soul. Sidi Sinan hafal,

Sinan, may Allah subhana wa Taala increase him in every good and

bless him and his family and I second everyone's sentiments of

his recitation, which is a recitation that comes, Inshallah,

from a beautiful heart. It reaches the heart, and it is an elixir and

a healing for all who who listen, as is the reality of the Quran in

every case, but especially when it comes from someone who tastes the

realities and the meanings of the Quran as they're reciting, may

Allah subhanahu wa bless him and make us brothers and sisters

altogether, who respect one another and love one another for

Allah, Subhanahu wa Taala sake, and unite us with our beloved

Prophet, sallAllahu, alaihi wasallam, in the highest levels of

paradise. Inshallah, in the time that we have, we'll look at one or

two verses, and they're connected from Suratul kahaf, and we are

looking at verses 13 and 14. But we'll focus more on verse 14 that

Allah subhanahu wa is telling us of the youth, these youth who

wanted to leave and worship Allah subhanahu wa taala tells us,

we relate to you, oh Prophet, their story in truth, in Nahum

fit. Yet when a man be him, was it an Huda? They were youths who

truly believed in their Lord, and we increase them in guidance. And

then Allah, Subhanahu wa Taala says, and this is what we want to

focus on, what Abu him, and we strengthen their hearts. So here,

Allah subhanahu wa tells us in this verse that they were young

people who were surrounded in their society by people who were

idol worshippers, people, people who were polytheists and they

believed in Allah subhanahu wa taala, and Allah says, was Idina

HUM budah,

that Allah subhanahu wa says, we increase them in guidance. So

there is something in that for us, that when we believe in Allah

subhanahu wa taala, when we go against the grain, when we stand

for the truth, especially the the truth with a capital T, that Allah

subhanahu wa increase us in guidance, that Allah subhanahu wa

support us and help us and increase us in guidance. And not

only that, Allah subhanahu then says, WA rah Bala urubim, and we

strengthen their hearts. And one of the comments regarding the

beautiful recitation of the Quran is that it was a healing for the

heart after an entire week of work and stress and responsibilities

and family and all of the things that we go through, one of the

blessings of jumara is that it's a spiritual reset, that when we pray

salatul Juma, when we come together and we read Suratul kaha,

we engage in more Salawat upon the Prophet sallallahu, alaihi wa

sallam, that it spiritually sets us Back in a much more balanced

and healthy place, may Allah subhanahu wa Tala increase us in

blessing. So Allah here says, What about him? And we strengthen their

hearts. So when we believe in Allah and we stand for him,

Subhanahu wa taala, and we turn to him sincerely, that is a sign that

Allah, subhana wa taala, Inshallah, will assist us and

support us and strengthen our hearts, while

rabatana, Allah kulum is when they stood up and declared our Lord is

the Lord of the heavens And the earth. Let me do nihilaha. We will

never call upon any god or gods besides him, mindoning or we would

be truly uttering an outrageous lie. So some of the mufassin, they

talk about this strengthening the hearts and they're standing up and

declaring, so some of the Ulama, they said that one of the meanings

is, and that my him, baginaya day al Malik al kafer, that when they

stood up, this means that they actually had to stand before the

king who was a disbeliever.

And this king who was a disbeliever, obviously, he's

someone who's going to be intimidating. He has all of these

people at his disposal, and army and soldiers, and he can put these

people in prison or torture them, or whatever it may be. So when

Allah subhanahu wa knew that they were going to stand before this

king, he strengthened their hearts. And by extension, we

remember that sometimes we're put in difficult situations. It could

be at work, it could be in public, at the store, someone says

something really mean, or even May Allah subhanahu protect us and all

the Muslims that we see even a severe calamity like what happened

in Turkey and Syria, this earthquake that shakes people and

many Muslims passed away, and many people, women and children and the

elderly, they passed away that we need Allah, Subhanahu, even in

those times, to strengthen our hearts with iman, so that we are

able to stand up and understand what Allah subhanahu wa wants from

us even in those situations. And we'll talk a little bit about that

even in the next portion, when we talk about the Iman of say, na Abu

Bakr Asmaa Allah, is that we believe in the unseen, and part of

the unseen is that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam told us

that these types of calamities would happen more often at the end

of time, and that This would be something that occurred,

especially in Muslim majority countries. So we as believers, it

saddens us deeply, but we realize that the Messenger of Allah told

us that this would happen, and that those people who believed in

Allah subhanahu wa taala, and they died upon that belief, that

Inshallah, they will be considered martyrs with Allah subhanahu wa,

and have a lofty rank with him.

That the Messenger of Allah told us that people who die in those

types of situations will be martyrs. So we are sad and it

weighs heavily upon our hearts, and I would recommend people not

to watch too many videos, because there's no benefit in watching

videos if you want to help, absolutely help turn that sadness,

turn those feelings of pain, into action. Dua, donating money,

helping out in whatever way you can, but just to watch all of

these various videos. It's not a benefit. It doesn't change

anything, and it can really hurt us or desensitize us, which is

even worse, but that we recognize that Allah subhanahu wa, that

there is a wisdom in what Allah subhanahu wa, Allah has decreed.

Right? There's a wisdom in what Allah, Subhanahu wa taala, has

decreed. So we place our trust in Allah, and we know that those

people, no one, will be wronged by Allah, especially when we

understand the realities of the hereafter. But it comes back to

what we read in this verse, What about him? We strengthen their

hearts that they are not easily shaken by fear or by changing

circumstances or by being threatened or terrorized when they

stood up so one of the meanings is when they stood up before the

king, that they were firm upon their belief in the Oneness of

Allah, even when the king tried to force them to worship these other

idols. Another understanding from the scholars of tafsir is that

when they stood together, that they actually assembled, that

these youth, they met one another outside of the city, and that they

were actually no the sons of noble men in the city, people of

authority and people of influence in the city, so that they actually

met outside of the city. And they said, You know what, we don't

believe in all of these false gods. And they said that we

believe in the Lord of the heavens and the earth. When they said Our

Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, that they actually

came together. And sometimes this happens. This could have happened

with our friends or with young people. They sometimes get a

little bit disenchanted with the status quo. Everyone's saying that

all that matters is that we do what they're doing, that we

worship and we follow their customs. But they all got together

and said, You know what, I think the Lord is the Creator of the

heavens and the earth, the One who created the sun and the moon and

the star.

Ours, that he is one without partner, and these idols that

they're worshiping made out of wood and stone and otherwise,

that's not my God. That's not the that's not the one who created us,

actually, and we created those things, and they don't think for

themselves or speak for themselves. So they all kind of

came together and discussed it and said, You know what, I think

you're right. That's the same thing that I believe. And that

happens SubhanAllah. I've heard of many stories of a group of friends

who all become Muslim together. They'll start discussing things

and say, You know what, I'm not convinced in whatever other belief

they might have grown up in, whether it's the trinity or the

divinity of Jesus or things like that. So you know what Islam says?

Islam says this, that Jesus is a prophet and that he's honored and

he's beloved to Allah, but that God also sent another prophet, the

prophet Muhammad, and he clarifies all of these things, and then

they'll all become Muslim together, right? So you see that

happening from time to time. So that is a second meaning of that

we strengthen their hearts. And when they stood up, they stood up

together and discussed it and agreed to become Muslims, and that

they wouldn't. They wouldn't give in to the social pressure to

conform to what everyone else believed in. Another meaning is

that they stood up to leave the city,

that Allah strengthened their hearts and they said, You know

what we believe in, Allah subhanahu wa and we're not going

to compromise. And if it means that we have to actually leave in

order to save our selves and to remain in a state of belief.

That's what we're going to do. So then they stood up to leave the

city. That's another one of the meanings. There's a beautiful

tafsir of Sidi Ahmed ibn ajiba Radi Allahu Anhu. He says that you

see in these verses where Allah subhanahu says that they believed

that they were youths who believed, and we increased them in

Iman. That you see in these verses that there are qualities that are

especially beloved to Allah subhanahu wa and the first is

Iman. The first is faith that they Allah subhanahu wa taala granted

them to believe in their Lord in a hum fit yet one that's the first

thing they believed in their Lord. So then Allah, Subhanahu wa Taala

increased them in guidance. And the way that they were increased

in guidance is that Allah continued to purify their hearts

until they tasted the sweetness of coming to know Allah subhanahu wa.

Then the third quality. So the first quality is Iman, and the

second quality is an increase in guidance. The third quality is

that Allah subhanahu wa strengthened their hearts. What

about him that he says, one of the meanings of this is that their

hearts means to tie something, but it also can mean to strengthen

something. So for example, when you tie a knot, you are

strengthening a connection between one thing and another. So that I'm

going to tie this thing to the wall, and then I tie the knot

tightly so that it's strong and it doesn't become severed. But it

means, here, he's saying that their hearts became tied and

attached to Allah subhanahu wa in a way where it could never be

undone. So that's the third thing, is that their hearts became so

attached to Allah subhanahu wa and then Ilham when they stood up.

That this means, and this is how it relates to us, that we stand up

in calling to Allah subhanahu wa, that we stand up for the truth,

and we after we have Iman, and we've increased in guidance, and

Allah has given us strength in our hearts, we stand up and we invite

people to Allah, Subhanahu wa and we're not fazed by any people who

stand in our way or criticize us or try To put us down, or changes

of circumstances, or anything like that. And then finally, wa sallak,

Rey Mubarak and we Ahmed Al and that they then declared the truth.

So then they say, I go out and call people to Allah no matter

what happens. And then they followed it up with actually

calling to Allah and saying, Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens

and the earth. So then they clarified the truth to people and

that we will not call upon other gods besides Allah, or we would be

truly uttering an outrageous lie. So these are qualities that we

want. We want.

Iman. And we want Allah to increase us in guidance and to

allow us to be purified, so that we witness him, subhanAllah, that

our hearts become attached to him, so that we cannot be phased or

taken away or diverted from him by anything in creation. And then we

want to stand for the truth. We want to serve the ummah. We want

to be sources of good and benefit and positivity and healing and

restoration and virtue and beauty and light for creation. And that

we follow it up by calling to Allah subhanahu wa and clarifying

the truth for people. So we ask Allah subhana wa Taala to increase

us in guidance and to make us people who fulfill all of these

character traits. Wa SallAllahu, taala, Allah Sayyidina, Muhammad,

WA Allah Ali. He was Abhi ajmain alhamdulillahi. Rabbil Alamin

is aranjad for that deep dive into those two ayahs and the profound

lessons and meanings that you were able to draw out of them for us,

that was really great, and we look forward to your Friday lesson.

Inshallah, I'm just going to give a couple announcements and I'll

bring you back.

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