Haifaa Younis – The Quran Has It All #22 Envy – The Quran Has It All
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The speaker discusses the challenges of marriage and divorce during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it affects the way we react to feelings and jealousy. They explain that negative emotions can lead to actions, and that actions can be a major sin. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of being careful in reacting to negative feelings and connecting everything with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
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So as a community, when we are living
on this earth,
we we face challenges.
We talked about challenge of money. We talked
about the challenge or the issues that happens
during marriage and sometimes end up with divorce.
And one of the issues,
challenges
that
Allah mentioned in the Quran,
and it's actually a feeling
that some of us
has it. But it's not the issue of
having the feeling. It's how we react on
this feeling.
And Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la put it in
Surat Al Maidah, the table.
So the dialogue between 2 brothers
and the dialogue,
one of the brother against the other
or one of the brother
saying things to the other as a result
of the feeling,
and that feeling, negative,
led to the first crime on this earth.
So let's look at the verse. It's a
sort of Maid, the table.
What do alayhim nabah abney adam?
Behaqq.
Recite to them, meaning
Tell the people, meaning you and me, reading
the Quran. What?
Adam.
The story
of the 2 sons of Adam.
It's Koraba Korbala.
They both
presented to Allah,
both of them Korban, a sacrifice, as we
say Korbani,
something that's gonna get me closer to Allah
Okay.
It was accepted from one of them
and was not accepted from the other.
Of the one that his sacrifice was not
accepted.
Anger,
jealousy,
I'm gonna kill you.
The brother responded,
Allah
accept
the sacrifices of those who have taqwa, Allah
conscious.
Now one thing to stop here, number 1.
We don't know where did this happen, where
and when.
And even we don't have names
because the issue is not the details of
the incident. The issue that we and this
is something we have to pay attention when
we read the Quran is
look into the message.
What does Allah want me to learn here?
It's feelings and jealousy. Why he was jealous?
Why
Allah accepted from him and didn't accept from
me? In our day to day life, why
she or he has this and I don't
have it?
Why he got or she got that much
money I didn't. Why they were promoted I
was not. Why do they have,
for example, children I don't. Something that one
person has,
and it is
perceived as good
and I didn't.
The response should be
Allah is Zahadeel. Allah is just.
And when Allah gives to someone and doesn't
give to the other, it's out of his
justice. He knows what's, again, good for me
and not good for me. But the brother
didn't
understood it this way.
He said
immediately,
feeling rage,
anger,
and that feeling, and this is the issue
here, is translated to an action, and the
action is a major sin.
I am going to kill you.
Now the other brother, Allah here, are teaching
us, how do you respond to an act
of aggression as a human being pleasing to
Allah?
He was explaining to him, why did Allah
accept it from me and not from you?
It's because of your relationship with Allah.
You're Allah conscious.
You're afraid from Allah. You think of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah will accept the action.
Now, as if the other brother didn't hear
it because he said, I'm going to kill
you, he said,
If you're going to put
your hand forward to kill me, I am
not gonna respond the same way.
I am not gonna put forward my hand
to kill you.
I am afraid
of Allah, the Lord.
Now this tells you why Allah accepted from
this brother and didn't accept it from the
other. Because he was a righteous man. And
the righteousness is not only in relationship with
Allah, but it is in relationship with the
others, how do you respond to act of
aggression
unjustly?
I am not going to kill you.
I am gonna leave you to Allah.
He's reminding him. He's even talking to him
in a way that, you know what? What
are you gonna do? You're gonna be a
wrongdoer. You're gonna end up in Jannah.
And this is a beautiful way talking about
what feelings inside us and our nafs,
justifying it. Tawwaat, meaning he was not very
happy in doing it. He he his feelings,
his nafs, the evil one, made it,
like, bend
him to do what he was hesitant to
do. Otherwise, Allah would not have said
tawwah meaning you are gonna
make something more easy to do it. It
wasn't easy in the beginning.
Faqatala.
He responded.
Another message here. When you have anger, when
you have jealousy, don't act on it because
sometimes it will end to a major one.
It's the first crime on this earth.
That is it's a loser.
And then Allah, he didn't even know what
to do with his brother, and he send
the bird or the crop to show him
what to do with it. What I learned,
feelings are in the Quran.
Negative feelings are in the Quran,
but they never came in as a way
of praise.
Rather, it's be careful.
React in a different way. Control the feelings.
But remember,
always connect everything with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
When Allah gives me something
and react upon negative feelings because it may
end up in major sins. May Allah
protect us and teach us, and may Allah
make it easy for us.