Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Yasin 4 Ribat 02022019
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The Quran is used to increase understanding of the meaning of the word "nails," and is used to indicate success and relevance in life. The worship of Islam is discussed, including the importance of the worship and the need for people to be mindful of behavior. The use of animals as gifts and blending blessings from various civilizations is emphasized, and the concept of "ma'am" and "we" in the use of words and actions is discussed. The concept of a "clot of blood" is also discussed, and the use of the Quran in court is highlighted.
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So, you know, before we continue with the
with the,
the meanings of the the Surah,
This is a is this it's a habit
of the salihin,
the recitation of Surat Yassin every day.
Particularly, I've seen it in the in the
hibharbin and the shirk, except for the person
who recites there are some people who will
recite the entire Quran like a 7th, they'll
make every 7 days, or they'll make every
3 days, or every 2 days.
But those who don't are not on that,
they'll recite Yaseen
every day, especially after fajr.
It it's very easy to memorize the entire
thing. It's not difficult even if you're even
if you're not, like, you know, part of
the Hafiz click or whatever.
The step 1 is to force yourself to
sit through the recitation every day by reading
it, you know.
And then afterward, after you do that for
a couple of months, I mean, no one
says it's gonna be quick, but you do
it for a couple of months, and you
become familiar with this text. You listen to
it when you're able to in the car
and things like that as well. Then break
it up into segments, you know.
I broke it up into 6 6 segments,
and, you just memorize each one one at
a time.
It's good to have a amount of Quran
that you can read. Not only for just
like the knowledge and things like that, which
is wonderful,
But even in your saluk in the spiritual
path, the recitation of the Quran is one
of the highest
vehicles
of ascent
in your in your saluk,
and,
you can't do that if you don't know
a whole lot of Quran.
Obviously, a person even if they know
they can grab a and just
say it again and again,
a 1000 times. But
knowing more of the Quran means that you
know more of its meanings as well.
And, the nafs
is the nafs is, it likes different things.
So why why fight it? You know?
And then if you're really good, then you
can do both. You can do a whole
lot of other thousand times and then read
as well. But these things are are
are they're doable.
You just have to you just have to
break them up.
So, do the did they not see?
Again, this is the proof of Allah against
the creation
and it's a proof that the dawah is
haqq. It's true. In fact, it's almost obvious
when pointed out to somebody and nobody will
reject it because it doesn't make sense even
though they'll claim that that's what they're doing.
They just reject it because they they because
of their arrogance.
So do they not
or did they not see that we created,
for them,
from that which our own hands made?
Meaning what? It's not something that randomly a
bunch of atoms turned into, like, you know,
turned into an animal or whatever.
That's a very basic issue that, like, if
the tendency of the universe is toward chaos,
then how can we have such, Ajib, like,
wonderful,
level of complexity in organisms,
that we see,
and diversity as well, useful diversity.
So they did not see,
that we created for them from that which
our own hands fashioned.
And here,
again, we don't we don't interpret this literally,
rather we say it's from the.
Anything that seems to indicate in the Quran
or in the Hadith that seems to indicate
Allah resembles his creation,
we know that that's not the meaning that
it means.
Rather, what we say is that whatever its
meaning is, correct meaning, Alano's best, and we
believe in that, whatever it is. And we
don't spend our time delving deeply into it.
Says do do do, do they not see
that we created for them from that which
our hands fashioned?
And amen,
the they're,
like livestock.
What are anam?
Anam? Are 4
4 types of livestock.
The
goats and sheep,
cattle,
and camels.
And then within cattle, it includes, like, cattle
and buffalo. They're the same the same.
That do they not see that we created
for them these these?
And,
an is like
the name itself indicates that they're a blessing.
They're they're a blessing. These are also, like,
from the blessings of Jannah that allata placed
these animals in the earth to give us
a leg up.
And so we talked about we talked about
agriculture before, which is a big boost that
allowed civilization to happen.
And then on top of agriculture is also
livestock, the domestication of livestock.
We didn't create the animals,
but, they were gifts that were given to
us if we didn't have the domestication of
livestock. And you see that
civilizations that don't have, any domesticated livestock,
like so for example, like, the new world.
They didn't have livestock that they rode.
They had livestock that they ate, but they
didn't have livestock that they rode.
That puts them at a horrible disadvantage when
they clash with the with the Spanish and
the Portuguese and the the old world powers
that come to
come to America
to the point where,
Francisco Pizarro and his, like, small band of,
like
essentially, they're just like they're just like thieves.
They're just like lackeys. They're thugs.
They essentially
between them being mounted on on horses and
having, steel armor and steel weapons and things
like that,
all of which were made through the knowledge
that only a civilization can sustain.
It's not like the Spanish discovered it. In
fact, their metallurgy, much of it was probably
something that they,
that they perfected when the Muslims ruled Spain.
But,
through that advantage, it helped, like, basically a
handful of thugs take out an entire, like,
imperial army.
These things are these things are blessings from
and people think that, like, like, well, duh,
obviously, you know, we
we're superior because we're more intellectual and more
superior and we're genetically better and whatever, and
this color of people is smarter than the
other color of people and this kind of
stupid quasi erase theory garbage that people toss
around. It's none of those things. Allah gave
certain people certain blessings,
and, some of them use them for good
and some of them use them for bad
and some of them attribute them to the
lord and are thankful.
And because of that, their blessing will be
a blessing in this world and a blessing
in the hereafter.
And some of them, they attribute the blessing
to themselves,
and Allah knows where everything came from.
And, that blessing will turn into morph into
a curse on the on the day of
judgment.
And so that we gave them this and
then say here, you you be the owner
of them now.
And we humbled them
We humbled them or we subjugated them,
for them. And so some of them, they
ride and some of them, they eat. So,
like, riding, for example.
Why is it that people ride can ride
horses and ride donkeys and the that people
can't ride, like,
I don't know,
Are there other animals?
There are
so many other animals that can carry a
rider. Like, they have the physical strength. They
even
run fast like horses do.
They can be they, you know, they they
they they're intelligent. They have,
you know, they have,
they're hardy. They're resistant to disease.
They're they have life cycles that are, you
know, amenable to,
amenable to domestication,
but
they're just they're really moody, or they're just
if a person comes anywhere near them, they're
extremely hostile and belligerent.
These are the ones Allah
If Allah didn't do that, it's not like
you can just walk me. What are you
gonna do? Walk up to a line and
ride it?
You know? Imagine
you got you know, like, one group of
people has horses and the other group of
people are riding into battle and on lions.
The lions will do the fighting for you.
Right? What's the problem? The lion does, it
says, don't touch me. Get the * away
from me. I'm gonna eat you. You know?
So bad bad choice of a riding beast.
These these an am, humbled them, and and
he it subjugated them to to to the
human control.
So some of them you can, some of
them I'm in Harakub. What does a rakub
mean?
Rakub is the,
it means markab,
the the the the
thing that's written.
And there are in which it's rakub whom
with
with the. The grammarians have a
discussion of, of of how it's slightly awkward
to have a.
Is a
meaning to
ride,
whereas,
raku means markub.
Rkub means markub.
So that that that that that from that,
anam is the the thing that they ride,
and from it they from it they eat.
And they have other benefits. Right? You know,
like shave the wool off of
off of a a lamb and, you know,
make a make a nice jacket out of
her or something.
Something like there's so many other benefits from
it.
Another one of the benefits is, like,
the long term exposure
has conferred
humans immunity to a great number of diseases
as well,
and, allergy,
also immunity to allergies as well.
I mean, those are things those are not
again, that's not the tafsir of the Quran.
Different scientists will tell you the point of
the Quran is what there's some
benefit
in
it.
And and things to drink,
milk.
Are you not thankful?
And after all of this,
And
after all of this, they take, gods other
than Allah,
in the hopes that they,
that that they'll be helped, they'll be aided
or assisted.
Even though those gods are unable to help
them.
Like the story of the Habib al Najjar
yesterday that, a man who
a
a carpenter who used to make wooden idols
with his own hands, and he would stay
and pray to them and they weren't able
to help him. Whereas the the the companions,
the Hawarian of Sayna,
they they cured they asked Allah
for dua and they cured him from his
leprosy.
They're not able to help them.
And this is Allah trolling them kufr
trolling them kufar. He says that your gods
their gods are not able to help them,
even though these people are like a standing
army for those gods.
What wouldn't they do for those gods?
What wouldn't they do for them?
That you that that these people act as
like a standing army for those gods even
those gods are not not able to help
them in the slightest. And this is one
of the reasons that this is one of
the reasons that the civilization has abandoned the
worship of Allah
is that if you look at the history
of the Farangi,
people, the Farinja in in the dark ages
of of, of, of Europe,
man, those were some really dedicated and pious
people. They really were some very humble people.
They went through ajeeb level of of the
level of Allah in in his worship.
They really, really they really loved Deen a
lot.
And so at at the end of it,
they're like,
what did we get out of this? Nothing.
So therefore, all Dean must be wrong. Well,
who told you who told you to be
a mushrik? Who told you to worship a
person? Who told you to worship 3 gods?
And who told you to make icons and
and bring, idols into your churches and to
basically Romanize Romanize and paganize your religion.
Obviously, you're not gonna benefit out of it.
That's not because Allah doesn't exist and he
doesn't answer your prayers.
Our civilization is a proof that Allah exists
and he answers your prayers.
The Arabs are neither Romans nor are they
Persian. They had nothing. Look how much
honor Allah gave them.
That the civilizations of the world, you know,
the best of them all entered into the
deen and and and benefited from it.
Allah took a people who were nothing
and made them something to this deen,
whereas through Kufra Allah made a people who
were something, he made them into nothing. So
they abandoned but they abandoned Din as a
result.
And that was their miscalculation
and wrong
estimation. So
Allah even though these gods that they worship,
they're not able to do anything for them.
Even though they are like a standing army
for their gods, they're ready to fight with
whoever offends their gods, and they're ready to
argue with whoever disagrees with their gods, and
they're ready to do all these things for
them.
In in in in in in Warsh,
and the the meaning is Mutakarib.
So don't don't let their
let the things that they say to you
when you bring the message to them, don't
let them get you down.
We know the secret. They they hide inside
of them, and we know the things that
they say openly. We're aware of all of
these things.
We're aware of all of these things.
Allah says,
Did you not see
that we created him from a clot of
blood.
And then he turns into an open disputant
with us.
He says, did you not see the insan
that we created him from a cloud of
blood? And then he becomes open disputed with
us.
And then he puts forth
parables for us
to argue against us, and he forgets his
own creation.
So proves, like, well, if God really exist,
then can you make a stone that's so
heavy you can't carry? Shut up, man. He
made you from nothing. Shut up.
These stupid word games that, you know, person
start to either create yourself or shut up.
Show respect to the one who created you.
And this is an interesting thing because people
who, like, well, I don't believe in god.
Okay. They don't believe in, like, some dude
sitting in a chair in the sky. We
don't believe in that either.
There's a difference between not believing in a
dude who sits in a chair in the
sky and has a beard.
There's a difference between that and saying, like,
I, you know, I came from nothing. You
obviously came from something. Whatever that something is,
that's Allah
We you've this you know, you may not
agree about every detail with regards to it,
but how can you say he doesn't exist?
That's just dumb. He created you and then
you grow up and say that he doesn't
he doesn't exist.
Meaning,
a
a a a a a a a a
a a a a a a a antagonistic,
art,
debater,
in a dispute trying to,
establish proof.
And he's trying to portray himself, you know,
market, position himself, brand market himself
after having literally been nothing.
That that he's not the one who was
made from nothing, rather he is the big
adversary and the disputant, you know. The stupid,
like, you know, European philosophers, like, well, if
God doesn't exist, we shall have to create
1. Shut up, man.
What do you mean, if God doesn't exist,
you exist, don't you? Then, okay, Allah exists.
What kind of stupid thing is that to
say?
Brand positioning as if, like, I'm I'm, like,
my opinion, you know, my opinion is, like,
at the same level that I had something
to say as well.
Well.
That there was one of the antagonists from
Quraish, from the mushi'kin of Quraish.
They they said, they came with a with
a brittle bone,
and
they said, oh, Muhammad,
will Allah bring this back to life after
it's become dust?
And look at what the prophet said.
This is important because people make the prophet
into, like, a sanitized Disney version of, like,
what they think in their head. Don't say
how he is or he isn't. Don't say
he would have done this and he wouldn't
have done that as if you're some sort
of authorized representative of of of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Read what he what he said and what
he did and then make a picture of
it. If you can't read read the then
you're definitely haven't read the or the other,
like, whatever,
hundreds of thousands of hadith of the prophet
and even when you read it, the person
who has the most reverence and respect for
him is not going to just open his
mouth quickly and say, oh, he would have
done this, he would have done that. So
what happens is this,
mushrik from Quresh destroys this, brittle bone and
crashes it into
dust. And he says, oh,
oh, Muhammad,
do you think Allah will bring this back
to life after it's become dust?
And the Nabi responded, he says, yes.
And Allah
not only he says, yes, he will. Not
only will he resurrect you, but he'll also
put you in the fire.
So it went from 3rd person to personal,
and it not only said not only will
he raise you up, he'll also put you
in the fire. Obviously,
this is not like an incitement for you
to, like, tell people are going to *
in the Twitter. Obviously, the prophet knows things
that we don't know. But this kinda, like
like, happy bunny rabbit version of Islam
where, like, you know, people show up with
machine guns in order to intimidate, like, Muslim
women and children, and we're handing them, like,
bottles of water.
Okay. That's fine. That's the of certain people
that this is how you're gonna make dua.
And in some cases, it may work.
But don't be like, oh, that's what the
prophet would have done. How do you know?
Didn't he put on his armor and grab
his sword on the day of Badr and
on the day of Uhud?
Didn't he dig the ditch in the khandaq,
or was he going around and giving the
the hazaab, like, bottles of water?
That doesn't mean and so my point is
not like, okay. No. We have to be,
like, fight fight everybody. No. There's a time
for everything,
you know. And there are a lot of
people who have a vested interest in this
bunny rabbit version of Islam.
And, we're like, look, you know, if you're
not gonna mess with us, you're not gonna
threaten you're not gonna threaten us, like,
then we have no reason to threaten you.
We have no wish to fight with anybody
or escalate anything. But at the same time,
don't be like it's against us to defend
yourself.
That's, I think, more more the point here,
that people get carried away. They watch too
many Disney movies.
That's not how real life works.
You know the have you ever saw The
Little Mermaid?
No? You?
None of you?
You saw it. Right? Yeah.
So, you know, we're kids.
What are you gonna do? Right? You know
the real Little Mermaid? She dies.
It's like actually not a happy ending.
In the real little little mermaid, she dies.
It's not it's not like, you know, like,
they let her and the prince get married
and live out happily ever after. She dies.
He does not he does not, like, recognize
her. He doesn't, you know, fall none of
that happens. She falls in love with him,
and she squanders her life away
because of being in true love, and it
doesn't work out well. Okay? And so people
watch the Disney version, and, you know, those
people who wrote those books, those are real
people. Those are the type of people who
lived real lives. You know, they're the people
who had, like, tuberculosis and, like, all 7
brothers and sisters had tuberculosis, and they're, like,
the only one who survived. Like, they went
through real life,
rather than
rather than, like, you know,
spending a lifetime
editing their Facebook posts,
being fake about everything.
So so,
so that's that's that's that's something people should
remember as well. So he's he said what?
He says yes.
You know, he said, oh, do you think
Allah will bring us back to life? Because
you, you've made it 3rd person. Rasool Allah
made it personal. He said, no. He says,
not only will he bring you back to
life, because what? You're gonna be that dusty
that that bone that's turning into dust one
day. Not only will he bring you back
to life, he'll also enter you into the
hellfire.
And that's real. The thing is that if
someone comes at us like that, you know,
it doesn't feel good. No one's happy about
that. But if you're a person who has,
like, half a brain and insight, even if
the person says words to you like that
with a bad intention,
their intention is between them and Allah. If
they're speaking the Haqq, you should extract the
benefit from that.
It's like imagine, right, somebody somebody, like, throws
a bag
at your house
with, like, a gold bar in it and,
like, some feces.
Gold bar is a lot of money.
Not all of us are like as wealthy
as, you know, I don't know, wealthy people.
So
what would you do? You just throw in
a dumpster and be done with it? Some
people would. Admittedly, feces is pretty gross,
but gold is also worth a lot of
money,
and, you know, this is Chicago. Right? We're
not in the Bay Area where we're, like,
rich enough to pay, like, $3,000 a month
for, like, a 1 bedroom apartment of rent,
you know. So what do you do? You
know? Absolutely. Put on put put on put
on some gloves or whatever. *, go buy
some gloves only for this purpose and then
throw them away afterward.
Okay?
Put it, like, in the far part of
your yard, grab your hose, wash it off,
buy a a Costco pack of, like, Lysol,
and just Lysol the heck out of it.
And, like, you know, when it's nice, good,
and clean, then you can touch it and
clean it with your hands. Then you go
to the whatever
place that you're gonna sell bar gold. You
sell it, pay off your house, and live
happily ever after.
If someone says harsh words to you,
even if their intention is bad, that's between
them and Allah. It's like the feces just
wash it off, take the gold bar, and
cash it in afterward.
That's, that sounds like a very reasonable,
very reasonable line of, of action.
This is something I wanted to mention.
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf
wrote a paper recently
about, the
illegality and unlawfulness of abortion in any stage
of the pregnancy. And one of the things
that he mentioned in it, I wasn't.
This is not a personal attack on him
or anyone else.
I wasn't super excited about the paper. One
of the things he mentions in the paper
is that the word nutfa doesn't mean, like,
a clot of blood. It's mistranslated.
And I will I'm not a, like, a
great linguist or anything, so I will
see the possibility that it may not always
have to mean
that. But, the word nutfa here is,
is translated by or is it commented
by
this
says, that it's just a it's like a
small amount of liquid.
And it's clear.
Like, its drops are its drops are its
drops are clear.
So
that's why in the context of, like, a
human being, the creation of a human being,
it's called a,
a like, it's translated as a clot of
blood, like, just a like a slick congealed
blood. You can barely tell the difference between
it and between like liquid.
So with all due respect,
to say it's decisively, that's not what it
means.
If some a professor like Portovie will only
mention that and he won't mention anything else,
then, you know, to dismiss it offhand, I
don't I don't think is,
you know, I think it's it's a it's
it's a much more of uphill,
much more of uphill discussion than
than than than, than the short glance over
that it received in that paper.
Says,
Allah says that that person, he he strikes
forth a parable for us. The parable was
what is that will Allah bring this to
life after his dust.
The
prophet
Tell him that,
that Allah
who created it the first time,
will bring it back to life, and he
has all knowledge of his creation. So this
is one of the rational arguments of the
Quran.
Meaning, it doesn't make reference to Allah being
Allah or to the Quran being in order
for it to validate.
What he says, look,
if it came to life in the first
place,
then for it to come to life again
is not only it's a proof that it's
possible,
if you're a rationally thinking person, it's actually
proof that it's easier, in fact.
The fact that it happened the first time
is a proof that it's possible.
The fact that it happened the first time
isn't the proof that it's possible, and it's
also proof that not only is just as
just as possible, it's even more possible. It's
easier
When a when a person makes the first
iteration of something or when a factory has
been cranking them out for whatever,
for years.
The more you make, the more you become
it becomes easy. You know the ins and
outs of how to make it.
The original is difficult to make the knock
off afterward is easy.
That's why we have things like patents and
things like that
because of how much incredibly easier it is
to make the knock off,
to make the copy. But now
all of us are so one wonderful, science
out. All of us wanted to be a
doctor at one point before we, you know,
decided not to. So we've studied enough biology,
no DNA and things like that. Literally the
literal blueprints of how to make a person.
It's
it's it's there. So for a person to
have disbelief about being resurrected after they die,
that's,
you know
if they don't wanna be resurrected, they can
say I don't want to. But, like, to
say it's impossible, that's kinda like bogus. That's
you can, like, literally clone a person. So,
that doesn't require any belief in the unseen.
Nothing.
He's the one who,
brought brought you fire from the green tree
that you can use as fuel, meaning the
the the tree itself was a living thing,
and
it's filled with life. It's wet. How you
know, but then it's also useful for fuel
as well. Right?
This is from his many blessings in his
creation. If you try to, like, start a
fire using dead corpses of human beings, it's
not gonna be very useful.
Why? Because it's wet inside. The tree is
the same thing but it dries out really
quickly and you can use it as
as fuel.
This is from the Hijayb and the Kamalat,
the the wonders and the perfection of his
creation that he made so many different things
that are useful in so many different, seemingly,
disparate ways.
Isn't the one who created the heavens and
the earth,
able
to make them again or make the likes
thereof?
Yes, indeed. And he is the one who,
is emphatic form of the creator. He's the
one who creates,
again and again.
He's the one who creates again and again,
and he's the one who has all knowledge.
His,
commandment is nothing except for, he says, to
a thing b, and it is.
And,
the,
the,
the the fayakun is read both with Nasb
and with with with with Rafa.
Nasbiz
is for,
Taqib
and for, the that it's the the that
it happens either chronologically after he says it
or it happens, because he's the rational cause
of it saying.
And then being read with Rafa, it means
that he says and it is at the
same time that he says. Meaning there's no
there's no,
separation between his saying it and it being.
And we know that Allah is not subjected
to time and space.
So his commandment of is
is with us in every moment
of our existence, and if it left us,
then we wouldn't exist at all.
We wouldn't have ever existed at all.
That he,
praise or glory or exalted as the one
above any defect or
defect or blemish or or or shortcoming,
the one in whose hand,
is the,
is the malakut, is the the the the
the dominion of all things,
and,
he is the one,
who,
all of you will return to him.
We
didn't scratch even the surface of the
the text. It's like an introduction
introduction
introductory
familiarization with the the the the Surah, inshallah,
that people can read the books of tafsir
inshallah and
dig through, you know, like why is the
word used and what's the deeper meaning in
it and etcetera etcetera. All the have so
many other abhafts that we we kinda skipped
over in order to not
overwhelm a person with details because sometimes when
you do that,
then you lose the the vision of the
actual text of the Quran itself. When that
that that conception is solid in your mind,
then the details enrich your
enrich your understanding. But we don't wanna have,
like, you know, the grammatical debates and the
linguistical debates and the this remind me of
the story in my life type of story
time. We don't want that to overwhelm the
actual text of the Quran.
So Insha'Allah, Allah give us the over over
our lives that we we learn and
delve into these things deeper and deeper and
learn more and benefit more and that the
Quran be a
a proof in our favor on the day
of judgment,
rather than a proof against us. The recitation
of the Quran, it comes in the hadith
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. The
recitation of the Quran will be given an
anthropomorphic form on the day of judgment, and
it will argue on behalf of the one
who used to recite the Quran.
And,
it's an honored,
an honored witness in the court of Allah
Ta'ala, meaning whoever it
argues in their favor,
Allah will accept that
intercession.
So Allah make us from those people.