Hosam Helal – Quran Journey Ep. 9 Surat alMasad [Ayah15] Abu Lahab’s efforts to hurt the Prophet
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Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam, ala Rasulillah. Very short.
Surah but lots of context and lots of history. Let's begin with a
little bit of the background. This surah is speaking about the
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Annissa limbs uncle one of his
uncle's, whose name is Abu Lahab. This is his Kuhnian or his title.
His full name is Abdullah Rosa. His actual name is Abdullah Rosa
and Rosa was one of the pagan idols that was worshipped to he
was called the slave of Rosa. And of course we know that by the time
of Rasulullah, Salem's initiation into prophethood, there were a few
of the uncles of the Prophet Mohammed syndrome still alive, yet
10 of them, six of them passed away before the Prophet Muhammad
Salam was initiated in the prophethood. And those who were
alive during the Prophet Muhammad SAW Salam were Hamza and Bess, Abu
Lahab, Abdullah Rosa, and Embleton. And of course, we know
that Hamza and labas became Muslims. Hamza was the first to
become Muslim. He became Muslim early on before Omar and before
many other companions. And when he became Muslim, he really gave the
Muslims strength because Hamza was known to be a strong warrior very
strong and committed. So he made it easy for many Muslims to come
and be able to become Muslim Alhamdulillah and Ibis became
Muslim in the, during the Mecca, opening of Mecca when Muslims
finally came to Mecca, and entered, as now custodians of the
karma as people who are going to take care of the Kaaba.
That's when I best became Muslim, I will tell him we know that at
the end of his life, he was very close to becoming Muslim. But the
stronger narration tells us that at the end of his life, people
pressured him and that was to show you the power of peer pressure
into refusing or into rejecting Islam. Are you going to let go of
your tradition and your life and you want to embrace Islam, but of
course, he supported the Prophet Muhammad wa salam, in many, many
instances of his life. So those are the three uncles. The fourth
one is Abdullah Rosa. And he was very different from Abu Lahab I
will have was at least supportive of Rasulullah Salam based on blood
he said you are still my family and I'm going to support you even
if I disagree with the with the message or if even if I don't want
to publicly accept it. Whereas this this was the case for Batali
but wouldn't have Abdullah Rosa he was much much more aggressive in
his attack and in this campaign against the hospital Allah He
SallAllahu Sallam and this is very important. So let's situate it
let's let's discuss that briefly. The Hmong let's discuss that
briefly. For those of you who are by the way, I'm just gonna look at
the message here while they come Salam rahmatullah wa barakatu says
illuminants, all from Allah Subhana Allah may Allah accept
your Amin, which is like Kamala Harris chef Imam Muhammad Allah is
just like Allah and robotic Allah few come. May Allah honor you and
give you Janet's for those who mean I mean,
so Abdullah Rosa, and Rosa. His Cooney, as we mentioned was Abu
Lahab. And the reason for that, let me see if I can share the
notes with you here in sha Allah. The reason why he's called Abu
Lahab is because he had some say he had naturally blushing skin so
he had natural blushes and would have means the father of flame or
the father of redness, and because he's his cheeks would be red, more
red than usual. Lighter and complexion. They gave him that
title. I would have could have
also be a title that was given to him because of his tendency to get
angry to get angry quickly. So they usually called somebody who's
quick to anger, Abu Lahab, the father of flame, you know, some
people are very cool, they go into a situation and the ease the
tension, they calm people down, others enter any situation and
make things much, much more aggravated. So that was again and
of course for the Arabs, anger and wrath and to be to be one of those
people was quick to anger that was actually a good thing. Because it
meant in the time of war, you could be dependent upon a man that
in the time of, in the time of, in the time of, you know,
seriousness, you could be looked up to or you could be looked for
the man. Now, here's the thing I wouldn't have, even though he was
given that title, too quick to anger. He wasn't actually a good
warrior. We mentioned this before, in embedded he didn't actually
fight himself against the Muslims. He hired others to do so. Because
he was quite rich. So what do we know about Ebola, he took care of
himself, he was very well dressed. He was a very rich merchant. Some
people say he was engaging in weapons, merchant merchandise, we
actually used to sell weaponry to people, and that's why he profited
off of the anger or the wrath that people had. So you would usually
go from situation situation kind of igniting tension between people
for the sake of, you know, maintaining his business and
maintaining that commodity, and maintaining the need for the
market. But Allahu Allah moi, his marketing, or his business was
engaging with ALLAH SubhanA. Allah knows best. These are just some of
the historical books, and when they have to say about his
occupation, his job. Now, interestingly, interestingly, Abu
Lahab, was one of the earliest people to stand against the
Prophet Muhammad Son and His own uncle. And that's really sad.
You'd expect your own family to be supportive, but I will have he
quickly during the private remember last time we talked about
the private phase of Dawa, where the prophet Muhammad Salam went to
the various tribes have his clan of Quraysh. So went to battle
Hashem, He went to the various tribes in Mecca, and he called
them to smaller gatherings. And what we see is Abuja Hill was
constantly making excuses like, I can't be here, I gotta go do some
see what's kind of avoiding those gatherings. Whereas I wouldn't
have he was avoiding at the very beginning, but eventually, the
Prophet Muhammad Salim kept, you know, according to some of the
books of seed, he kept preparing food, inviting them over, give
them an opportunity to kind of, you know, feel comfortable, and
then he would begin to speak to them about, you know, let me let
me be blunt with you, here's the situation, I want to invite you to
Islam, I want to invite you to this new way, it's different from
what you'd expect, so is inviting them to the call, or is calling
them to Islam. Now, of course, I would have got up and he's like,
you gotta you gotta do this for this, what a waste. And in some of
the narration says Ted been lucky, and Muhammad, even in those
gatherings privately, he's been lucky and Muhammad for gathering
us and wasting our time and we got busy lives. We don't have time for
this nonsense until the next attempt by the word Tim literally
means may you be cursed, or may you be cut off like when you have
something that is cut off to be prevented from growing and
developing, to be cut off. That is again Tibetans very similar to the
word bet. Bet means enough to stop to, to basically bring something
to a halt to hold something, then and so the other NARRATION So
some, some elements say this surah was revealed early during the
private private phase or the private data, as the Prophet
Muhammad Salam is calling people to Islam will help is the first or
among the first to kind of advocate against the Prophet
sallallahu sallam. Others say this surah was revealed much later,
during the public phase, the public Tao phase, when the Prophet
Muhammad Salam comes out and he calls all these different tribes
gets up on the mountain of suffer. And now he has, he has the view
behind him that they cannot see. And he tells them if I were to
tell you that there is a there's an enemy coming to attack Mecca
from behind, would you believe me? And they said, Yes, we believe
you. You know my job Malika Canada, we have not heard or
experienced you to be a liar. So we're going to obviously believe
in whatever you say, because well, I don't have news of of a city
that is being attacked, but I do have greater things to warn you
against. And that is the day of resurrection, he begins to talk to
them about Allah Subhana Allah and about Islam, and about believing
in one Allah one day thing, of course, I wouldn't have where I'm
the loser, His own uncle is the first to get up and to say, I've
been lucky. I'm humbled again, you're gathering us for this
nonsense, this waste. So he's among the first expressed dismay,
and express concern, and of course, voice that anger and wrath
because, you know, love on him, but he stands to profit if we take
the opinion that he was selling weapons as as as you know, as a
way of making money, of course, there's will be a direct conflict.
Now, what's interesting is this surah is revealed in response to
what Abu Lahab says. So this sort of comes, you know, he's basically
saying, May you be cursed or Mohammed, may your work be cut off
may all of it go to waste. And of course, the Quran comes to
respond, no, it's not your your DUA. I will have there's going to
be answered against Mohammed, you actually just make dua against
yourself by cursing Rasul Allah, who is the prophet of Allah, you
end up actually cursing yourself, your work is going to be cut off
your work is going to mount to no real benefit. So it's him making
dua or invoking a curse against Allah silom that travels and comes
back to actually attack him and to affect him. Now in order for us to
understand, in order for us to know this would not be immediately
after the five verses of Allah, this would be some people say that
it is revealed right after certain dialogue, or some say it's
revealed at certain depth, but we would say after SOTL Allah, so the
method and a little uncertain, sort of quit, as we mentioned,
this, this sort of would be revealed, and this is the answer
by the Emmys question, this is the answer, but the Emmys question,
excellent. May Allah bless you all, and give you Janet for those
who are I mean, by
now in order for us to understand the situation with Abu Lahab. And
why the Quran is explicit in this invocation against Abu Lahab, we
need to remember a few things I will have Number one, he would go
behind Rasulullah Salah wherever he went, and he would undo the
work that also lost the limb did. So we have a beautiful example of
one of the companions who was actually he was actually young, he
was actually young, and he used to he was traveling and he came to
Mecca, and he saw the homeless to sell him and he was impressed by
Rasul Allah to sell and he liked the resource islands personality.
And he was willing to accept Islam or, you know, consider what this
man was talking about. And then he saw this other man behind him
running after him and saying, Don't listen to him. Don't listen
to Mohammed, I am his uncle. I know better. I know him. He's just
wasting your time. There's no real benefit to this. So him being a
kid, the person narrating tells us, the details are in the notes,
please do read them. He tells us that he was quick to reconsider
his position. So whereas he was interested in Rasulullah
sallallahu wasallam had to say as soon as he heard that his own
uncle's chasing him and telling him hey, you're in I know you
you're wasting people's time. He was quick to reconsider and that's
an example of someone who would have come close to Islam
eventually did become Muslim later on, but could have come earlier to
Islam but didn't because he heard of will perhaps criticism false
criticism against the Rasulullah saw Selim harsh criticism against
roses wa salam being a family people are quick to like, Okay,
well, why is one family against him? Why is his own uncle against
him? So it did hurt the Prophet Muhammad Salam is down a little
bit at the beginning of his life. Okay, that's one thing. So I would
have would go behind the Rasul Allah Salah Salem, and he would
constantly say, Don't listen to him, I am his uncle. And I know,
and he is this and this and that. And he would say all these
terrible things about Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So
that's number one. Number two, Abu Lahab was among those who
advocated for the boycott of Banu Hashim. So he himself said, Let's
put financial pressure upon the family, the whole family of
brainwashing so that they have no choice but to turn Mohammed in
salatu salam, or to dissociate from him. So that's the second
thing that he did. Third thing, one, one that did happen when they
had the boycott against Venom Hashem he himself even though he
was a Hashimi in descendancy he decided to basically give up that
connection give up that connection to the family says you know what,
don't consider me Hashimi from now on. I am done with this title. I'm
done. I'm not a Hashimi anymore. So imagine someone giving up his
own passport giving up his own commitment to the family, letting
go of the allegiance to his family and moving on. So this is
something that Abu Lahab did. We will have so as we mentioned, he
quickly Chase also salam around and he said whatever he says,
Don't listen to him. So he undid the Prophet Muhammad said in his
work, he himself called for the boycott of the prophets family,
herbal Hashem and when they were boycotted, isn't even on my
Hashimi are no longer part of the family. So to make sure that his
business is maintained, he dissociated himself from the from,
from the family of Daniel Hashem. So imagine he dissociated himself
from Rasulillah Salam 's family, and is it an amazing that Allah
subhanaw taala dissociates from him dissociates from him. So
Pamela, the way things work out. And even more interesting, you
know, subhanAllah you know, the fact that he dissociate himself so
much, what goes around comes around and the punishment, the
nature of the punishment is very similar to the nature of the
crime. Towards the end of his life, a Buddha would actually get
very, very sick, very, very sick, and he would die alone from a
contagious disease and his own family would refuse to touch him.
Can you imagine his own children would refuse to touch him, to the
point where now his smell and odor began to really attract attention.
So the people living in the city of Mecca started to say, Hey, why
are you guys leaving your you know, father to rot? So eventually
what the children had to do, they had to come in wearing all kinds
of clothing and whatnot and
to use sticks, and you know, the cover their hands and whatnot to
take the, like the body of their father flip. So they dug out, they
dug a hole next to the bed, and then they flipped the bed and
everything in it and the wraps into it, and then they covered it
up. And then they destroyed that, like where they they broke the
house down on top. And that becomes basically became the
graveyard SubhanAllah. And imagine what a terrible way to go. And
this goes to show you again, the kind of person that he was, this
is towards the end of his life. And this is again, the legacy that
he left behind. You wouldn't see people wanting to basically
associate themselves with Ebola have women descendants of Ebola
have no people usually skip that or don't mention that they're
related to him because of, you know, the negative position that
you took when it came to Rasulullah sallallahu salah. In
addition to that, he decided to actually accept the pressure or
cave into the pressure that was placed upon the Prophet Muhammad
cinemas family to distance themselves from him. So what he
did is he went to his two sons or Tibet and Otaiba rocks and rotate
and so on will have or Abdullah Russa he had two sons, two sons
that were married to Rasulullah salams daughters. So then Otaiba
were married to Paya and OMO film, and he told the rock band on the
table I want you to divorce the two daughters of Rasulullah
Salallahu Salam so that he would have no choice but to reconsider
the message. So imagine they're putting financial pressure on him.
And now they're going to try to divorce his two daughters who have
been married for a while. It's you know, they're into the family.
It's a it's a big family and it's a powerful family. Are they going
to say yes, well guess what happened? Oh, Tibet said yes. Or
they said okay, I will do it. He went is his wife, which is the
daughter of Rasulullah sallallahu Clea, and he told me you are
divorced, go back to your father and she went home to her father
crying. Yeah, rasool Allah I did nothing. Just all of a sudden he
comes home. And he tells me go back to your father and Rasulullah
Selim understood so he can, you know, consoled his daughter at
all, it's okay, Allah will give you better and eventually she
would end up marrying our man but it's much much later on. She would
spend much of our long part of her you know, a long, long time
waiting in the house of Rasulullah Salam morning and of course being
affected by this. And of course also salam was hurt. Yeah, it's
hurt. It's it's hurtful on your own daughter comes home, being
divorced because of the work that you're doing. But you believe in
the work that you're doing and you know, to be true. So again, he
told her Be patient, Allah will give you better. Now I'll tell you
about the other son of I would have, he didn't do the same thing.
He did something that's much, much more horrendous in nature. So what
he did is he went to his wife.
So I'll tell you about what his wife on microfilm and he told her,
I'm not going to divorce you. What I'm going to do is I'm going to
keep you married, I'm going to keep you married, I'm gonna keep
being married to you. You're going to live under my roof, but I'm
going to make your life miserable. I'm going to make your life so
miserable, that you're going to beg me to leave, but I won't let
you go. So he decided to torture his wife.
And somebody that actually physically but most likely it was
mental torture, because it wasn't. It wasn't a noble thing for a man
to use his physical force against his wife for the arms. So you
wouldn't want that reputation but he did his you know, being
passively aggressive, being hurtful with your words, being
inconsiderate, things like that. He tried to make his wife's life
as miserable as possible in the house. Eventually, she asked him I
need to go back just let me go let me go and he will refuse. So
newskin to Rasulullah Salam this was happening. So he came to our
table and he told him, Listen, if this is not working out, just let
her go. Leave her let her come back and live with me. Divorce her
and he said no, she was under my. She was under my guardianship at
this time. She's my wife. I'm not going to divorce her. She stays
exactly here. And he decided to make the Prophet Muhammad Salam is
life more difficult and actually spat in the Prophet Mohammed Salam
space. So imagine spitting in the Prophet Muhammad wa salam space.
And this is again such a disgusting, wild thing to do. So
when this happened, what did what did the Rasulillah Salam do for
Salah Salem, you know, give him chance after chance after chance.
But eventually, you know, he was really hurt by Otai bez position.
And we know the Prophet Muhammad Salim to be very patient. But this
is again, a really hurtful place, you know, your own daughter, the
first one now the second one. So he's in a very tough position. So
what did he do? What he did is he made dua against our table. He may
do against our table. He said some lot Allah Allah, Allah pika can
mean killaby You are and this is what the historical books say. So
you said to him, you're acting like you know what we can descend
from that you're acting so wildly with me? You're being so you know,
on civilized with me. And just as you are wild with me, I asked, I'm
not going to stick to your level. But I asked Allah Subhana Allah
descend down your path, someone or something that will be as wild
with you, as wild with you, that will put you in your place that
will humiliate you, as you are doing this to me. Now the solo
Salam, it wasn't his habit to make dua against people
But you can imagine he was human at the end of the day. And this
was a very hurtful moment in his life. Now, when this happened,
I'll tell you about just a few, like a while passes, and I'll tell
you but I was on a journey with his father, Abu Lahab. And they
were making small talk and I'll tell you, I told his father, you
know what, I did this to the Prophet Muhammad is kind of
boasting, I made him suffer so much, you know, it's you should
have seen his face. I pushed him to the point where he made two
organs music, may God send some of his beats against you or something
like that. But Ebola have he, you know, you know, he's, he's wiser.
He's more old. He's got more seniority, so he tells his son, I
am worried about the profits in vacation. I'm worried about the
profits prayer, because or he didn't say that prayer is that I'm
worried about Mohammed's invocation. Why? Because they
still knew him to be a good man. And they knew that, you know,
fine, I disagree with his message, but he's still a good man. And if
you push him to that level, he makes the invocation against you.
Be careful. So imagine his own father is saying, Be careful, the
cooking does Pamela, if you know him to be a good man, and if you
know his dua, or his invocation, to have some form of weight, why
would you refuse to consider the message? Why would you let your
ego and arrogance get in the way SubhanAllah. Now, in addition to
that, in addition to that, Abu Lahab, told his son, I'll tell you
that, if you are going to come with us, what I want you to do is
I want you to stay in the middle of the camp. So he set him up in
the middle of the camp on the sleeping and he settled David in
the middle of the camp, surrounded that His tent with the other
people's tents, then surrounded that with the camels with the
camels. So this was done. This was done basically to make sure that
he's going to be protected against any potential implication of the
invocation of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, eventually,
what happens, one of the bees jumps across the camels across the
tents, like a wild desert, Lion jumps across all of that, come
straight into the tent of Otaiba. And you know, things definitely go
south for him and he, he dies, that is how he comes to where he
meets his he meets his feet. And this is again, you know, a
terrible thing to happen to somebody but it's again, what
happens when somebody is of the arrogance that somebody have that
oppressive, oppressive and unjust attitude, Allah Subhana Allah has
a way of humbling and humiliating those who are oppressive and, and
unjust and Allah subhanaw taala reminds us in the Quran, in Allahu
Allah, if you're analyzing and Allah's Panatela comes to the aid
and the defense of those who are truly genuinely believing, and
who's more of a believer than also la Salam and his family. Now, of
course, by this
film is now no longer under the under the marriage of Rota, Eva,
so she's free to go back to her family, she's free to go back to
the home. And this is again, the context behind which surah and
message is revealed. It's revealed in response to this, you know, in
an hospitable and really, really ruthless attitude that that the
family of Ebola have had. Now, he was not the only person he was
constantly being fueled by his wife, his wife would tell him, Oh,
you're going to let them get away with that. So she would actually
go around and say terrible things about rasool Allah Azza wa sallam
untrue Of course, she would make up all kinds of accusations push
people. And of course, her name was Omar Jamil, she was given a
share of beauty and she used her own physical appeal, to kind of
get people to reconsider or to stay away from Islam and she will
use her connection with the family to get people to stay away from
Islam and stay away from Hamas or Salam by coming up with rumors and
by saying things that are untrue. And actually one of the narration
says that she had a locket an amulet which was very, very dear,
which was very expensive and she sold that to hire people herself.
She wanted to use your own money to hire people that would work.
It's like imagine she was giving up something was very valuable to
her to hire people that would fight in better to try to kill
Rasul Allah is Allah Allah salah, which explains the ending of the
idea or the ending of the surah ending of the surah.
Now, in addition to that, in addition to all of that, you know,
that we have stories that tell us that they would actually put some
thorns in the Prophet Muhammad Salim is Pat, they lived very
close to the Prophet Muhammad Salam, they had houses close to
one another. So they would put things in front of him, they would
go after Him and they would, you know, do things as much as
possible to make his life unpleasant. And not only that, of
course, the as we mentioned with will have the paid and hired
people to try to hurt Rasulullah Salallahu Salam as much as
possible as much as possible. So in context of all of that this
Surah Surah till method is revealed certain message is
revealed let's look at the questions or the comments and then
we'll continue Sharla the the strong versus against Abu Lahab
distract anyone away thinking how come any religion or a prophet be
hard this way?
No question. And here we see I think this was still mercy of our
beloved Prophet Muhammad salam to say such thing. So the person
learns his lesson before death.
Excellent Zachman Mohan. May Allah bless you and your family and give
you the best and dunya FM exact common law can you keep us in your
DUA menial? Me? Excellent. Yeah. So this this is this is a this is
a good question.
You know, Surah Surah Surah 10 method is one of the sources that
has guided so many people to Islam, and along the journey of
Islam, and it's one that actually got some people to, you know, ask
doubtful questions. You have people who will say, Look, if, if
Abu Lahab all he had to do to prove Rasul Allah wrong, would
have been okay, look, I am Muslim, I am Muslim. But he didn't, he
didn't do that. And he persisted, and he was wrong, and he was
hurtful, and you continue to be aggressive. So this surah,
actually is considered to be a miracle that Allah subhanaw taala
called it from the very beginning, that there is no way that I will
have become Muslim, there's no way that his wife would become Muslim.
And they would continue to hold on to the aggression, and the
ruthlessness in the Rasulullah in in being opponents of Rasulullah
Sena. So from the very beginning, the Quran actually called it so
it's a miracle for many people. And it's actually the reason for
the immense increase. Did anybody take a stance or a negative
position, of course, you can imagine that would have did, but
he was very aggressive, like, so what, whatever, this is the least
they can do. That's it, I'm expecting more. So his aggression
didn't kind of you know, fade nor was impacted by this. And of
course, people expected Ebola Ebola was that was an aggressive
and kind of like a bold, he was a coward in many ways, he was
aggressive in his speech and aggressive in his in his actions.
So we can imagine that people didn't really take much of a
offense to see him acting this way, especially because they saw
him, you know, doing things that will be considered otherwise, on
unethical and not even an even not, not Arab, like, you know, for
him to give up his own family, give up his own passport, turn
against his own, turn against his own, turn against his own family,
dissociate himself, go against your own, it wasn't considered to
be tribal. So they looked at him like a coward, you know, so even
even his some people that would support him otherwise, didn't
really have much loyalty towards him, he can see his own children
even turned against him at the end of at the end of their lives.
Hopefully that answers your question. Did we? Do we have the
notes for the surah? If you're on Can I ask some of the students who
have access to the notes to please share the link? And if not, I will
do my best to Shahla to send you the send you the notes immediately
after class or actually have them here so I can copy the link
inshallah and share it. Share it to Sharma does that come over
here? Excellent. I love the swing division at FedEx. Perfect. Now,
let's look let's look at the surah. Together, let's look at the
surah together, Allah Subhana Allah says that Betty and Abby law
have been watered,
and literally means may be cut off. So imagine I wouldn't have is
making this invocation against Rasulullah. But the response from
the Quran comes No, it's your actions and your intentions and
your desires and your own wishful thinking and your own terrible
attitude, all of that will now to nothing. All of that will be cut
off. So all of your work and all of your efforts, all of it will be
cut off the efforts that you do with your hand and the hand here,
it's a piece but it represents the whole so everything all of your
efforts to try to limit and disability the Prophet Muhammad
Solomon hurt him and it all of that will actually come back to
hurt you, you will be the one that will be cut off, whatever and
indeed he was cut off and isn't immediately was cut off from his
own family. He himself cut off a cutter, cut himself off from his
own family and his own family dissociated from him at the end of
his life, as we mentioned with his with his sons, so that budget may
have been what a man Oh no and woman who went back I said that
his children will come will be of no benefit to him. They will not
suffice in Governor. They will you know, sometimes we will you know
he used to do when they told him what if Muhammad is real? What if
he's sick? What if what he's saying is true. He said you know I
have children, they're so loyal to me. I can just go to allah God and
I can say here, take one of my sons and give me my freedom. So my
son will serve my sentence for me. That's his thinking. So imagine he
was thinking I can get away with this in the NFL because they have
such loyal children, that they will actually just go and take one
for me they will go to jahannam on my behalf. What a terrible thing
to do and what a terrible thought to have. So Allah says my other
man who mad who will Mecca said he's his children will be of no
Oh, his wealth, his wealth will be of no benefit to him. And his his
castle. These children will be of no benefit to him. Or cats, cats.
Cats sub or cats can
Also referred to the things that you gain because of your wealth.
So you have your wealth that brings you socio economic
advantage, it brings you a sense of respect, it brings you a
capital privilege, all of that will be of no benefit to him, so
he's privileged, his children, his wealth will be of no benefit. And
he keep hearing the Quran saying that because a lot of the Arabs
and people nowadays still think this way, I have children, I have
wealth, I have privilege that will help me you know, it doesn't work
with Allah Sanatana your material, your material, material, wealth
will not benefit you with Allah, it's about you come to Allah
Subhana Allah with internally the state of your heart, the state of
your Eman so mad overnight and who man who America said sales learn
out on that and he will be exposed Salah your Slow slowly right Salah
yesterday, so continuously he will be exposed continuously to now on
that and I have a flame that is intense, a flame that is intense
that Allah which is which is you know, what a terrible thing to
say. And what a terrible punishment for somebody that was,
you know, disgusting and his attitude and his manner to
Rasulullah Salah and perhaps one of the things that we take from
this.
Yes, exactly, exactly. This is a good point. It's amazing how Allah
Subhan Allah tells us in the Quran, that money and children are
a test from Allah subhanaw taala and I will have examples show that
exactly, you know, sometimes we take for granted, and we begin to
hide our our true, like, what's what's within us our call to Allah
Sanatana and we seek comfort in the pleasures of money and wealth.
And we think that that's gonna that's going to suffice that's
going to help us in somehow but no, none of that is going to be of
any help sales law now on that habit, one more I have to hammer
that home and his wife will be carrying the wood to basically
fuel the fire. And this is a such a terrible imagery and if you
think about but it's it goes to show again from the very beginning
the Quran was very direct, in defending of a sudden loss of
Salam, very direct in putting people at their places in limiting
attacks against that also loss of synonym. And again, you know,
bring it on, it's a very, it's a very direct challenge from from
from the Quran from Allah Subhana Allah and on behalf of Rasulullah
Salallahu Salam you know, if someone is in a position of
weakness, if somebody is having self doubt, they wouldn't say that
they wouldn't say that definitely not against their own uncle. But
it goes to show you from the very beginning the Quran is explicit in
standing against injustice. No, no, no, you know, you would you'd
expect okay, maybe go after somebody who's further maybe go
after someone who's less powerful nobody so someone goes well it
doesn't the Quran itself goes against that which who's most
vocal? Even if it's the Prophet Mohammed sevens uncle's was
actually considered to be miraculous in many ways. It goes
to show you the power there so Salam is not coming up with this
by himself. He's He's has no choice but to convey the message
from the Quran. And the Quran comes to defend rasool Allah has a
lesson. So why is his wife then carrying the carrying the fuel the
wood, which would fuel the fire, because in the dunya, she
continued to add or in this world, she continued to put pressure on
her husband, she continued to put pressure on her husband to
basically step in and to do bad things. So she would always say,
Come on, are you not man enough? Step up, you're gonna let him say
that you got. So she was always fueling and catalyzing and kind of
putting adding wood to the fire as they say. So again, the nature of
the punishment is very similar to the nature of the crime. That's
what she did in the dunya. And that's her punishment in the
effort to carry the fuel to her husband. Right? Is is it will is
it will be carrying the wood to fuel the fires and hellfire or the
one who carries the wood to the Prophet Muhammad synonyms
doorsteps. So it's understood in both ways, we said it's the nature
of the punishment is similar to the nature of the crime, because
she continued to fuel her husband some say because she used to put
wood in front of the Prophet Muhammad selling his house that
will basically hurt him like you know, thorns, wood with thorns and
things like that. That this is the kind of punishment that she will
get in the, in the in the, in the effort as well. Some have
understood it to mean that she's carrying the fuel to feed her
husband's anger, to kind of like anger him more. Some said that she
was carrying the fuel meaning the the things that will hurt the
Prophet himself and the word that will hurt the Prophet Muhammad
Salam. And some say because she did that those two things in dunya
she gets the same punishment in the Asada by carrying the wood
through which your husband's punishment is going to be fueled
the man Fiji they have the dune menacing Fiji the hablo method
means around her neck will be a rope that is made of palm fiber
and this is the name of the surah method, the palm fiber or the or
the flame or the thing that will that will be ignited that will be
ignited. And what is this what is this a reference to you know, some
of them after see it. Much has been said about this but what I
really enjoyed reading is the opinion that again, she sold her
own necklace to make money. So she would offer that to somebody who
would hurt the Prophet Muhammad sullen. So because of that you
Sing it for those, for those reasons. Allah Subhana Allah, you
know, sends her a punishment similar in nature to the crime
that she committed. And others say because she used her physical
appeal, she was her beauty she would wear jewelry and whatnot to
give more weight to her statements. So man, she would go
say all these lies against us all sullen, but she will look good
doing so people who believe her People do this all the time. When
somebody is very presentable, they're much more believable. So
she would take care of herself and her physical in a shoe market
herself who also people would believe her and listen to her so
people will believe her and listen to her.
Make sure that that credential
so that's what she would do, she would take advantage of people by
or, if you will, her message, like by dressing in the most
presentable of ways. And that's why Allah subhanaw taala as some
of them are students say mentioned or this is mentioned here, Fiji,
they have balloon messin around her neck, because that's what she
used to, you know, get that physical appeal, there will be a a
rope made of palm fiber as an as again a punishment for what she
used to do in the in the dunya. And here, the surah. Again, it's a
very simple, concise, concise, I wouldn't say simple but concise
Surah that has many, many layers. And again, from the lessons that
we take here is that we shouldn't be from those who you know us or
let our ego blind us we should be ready to receive and understand
truth wherever it comes. And they will Salam says Al hikma listed
moment that the believer looks for wisdom and takes it from wherever
it comes. We look at wherever it comes, we accept it, but Abuja
will have in Abuja and those individuals that the Quran
highlights at the very beginning so far, we'll see in Abuja, what
we've seen, and we're leading them over Euro, we've seen Abu Lahab
highlighted as examples of those who refuse to believe in why we
refuse to believe we see the Quran is going after those people
reminding us to be humbled, and to learn from them. Which takes me to
a good question. I remember coming across this individual who is
actually very, very upset, very angry, why is the Quran your your
book that you see to be holy, and you see to be divinely ordained,
and the direct word of Allah subhanaw taala. Someone is saying
what is palm fiber. So basically, like it's a rope, it's a rope made
out of, you know, the day trees, the fiber that comes from that day
tree is woven around to make to make a rope because that's what
she that's what she would use to basically, you know, hurt the
Prophet Muhammad Salam or put in front of the Prophet Muhammad
Salam. If you've seen the day trees, they have the what's called
the Zap, which is really, really thorny, and that's what she would
use to hurt the profit center. Coming back to the question. She
said, these, it's good to end the sore off with this. Some remember
one person asked this, why is it that you're divinely ordained
word, direct word of Allah? subhanaw taala? Why is that, you
know, insulting a man who died 1400 years ago, and you pray, you
worship Allah, you pray to your Creator, by invoking this curse
against the man who died 1400 years ago. Now, a good question,
and it's but it's an unfounded question. Because there's the
surah Yes, directly addresses Ebola helps context, or directly
addresses a loser. That's his name. I'm the Rosa uncle of
Rasulullah Sana, but it doesn't mention Abdullah Rosa doesn't
mention him by name. He uses his Kuhnian, which is the description.
So it alludes to Him those who know know, the man, and it's a
lesson that becomes relevant across time and space. What do I
mean? I will have literally means the father of flame, somebody who
is quick to anger, somebody who's quick to use his own, use his own
wealth, to fuel tension between people and benefit off of people's
tensions. So the Kuhnian still stands, the description still
stands relevant across time and space. So yes, we are invoking
this remembering what he did what this terrible man did 1400 years
ago, but it's not limited to him. It is a reminder and it's an
invocation against anybody who uses their means to hurt and to
oppress and to break and to undo good and to undo the harm that was
done. And to accuse and to lie with the intention of deterring
people from accepting truth and pushing people against pushing
people away from the message. So it's, it's yes, it's a it's
applies to a person, but it's not limited to that person. It
continues to be relevant across any as Amir says, across and
relevant to any evil couple, and any evil association that seeks to
break and destroy and benefit from breaking ties, as one of the
opinions that I would have was, you know, involved in selling
weaponry. So for him to continuously have tension between
a society or between sectors of society would benefit him
financially.
whereas it also was selling was trying to unite people. So you
have one person who's trying to unite and one person was trying to
break. One person was trying to spread peace and another person
was trying to spread anger and hate. And so this is again where
the contrast needs to be made. And I hope that answers that question.
Does anybody have any questions now? Insha Allah, Allah, may Allah
bless you all and give you Genesis.
Is it correct to say that the verses of the Quran are directly
involved with building the personality of the prophets, Allah
salah, of course, of course, from the very beginning, you know, he's
described to be, I think it was, it was Chef Ben bears, I believe,
who described him can occur on him she the newbies Selim was a
walking Quran. So of course, it's much of the Prophet penicillins
personality is kind of already set in set before the Quran comes in.
But the Quran comes to refine and to groom to take the honesty and
to experientially grow it as I actually said Mr. Lim was the most
generous of people and he was the most generous in Ramadan when he
would meet up to study the Quran. So the Quran came to enhance many
of the Prophet Muhammad sillens personality and to give him
confidence and to give him strength to do things that
otherwise he would never never have been able to do by himself
you know, to have a comes to give him a support that reinforcement
and that that strength may Allah bless you all and division. Any
other questions?
How did Abu Lahab his wife die OMA Jimmy shift? Did you know how much
you mean festival?
No, I'm not sure either. Actually, that's a good question. Maybe
inshallah we'll discuss it in the in the what's in the telegram,
telegram. Telegram inshallah group or one of the people can look it
up and show him exactly one line. May Allah bless you any other
questions?
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