Kamil Ahmad – Parables of the Quran #5
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The importance of unity and disunity in Islam is discussed, as it links everything from strength to wealth and success. The speaker emphasizes the importance of holding onto the QVC and parable of Islam, as it provides blessings for individuals. The importance of remaining united and avoiding danger of being disunited is also emphasized. The importance of avoiding harm and avoiding confusion for others is also discussed, as it is used to save money. The parable of the Kuffar spending in the war against Islam is also discussed, and how it affects psychological and military spending.
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Surah Ali Imran has many different themes and
one of those themes is the importance of
unity and the dangers of disunity.
And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala starts
by saying, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا تَقُوا اللَّهَ
حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ O
you who believe, fear Allah, the fear that
he deserves, and do not die except as
Muslims.
Do not die except as Muslims.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَاعْتَصِمُوا
بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا وَاذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ
عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنْتُمْ أَعْدَاءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُمْ
بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَانًا وَكُنْتُمْ عَلَى شَفَعْ حُفْرَةٍ مِّنَ النَّارِ
فَأَنْقَدَكُمْ مِّنْهَا كَذَٰلِكَ يَبَيِّنُوا اللَّهُ لَكُمْ آيَاتِهِ
لَعَلَّكُمْ تَحْتَجُوا Allah says, and hold on to
the rope of Allah, all of you together,
and do not become divided.
And remember the favor, the blessing of Allah
upon you.
When you used to be enemies, and He
brought your hearts together.
And you became, by the favor of Allah,
you became brothers.
And you were on the edge of a
fire.
And He saved you from it.
This is how Allah makes His ayaat clear
to you, so that you may be guided.
So, in this ayah, and in this parable,
Allah describes our condition as Muslims when we
are not united.
But before that, Allah commands us to do
what?
To unite.
How?
Or unite and hold on to what?
His rope.
بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ Hold on to the rope of
Allah.
So the question is, what is the rope
of Allah?
What is the rope of Allah that Allah
is referring to here?
Allah says, all of us should hold on
to the rope of Allah.
What is the rope of Allah?
The Qur'an?
Anyone else?
Tawheed?
Salah?
The Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ?
Islam?
Basically, all of these answers are correct.
So some scholars said it refers to the
Qur'an.
Others said it refers to the Deen of
Allah, Islam.
Others said it refers to obedience to Allah.
And holding on to the commandments of Allah.
Ibn Taymiyyah says it refers to all of
this.
It refers to all of this.
However, the strongest view is that it refers
to the Qur'an.
That's because we have a hadith in which
the Prophet ﷺ says, كِتَابُ اللَّهِ حَبْلٌ مَمْدُودٌ
مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ The book of Allah
is a rope.
It is a rope that is stretching from
the heavens to the earth.
So our connection to Allah is through the
Qur'an.
But as Ibn Taymiyyah says, all of these
things, because if you think about it, the
Qur'an encompasses all of these things.
So whoever holds on to the Qur'an,
then he is going to adhere to the
commandments of Allah and the obedience of Allah.
And he's going to hold on to Islam.
And he's going to follow the sunnah and
so on and so forth.
Now, why describe a rope specifically and not
anything else?
As being what we should hold on to?
Okay.
So basically, Allah refers to us holding on
to the Qur'an as us holding on
to a rope because a rope leads to
something.
Right?
A rope, it leads to something.
Just like if you want to get water
from a well, you send down a rope.
Right?
If you want to save someone who is
drowning, you throw to him a rope.
Right?
And the Qur'an is our savior.
Right?
It is what Allah has sent down to
us to hold on to, to be saved
from His punishment.
So this rope, it resembles the unity that
we must have as believers.
But unity upon what?
Unity, as we said, upon the Qur'an.
How to hold on to the rope of
Allah, the Qur'an?
By referring to the Qur'an in all
of our matters.
Right?
In all of our disputes, making the Qur
'an our reference point.
Now, after that, we have the parable that
Allah gives us here.
And basically, what we have is, the comparison
here is, being saved from disunity, being saved
from disunity, this blessing of being saved from
disunity, Allah compares it, He compares it to,
you know, a people who are on the
edge of a fire.
And they're saved.
Someone comes and saves them.
Right?
So imagine there are people who are on
the pit of a fire, and they're fighting
with each other.
There's a good chance that they'll end up
falling into the fire, right?
And then someone comes and saves them.
This is a blessing.
And so that's what Allah tells us in
this parable.
So after Allah commanded the believers to hold
fast to the rope of Allah, and forbade
them from disunity, He reminds them of this
blessing that He blessed them with.
Bringing their hearts together, right?
After they were enemies, they were bitter enemies.
Such a blessing that even the Prophet ﷺ
could not have done, even if he was
to spend everything in the world and all
the effort to try to do on his
own.
What's the proof for that?
Allah says in Surah Al-Anfat, Allah ﷻ
says, هو الذي أيدك بنصره وبالمؤمنين.
He is the one Allah ﷻ who gave
you victory.
وألف بين قلوبهم.
And Allah is the one who brought together
the hearts.
And then Allah says to the Prophet ﷺ,
لَوْ أَنفَقْتَ مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا مَا أَلَّفْتَ
بَيْنَ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ أَلَّفَ بَيْنَكُمْ He says
to the Prophet ﷺ, if you, O Muhammad,
were to spend everything on earth to try
to bring their hearts together, you would not
have been able to do so, but rather
Allah is the one who did so.
Now this ayah, it is said that it
was revealed when some of the Jews of
Medina tried to disunite the Muslims.
And so there was an old Jewish man,
his name was Shas ibn Qais.
He had so much hatred for the Muslims.
Basically, he is someone who saw how Al
-Aws and Al-Khazraj, who are the two
main tribes who accepted Islam, these two tribes,
Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj, made up, after
the Prophet ﷺ came to Medina, they made
up what is known as the Ansar.
Prior to the Prophet ﷺ coming to Medina,
they were two main tribes, and they were
bitter enemies.
They had fought wars for years and centuries.
They had rivalries.
So now when the Prophet ﷺ comes and
unites them, this Jew, he has this envy,
and he doesn't like it.
So he thought that they would sit together,
they would socialize together, when just yesterday they
were bitter enemies.
And so he wasn't happy to see this.
So what did he do?
He said, Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj have
united in this land in which we live
in, and we have no place here as
long as they are united.
Meaning that it was an advantage to them
when Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj were always
fighting among one another.
Now that they're united, it's a threat to
the Jews.
So he says, our survival as Jews in
Medina is based on the disunity of the
Arabs.
And as long as they are united, we
are at risk.
So he goes and tells a young Jewish
man who was sitting in a gathering of
the Ansar.
He says, I want you to go and
try to do something.
So he went and he started reminding the
Ansar about their past.
He would bring up the wars and the
enmity that took place before Islam, the battles
that they had fought against one another, how
so-and-so killed so-and-so.
And that's it.
Now they started to remember that past, and
it led to bitter feelings in the hearts
of the Sahaba.
And now they started fighting verbally, and
it led to them deciding that that's it.
We're going to fight physically.
They said, tomorrow we're going to meet at
such and such place, and we're going to
settle it once and for all.
So a war was about to ignite all
over again.
The news of this reaches Rasool Allah ﷺ.
He comes rushing, and he addresses them, and
he says, O Muslims, fear Allah.
Are you going to resume the enmity of
the days of Jahiliyyah when I am still
here among you?
Did you forget the blessing of Allah?
Did you forget about the blessing of Allah
as He saved you from that Jahiliyyah and
that kufr, and planted love and friendliness in
your hearts instead of hostility?
So basically, the Prophet ﷺ was saying, how
can you do this while I am among
you?
And then he reminded them that this unity
that you have today is a blessing from
Allah.
So don't turn your backs on it.
And so these words of the Prophet ﷺ,
they had a huge impact on them, and
as a result, they started hugging one another,
and they basically forgot about what they were
about to do.
And then it's said that these ayahs were
revealed.
So here Allah ﷻ compares their state, the
state of the Ansar when they were enemies,
before when they were enemies, to that of
a group of people who are fighting one
another on the edge of a cliff.
At the bottom there's fire.
So imagine a cliff and at the bottom
you have this pit of fire.
If you're fighting on the edge, there's a
good chance you're going to fall into the
fire.
So if no one came and saved them,
and we're talking about the Aus and the
Khazraj, if Allah had not sent His Prophet
ﷺ, that's it, they would have fought each
other, and they would have been doomed and
they would have been done and over with.
And they had reached the peak of their
wars before the Prophet ﷺ came.
There was a major war prior to the
coming of the Prophet ﷺ known as Yawm
Bu'ath.
It was such a huge war between the
Aus and the Khazraj, that basically all of
their elders and their leaders had died in
that war.
And now you had just the young left.
And it is mentioned that that was one
of the reasons why they were very open
to accepting the Prophet ﷺ.
Because many of the other tribes, they had
elders among them, and elders are very stubborn,
that's number one.
Elders are very stubborn, and they want to
hold on to their customs and their traditions
and their power and their leadership.
And number two, because these people need a
leader now to come and unite them.
So when they met the Prophet ﷺ in
Hajj, they were very open to accepting him.
They had their pledge the first year and
then they came back the next year and
had the second pledge.
And then after that, the following year, the
Prophet ﷺ made hijrah to Madinah.
And so when we look at each other
as Muslims, we find such a variety of
people from all kinds of different backgrounds and
ethnicities and races.
We should ask ourselves, who is it that
united us and brought us together like this?
It's Allah ﷻ.
And Allah is reminding us that it is
He who blessed us with this unity, showing
us the importance of remaining united and the
danger of being disunited.
Alright, some of the lessons that we learned
from this parable.
Number one, if it wasn't for Allah's blessing
of saving us, we would all be heading
for the hellfire.
This is something we really, really need to
understand.
Allah ﷻ says, وَإِمْ مِنكُمْ إِلَّا وَارِدْوَاهُ كَانَ
عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ حَتْمًا مَقَضُيًّا Every single one of
you are going to be made to come
to it.
Come to what?
The hellfire.
Every single one of us is going to
be made to come to it, meaning the
hellfire.
Every single one of us is going to
be made to cross it, as we know,
over the Sirat.
Right?
And Allah tells us in Surah Al-Asr,
إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَذِي خُسْرٌ Man is indeed bound
to destruction, to loss.
Al-Khusr in the Qur'an, when it's
used, it refers to the Akhirah.
Meaning, all of us are bound for the
punishment of Allah.
But then Allah makes an exception for qualities
you need to be saved.
إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا Except those who believe وَعَمِلُوا
الصَّالِحَاتِ And do righteous good deeds.
وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ And they advise each other upon
the truth, Meaning, they give da'wah to
one another, وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ And they advise one
another to remain patient.
Otherwise, we're all bound for, you know, the
punishment of Allah.
So when we understand that, and then we
understand that Allah saved us from that, You
know, we understand how huge of a blessing
this is.
And that's why the people of Jannah, What
will they say when they enter Jannah?
They won't attribute entering Jannah to themselves, to
their own efforts.
That, oh, we are the ones who made
it, we're the ones who did this.
وَقَالُوا الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي هَدَانَ وَمَا كُنَّ بِنَهْتَدِيَ
لَوْ لَأَنْ هَدَانَ اللَّهِ They'll say, alhamdulillah, the
one who guided us to this.
If it was not for him guiding us
to this, we would not have been guided
to it.
If it wasn't for Allah guiding us to
this, to Jannah, we would not have been
guided.
Number two, there are two main ingredients that
must be present to save us from the
hellfire.
And that is mentioned in the first ayah.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ
وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِيمًا O you who
believe, have taqwa of Allah, the taqwa that
He deserves, and do not die except as
Muslim.
Or the first ingredient is mentioned here, taqwa.
And the second ingredient is mentioned in the
next ayah, and that is unity.
So if we want to be saved from
the hellfire, then we need to have these
two things.
The taqwa of Allah, and as Muslims we
need to be united.
Now, how do we execute this successfully
in the ummah?
Let's look at the next ayah.
It's very important when we read the Qur
'an to always put everything in perspective and
in context.
The ayahs, they're coming one after the other.
What is the next ayah?
Allah says, وَلْتَكُمْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ
وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ
الْمُسْلِحُونَ They are the successful ones.
Who?
Allah says, let there be among you, among
you Muslims, a group who will give da
'wah.
يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ Who will call people to
what is good.
Give da'wah.
And the second thing, command the good and
forbid the evil.
Command the good and forbid the evil.
And they are the successful ones.
And so if we want to achieve unity
among the Muslims, this is how to do
it.
And then look at how Allah ends all
of these ayat by showing us the importance
of da'wah and the importance of remaining
united.
Allah says, وَلَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ تَفَرَّقُوا وَاخْتَلَفُوا مِن
بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتِ And do not be
like those who disunited and they differed after
the clear ayat came to them.
As if Allah is saying, if you don't
do these two things, da'wah and commanding
the good and forbidding the evil, then you're
gonna remain divided.
Then you're gonna remain divided.
Because look at how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala is putting the two together.
Talking about unity and talking about giving da
'wah and commanding the good and forbidding the
evil.
And I say this because many people think
that the only way for Muslims to unite
today is by forgetting about our differences.
Let's all unite and forget about our differences.
We're talking about differences related to the deen.
We're not talking about differences in terms of
your ethnic background, what country you come from.
Yes, of course, that's obvious.
We have to forget about those differences.
But in order to achieve unity, you can't
say, oh well, we have to forget about
our differences in terms of interpreting Islam.
Let's come back to the ayat.
What does Allah say?
Command the good and forbid the evil.
We can't be passive.
We can't be like, practice Islam however you
want.
The main thing is unity.
It doesn't work that way.
Allah tells us the importance.
In these same ayat, He talks about the
importance of da'wah and commanding the good
and forbidding the evil.
And finally, we can say that this ayah
shows us the importance of the bond of
Islam.
And so, if Islam is not made the
greatest bond between us, between us Muslims, then
the other bonds, the bonds of tribalism and
ethnicity and in today's day and age, nation
states, that will tear us apart.
And then what will happen?
Our enemy will exploit our differences and then
make us legitimate targets.
And then, we won't come to support one
another.
And this is exactly what we are seeing
today.
This is what we have been seeing for
the last maybe 100-200 years.
When we become divided, as they say, divide
and conquer.
And that's exactly what the enemies of Islam
did.
And so, just like that Jew said in
Medina.
He said, as long as the Muslims are
united, then our survival is at risk.
But let's divide them and then we'll be
fine.
And so, a Muslim who may be from
a different ethnic background as you, is closer
to you than your own blood relations if
they don't have Iman.
If they don't have Iman.
And this is what we saw among the
Sahaba.
We saw this clearly, very clearly in the
lives of the Sahaba.
How they held on to this bond of
brotherhood, Islamic brotherhood.
Even at the cost of their own parents
and fathers and brothers and uncles.
Alright, we move on next to the next
parable.
With this parable, we will complete the parables
of Surah Ali'Imran.
This parable is the spending of the Kuffar.
The Kuffar and their expenditure.
What they spend of money.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la tells
us about Ahlul Kitab.
That they're not all the same.
لَيْسُ سَوَاءً They're not all the same.
مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ أُمَّةٌ قَائِمَةٌ يَتْلُونَ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ
آنَا أَنْ لَيْلِ وَمِنْ يَسْجُدُونَ That among Ahlul
Kitab are good people.
Those who recite the verses of Allah all
night and they make sujood.
And then Allah mentions that they believe in
Allah in the last day and they command
the good and they forbid the evil, etc.
And then after mentioning all of that Allah
says, وَمَا يَفْعَلُوا مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَلَنْ يُكْثَرُوا Whatever
good that they do, they won't be denied
of its reward.
وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمُ بِالْمُنْتَقِينَ And Allah is well aware
of the people of taqwa.
Now these ayat are talking about those Ahlul
Kitab who accept Islam.
Those among Ahlul Kitab who accept Islam.
And we had many of them in the
time of the Prophet ﷺ.
Allah is telling them that Allah will not
deprive them of their rewards for their good
deeds.
Because of their iman.
That's the condition.
Then after that Allah tells us of the
other group.
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَنْ تُغْنِيَ عَنْهُمْ أَمَالُهُمْ وَلَا
أَوْلَادُهُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ شَيْئًا وَأُولَيْكَ أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ هُمْ
فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ Neither the wealth nor the children
of the kuffar will be of any benefit
to them against Allah.
They are the people of the fire to
be in there forever.
Why does Allah mention the wealth and the
children of the kuffar won't be of any
benefit to them?
Yes, anyone else?
Their main focus is that.
Okay, that's close.
Think about it the other way.
Don't be impressed by their wealth and their
children.
Now, especially in those days, but even today.
If someone gets in trouble, how can he
get himself out of that trouble?
Let's say you go to jail.
How do you get out?
Bail, right?
Bail requires money.
In those days, your children, you would ransom
your children.
This is called ransom.
Allah is telling us, the kuffar, neither their
wealth nor their children will benefit them against
Allah, meaning on the Day of Judgment.
They are going to be in trouble.
In the dunya, you can escape.
You get in trouble, you can escape.
But in front of Allah, there is no
escape.
Bring all your children, bring all your wealth.
You cannot ransom yourself from the punishment of
Allah.
In fact, some of them even said this.
Abu Jahl or someone else said.
When he would hear these ayats of the
hellfire, he would say, I'm going to ransom
myself with my children, with my wealth.
Right?
So anyways, we have two groups of Ahlul
Kitab here.
The first group, they believed in Allah in
the last day.
And so they benefited from their good deeds.
They will benefit from them in the Akhirah,
while the second group did not.
And so, they will not benefit from their
good deeds.
No, they accepted Islam.
Or it could be talking about those before
the coming of Muhammad ﷺ.
When there was no Prophet.
But, anywhere in the Qur'an, if Allah
praises Ahlul Kitab with such praise, mentioning that
they are people in Jannah, for example, then
it refers to those among them who accept
Islam.
Those among them who accept Islam.
Alright, then Allah gives us the parable.
Right after this ayah, Allah gives us the
parable.
مَثَلُ مَا يُنفِقُونَ فِي هَٰذِهِ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ
رِيحٍ فِيهَا سُرٌّ أَصَابَتْ حَرْثَ قَوْمٍ ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ
فَأَهْلَكَتْ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَلَكِنْ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ Allah
says the example, the parable, of what day
the Kuffar spend in this worldly life, is
like that of a bitter wind with frost
or fire that strikes the harvest, the crops
of a people who have wronged themselves and
destroys it.
And Allah did not wrong them, but they
wronged themselves.
Allah did not do them any injustice, they
did injustice to themselves.
So here, in this ayah, Allah compares the
spending of the Kuffar, when they spend money,
Allah compares it to a destroyed farm, crops
that are destroyed.
So imagine someone, he has a farm, he
has crops, vegetables, and at the time when
it's time to pick the fruit, and basically
it's time for harvest, it's all gone.
It's all destroyed.
And so when the Kuffar spend, they spend
for other than the sake of Allah.
They spend purely for worldly reasons.
They spend purely for worldly reasons.
We can say this ayah is referring to
three kinds of spending of the Kuffar.
Number one, what they spend out of their
desires, lavishly, just to fulfill their desires.
You see how they spend lavishly for the
luxuries of the dunya.
That's number one.
Number two, whatever they spend in terms of
charity.
Whatever they spend in terms of charity, they
may give in the hundreds of thousands to
charitable causes.
Number three, them spending against Islam.
Them spending to ward people away from Islam.
And when we look at the massive amounts
that are spent for this purpose, and we're
talking about in the millions and the billions,
it's mind-boggling how much they spend in
their war against Islam.
So Allah tells us that their expenditure in
this dunya is like, a fierce storm that
comes and hits this farm.
Destroying it and burning it and depriving its
owners of what they needed at the time
that they needed it the most.
And the reason was their own wrongdoing.
The reason was their own wrongdoing.
That's what Allah says at the end of
the ayah.
Allah says, Allah did not do any injustice
to them.
Allah did not wrong them, but they wronged
themselves.
They wronged themselves by what?
By kufr.
They wronged themselves by their kufr.
And we mentioned a similar parable previously.
Who remembers it?
Very similar to this.
In Surah Al-Baqarah.
Very very similar to this.
No?
Yeah, yeah.
No, no, that one.
Would one of you like to have a
garden that has fruits and grapes, and then
the owner, he's old, he has weak children,
and then it's all gone.
It's all gone.
A storm comes and hits it.
And it's all gone.
And we mentioned that was the good deeds
of the kufr going to waste.
So this ayah is very similar to that.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says about
the kufr and their spending, إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا
يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ Those who
disbelieve, the kuffar, the enemies of Allah and
the enemies of Islam, they spend.
Allah says they will spend to ward people
away from the path of Allah.
فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةٌ ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ They
will spend it and then they will continue
to spend it to the point of regret.
And then they will be defeated.
When you look at how much they spend
in the millions and the billions to ward
people away from Islam.
But what happens?
Instead of less people accepting Islam, it goes
up, it increases.
This is what Allah is talking about here.
Also in their military wars that they wage.
How many times have they sent their armies,
fought for years, decades.
In the end, the Muslims are victorious.
So all of that money is going to
waste.
So this is one way of looking at
it, that when they spend to wage their
wars against Islam, both psychological and military, it's
all going to waste.
And what does Allah say about this?
يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِعُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَحْوَاهِهِمْ They want
to extinguish the light of Allah, which is
Islam, with their mouths.
With their money and also with their mouths,
with their words.
وَيَقْضَ اللَّهُ إِلَّا أَن يُطِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَا
الْكَافِرُونَ And Allah refuses, except that His light
will become even stronger.
Even if the disbelievers may dislike it.
So this is one way of looking at
it.
Another way of looking at it is that,
this refers to their spending in terms of,
as we said, charity.
They spend in a lot of charitable causes.
They hope that they will see the fruit
of that on the Day of Judgment.
But Allah destroys all of their rewards of
their good deeds because of their kufr.
Because of their kufr, not that Allah dealt
with them unjustly.
Some of the lessons from this parable.
Number one, we should never fall into despair
when we see how the enemies of Islam,
they spend in their war against Islam.
We should always remember that all of their
investments and all of this money that they
spend, is going to waste, as Allah says
here.