Parables of the Quran – Parable #3 – The Non-Responsive Disbeliever

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The parable from the Bible discusses the importance of recognizing the truth and not just looking at things. The parable suggests that people do not just look at things, but rather interact with them. The parable also suggests that people will not accept the message of Islam and will not reply to actions. It is important for individuals to respond to the message of Islam to avoid confusion and loss.

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What do you

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want?

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me to show you?

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One lady.

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I met a lady in Rio de

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Janeiro in

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New York Romeo

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Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala rasulillah wahala alihi wa sahbihi regiment in another ad, Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi Allahi wa barakato

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we move on to the next parable that we have in the Quran

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and we are still in Surah Al Baqarah.

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And so here in Surah Baqarah in verse number 171, Allah subhanho wa Taala gives us the parable

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of the Kufa and their response to the DAO

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and to right before this parable,

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the verse preceding it, Allah subhanho wa Taala said, what a DA w madonsela call Bella w una elvina Allah He that

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Allah says when it is said to them, follow Allah has revealed, when it is said to the kuffar, follow what has been revealed by Allah. What is their reply? The reply is no. We only follow that which we found our forefathers practicing.

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And then Allah says, Allah Allah we can, that will lie Aki Luna shame and what I do,

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even though their forefathers had absolutely no understanding or guidance.

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So this shows us the arrogance and the stubbornness of these people.

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Which is why Allah subhanho wa Taala responds back by saying, even if their forefathers

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even though their forefathers had absolutely no understanding and no guidance,

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and so

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allies addressing these machinery cooling of kurush

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that your forefathers may be excused

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for not having had anyone to guide them.

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But what about you?

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We have sent you a guide a messenger, with clear air yet with clear evidences signs.

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What excuse do you have for turning away

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and then Allah brings us

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this parable, this method

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one method old lady Anna cafaro. Kemet, le lady

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Bhima Allah Yes, Mary Ilaha, Dara,

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someone Bookman, Iranian, for whom la Yaki here Allah says, The parable or the example of those who disbelieve

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is like

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the one who shouts

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at what cannot hear.

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He cannot beat cannot hear anything except calls

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and cry.

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Deaf dumb and blind, so they do not understand.

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So here in this parable,

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Allah subhanho wa Taala compares

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the dye

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the caller to Islam,

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the one who is giving Dawa, a lot compares him to a shepherd.

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And so the scholars of TFC when explaining this verse, they mentioned

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that what it refers to is

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like a shepherd who is making shots calling out

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to what? To a flock of sheep.

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So here Allah says, Allah de Riku, the malaria smell, Elijah Juanita, the one who calls out shouts

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to that which, to that which cannot hear anything except called cries. He can't make out

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the speech. And this refers to the the flock of sheep. The flock of sheep cannot make out what the shepherd is saying to them.

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All they can hear is a sound calls and crimes. So here a law compares the Dally

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to a shepherd.

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And a lock compares the non responding calf and the non responding disbeliever a lock compares him to a flock of sheep.

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What is it that they share in resemblance?

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What they share in resemblance is that both lack understanding

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to kuffar who you're giving data to.

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And they're not responding to your data positively.

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And a flock of sheep.

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What they share in common is

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a lack of understanding.

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And so just like a shepherd calls out to his flock of sheep, with commands

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and orders,

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you know, he shouts out to them to proceed or to stop.

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No, he shouts out, you know, don't go that way, don't go this way.

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This flock of sheep, they can hear a voice that is calling out to them.

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But can they understand a single word of it No.

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Similar similarly, the disbeliever who tried to give dour to

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whose heart is heedless,

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whose heart is dead

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and he has no interest whatsoever in learning about the truth

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are searching for it or finding out about it no matter how much you try to make him or her to understand

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all the hear or words

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without understanding anything of it.

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Or you can say

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your words going through one ear and come out through the other.

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And so this is why Allah subhanho wa Taala

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concludes the verse here

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by saying someone Bookman

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often using formula yakou

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they are deaf, dumb, and blind.

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So moon, they cannot hear

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Bookman

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they

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cannot speak nor can they understand

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Ramune they cannot see not that they don't have these faculties working.

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No, their sight works, their ears, their hearing works.

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their intellect it works.

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But it only works with respect to the appearance of the dounia

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and that's why a lot refers to them as the law says concerning their knowledge.

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What does the law say concerning their knowledge? Yeah, Allah Muna, a va II running minute hieratic Do

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they know the appearance of the worldly life?

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Coffee

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with regard to the accurate they are heedless. So their knowledge is restricted to the appearance of this dunya.

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So yes, they can see they can hear.

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They can use their intellect they can understand.

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But what only the appearance of dystonia.

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As for what really matters,

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and that is the accuracy

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or the truth from Allah and allows revelation to us. Allows message to us allows guidance for us.

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When it comes to that, they are as a law says

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deaf, dumb and blind

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the Himalaya so they do not understand.

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Now notice here Allah subhanahu attallah

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says familia de Lune they do not understand

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in one of the previous parables

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earlier on in Surah Al Baqarah.

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when describing the hypocrites then when I feel cool, Allah uses the same description. Someone Bookman from noon

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they are deaf, dumb and blind. However, the law concludes by saying, for whom Allah yarujie Oh,

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so they will not return.

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Meaning the hypocrites because they are deaf, dumb and blind, because their hearts are sealed, they will never return to the truth.

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But here

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a lot refers to the kuffar these kuffaar who are not responding, who are not responding to the data, a lot of refers to them as for whom law, you have to learn.

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The difference is

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because the hypocrites they knew the truth,

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in some of them even

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accepted even

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Delica Vietnam and

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they believed and then they disbelieved.

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So they knew it, they knew the truth, they recognize the truth. And then they preferred Cooper, this belief over email.

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So that is why they will not return to the truth.

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Whereas these kofod

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they didn't know the truth to begin with.

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So that's why here Allah says, For whom they are wrong.

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So they do not understand.

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And this is

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understanding the differences between

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similar acts

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helps a person to perfect his memorization of the Quran.

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And that's why someone who

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you know, understands what he's memorizing, it's easier for him to perfect and master his memorization.

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Because let's say you memorize Sudoku, Baccarat, and you have you know, you had that verse, talking about the munafo cool. And then you had this verse.

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How would you remember where you should say, for home law, your G rule?

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And when he shouldn't say the home law?

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You understand it once you understand the meaning, and you understand and you ponder over the meaning in this way.

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So this is the parable that Allah subhanho wa Taala gives us concerning these kofod.

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The lessons that we learn from this parable is, first of all,

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the humiliating state of the kuffar who turn away

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that their state is a very humiliating state,

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as a lot compared them to something very humiliating

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a lot compared them to a flock of sheep.

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And this is not the only place where Allah describes them as such.

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elsewhere for example, in Surah, two are off. Allah subhanahu wa taala says woollacott da da da ve Johanna Cassie Romina Jeannie we're in the home kulula of Kahuna behala home in LA you will see Luna Bihar Willem de la Yes ma'am. When

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we have prepared for jahannam many from among mankind and from among the jinn.

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They have hearts with which they do not understand.

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And they have eyes with which they cannot see.

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And they have ears with which they cannot hear.

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They are hula iica kill an army balloon.

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They are like cattle.

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They are like livestock.

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Goats sheep cows.

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hula he can kill Anam bill whom are gone. But rather they're even more strange than that.

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Why? Because

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these animals

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at least

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Allah has given them a certain

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built in instinct

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to recognize danger

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and to flee from it.

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But a lot did not give these animals intelligence.

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Whereas Allah has given us human beings intellects

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in order to see the truth

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and to distinguish between right and wrong, and to distinguish between what is beneficial and what is harmful.

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And yet, even though we have these intellects,

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even then we choose to prefer what is harmful for us

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in this dunya and that's why here Allah says, we'll add an handbell who have been, they are like cattle but rather they are even more a stray.

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They are even more Australian these animals are either human or fellow and they are the heedless ones. They are those who are heedless.

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The second lesson that we learned from this parable

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is that these kuffaar

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are those whom Allah subhanho wa Taala has

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sealed their hearts

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and their eyes. Allah has put a covering over their eyes, such that they will never be able to see the truth

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and they will never be able to

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accept the man

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which is why no matter what you do, they will never believe no matter how much you try to give them down what they will never believe.

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And

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in many different places in the Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala describes certain people as

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being as such where Allah seals their hearts, he puts a covering over there I use, etc.

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And even if every single area came to them, they will never believe

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and so on and so forth. In the Lydian aka furusawa alien and director whom and to whom.

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Those who disbelieve

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it's the same whether you warn them or you do not warn them, they will not.

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This refers to those kuffaar

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who Allah subhanho wa Taala has put a seal over their hearts.

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That's not the case with regards to all of them.

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And that's why there are many kofod who embrace Islam.

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But rather This is concerning those kuffar

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those disbelievers who had the truth presented to them.

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And it was clear to them.

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And they chose stubbornly

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to turn away from the truth and not to accept it.

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Or it could refer to those

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who Allah Subhana who Allah.

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He knew, from his eternal knowledge that such people no matter how many acts, no matter how many signs evidence has come to them, they will never believe they will remain upon their conference. So even if the message of Islam never came to them

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alone, you

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know, even if the message came to them, and it was clear before their eyes, they wouldn't, they wouldn't believe.

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So such people over has put a seal over their hearts. And this area here is talking about such kofod

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this parable is talking about such disbelievers

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who you're trying to give them the power

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you're conveying to them the message of Islam, but it's not going through.

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It just isn't penetrating their hearts. Why? Because it was put a seal over their hearts.

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And that's why this parable is concerning those who are non responsive to the hour, they are non responsive to the Dow.

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The third lesson that we learned from this parable

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is

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that we have here a warning to the believers

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from

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resembling these kofod these disbelievers

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who turn away from the

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Message after hearing it.

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Allah subhanho wa Taala does not want us, the believers to be like them, but rather

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a loss of Hannah who with data wants us to be responsive.

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Yeah, you handed in a new stagey, boo De La Jolla, Rosalie, either the Lima you

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or you believe, respond, be responsive, respond to Allah and His Messenger,

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when he calls you to that which gives you life.

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And that is the life of email.

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So this is how Allah subhanho wa Taala wants us to be.

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He wants us to hear and to obey, submit what

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we hear, and we obey,

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not like those who heard and they disobeyed, they heard the message, and they decided to turn away.

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And it was this

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responsive nature

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that made

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the selling of our own.

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From the Sahaba and those who came after them, it was this responsive nature that made them so different than us.

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how quickly they would respond and submit

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to whatever comes to them from Allah subhanho wa Taala.

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And we have so many different examples of this.

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From the spirit of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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of how the Sahaba

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they will respond

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to the commands of Allah to the prohibitions of loss of Hannah who would

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never hesitating in the slightest. Right away as soon as they hear something, this is from Allah, this is from the messenger

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right away they would respond.

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And this is why Allah subhanahu wa tada wants us

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to be responsive

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and not non responsive, like things like these disbelievers.