Mohamad Baajour – Profound Statement From A Tiny Giant
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The importance of learning from examples of the Quran is emphasized, particularly in addressing the danger of the seed and warning of consequences of actions. The speaker also provides lessons on trusting oneself and avoiding excuses until one's actions are made. The importance of the Quran for better deeds is emphasized, particularly in addressing the danger of a disturbing statement from an ant.
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Allah
mentioned many, many stories in the Quran.
And these stories in the Quran, they are
not bedtime stories. These stories are
there for us to learn, ponder upon,
and derive lessons
from them.
And
imagine
if you are in your fifties and I
tell you
how many stories you think
you have in your life,
3, 4, 500 stories maybe. Imagine from the
the whole Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
in this book
that is gonna stay till the day of
judgment, he mentioned 25, 30 stories. So you
could imagine how valuable these stories are. There
and who is the who is the one
telling us the stories? Allah
himself.
So the story today is literally 1 ayah.
Just 1 ayah
where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
A very profound statement from a tiny giant.
One of
the smallest creations
ever
said a statement
that literally could speak for hours.
We all know that Soleiman alaihis salam was
given
many blessings. One of them is
the blessings of
understanding the
animals
and the insects.
So the story started by saying that
Suleiman alaihis salam with his soldiers
from the birds and the jinn. They were
marching in rows,
and
they came
into a valley of ants.
Huge.
Huge if you if you if you put
valley of ants on YouTube,
I, it's amazing
architect.
Amazing architecture.
You see the the way they do everything.
The most organized
the most organized
creation ever.
So this namla,
this ant,
or before that a little bit,
the ada of Allah, the enemies of Islam,
they took this aya and they started making
fun.
And they said,
look at the Muslims.
In their book,
they say that an ant talks.
They say that an ant talks.
2009,
you go on YouTube and you write down
small
talk.
Small
talk. You will get the report by
CBS or NBC
saying
in 2009,
they discovered
that
ants actually
communicate with each other. And they recorded them,
and they have the conversation.
Of course, it's not
understandable to us, but there is a conversation
between the ants.
So the first lesson is, I don't have
to wait for CBS to tell me that
the ant talk.
Allah said it talks, it talks.
Rasulullah one time he was telling the Sahaba,
a cow spoke.
They said,
you Rasulullah,
how can a cow talk?
They said, I believe it and Abu Bakr
and Omer.
Even though they were not present to show
how much they you know, whatever
they believe.
So Allah
said that this ant spoke, khalas. I don't
have to wait for someone to come and
make a study and then,
oh, Allah is right. It's the other way
around.
Allah said it, we will wait to be
discovered.
So this ant
saw
these giants. You could imagine an ant seeing
Suleiman
and his soldiers
are coming. You could imagine.
So this ant looks like she was in
the security. She was charged. And she was
in a leadership position.
She saw the
army coming of Suleyman.
She warned
all the ants.
Oh, ants.
Rush to your homes
so Soleiman
and his soldiers will not crush you, and
they are not aware of it.
One Japanese
scientist, he didn't study about the ants.
He noticed just to show you the creation
of
Allah He noticed that the ants,
anytime you give them a seed
to eat,
they break it in half
and they take it down their hole. Because
if they took it the full, what happens?
It will grow and it will mess up
their home.
So they break it in half, it does
not grow and they take it down the
hole and they eat it as group.
So this scientist found out that the cilantro
seed, if you split it in half, it
does grow.
So he gave the ants cilantro
seeds.
The ant took the seed and split it
into 3.
Subhanaka Rabbi. How did the ant know?
Allah
created everything and they guided them how to
get their risk.
So this ant, let's take some stories from
this small statement, short statement.
So this aunt saw that there is a
danger in her community.
The first thing
a person should do Sulaiman is coming, Yalla,
Bismillah,
run.
Flee.
Right? Save yourself,
not this ant. Rasulullah
said, If you're given the job as a
believer, you should master it.
Perfect
it. She saw danger coming. She did not
leave.
She warned her people.
So the first lesson, if you see something
wrong, if you see something dangerous in the
community,
you go and warn others.
You don't say it has nothing to do
with me because sooner or later it will
get to you if you leave it alone.
Warn the others. You see someone saying things
that are haram, saying things that are bidah.
Warn the people.
First you speak to them, to the person
and you warn him first. And then you
warn the people.
Do something. You saw something wrong, do something
about it.
Because we are masters in complaining. We see
something wrong
on the floor.
This masjid is so dirty. Pick it up
you Habibi. Pick it up.
It's our masjid.
Look at this here, look at this. Do
something. You see something, do something. This ant
did not say khalas, you Allah, let me
run. I save myself. It Has nothing to
do with me. No.
It stood up and warned everybody
around her.
2nd,
This ant
did not warn Lebanese ants
and Bengali ants and Pakistani ants. She said,
all ants, there's no difference
When we are warning
one another and as it comes to Muslims,
we are all 1.
We are all brothers.
When the danger is coming, it's gonna harm
everybody. So she did not select.
This is one of the sicknesses that we
have in our ummah.
Everybody
only care about their people.
No. You are a Muslim. You are my
brother.
You are a Muslim. You fear Allah Azzawajal.
You are my brother.
I treat you as my brother.
We are all brothers no matter where we
come from. The
best of you in the sight of Allah
is the one with the most of taqwa.
She spoke to the all the Naml.
And then another lesson, when the ants spoke
and she gave the warning,
nobody stood up and said, who do you
think you are? You put that ant in
charge
as long as your leader
is following Allah and his prophet,
as long as he's not coming up with
things from his mind, as long as the
the leader is not coming up with things
that are opposing to the kitab and the
sunnah, you say, We
listen and we obey.
They did not argue with the ant.
They did not argue with the ant. The
ant said something. They followed.
Also, as a leader, when you warn someone,
you do not just give the warning,
give also the solution.
She saw the army coming. She did not
say,
run. No. She said, go to your homes.
And she gave the excuse
all the time. Haram, Haram, Haram. We tell
our children. Tell them Allah said it's haram.
Tell them, give them an alternative.
The ant gave an alternative. There's a danger
coming. Go to your homes. Why? Sunaaiman is
coming with his junood, with his soldiers.
Gave them a reason why they should go
into their homes. Gave them the solution.
Even the
situation
is a panicking situation. It's not a simple
situation but she still
gave the solution.
Usually if we hear now fire, run, run,
nobody's going to tell us, run brothers. There's
a door here. There's a door here. Only
a wise guy would say that. Everybody else
was gonna scream, run. Run.
Give the
solution.
Now,
this ant,
another,
person came and wanna make fun of the
of our Quran, and he said,
this word
crush you
is usually
used for glass.
What does the ant have to do with
the glass? Look at this book. It's fake.
A study was made
on the ant,
and it was found that the first layer
on top
of the body of the ant is extremely
similar to glass.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala used that same
verb that he used for glass.
Here, used it for Suleyman and his soldiers
to crush use the word crush.
Now,
another lesson.
The aunt
recognized
Soleiman.
She knew her messenger.
Do you know your messenger?
She knew how he looks like.
And not only that,
she gave him an excuse. Listen. If Suleiman
crushed you,
don't think he's doing it on purpose.
If he does it,
he does not mean it. He is giant,
and you are very tiny. So
not only she recognized
her messenger physically,
she also know that a messenger sent by
Allah will never harm his people
on purpose.
She gave an excuse to her messenger
and this is another lesson here that anytime
we see something,
give your brother,
give your sister 70 excuses before you doubt
them. Do not immediately
go to the false and wrong assumption.
We go to wrong assumptions immediately.
We all know the when the salafi used
to say, if if I see my my
my brother's beard is dripping with alcohol
dripping with alcohol,
I would say someone threw alcohol on him.
I will never doubt that my brother is
drinking alcohol.
Unfortunately,
the first
impression
like I was telling them yesterday,
a brother texted me and I did not
answer him.
Who does Bajur think himself now? He's a
big shot. He doesn't answer people anymore.
I remember the days he used to answer
right away.
I got a new phone and I'm transferring
everything from one phone to the other and
takes 6 hours.
And during this 6 hours you probably got
50, 60 messages.
Give your brother, give your sister
the benefit of the doubt.
Always think something is never doubt your brother
or your sister.
Even if you finish the seventy
excuses, you tell yourself maybe there is something
I do not know.
Because when this
suivan
takes place,
forget about the community.
Forget about the community. And by the way,
this
if you're always from the people who always
go to the wrong assumption,
trust me brother, you're not gonna like this.
Something is wrong with you. This is you.
This is
you. Something is wrong with you.
You have to fix yourself. This is not
right.
This is a disease.
And this is not only a disease, it's
a sin.
Allah warned us to stay away from doubting
others.
So
this very short statement
in the Quran,
there are so many lessons from this tiny
giant
for us as a human beings to learn
and implement.
You know, subhanAllah,
in one statement, there's a warning.
There's
a
a solution,
there is
a excuse,
there is a love, there is care, There
is recognition.
All of that is in one statement, just
in one statement from an ant.
Now look
last thing is,
look at this statement.
How many times we read the Quran and
we run we went through the Surat in
Namal,
and we read this ayah.
This is the main point.
Youkhwan, slow down when you're reading the Quran.
Just like I said in the beginning of
Ramadan,
take 1 ayah. Imagine imagine how much
we are missing from the Quran. If 1
ayah and I just spoke very quickly. I
I have a if you go to YouTube,
there's a
just put an ant spoke. You will have
my whole lecture about it.
Imagine I understand the whole Quran like this.
Allah, our life will change completely.
May Allah make us some of the people
who read, ponder, and apply the Quran. May
Allah
make our last deeds, our best deeds, and
our last words.