Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect On The Quran #118 Tafsir Surah Az-Zumar P6
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And then what happens to them?
Then
they become like,
husk and
dried hay,
In this, again, for
there is a reminder. What is the reminder?
That no matter how beautiful it seems here,
you know, you see the farmer sees it,
one day
everything good comes to an end.
So Allah is telling us you want this
to be permanent?
Go back to the previous ayah where the
will continue, the vegetation will continue, the everything
else, gardens will continue.
Here, no matter what you have, will come
to an end.
So only the people of understanding
will be reminded of this.
And this also this is just about
vegetation,
but you can take that about
us. That Allah also created us from fluid
like he says.
And then when we become big, we grow
and become big, we become mature, we become
successful,
and then you start losing the battle with
arthritis
and with age.
I'm just reflecting on that yesterday. I was
telling my wife I'm losing the battle because
that's what's going to happen.
Okay.
And then you become.
Go on.
Go on. You want to be permanent?
Make it to Jannah.
Eternal youth, eternal beauty, eternal health, eternal wealth,
everything is eternal.
Allah
says aye number 22.
Allah is talking about
the one
whose
heart, whose chest Allah
has expanded. What does that mean, expanded?
We're not talking about physical expansion of the
chest. We're talking about a chest.
That means who feels very comfortable, very much
at ease. Allah is open, so he
is welcoming,
open
to everything of Islam. Everything he hears of
Islam
gives him a sense of comfort.
Salah
gives him peace. Giving charity gives him peace.
Helping a neighbor gives him peace. Raising a
children gives him peace. Sending salaam gives him
peace.
Everything about Islam
expands his chest. He feels comfortable. He feels
at ease.
Allah saying here is one person
whose shoulder, whose chest that Allah has made
Sharah, has opened to Islam,
And sign of that is in that chest
is what? Your heart.
There is a noor from Allah
in that chest,
which means,
Noor. Sur your Kalb has got Noor and
Allah has Noor of Hidayah. His words come.
Noor
So his chest is expanding as more and
more of the Islam
is coming into his life. Allah has given
one picture.
Then he says,
and may Allah said,
may destruction, may woe be on those whose
hearts are opposite of
the shara is
which is means,
hard
constricted hearts
don't accept anything.
They're
always in stress and agony and, you know,
worries and all of that. Why? Because
they don't like to talk about Allah SWT.
You know, you go to gatherings, sometimes you
talk about you always talk about akhir, you
always talk about let's talk about something
more fun.
Politics.
Politics.
These, Allah says,
are clearly the ones who have gone astray.
Now
Allah
after talking about the kaswa of the pulub,
people who don't like to be reminded or
remember Allah,
Allah says,
he is the one who has sent down
the best of messages,
hadith of Allah, the words of Allah.
Which is the Quran
it has some portions that
are, same things appear in different portions of
the of the Quran.
And
Some
have said
means full of praises,
Allah
and some have
translated this as
something that is consistent.
What does it do when this comes down
to the proper
hearts?
Those who have kashya,
fear
of Allah,
awareness and fear of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
when they hear the words
their skin, their
hair stand and their skin pucker up and
say, like when you get real scared, you
say you get goosebumps.
That's what happens to them
physically.
I'm still making dua that one day I
read the Quran and it happens to me.
It hasn't happened yet. That means you're not
there, I'm not there. If you've done it,
alhamdulillah.
That when you hear these words,
that their
skins
quiver and shiver, and the hair stand, they
become pucker, pucker up,
from the fear of Allah.
Then what happens?
So that was the first part is the
fear.
Then as they understand who they are dealing
with, Ar Rahman,
then their skins become soft and gentle and
their hearts become soft and gentle.
Because
knowing who Allah sb is.
So fear
makes that first,
emotion
and hope in Allah makes the other. Allah
is merciful.
So that makes the hearts soften
and the skins, Allah
it makes them soft words so they want
they love
to remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
at the mention of Allah of their lords
That when Allah is mentioned, his book is
mentioned,
the things of the deen are being mentioned,
their hearts
find peace, become gentle and they become soft.
This is the
guidance
of
Allah.
He
guides
by
it
whoever
he
wants.
And the one that Allah allows to go
astray,
who can guide
them? There is no one who can
guide them. Oh, Allah leaves to go astray.
Again, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala asks a question.
And as for those
Now this is a different taqwa. This is
a protection.
They are trying to protect
biwajhi
with their face.
From what?
Suul adab,
the awful punishment,
yomal kiyam.
As for the one who's trying to protect
himself from that awful punishment with his face,
And normally what do you do and if
something is coming to you what do you
do? What do you protect yourself with?
Your hands.
Allah is saying no. They will try to
protect themselves with their face. Why?
Where are their hands?
Tied.
Tied up in those things or tied behind
their backs
like the prisoners.
So there's no nothing to protect other than
your face.
And it will then be said,
to these wrongdoers,
Taste.
That what you have earned.
As you sow, so shall you reap. So
that's what you did. This is what you
earned.
Taste your earning.
This is what you invested in. This is
what your return
is.
Allah says
before these people,
people before also denied.
They denied,
rejected the truth.
Then the adab came to them.
From where they did not expect.
They had no idea.
Where it's going to come from? And adaab
comes from many different ways where it's least
expected. Sometimes people only thinks, you know, the
lightning will
strike me or this one. Sometimes Allah
his latif, he will send adab from where?
What you think
is what is your something that is going
to be helpful. For example, let's take the
example
of Firaun.
Iran's economy and its strength was based on
what?
On the agriculture and all of that, which
is related to
the Nile.
All the vegetation, every all of his palaces,
all of those things are along the Nile.
And what did he brag on?
What did he say? Boast?
The river flow flows under mine.
So this is what he thought was his
greatest thing.
And how did he end up?
He drowned in the water.
So punishment can come from where you least
expect it.
Sometimes Allah
makes our children our other.
And we hear about it all the time
as doctors from
old ladies complaining.
Okay?
So money can be another.
If it takes you away from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, it takes you into his disobedience.
That is another.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us
that people before them who were apparently
successful, people who had pride, people who had
who thought, but they denied.
For them, the adab came from where they
least expected and we know all of that.
So Allah
made them chase. Adakahumullahu
khizya fil hayat dunya, humiliation.
In this dunya,
but it doesn't end there.
Well, and indeed the adab of the akhirah
aqbar,
that's coming. That's greater.
So what they tested here, what Firan tested
here is a small thing.
Why? Because it ended quickly. He died.
But there it will continue. So Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is telling us again
have fear of allah swan, have hope have
fear.
And hope will come if we have taqwa
and
go together. All of those are linked together.
And indeed Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says he
has set forth for mankind
every kind of example of parable in this
Quran. It means he gives an example
and it's to be taken
not just literally but what it means.
For in this Quran, every
type of whatever you need,
it's in principle. It's in the Quran.
Okay?
So that perhaps
means hoping,
you know, but this is Allah's style. Allah
doesn't hope He commands, but He's saying so
that they may
be mindful, they may remember,
they may they may take, they may reflect,
they may take warning.
What did he send?
Quran and Arabic.
Quran and Arabian.
He has revealed the Quran in the Arabic
language,
which teaches us that Allah decided to reveal
it in the Arabic language, so there is
something special besides that the people, the Arabs,
wouldn't understand it.
But we should give priority
to learning, at least having a working knowledge
of this language.
Allah
says this is straight, there is no crookedness,
there is no
detours.
There is no
there is no crookedness or distortion.
This is a straightforward message for everybody to
understand. 1,
so that they may have, again,
that they may become righteous, that they stay
away from evil,
that they follow everything that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala said.
Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives one example
and we'll inshallah end with this ayah number
29.
Who is has many masters,
who has many bosses. Now imagine if you're
working with 5 bosses.
One says do this, someone says do this,
you will never make anybody happy because someone
wants something, somebody wants something, something.
So Allah says, this is one example that
this person,
if you take it as a slave, he
has many masters
and they have disputes among themselves and each
one wants to command him to do something
else. This guy is going to be very
very confused.
Okay? Who do I listen to?
And who do I make unhappy? Everybody will
be unhappy in the end. So Allah SWT
says, this is 1,
the one who has only
1 master.
Can the 2 be equal?
So what does this mean? This means that
one who worships only Allah
only trying to please 1 Lord
cannot be equal to 1 who worship this,
this, this, this looking for who to please.
Alhamdulillah,
but then, alhamdulillah,
but most people
do not know
that they don't know
that
freeing yourself from the
of everyone else
and being only an abd of Allah is
what true freedoms.
Otherwise,
you will be just running around in circles
and nobody will be pleased. You want to
please one master, which is Allah
even if it displeases everybody else. There is
no
obedience of
of mahluk
with disobedience of the halakh. I want to
please my wife
by doing something that displeases my halakh.
No.
I want to do something that will make
my children happy but it
is displeasing to Allah? No.
If
Allah is pleased, then they are pleased. So
we have one master.
I'll do one more ayah, ayah number 30,
and then we'll finish inshallah. It's just about
an hour.
Indeed you Rasulullah
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
Inna you will certainly die,
Allahu Akbar
which means
and which we already know each one of
us will die.
And
they will die.
Die. What does that tell us? That, yes,
we have an appointment. Allah has an ajal,
a time for all of us. When that
ajal comes, nobody can postpone it. Nobody can
prepone or postpone.
The time is written. It's in the knowledge
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
What is certain, it will come.
And when it comes, the books will be
closed.
Whatever you have earned till then is yours.
Whatever you didn't will never be yours.
If you've left behind good, righteous children, yes,
your book will continue.
Yes, if you've left behind ill that people
benefit from, your book will continue.
If you left charitable things from which people
benefit,
even if it's a tree under whose whose
fruit people eat or a shade,
you will get something. Otherwise, the books are
brought to an end.
This is also a threat for the kuffar
of Mecca
Because this is Makkah and Surah, you will
die.
So, they are hearing and they will die.
In other words, you will die and you
are going to be in firdaus and they
will die, they're going to be in Jannah.
But for us, because we read the Quran
as it's being revealed to us, that yes,
my Rasool
went to his
Last words
to
my
the high
rafiq.
And we will also may Allah take us
in a state of iman, in a state
of obedience to him,
and in complete tawba having
cleared everything, all of our accounts with Allah
and with each other. So we ask each
other for forgiveness
and we're going to end with this ayah,
which is a reminder that our time is
limited,
and the time to fix everything is now.