Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect on the Quran #41 Surah Al Balad P1
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The transcript describes a sermon made by Allah's son emphasizing the importance of the holy city of Islam, where the holy month is the holy city of Islam. The title " Haley," which uses the word " Haley," references the holy city of the holy city of Islam, and the holy city of the holy city of the holy city of Islam. The history of Islam, including the legalization of the holy month and the use of the word " Haley," is discussed, along with the use of the word " Haley" in a prophecy and the potential consequences of not being allowed to kill or kill people. The speaker emphasizes the importance of creating a plan for one's life and the need for men to accept their beliefs and work towards their goals.
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Bismillah
Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah while earlier he
was a woman with a
llama, Masami up alumina Reedy Creek,
Yola open the hearing channels of our hearts to your remembrance you
know Allah
open our hearts and our minds to the correct understanding of your
words.
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Allah show us the truth as the truth and make us to follow it and
show us falsehood as falsehood and help us to abstain from it.
Along my John laminal Latina testimonial holder for yet to be
on Aksana Allah make us among those who listen to the words of
admonition and follow the best of them.
So my dear brothers and sisters, again,
in our journey of learning and reviewing and under striving to
understand the meaning of the words of Allah subhanaw taala, as
has been conveyed to us through Rasulullah Salallahu Salam, his
Sahaba are the Allahu Anhu and the scholars after them from the early
generations, so that we may have a proper understanding,
not a whimsical personal understanding and interpretation
of the words of Allah subhanaw taala. So we always rely on the
original sources, the older the better, from the books of the
Farsi and how our scholars have understood it, how the Sahaba most
importantly understood it from Rasulullah sallallahu sallam. And
again, a reminder first for myself and for each one of you that we
are embarking again, not on an academic discussion of the Quran,
but with the goal that we will implement to the best of our
capacity and capability.
What we learn that we will act that we will walk the path not
just know the path that Allah subhanaw taala has chosen us and
has blessed us with Rasul Allah salAllahu Alaihe salam to pave
this path and show this path, the bath of all the Umbria before him.
So today, we start with Surah, Al Balad, Al Balad, as you know, is
the city this is the 98th chapter, chapter surah of the Quran.
And
it's again, as we've mentioned before, we are trying to cover the
Macan Surahs that were revealed in Macau before the hedger of the
Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam so that we can have some idea of the
real time revelation of the Quran, what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa salam and his Sahaba were going through at the time when some of
these revelations were coming down. So we can actually live in
those times as much as we can.
So some have said that this is from the early this surah is from
the early McCunn period. And some have said that it's from the mid
McCann, period, and again, these are the times when the message of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam, the message of Islam is
being rejected and there is a lot of oppression in the Arabia of the
time of an Allah subhanaw taala is sending Revelation After
revelation
inviting people towards the worship of himself towards the kid
from Shrek and polytheism and towards goodness and right
behavior with each other the rights of humanity, rather than
the oppression that was rampant at the time, in every aspect
of how oppression can be understood.
So Allah subhanaw taala again,
in this makin Surah again starts with a person or an oath and as
we've said before Allah subhanaw taala takes the custom by the by
the WoW or Assam like well Layli well Fajr was summer it was with
the Wow. And he also takes custom with bear and sometimes by
actually sweat
Setting up a simile or episode law aka symbol. And wherever the word
XM or custom is used it I swear, Allah subhanaw taala never uses
the word ox somewhere anywhere without preceding it with La La
Ecosim. Okay. So as we have said before, and we remind again, that
the custom is to bring attention to something of great importance,
which is called the job and custom, what it is, what is it
that the artist being taken about the oath is being taken by or over
some of Allah's creation. But the oath is about something important.
So, it starts with a person, it is also used to emphasize the person,
the truthfulness of what is being said, Allah is the most truthful
he is I'll help the truth. So, he does not have to testify or to
swear or take an oath. But he does that, to tell us that, in fact,
this is the truth. And it is just a something that's being hammered
into us so that we understand it. And by taking an oath on some of
his creation, Allah subhanaw taala, also magnifies and honors
that which is being sworn by, which in this case is a ballot,
the city.
So here, Allah subhanaw taala. Again, we go back to an era of, of
disbelief and lack of guidance, and we go to an area of disbelief
and rejection, which is maca at the time. And yet, the kuffaar of
Maccha, revered the city, they knew the sanctity of the city,
they considered it as a as Haram as sacred. And they knew the
sanctity of the house of Allah subhanaw taala. So they already
knew all of that. And in spite of all of that, they were doing what
they were doing. So Allah subhanaw taala
swears by the sacred city,
almost Rantala, saying, I swear by this city, the sacred city of
Mecca. And by Allah taking an oath on the city, He glorifies the city
even more, that Allah has taken an oath on the city. So as we said,
the the road starts with less opposition will be hurdle ballot.
And this law is not a negation. It's a refutation of what they
were saying. So it's one way of understanding this is Allah
subhanaw taala saying law means stop saying what you are. Stop
your denial. Stop your useless arguments that are baseless, stop
your conjectures, I swear, I indeed swear by this city Maccha,
the sacred city, the greatest place in the universe, from the
time that Allah subhanaw taala created the universe Ummul Qura,
the mother of all cities,
the sanctity of its confines, where life is honored, and where
even trees are not allowed to be cut down.
And they knew all of this.
And how sacred is the city and how beloved is the city that when
Rasul Allah salAllahu Alaihe. Salam was being forced out of the
city, in his hijra, and when he was leaving, because they were
trying to kill him
on his, on his sort of last horizon where he could still see
Maccha he turned around, and you can imagine the emotion in his in
his heart, and perhaps his, his eyes is noble eyes. What a little
wet. He says, And he addresses Mackay says, By Allah, you are the
best of lands of Allah
and the best land of Allah to Allah.
And what it not for the fact
that I was expelled from you, I would never have left you.
In another narration, he said, There is no finer place than you.
There is no place more beloved to me Rasulullah sallallahu sallam
said, and what if not for the fact that your people have driven me
out? I would not have lived elsewhere.
This is how beautiful and beloved the cities
so Allah is taking an oath another way
It is to say, No, indeed, I do swear by the sacred city of Makkah
to emphasize the oath.
Now
some have even translated the law oxymoron, as say, as actually
know,
as translating it is, no, I don't need to swear by the city. In
other words, what is coming is so obvious that no oath needs to be
taken but this is a few people's opinion.
Then Allah so Allah opposite who beheaded Bella ballot? No, indeed
I do swear by the sacred city of Makkah. And the hilum behenyl
ballot
and Anta
talking to Osuna, Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam you Oh Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam, hello behad al Balad, you are a hill in
this city. Now, this word Hill has multiple meaning. And therefore,
there are multiple interpretations of what this means.
The one that most of the Salaf from the time of portada and
Hassan Al Hassan Al bursary and the some of the companions took
this position which we are going to mention first, that Allah
subhanaw taala has made the whole world * means permissible, but
has made the Haram The maca, haram sacred, okay. So,
when it says * means where it is permissible, where you are free
to do things. So one translation, the the major interpretation of
this is that Allah subhanaw taala, saying, All Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam, you are free dweller, you are free in this
city. What does free me free doesn't mean that you can do
whatever you want. It means you are free from sin, and you have
been given permission
to fight in the city and punish the enemies of Islam for an hour
on a particular day. Even in this city, it has been made healthy for
you. Where bloodshed is how.
Now this is an early makansutra. What does this imply it implies
that it is a subtle way in which a Bashara or glad tiding a prophecy
is being made that one day after being persecuted, you are going to
come back here and you're going to conquer the city.
And if you have to shed blood for that, for that moment,
it is permissible in the city.
And the evidence for this also comes from a Hadith of the Prophet
salallahu Salam, which is a Hadith narrated by evening boss Radi
Allahu anha,
in which the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam said, after the Fatah
Makkah, he said this city of Mecca was made sacred by Allah subhanaw
taala, the mighty Azerbaijan, the day he created the heavens and the
earth,
fighting in the city was not permitted for anyone before me, or
after me. Rather, it was permitted for me for a short hour south of a
day on one day, that is interpreted as the de facto Mecca,
that he was permitted.
And then he said, at this moment, it is a sanctuary that is sacred
by the decree of Allah until the Day of Resurrection. Means after
this moment, it will never happen again. He said it's green grass is
not to be uprooted or cut. Its trees are not to be cut. And it's
game the animals are not to be
hunted. It is not permissible to pick up its last property, except
by one who will announce it publicly in order to find the
owner.
So when he said this, Abbas about the hola on his uncle, who was
very smart when he said if everything is for bidding, he said
in law, if there is if there is a grass that they used to use, in
making the graves and using it in the clay of their homes, so if
that will be forbidden, they wouldn't be able to take it. So he
suggested that and also Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam said, it
learn it means everything else this dry grass that you use is
permitted Other than that, you can pluck anything.
So this is the sanctity of
this city and this is the permission this *, this
permission was given to the Prophet sallallahu. Another
interpretation that some have taken is that the kuffaar knew of
the sanctity of the city that it was not permissible to, to kill
and to persecute, yet they made the Prophet sallallaahu Salam,
* Halal on them, to abuse him, to persecute him and even attempt
to murder him in the city.
And there are some other understandings of * one is that
it is a descent that some have said that you are Prophet
sallallahu alayhi salam have descended into the city from the
mountain with the revelation. So these are various interpretation,
but the first opinion is the one that's most commonly accepted.
It's interesting in this Allah subhanaw taala has mentioned the
higher will beloved, the best of cities, and increased its
magnificence by it by the presence in it of the Hyrule a bath, which
is a sort of LaSalle Eliasson, best of the servants in the best
of city, federal bad in federal beloved, his presence made that
sacred city even more glorious.
Then Allah subhanaw taala takes the second note, well, while you
were mayor wallet,
it means I also swear that I'm saying because it's an oath,
by the wallet, if you want to say the father or the mother, one that
begets and the what it begets math wallet,
what begets and what is begotten, or the Father and the Son, or
every if you take it in the general sense, every parent and
every offspring, Allah subhanaw taala say, you can use it in a
general term because Allah has not set sorne by L valid and l valid.
He said well while I do which is open, so it's general. So if we
take it in the general meaning, it means that Allah swear swears by
all the parents and all the offsprings. And if you take it
like that, this is an OT on all of humanity.
And some more specifically have taken it, that while it is the
father of humanity, Adam Alayhis Salam, and wallet is his progeny.
And this is the majority opinion of the scholars that Allah
subhanaw taala is here swearing by Adama la salaam, the father of
humanity and all of the offspring and if you take it like that,
again, it's aught that encompasses the entire mankind as the children
of Adam.
There is another opinion that this while it is
Ibrahim Allison
and this wallet is my listener because that makes it more
relevant to the city of Makkah, because Allah has has sworn by
Maccha and the most important wallet and wallet that are linked
with the city or Ibrahim alayhis salam and ismail Estella and
therefore it also makes it relevant because from the progeny
of a smile esalaam is say Donna Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam the ultimate of Wellard.
So Allah subhanaw taala has taken these two oats the city and the
Father and the Son are the Melissa lamb and his progeny. After the
earth comes what is called Java will castle.
Java Belkacem is why this Court was taken to stress an important
point. So Allah subhanaw taala, says
Lapa, the Hala canal in Santa Fe cupboard, Lapid Kalapana in Santa
Fe given indeed, very truly, we created in son in cupboard,
the word cupboard.
means all of the in the English language, any toil,
any hardship, a constant struggle, any affliction, trials are life of
travail, all difficulties come in the word cupboard. Allah subhanaw
taala says we have created insane in difficulties in toils and
struggles. And if we look at that, if we reflect on that, that the
struggle starts from before conception, with the sperm having
to struggle to find and fertilize the ovum and then the the
Why God is struggling to embed in the uterus and then grow there.
Then comes the struggle of the mother going through tremendous
pain which Allah subhanaw taala has said core core means
difficulty delivering this, this baby, and this baby going through
difficulty of being squeezed through a narrow passage, all the
difficulties, and then baby comes out. He's got all kinds of
difficulty, complete incapacity to do anything. Then it gets a little
older the struggle of teething and crying over that, then comes the
struggle of crawling, and then stumbling and walking, and then
the grew up then the struggle of learning and then older the
struggle of working and earning and it's an endless struggle, that
doesn't end.
So
one of the Salah was asked, When does the struggle end? I forget
who it was. He said, The struggle ends. When we put our foot in
gender, that's when the struggle ends.
So Allah subhanaw taala tells us out of His wisdom,
He created us to go through these struggles that this life is a
struggle. There is a purpose of creation. This is not meant to be
Jannah paradise, everything is easy, no matter how much he is we
have, there will be struggle in the ease or struggle after the
ease. Yes, Allah brings ease after after difficulty, but there will
be difficulties and that's life.
So Allah subhanaw taala
has made a purpose of His creation that these are the trials to
verify the veracity of our claims of the man
that we will be tested and the Eman will have to be confirmed
through these struggles. It cannot just be claimed. So we struggle in
our lives against outside forces, what are these outside forces, we
have shaytaan we have temptations, we may be subject to persecution,
there may be abuse of different forms, there may be challenges
that may be personal, there may be physical illness, sickness, there
may be emotional stress, psychological depressions,
anxiety, social in communities, financial hardships, all kinds of
struggle along with struggling for our spiritual needs spiritual
pursuits, which are also a struggle.
And man also has to struggle against the inner forces. What are
the inner forces are no force the knifes our egos with its lower
desires and its winds, the shower and the health.
Now the outcome of each of these struggles if the struggle is
completed properly,
in compliance with the chakra of Allah subhanaw taala his rules and
regulation with the right Nia of pleasing Allah subhanaw taala each
of these struggles makes men come closer to Allah subhanaw taala as
a true added, slave servant of Allah.
So Allah subhanaw taala is telling us here understand this basic
principle your life is one of struggle. And to stress this point
she has taken the oath on maca and on the wallet and wallet
and Allah subhanaw taala says after that he says yes.
Or Yes, Elaine younger the rally ahead. Yes.
Does insan think? Yes, yep. pudiera Lee ahead. Does he think
is he? Does he have this misconception that no one has put
the Rakata power over him that he will not be overpowered. Does he
is he so arrogant, that she believes that he is in control
that he's free to do whatever he wants?
Yes, someone in Santa Elena Khedira Allah he does not think
that there is someone who can overpower power him is this is his
understanding. Yeah. Kulu elect to Milan Luba
yaku. He says,
elect to Milan Lumad. Like to literally like two means
destroyed. I have destroyed Marlon Luba means and abundance of word
of wealth. When do you
use in our language we say he blew so much money. In other words, a
person spent money recklessly wasted, it squandered it.
So he, this man who thinks he has, nobody has power over him, he says
boastfully
that I have spent abundant wealth literally have just blown a lot of
money and squandered it and wasted it
in different ways, such as indulging minor gifts, such as
fulfilling my desires, and words such as fighting against the
message of Islam and the messenger.
He's implying I have so much, I don't even care where it is spent
or where it is wasted, it is my wealth, and I will do whatever I
want with it. This is his understanding, this is his
attitude, he squandered it literally. And what is squandered
means that it did not help anybody. And most importantly, it
did not even help him. In fact,
it became a liability for him, which he will answer for, as the
Hadith says, that on the Day of Judgment, the feet of a person
will not move from that spot. till he's answered certain questions,
one of which is where and how did you earn your wealth and where did
you spend it? Right now, you're so arrogantly saying that I have so
much and I blonde so much, you will answer that.
This also implies when a person is saying that Oh, I have spent so
much that in certain situations when a person is asked to spend
four noble causes for the right and just causes that Allah
subhanaw taala has enjoined in his Sheriff he says, Oh, I have
already spent all the money I don't have any more to give you.
You want for relief work. You want to build a masjid. You want to
help this you help the poor? I don't have any because I blew it
all.
So this is another way of of doing this.
So he boastfully says that I blown so much wealth.
Allah subhanaw taala says
a yes ago alum Yara who had
a yes Cebu. Does he think
alum Yara who had no one has seen him doing what he claims.
Does he think that no one was or is watching.
What that implies, obviously is as everyone knows, among you, that
Allah was always watching him.
His angels were watching him. They were recording his deeds, his
squandering
Allah as witnesses watched and will testify to his boasting to
his wastage and his squandering.
Because we have to remember you and I are always under the
absolute power of Allah subhanaw taala and his watchfulness,
because he is a rapid, the ever watchful eye.
So Allah subhanaw taala mentioned the attitude of some of these
people at that time, and for all times, and we have to look like I
said, applying ourselves do some of these traits find their way in
May Allah smart Allah make us among those who strive through the
challenges of lives, to be near him to follow in the footsteps,
footsteps of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam to the best of our
ability with the class, not for recognition not for being
celebrated, not to impress people, but to please Allah subhanaw taala
May Allah smart Allah give us certain truthfulness and class
sincerity and accept us accept our effort to accept this, this
companionship, this study of the Quran and open our hearts so I
want all of you to reflect on this surah and then there's a lot you
can reflect on this. It's brief, and those who don't have not
memorized it should memorize it and when you know the words and
when you recite it in your Salah, your mind doesn't go here and
there.
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