Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect on the Quran #42 Surah Al Balad P2
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The speaker discusses the history and importance of Islam's use of words and phrases, including the use of words and phrases like tails and guidance. They emphasize the importance of the tongue in various aspects of life, including guidance and boastfulness, and stress the need to use it to guide others and avoid mistakes. The speaker also discusses actions and conditions necessary for humanity, including belief in actions and belief in the Alpha. The importance of gratitude for blessings and staying in the majority is emphasized.
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Bismillah
Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah while earlier he
was a woman with
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Allah, open the hearing channels of our hearts to your remembrance,
your Allah
open our hearts and our minds to the correct understanding of your
words.
Well how am I done and how can I have gone was awkward it was
original belting about it and also Christina,
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.
Allow my John laminal Latina testimonial holder for yet to be
our own 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 understood trying 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 will 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 Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi salam to pave
this path and show this path the bath of all the Umbria before him.
So today, we start with the Surah Al Balad.
So Allah subhanaw taala mentions 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
into me.
So after this, Allah subhanaw taala now reminds man of his
favors, favors that should be acknowledged, that should be shown
do gratitude that should be thanked by using them as Allah
subhanaw taala intended them to be used.
So now Allah subhanaw taala talks about those that this is your
attitude. He says, I love Nigel who is a name. alum Niger Allah
who had a name Have We not made for him?
A pair of eyes to eyes.
Allah smart Allah is reminding us of his favorite line of sight.
That's this wide of all the favorites. Why does Allah subhanaw
taala choose this? You see, it's connected because he says that
this man thinks nobody saw him Allah subhanaw taala says look at
the what I have given you eyes. Just like you see.
You are being seen and watched. In fact you are being he is seen by
those he cannot see.
Also reminding the favor Allah saying, why does he not use his
eyes to see the signs of Allah subhanaw taala and the universe
that will lead to understanding the creator that will lead to
recognizing the creator that will lead to leading his life according
to the commands of the Creator.
Why does he not show gratitude for his sight? And for what he sees?
Why does he
gaze at what Allah has for
When and not lower his gaze,
we have to reflect and what is the complexity that goes behind the
site. Those who have studied some elementary biology, know the
processes with billions of receptors in the eye, we just say
we see, you know, we have the cornea. If that goes we can see we
have a lens, we get a cataract, we can see, we go behind that we have
a vitreous, if some something gets in that it impairs your vision, we
have the retina with billions of receptors. Some see in the day is
something that I learn from those billions there are billions of
nerve endings going to the back of the brain to the visual areas,
where it is deciphered the things patterns are put together. And we
are and we see,
we recognize
what complexity Allah subhanaw taala, saying, I have given you
this.
One way to reflect on this and to recognize this is to look at the
blind man,
whether he is congenitally blind, what his life must be like,
he doesn't know what the sky is, he doesn't know what people look
like. So only by feeling, he doesn't know what a tree is,
or anything else. Or the sun, what the sun looks like, or the moon
what we take for granted.
And this becomes especially more profound for someone who could see
and then loses it and we see many patients like that will become
blind.
So they knew. Now they can see now they recognize what a great
blessing this one so Allah subhanaw taala reminds us of this.
Then he says, again, continuing reminder of His favours, will
Alyssa know was Shiva thing. And we give him a tongue Listen, we're
chef attain the two lips.
The what does the tongue mean the power to communicate
and speak.
The sign of Allah subhanaw taala is in the different languages and
the dialects. The tongue helps us to swallow the back of the tongue
helps us to put food in the right way without going down the wrong
way. The tongue helps us to taste things with the COVID we lose
taste and people complain about it, that they thank Allah subhanaw
taala for the test ahead of time.
And most importantly, the tongue is one that produces words, which
are very powerful. That's why today even when we say the whole
world is controlled by the media, what is media, the tongue in a
different form?
Words words,
the power of the tongue in the dunya is known. The power of the
tongue in the Afra is also known because rasool Allah salAllahu
Alaihe Salam taught us that you may utter one word because of
which which you think is insignificant. A person would be
dropped 70 years into the Hellfire without reaching bottom. And he
says you may utter one word with this tongue, which you consider
insignificant for which your levels and digestion in Paradise
would be elevated one word.
And there is this famous Hadith along Hadith I can go into all of
it today. The Hadith of the great companion moi the Nigella the
Allah on one day when he he asked the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
say Ya rasool Allah teach me something that would save me from
hellfire and into me to into paradise. And the Prophet
salallahu alayhi salam went through the whole thing. And after
all of that of Eman and Hamelin, what all of that and on and the
Archon of Islam, you know, fasting hydro salah, all of that. Then he
says in the end, he says, and you know,
what is the key to all of that? And then he did this.
The tongue the key to all of that, and what are the allowance at ya
rasool Allah, will we be held accountable? Look at the NSA will
we be held accountable for what we say
is a psychological Amok literally means May Allah may may your
mother lose you in other words?
How don't ever dare to say something like this, which is not
very intelligent.
He said, Is there anything else SallAllahu sallam said Is there
anything else because of which people will be dragged and thrown
on their faces into the Hellfire other than the tongue. So this is
how important it is. And we have an example of that just in the IR
before what is the person using the tongue book? What did he say?
Like to Marlon, Nevada
I have done this that boastfulness. So, we have to
understand Allah subhanaw taala reminds us of these favors which
are related to what has just gone before, among many others, then
Allah subhanaw taala gives us another image reminds us one of
the great favor he says, What holiday now one nudge day?
What holiday now one nudge day?
And we have we not guided him to the nudge Dane, the two paths, the
two highways, what are the two highways?
The one that is right, and good, the one that's wrong and evil.
The greatest gift of Allah subhanaw taala for us as human
beings is guidance hedaya Allah says and have we not guided him
mankind to the two paths? In other words, we showed him two paths.
One what what are the two paths he says there is a steep, uphill path
that is difficult to climb in the beginning, especially. But at the
end of it
is the final relief from the struggle from the cupboard, the
toil and the struggle, a bat that leads to an ends in Jannat itself.
The other path is an easy path, it's like going downhill, not much
effort. It's easy and therefore the knifes likes it. It's about of
ease and indulgence, do what you like. But at the end of that path
is the pit of Jahannam it's going down to where the toil and
struggle of this life will look like nothing because it will take
on a new meaning and a new level.
So Allah subhanaw taala has identified both paths, you can
take this path, yes, it is difficult, that's the challenge,
but you are going by Iman, because you know what's the end of that
path you believe in that and this is the is easy path which leads to
the other and Allah subhanaw taala has given us the freedom to choose
either of the two.
Now, all of what we have been saying can be put in these two
paths. For example, if you take the eyes, the eyes can be put on
the uphill path of guarding it, using it for the proper things or
it can be put in the downhill path using the eyes to look at evil and
so on so forth. Similarly, the tongue
the spectrum of what the tongue produces, on the lower path is
going to be lies, abuse, foul language, bad language,
backbiting, slander, Mima veba, in all of the deception, and on the
upper path is silk truth, the shahada, giving Dawa to Allah
subhanaw taala supporting people, consoling people encouraging
people a good word. That's one path. So, the same
blessing the tongue can be used to go traverse either of those paths.
So, Allah subhanaw taala says after reminding of this, that yes,
I have guided you to are there now nudge them then he says follow up
to Hamel Ababa. Yet in spite of this, Dr. Herman acaba means he
did not make or did not take the more difficult part the greater
effort to climb
the steep uphill climb the ascent, that's when he says man that means
the majority of mankind except those who take that path, the
believers who are struggling Allah subhanaw taala says for luck to
Herman acaba he did not take he did not adopt that difficult path.
Why man are the rock Acaba and what would tell you what is this
Aqaba? The steep ascent?
Now Allah subhanaw taala will tell us what is it what comprises
these, the difficult the ascent
he amplifies the path and explains some details not all of what this
path uphill uphill path of difficulty involves. And then
Allah Swatara doesn't mention anything at all about the downhill
path because that's open to everybody. But for those who want
this Allah smart Allah is giving us example he starts with Sakura
power.
Sec Kurata raka Raka
is a slave someone
that is held in the neck, or Aqaba, that's the neck because the
colors
of slavery are on the neck. So what fuck raka means freeing the
neck of a person. In other words, taking a slave out of bondage.
This is considered one of the greatest acts of charity,
to buy a person's freedom
to free his neck, from the colors of bondage. Why was this relevant
because there was slavery that was rampant at that time, in Arabia,
and everywhere else, and this was 1400 years ago, and we have slaves
being brought to our country here, two or 300 years ago.
And we are still enslaved in different ways. So Allah subhanaw
taala, saying, difficult job.
Now again, the uphill job is to free a slave.
And the prototype that we have the example in front of us of freeing
of slaves who say the Abu Bakr Siddiq, or the Allah when he heard
this, what did he do? He in His life freed seven people from
bondage.
One everybody knows about Sandra, Bilal naraba, who was a slave of
Romania.
He bought his freedom with great difficulty, okay, because he was
being tortured. There was another man who was later
there's a long history about him, and five of them were women,
of whom one was the famous Sahaba by the name of the Neera, who
after she was liberated, became blind. And, and the people of
Makkah said, Look, you because you become Muslim, you know, Latin
monarchs, the gods that they worshipped or made you blind. And
she said, No, that's nonsense. It is Allah by his decree. And then
Allah subhanaw taala returned her site to her. And there were four
other women that were whose freedom was purchased by Abu Bakr,
Siddiq, Robbie, Allah Han, and they were set free. In fact, his
father, Abu Kochava, said to him, he said, I hear you are setting
free slaves. Why don't you when you get these women and weak
people, why don't you buy and set free, strong young slaves, because
then they can serve you. He said, I'm setting them free for Allah
not for me.
For the Allah Allah, Allah Allah.
So this is the example. Now so the upper path is to free people from
bondage, the lower path is to put the people in bondage by
oppression, one way or the other. That time it used to be literally
slavery. Now there different forms of slavery. Next, Allah subhanaw
taala says, All eight Armen fie Yeoman, the Messiah, or feeding,
on a day of deprivation, a day of starvation and in a famine, when
there is famine everywhere you feed. That also implies that you
look for people who are in that situation to feed also implies
that because the feminist widespread you yourself may be
needy, and yet you feel feed others. And again, compare the two
paths. At that moment of difficulty you're using your
wealth, because food essentially comes from being purchased. You're
using your wealth to feed people versus the lower part that you're
blowing your money on your whims and desires.
Yet demon via MacRobert feed who an orphan who is near your team
and the merkabah Corrib. To you who is near to you know most of
them have a saloon have said this is meant like an orphan. Orphan in
Islam means someone who has lost his father before the age of
puberty, who therefore is needy and was oppressed at the time and
taken advantage of on all the inheritance was taken from him by
the the older people. Allah subhanaw taala saying, a year team
who is nearer to you who is near in relationship to you, in kinship
to you. And it can also mean who is
close to you in physical distance some orphan lives in your city.
You say well, I don't have any relatives, orphan and poor. Well,
you can also use it to help an orphan and we have many victims of
war whose mothers come The fathers are dead. There are few children
they're
feeding them and feeding them doesn't mean
You give them one meal, or you give them one if feeding them
means literally, if you have the ability, you take the
responsibility of feeding them as long as they need.
Your team and your team, the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
stressed he himself was your team, the best of the power, some of the
lightest,
he stressed so much about the care of the team. To the point he said,
Whoever takes care of your team will be with Me in Jannah, like
this, and he put up two fingers means so close to encouragement to
take care of the team, instead of taking a loss mantle as revealed
so many iPads have taken care, guarding the rights of the team
until they reach the age of age of maturity.
Oh Mysskin the muttrah or feeding miskeen? What's the miskeen a
person who is in dire need?
Who is like You say how is summit so on. So surviving is barely
surviving. The muttrah means who is in the dust,
who is in the dust means he may be homeless, he has no place except
just to lie down his clothes are full of dust, he has no place to
wash in them. So person who is that needy, you feed again you
take over there. So Allah Subhana Allah is telling us this is the
upper path. And the lower path is
I see people who are in need, I do nothing about it, I continue to
indulge myself in more and more and more.
That's the lower path. So Allah subhanaw taala gives us some
examples, which in today's language, we would say
humanitarian work. And these, this is being spoken to the Quraysh,
who also recognize some of these as noble deeds, and this is for
anyone Muslim or non Muslim, you talk to anyone, they would say
this is great, feed the poor, take care of the orphans, so and so
forth. These are good humanitarian works, this is what all the
humanitarian organizations are working on. Okay, providing clean
water.
So Allah subhanaw taala talks about actions that are considered
humanitarian for the benefit of his mclucas creation, but then he
comes.
He said,
the condition for all as all of this comes in the next day he
said, Oh my god, I mean Alladhina amanu.
Literally Sama means then means after but here what it means is
all the while that while doing all of this besides all of this
humanity, humanitarian work, the most important condition and
criteria that enables this work is being kinda Mina Latina Amman who
being among the believers, in other words, he must have Eman and
by Eman means believing in Allah the Tauheed of Allah subhanaw
taala be believing in the Alpha believing in Jana and NA,
believing in the main meeting with Allah subhanaw taala believing in
the rissalah know the revelation that words of the Ayat of Allah
subhanaw taala does the messenger ship of all previous messengers,
ending with the final messenger ship of Rasulullah Salallahu Salam
believing in the angels that he has emailed and all of that and
his email is shown by his actions by all of this
from McCanna Manila Dena Ave. He has the demon
will also be Sabri. What Allah so Bill Moran Okay, so that Eman is
that upper path. And the lower path is scuffle denier.
And if you're taking that path, you don't believe in Allah and
alpha and accountability in the board. And so
then all of this humanitarian effort, though in the world, you
may be a hero in the alpha is zero.
So besides having Iman whatever so be Sabri. And this person, part of
that Eman is to enjoin to exhort others, to encourage others, other
believers to be patient.
Patient to climb this path of difficulty. Perseverance in
climbing means we have to continue in our faith no matter what
challenges and difficulties, to be constant, to have consistency to
have constancy in our deen to practice even when it is
difficult.
Salah may be difficult in certain we have to do it to look like a
Mr. Muslim may be difficult economic principles of
not getting involved in rebar may be difficult we have to do all of
that, to stand out from the rest maybe difficult by our clothes by,
you have to do persevere. So Sabra in the obedience, Sabra in the
Tao, obedience well and sober and intimacy, and patiently abstaining
and staying away from temptation and disobedience, and sober in the
challenges and trials that will come, but also be sober, having a
man then he enjoys and exhorts people encourages others and
therefore himself to persevere that we are getting there we'll
get there Inshallah, because we are on the right path, whatever.
So Bill Maher hammer and enjoying each other, to be more hammer, to
be merciful, to be compassionate with each other, compassionate
with the poor, the needy, the oppressed, and even being
compassionate and merciful and forgiving to those who wronged
you.
And what is the greatest of Rama? Mahatma is not just to save people
in this dunya from their difficulties, but to save people
from the difficulties and struggle of the ACA. And that is done by
inviting people to the truth inviting people to Islam, calling
them to the fate of Allah subhanaw taala calling them to the power of
Rasulullah sallallahu some saving people from Jana. inviting to the
truth is the ultimate Rama that we can show anyone.
Today we have misunderstood the parents don't Don't, don't wake up
their children for Fudger Oh, I'm being merciful, that's not being
merciful.
Let them do whatever they want. They are grown up. That's not
being merciful. As long as you have the ability. Use your wisdom.
Sometimes it's firmness. Sometimes it's gentleness, sometimes it's
encouragement. Sometimes it's scolding, whatever it takes Allah
Samantha uses both Bashara, he gives Glad Tidings encouraging,
and he also uses
punishment. Okay.
Both, as they say, the carrot and the stick, whatever the goal is, I
want to save everyone from Jahannam This is the greatest job
we can do. And this is why this great job was given to the
greatest of people and the greatest of all, ultimately, of
all creation Rasulullah Salallahu Salam, as he said that I had been
sent like a person who's the matzah flying into the fire and I
had been sent to save them to chase them away, but they keep
coming. So that is what our saw Bill marhaba and keep doing it
consistently and constantly with perseverance no matter what people
say and what abuse you go through till Allah subhanaw taala gives
you relief, either relief from this dunya or relief in the job by
making it successful.
Learn us herbal Maimana Allah subhanaw taala then identifies
these people that these are the people as herbal Maimana the
people of the right or the extreme right people who are furthest away
from the Jamna the people of goodness, that the people who took
that difficult path, these are the people that Allah is pleased with
these are the people of paradise.
And then contradistinction to this, Allah subhanaw taala does
not describe the details at all of the second path. He says simply
when Medina Cafaro will be i attina. Hamas, Hannibal machinima
while Latina cafardo, bi attina. Those who deny our signs, what are
the signs, the universal signs, the sky is the heavens and earth.
They're saying this happened just a big bang, it's a coincidence,
there is no creator, or there are multiple creators and so on so
forth, who deny the evidence that's overwhelming, all pointing
to one truth, Allah, Allah subhanaw taala one creative
without partners
that deny all the signs they see all the evidence of Allah subhanaw
taala including a little unseen virus that has wreaked havoc in
the earth
and keeps changing its form by the command of Allah.
The most powerful nations all combined together, no power.
This man think
lamb yuck Daraa Allah He heard there is no one has power over
him.
Allah subhanaw taala said those who deny Our Ayat, the county in
the creation and the ayat that revealed I had some of the Quran
more relevant for the people of Makkah because they were denying
those if those who deny this is that lower part
taking them
Never paths taking the Eman lead to persecution difficulty being
with them the majority was easy. Deny ridicule. You know, so this
is poetry, this is lies, this is much noon. so on so forth. Allah
smart Allah says, You deny the all the Ayat of Allah subhanaw taala
cafardo. And another meaning of coffee, as we have said is to show
lack of gratitude for his blessings. At some of which were
mentioned the guidance, the eyes, the lips, the tongue, the ability
you have to talk and with that tongue you deny Allah.
With those eyes, you don't see
Allah subhanaw taala says
for this person, this is home as Hannibal mush, Amma, these are the
people of the left hand. These are the people who took that lower
path the people whose destination is the fire of Jana.
Then he says, I lay him I lay him no room, solder
upon them is the knob. You're talking about strike struggled
cupboard, look at discovered there is the fire of the Arthur
Moog sada means that comes and something that encloses Lidice put
on it, you're completely enclosed from which from all sides, there
is no escape.
In golf completely the fire
if you will,
a pressure cooker of Jana,
ladies on tight can't escape anywhere. Allah subhanaw taala
saying upon these people who deny all of these obvious signs, and
the ayat that Allah has revealed the Quran
deny the message, denial, Surah masala, no, listen, don't take
this upper path. This is the destination.
So in this beautiful,
brief Surah, Allah subhanaw taala has summarized our lives, our
struggles, the path reminds us of who is in charge, reminds us of
the two ends shows us the two paths, and allows us to choose.
Just to complete this what I will do is I will just read one English
translation from the beginning just to bring it all together for
those because we went through the details. So let me just read
one translation is not 100 it says No, indeed, I do swear by the
sacred city of Makkah, while you are Prophet sallallahu alayhi
salam, or a free Dweller in the sacred city of Makkah. Moreover, I
swear by all that begets and all that is begotten
the Father and the Son, Very truly, we created man in a life of
travaillent trial.
Does he think that no one should ever overpower him?
He says, In boast, I have
expended and wasted vast amount of wealth. Does he think that no one
has seen him
have been not made for him two eyes and a tongue and two lips and
guided him to the two highways of right and wrong.
Yet he has not attempted the steep road.
And do you realize what is the steep road? It is the freeing of a
human being from bondage
of offering food on a day of starvation to an orphan who is a
relative or to an indigent person who is down in the dust all the
while being of those who believe
and who exhort one another, to persevere in faith with patience,
and who exhort one another, to being merciful.
These are the companions of the blessed right.
But as to those who disbelieve in our natural and revealed signs,
they are the companions of the wolf will left upon them in the
hereafter is a fire that shall descend and forever trample them
and enclose them from all sides.
May Allah subhanaw taala
help us to internalize these truths to recognize when we go
through difficulties in our lives that this
says a life of Gabon and that we use each of those difficult
situations to come closer to Allah subhanaw taala by acting how
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam taught us by acting what the Quran
exhorts us to do in a situation like
all the while keeping our faith and Allah smart Allah keeping a
goal in front of us knowing that yes, it's an uphill climb. But at
the end of the uphill climb,
we have the pleasure of Allah and the Jannah, which makes it easy. A
person who knows there is an end and there is success at the end,
continues on that path.
And then there is those who take the other parents may Allah smart
Allah protect us from that the path of indulgence, the path of
disobedience, that leads ultimately to the pit of Jannah,
the downhill path, which is easy to follow, and which the majority
of humanity is following. So we don't want to be in the majority.
We ask Allah subhanaw taala to make us among the money in the few
because it's only few
who Allah has praised who take that path uphill. 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 salAllahu 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 a signal truthfulness, and the 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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