Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect on the Quran #65 Surah Quraysh
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We praise Allah subhanaw taala and we sent Peace and blessings. When
our beloved rasool Allah salAllahu Salam.
And we ask Allah subhanaw taala to open the hearing channels of our
hearts, to his remembrance
that we understand His words as they were meant to be. And they
have an impact on our hearts.
We may
actualize them in our lives,
act according to them.
We ask Allah subhanaw taala to show us truth as the truth and
help us to follow it and show us falsehood as falsehood and help us
to stay away from
so today, we will inshallah be covering two of the last few
Surahs of the Quran surah 106 and 107 I believe, yes,
which almost everyone knows by memory, and we all frequently
recite in our salah, and therefore, it's good to know the
meaning because it helps us focus in our salah.
And these are both MK consolas revealed in the early part of
prophethood of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam.
While as we have reminded ourselves, he was facing
difficulties with rejection and ridicule, and
opposition to the extent of persecution of his followers and
torture and boycott and all of those things. So in that
environment, Allah subhanaw taala reveals the Quran
primarily directed at the Quraysh, the people, the tribes who were in
charge of Mecca, but the sutras are not just for the Quraysh,
because the word of Allah is eternal, it is for all times. So
we have to derive lessons from that, that this was addressing the
Quraysh directly. But how does it affect me? What is its impact on
me? Last week, on Zoom, we had done Surah Al feel the story of
the elephant and the army of Abraha that had come to destroy
the Kaaba, and how, through an extraordinary event. Birds little
birds was sent to destroy this massive army of almost 60,000 that
the Arabian peninsula had never seen, with massive elephants
leading the army. And they were brought to a halt at the Kaaba
before they could enter Makkah, no opposition from the Quraysh who
had run onto the mountains because they knew they're going to oppose
this army. And then Allah subhanaw taala sent this special force, and
he does things in his own way. He didn't send massive angels to
destroy this army, or the elephants. He sent little birds
with little pebbles clay stones to destroy them. And this was called
the arm will feel the ear of the elephant because it became so
famous historically that the Arab started naming the calendar,
according to Amel feel that this happened 10 years before the year
of the elephant this happened one year after the elephant.
And as we know, the greatest thing that happened in the year of the
elephant was Allah subhanaw taala his greatest gift to all of
mankind, which is the birth of our beloved Rasulullah sallallahu
which according to some narrations happened approximately 50 days
after the event of the field of the elephant, the destruction of
that army.
So in that Surah Al feel which is closely connected to this URL Kure
to Quraysh. There is a great link in Surah feel Allah subhanaw taala
is reminding the Quraysh the same people who are rejecting the
message of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, don't you remember just 40
years ago, you were facing an army of 60,000 and I saved you and I
saved you in a way that no other
power could have saved.
So Allah subhanaw taala is reminding them of this favor say
why can't you believe it's so obvious who is the Lord of this
house?
So Allah subhanaw taala, reminding them of his favor, that he saved
them. And therefore what should they do ingratitude, they should
worship Allah alone with no partners. That's all Allah wants.
Allah says, I don't want you to feed me, I don't want your money.
All I want from you is your Buddha, your submission
unconditioned submission, unconditional submission to my
orders my command that you worship Me alone.
So linked to that, in subject matter is Surah Quraysh. All and
in the order in which it was placed by Allah's command, it was
placed right after Surah fi, so that's 105 This is 106.
So as we said, this is early makansutra between these two
Surahs there were nine other revelations but Allah subhanaw
taala ordered that they be put next to each other because of the
connectivity of the two that was telling the giving the the Quraysh
Derby remember my favorites worship me in this Allah subhanaw
taala is again reminding them of the favors worship the Lord of
this house. So
we'll read surah Quraysh and read the translation and then we'll go
into the details of last one Allah says all the we lay him in a shape
on your Raji Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim, Li laffy Quraysh E for
him right Natasha, it was safe. Thalia Abu Rob by her, by it, a
lady apama home in June new Manor home in Hove.
Translation, if only for the perennial security of the people
of Quraysh, their perennial security in their winter and
summer trade journey. Let them then worship only the lord of this
sacred house, the one who alone has fed them against hunger and
secured them from fear.
So, Allah subhanaw taala has labeled this Quraysh the word
Quraysh, as you know is the name of the tribe of Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam the name Quraysh was given to a man by the name of
Ibni Malik, who was the 11th
ancestor of Rasul Allah Salla lives from the descendants of
Adnan were the descendants of Ismail dynasty. So fair, Abner
Malik was given the title of Quraysh. Now there are differences
of opinion, where this came from. One is the word Kirsch in in
Arabic means shark.
And Quraysh means a little shark. Just like Hassan is beautiful.
Hussein is a little person. Okay. So as you know, people were named
after after animals like acid, Lion, and so on, so forth. So
people were also named after sharks, because they had some of
those characteristics. So, so one narration is that the fire was
called Quraysh. Some others have derived it from that this word is
derivative of the karoshi, which means to gather to gather people
that maybe he gathered the tribes. So from the descendants of of
failure,
there is a man by the name of Jose, who is the fifth ancestor of
Rasulullah sallallaahu Salam. So this tribes were scattered all
over Arabia, the ruling tribe of Maccha was the Hawza. Okay, so
after
Ismail Ali salaam was in charge, after hospitalist Alam was given
the the well and the house, Ismail Ali Salam, then he married into a
tribe called Jerome. So they were in charge after that they were
overcome by this tribe called Husa, who ruled Makkah for a long
time. So these Kurdish tribes were scattered all over, because they
got them all together. He married into the HOSA. And then he
ascended to the leadership. And then there was a power struggle,
and he brought in all the courage and they took over MCE, and from
that time, the Quraysh were in charge of the carbon, descendants
of Casa
from those descendants is Hashem, who was the great grandfather of
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, and Hashem was given
And he's the one who started feeding the people who would come
for Hajj. They were in charge for the feeding and drink and hosting
of the hedgehog who came. And one of their cousins bundle up the DAR
we were given because they were also wanted some part of it, they
were given the keys to the caravan. So from from Hashem game,
Abdulmutallab the grandfather, who was in charge of Makkah at the
time of the invasion of Abraha, with the elephant army.
So that's where the name came from.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam said the Quraysh were given
seven privileges that no one else was given. So what are they he
said, one that I am from among them. Number two, that prophethood
was sent to them. Number three, that they were given the cover.
Number four, they were given zamzam.
Number five that they were protected from the army of Abraha
by the special miracle number six, that they were the first people
for 10 years, who were given the privilege to hear the message of
Islam and worship Allah before any other tribes. And the last one is
that Allah revealed the surah by the name.
So this is a Hadith of the Prophet Salah notice. So now let's start
with the Surah it says li Luffy Qureshi, the word elaphe has
multiple meanings, but the most commonly understood meaning is
this special favor of security, safety.
Some have said elaphe also comes together things that Allah smart
Allah has helped them gather a lot of blessings. Because we mentioned
some of these blessings of the being the custodians of the kava,
and being provided with food and all of these things. So Allah
subhanaw taala, says Lee Lafayette Quraysh for this safety, security,
this special status that has been given to the Quraysh
II love for him, Rattler deshita, it was safe for the security and
their safety in their regular in their journeys. In the winter, and
in the summer. So Hashem started this trading of Makkah became a
center of trade. He established a caravan route that in the in the
wintertime, they would go south to Yemen, and in the summertime, and
they would buy things from there, such as what came from India and
China through those routes to Yemen. And by all those things,
spices, so unsold sales, all of that. And in the summertime, they
would travel north to Damascus, and that area was and they would
sell things over there. And then they would buy merchandise there.
And so they had these routes, trade routes, which became very
famous. Okay, and a lot of trade use take place now they were
living in an environment where the moment you left Maccha some tribe
would attack you take your women and children as slaves and kill
you and take everything you want. So there was
complete anarchy in the peninsula. Yet these caravans of the Quraysh
Nobody dare to touch them. Why? Because they were the custodians
of the kava and the kava carried that, that are them, that these
are the people of Allah subhanaw taala saying is that your safety
in these long journeys, is guaranteed because of Allah
because of your association with the Kaaba, even though you have
surrounded the Kaaba with 360 Idols Yet Allah subhanaw taala
keeps these journeys fruitful. You make a lot of money, you bring a
lot of produce, and you return there safely. So reflect who has
given you safety in the Kaaba in Mecca. Remember the army of
Abraha. And remember when you leave Makkah the safe sanctuary,
and you travel all the way to Sham and all the way down to Yemen,
nobody bothers you. In fact, other people, other traders join you
because they know you're going to be safe and secure. So Allah
subhanaw taala saying, he laughed at him Raflatac schita was safe
for their they traveled their journeys in the winter and summer.
What should they do? Fell Yeah, Buddhu rubber hadn't bite so they
should acknowledge this great favor. And when you you understand
the favor of Allah subhanaw taala what should you do naturally, if
you have any art you become grateful, and therefore to be
grateful and thankful to Allah subhanaw taala is to worship Him.
Because you can't do anything else other than worship Allah, you
can't give him anything else further
Yeah boo doo. So as a result the fall is suburbia. In other words,
because of this, it should lead you to Ibadah of Rob Baja, Bates,
Allah subhanaw taala doesn't say worship Allah is reminding them
that this is the house of Allah.
And here's the rub is not just the rub of this bite, but he is your
rump. And don't think that you are having these successful trade
journeys because you're so smart or you're so brave because you
have no bravery. You could not stand up to any army, you can
guarantee your own security. And don't think that all the welds
that you're getting all the produce that you're getting is
because you're good skilled, you know, business people, it's all
Allah subhanaw taala because he's providing you with fruit and food
in this barren valley that grows nothing.
And we all witnessed that anyone who's been to hajj and umrah in
Makkah, you can have any fruit you want. Any food you want, nothing
grows.
And this is not because they were Quraysh. This is an answer of
the door of Ibrahim Ibrahim alayhi salam, when he builds the Kaaba as
we mentioned in the last session, he made the da ya Allah make this
land this place a place of peace and and provide for them provide
for them. So this is the provision and the safety. This is in
response to the door of Ibrahim alayhis salam.
Allah subhanaw taala reminds us elsewhere in the Quran. He says
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will be now rahmatullahi wa rahmatullahi, yet followed.
Have they not seen how we have made Maccha a safe haven, a place
of safety, whereas people all around you are being snatched,
people are being grabbed and kidnapped and all of that, how
Allah subhanaw taala says
how can they then believe in falsehood? How can they believe in
bartered when all of this favor has been given and they deny the
favors of Allah?
So
there are two very essential blessings of Allah subhanaw taala
without which we cannot do one is provision. Okay. Everyone goes to
work because we want provision, we move from country to country to
increase our for risks, and so on, so forth. Now, if you have
provisions and you have no severe security or safety, it's a very
miserable existence as those countries where people had
millionaires and billionaires where they had to live with
nothing.
Okay, were people wealthy people are living in like in armored
castles, like you go to South Africa, because there is no safety
and security.
So unless we feel safe and secure somewhere, and you have
provisions, you know, your life is miserable. So these are two great
things that we take frequently for,
for granted a provision we understand we will be getting food
the children are taught thank Allah for the food for the drink
for this for that. But the safety issue is even more important.
We are sitting here safely, peacefully, nobody
will leave our houses open one time. I came home, the front door
of my house was wide open. Nobody comes down. Sometimes doors are
like there's no alarms, nothing.
Safety, security. We leave our homes every morning to go to work.
We come back. Do we ever think that this was a special blessing
that I reached my place of work and I came back safe. I'll give
you an example. Yesterday I had a patient who takes care of her 28
year old son who was quadriplegic means cannot move anything from
here down for the last seven years. He was 21 years old in
college. He came back on his break with three friends they got on
their bikes, where's my biker, sleeping?
To pick up pizza, they were driving and suddenly he went over
the handlebars
no reason and he's lying then they're laughing at him get up get
up. Then he says I can't move.
He had a helmet on broke his spine here for seven years he's been
like that.
Who thinks when you go out on a bike kids running around come back
that there is a possibility I may not have come back. We take our
safety for granted.
Look at the people in Gaza look at the people and say
Yeah, when a child leaves the home, you don't know if they're
coming back.
You know, look at, you know, in all over the world look in Yemen,
us, you know sleeping you know in Afghanistan, the families here
from nowhere in the skies that comes a Messiah and low seven
people over there were made a mistake, right?
We need to thank Allah subhanaw taala for our safety and security
every single day and not take it for granted. And safety and
security is not just physical. This is physical. This is very
tangible. But there is safety in our psychological health. You
know, we have people in our community who have psychological
issues we have sort of crisis of morality, safety and morality, you
know, people are leaving Islam, they're being misguided. Okay, and
the thing that made a big, big positive change, why I have left
Islam proudly, this is Dolla dolla from Allah subhanaw taala they are
not safe from anything from spiritual misguide. So there are
so many things that we need to thank Allah subhanaw taala.
Not just provision but for safety of our moral health, spiritual
health, our psychological health, our physical health, you know, all
of those things that we just take for granted. Everything take for
granted. Therefore, we do not thank Allah as he deserves. And
the way to thank Allah is to be in his worship. That's why he says,
Phil, yeah, Buddha will rub Baja, they'll bite. Who is this Rob?
Allah, the Uttama, whom endure he is the one who feeds you, who
removes your your hunger.
Even the removing of the hunger is not a function of the food.
Because there are people who can finish all the food that you have
in the kitchen. Yeah, and they will still be hungry.
Because there are centers of satiation that Allah has created,
if you damage that you can eat everything. You can eat like an
elephant and you still feel hungry. So Who satisfies your
hunger and your thirst? Allah?
Where am I now home in health? There are people who have phobias,
no danger, but they're afraid.
How many you know, I can't go on the road. Why? I'm afraid I can
come down. I'm afraid.
Every little thing is panic. Can you imagine leading a life where
you're afraid of everything. So who removes that fear? Allah.
So Allah subhanaw taala is reminding us of some of his
favors, reminding the Quraysh first and through the Quran
reminding us today.
So when we recognize these favors of Allah subhanaw taala. And he
has not enumerated all of his favorites because Allah subhanaw
taala says, we're in town to nematostella Hey, Dr. Suha. If you
wanted to compute and count the favors of Allah, you will never be
able to count them you can get all the supercomputers in the world,
they will not be able to tabulate the favors of Allah subhanaw
taala, those that we know and those who don't even know what's
going on inside us. So Allah subhanaw taala, saying, Worship
Allah, that anyone who recognizes these favors, must worship Allah.
And whoever worships Allah subhanaw taala what is the result
of that? Allah subhanaw taala increases them in provision and
increases them in security in the dunya. Because if you have the
true connection with Allah, all fear is removed.
You fear one, all of the fears are removed. You don't fear one, then
you are afraid of everything. You're afraid of poverty, you're
afraid of sickness, you're afraid of this, you're afraid of that or
so exchange one fear of Allah for all of the fears.
And he will as a result of this response of worshiping Him He will
remove your fears on the day when everyone will be afraid, including
the Gambia nopsi enough's enough. See, that's the day of real fear.
So whoever worships here, Allah will also remove the fear on that
day, which is the real fear. When you see Jana, when you see what's
happening, when you see the reality finally,
if a person does not acknowledge these favors, and does not worship
Allah, then Allah subhanaw taala will do the opposite. He will put
fear in you. He will remove your provisions bring the desperate
situations which is what the OMA is going through in the dunya. And
worse to come on the Day of Judgment
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Allah puts forth an example in front of you of a city, which had
was given peace and moved in and security and tranquility. Yep T ha
responsa their provision used to come to them in abundance mean
could never can from everywhere it was coming. Then he says, For
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Allah subhanaw taala says, but at that point now, we made them taste
Jew hunger and fear for what they used to do, what did they do? They
did not thank Allah.
So Allah subhanaw taala will reveal nothing is guaranteed he
can remove anything when he wants. So Allah subhanaw taala is
teaching us to this sort of Quraysh to recognize his His
bounties and to show our gratitude by not just tongue by saying ya
know, thank you,
squash coloca but by using Allah SmartHalo as bounties in a way
that Allah will be pleased with in the way that he has ordained for
us what we should do.
That includes our wealth that includes our time that includes a
talent that includes a provision the food that we are given the
security that we are given to us that in a way that would please
Allah America. So with that brief
25 minutes, we have covered Surah polish, and for the next few
minutes, we'll open it up to any questions and then we will go to
the next Surah