Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Tafsir Surah AlKahf, ayah 60 to 82. Story of Musa, AS, and alKhadir,
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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the best of Salah and salaam that can
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May Allah subhanaw taala enable him in every way, and grant him
nearness to Allah subhanaw taala and the MACOM mode in the Shiva on
the day of judgment, and may Allah smart Allah make us worthy of that
Shafaq on the Day of Judgment.
Continuing in our journey of Surah Al calf today we have come to the
journey,
which is the story
third of the story of the four stories of Surah calf that we have
talked about.
And we gave you the background that the Quraysh had gone to the
Jewish tribes to look for something by which they could
disprove the messenger ship of Rasulullah Salallahu Salam, and
that asked them to ask certain questions, two of which were
related to the people of the cave, and then to the man who traveled
from the east to the west, which is bull corpsman. So those are the
first and the last of the four stories of Surah Al calf, and in
between Allah subhanaw taala gave them a bonus of two extra stories.
And we'll
talk about what might be the wisdom of that.
So before we start
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that we are going to cover today, we want to give you a little
background of the story of Musa alayhis salam. And this background
comes from the Hadith of the Prophet salallahu Salam. This
hadith is present in Sahih Bukhari and Muslim and other narrations
with some even more details. But this is one of the longer this and
so he behind. And again, that proves to us that the Quran cannot
be understood without reference to the Hadith of the Prophet
salallahu Salam, okay. Because if you don't have this, you don't
know where you are in the story.
So the story starts with, as you know, Musa alayhis salam was the
messenger Dora sold for bunnies, right? And one day he had given a
hotbar and as you know, the Bani Israel are always questioning
every possible thing. So one or some of them stood up and said to
him, oh Musa,
who is the most knowledgeable of mankind?
And he replied,
to rightly so knowing that he was the Nabhi, the Messenger of the
time, he said, I am
in another narration of this, they asked, Do you know anyone more
knowledgeable than you? And he said, No.
So Allah subhanaw taala immediately
reprimanded him and corrected him in a gentle way. Because Allah
subhanaw taala did not approve of this response from His Messenger,
because his messengers are held to a higher standard. So
what was wrong with this, what he had said was the truth.
But it didn't match the adopt that you should have had with Allah
subhanaw taala for being one of the rural as the Messenger of
Allah, that he did not attribute all knowledge to Allah, Samantha
like they say, Allah knows. Allah rasool Allah alum. That's how we
say that he should have said, Allah knows, or referred this
knowledge back to Allah by saying Allah knows best, and just be
humble about it. Or by saying, I am the most knowledgeable in sha
Allah. And he didn't say that.
Now this insha Allah if you remember, we have encountered this
before. So Allah subhanaw taala revealed to him he said, I have an
OB, a slave servant, who is more knowledgeable,
straight up.
Now Musa alayhis salam, as he is, he said, Yeah Allah Where is this
man? He said he is at the junction of the to see
is of the two oceans to seize.
Musa alayhis salam said, Oh my Lord, how can I meet? Look at his
curiosity is the the messenger and you know,
as some have said the third best of all of Allah's creation after
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Musa listener. So he said, Oh my Lord, how can I meet him Allah
subhanaw taala said, Take a fish
as your provision, put it in a large basket and travel with it,
towards the junction of the two seas, and where wherever you lose
your fish, you will find him there.
So, most of us Salam took a fish, which was dead, baked, ready as a
provision.
And he took his, this young Fatah, this young boy, like his two as
it's called them as a servant, whose name is you shall be known
you shall be known, who was also in a way his nephew.
And he was a youth in training because he was to become the next
Nabil and of of the bunnies, right. In fact, that is known as
Joshua, who, and as you know, Musa alayhis salam never entered the
holy lands of Jerusalem, the Bani Israel for two years that roam
through the desert, and it was usually known under whose
leadership they finally entered that, okay, but here he is in
training is a young fellow. So he goes with
a with
Musa alayhis salam. And that's the background of the story, and then
we'll deal with the story. That's how it started. Now, as we said
that Allah subhanaw taala has given us given us two extra
stories, they asked for two stories, a sample calf and old
Karna Allah subhanaw taala gave the story of the man with the two
gardens which has to do with wealth and human resources. And
then Allah subhana, Allah gave this story of Musa alayhis salam,
which has to do with knowledge.
So people have reflected, Why did Allah subhanaw taala give these
two extra stories?
So as you know, the audience the primary audience of Rasulullah,
sallallahu alayhi. Salam with the Quraysh right of Makkah, this is
makansutra. So what was
the main source of that arrogance and pride in rejecting this
message?
wealth and children.
So what was the first the story, the second story that came? Well,
10 children, malware by noon. So through that story, Allah subhanaw
taala is telling the Quraysh don't have arrogance, and reject this
message or this messenger because of your wealth and power. Because
listen to this story, what was the end of this man with the wealth
and power? And what how did it help him in anyway, as if you
remember Allah subhanaw taala has ended that well lum toquilla, who
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no manpower could help him in the end, and he couldn't help himself.
So Allah subhanaw taala is teaching us a teaching the Quraysh
of course us to be humble, when the truth comes and to submit to
it.
So that may be one of the wisdom for revealing that story about the
two gardens. And then the story of Musa alayhis salam now who sent
these people to Rasul Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam, the Bani
Israel, the Jewish tribes, and what did they take arrogancy in
their knowledge, we know more than anybody else. So Allah subhanaw
taala is telling them through the story, look, your own messenger
did not know
as much as he thought. And he humbled himself in the story and
traveled for so long to someone lesser than him in rank, to learn.
So don't have the arrogance of knowledge when this truth of
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam comes to you submit to it. And that's
maybe one of the reasons that this was revealed to them. There was
another possibility. Some have said that it this story may have
been revealed as a consolation for us for Allah Somalis. Because just
before he had been gently reprimanded when he said, when
Allah when he said that I will tell you the story is tomorrow and
he didn't say in sha Allah and Allah subhanaw taala right away
corrected him also by saying, Allah Taku Lana, you Shane, in if
Island delicata don't say about anything I'll do this tomorrow
without saying
it loving your sha Allah.
So in this story, Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam is being told
that there was a previous messenger boo
For you, Musa alayhis salam, who also said something not fully
befitting a messenger of his rank. And when he said he was most
knowledgeable and he didn't say inshallah either. And therefore,
Allah smart Allah also reprimanded him in a way. So in other words,
consoles Rasulullah sallallahu. Listen, don't feel so badly that
you were reprimanded. Other messengers have made similar
errors at there is not really an error but at their level, and that
other messengers have been gently reprimanded before him and they've
had their share of correction. So this is another thing.
Now, why does Allah subhanaw taala do that because this is Allah
subhanaw taala sunnah.
Allah subhanaw taala treats people according to their level. Okay,
now these are the elite, the elect of all of humanity,
who are more beloved to Allah than anyone else. So he holds them to
the highest of all standards, okay. So if anything, were they
deviate from that, limits of that absolute slave hood of a Buddha.
That is expected Allah smart Allah immediately disciplines now we do
much worse things. Allah subhanaw taala doesn't call us to task
because we are at a different level. So Allah subhanaw taala.
Disciplined Musa alayhis salam, by sending him to someone who was at
a lower level to learn from him.
Now, another part of the background who is a harder or
hinder different ways of pronouncing it, it's hard Bara and
there are no marks so it can be further it can be harder.
Say Buhari now has it written as a father now sometimes they call him
further, they call him harder. They call them al Qaeda, al Qaeda,
all the same. And the word heard that's not his name. This comes
from 100 which is green. So why was he given this title because
Allah one of his Kurama one of his special blessings was wherever he
went,
he would bring blessings and the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
says In another Hadith in Sahih Bukhari that he would go on a
barren white land and if he said they're only prayed there,
everything around him would become green.
Okay, this Nicaragua that Allah had bestowed to this man, so that
was his title. Now, there are opinions
who was some people said he was a messenger Rasul some said he's a
Nabi some Saudis are really not those but a willing a special,
saintly person. The majority of scholars based on everything that
comes in the story have said that he wasn't Nabhi he wasn't Nabhi to
a different nation, other than Bani Israel.
Okay. And
in some of the narrations, He's even been given a name, which is
Bollea Abner Malecon useful.
And in some narration, it says that he was actually the son of a
king, who wanted him to take over the kingdom. He wanted no part of
it. So he ran away, and he hid in some island, he crossed some
waters and got that.
So that's called the nslm.
Now, as we know, that his rank was less than that of Musa Lisanna,
because as the story goes, when Musa SNM comes to him,
and greet him with Salam,
when they finally meet, and we'll come to that, so Musa alayhis
salam comes to him and he says to him, a Salam o alaikum.
And he responds, so I look at my Salam. And he says, What is this
greeting in your land? In other words, he thought he wasn't a land
off the kuffaar Where did he hear this Salam coming from?
So he asked him, What is your name? So he said, I am Musa. So he
said most of the bunnies, right? He said, Yes. So he knew of masala
salah, but Musa didn't know of him. So it tells us that his rank
was lower than that of Musa alayhis salam.
So, of his Kurama but as we said, besides that he would bring baraka
and greenery that he was given special exclusive knowledge of
hidden secrets.
What we call, not what is by him what is apparent, but what is
behind that.
So,
esoteric knowledge as opposed to exoteric knowledge which is
apparent in front of you, you know, you see, you see a puppet
show, you're seeing this is going on exoteric but who is
behind and what is intended. So this is the kind of knowledge
Allah subhanaw taala gave him as a special knowledge and directly to
him along with the special Rama that Allah subhanaw taala talks
about. So this kind of knowledge, which is the dunya is not
something that you learn from books. This is Allah subhanaw
taala pours into the hearts of his electorate wherever he decides.
Now this also doesn't mean that Musa alayhis salam only
exclusively had exoteric knowledge, which is the
legislation which is the Sharia, he also had knowledge of the
Unseen, but not everything. This man was given something that Musa
listen, and this conversation will take place when they meet, because
he said to Musa alayhis salam that I have been given knowledge from
the knowledge of Allah subhanaw taala that you do not have. And
you have been given knowledge from Allah subhanaw taala of what I do
not. Okay. So this is the kind of knowledge so there is a difference
in the people of exoteric advisory knowledge, which is essential,
because that's what our salons are can hedge all of that legislation
laws up. So people of exoteric knowledge have been charged in
rectifying external matters, Do this, don't do that. You know how
to treat people, all of that. And they, as the scholar said, they
drink from the ocean of sacred legislation, which is what Allah
has made law, which is the Sharia. So there are sources that
Rasulullah Salallahu Salam can win that and Musa alayhis salam came
with that. And the Sharia of the Bani Israel and of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi salam is very close now. And they were also
given things of the unseen Rasulullah sallallahu lesser knew
many things of the unseen he was even shown Jana and Naren,
punishments and all of those things.
Now, the people of the esoteric knowledge are charged with
realizing the internal realities of things, what is behind
something that happens, events that we see, and we don't
understand that is something how pick our reality behind and they
drink from this ocean of Haqiqa that Allah subhanaw taala reveals
to people.
Now, as you know, Allah Subhana Allah says in the Quran, and he
told Musa alayhis salam go to where the two seas two oceans
meet.
And some of the scholars have said that this is also that's a
physical thing of where to meet, but there is also an ishara that
the two oceans Mudumalai behind that our master Musa alayhis salam
Sienna Musa alayhis salam was representing the ocean of sacred
law, the Sharia and hydrolase Salah was representing the ocean
of the realities that are keeper and they met. Okay, so this is
another way of saying meeting of the two oceans. He was an ocean of
knowledge of the Sharia. He was an ocean of knowledge of the Unseen
and they met and they met when the oceans meet now well that was we
don't know some people that is actually a masjid in the Strait of
Gibraltar in Morocco desert This is where the oceans meet with this
sea comes in the Atlantic, but nobody knows for sure, okay.
And also, this teaches us that being a prophet with the law does
not negate the possibility of his learning some secrets and hidden
sciences from someone else. Because the limit of Allah
subhanaw taala is knowledge there is no limit, so it's unlimited.
And Allah subhanaw taala reveals to people
how much he wants and in one of the conversations when they get on
the boat, and I'll bring it here when they first get on a board and
the first part of this Musala Salam Corrales salaam get on the
board a bird comes and sits on the edge of the ship and then it big
puts us on this mantle obviously makes it do that puts his beak
into the ocean into the sea and
takes a few sips so the first lesson that federal esalaam tells
Musa lesson um, there he says
that your knowledge Musa and my knowledge and in moderation and
the knowledge of the first and the last
compared to the knowledge of Allah is less than the water this bird
took in its beak compared to the water of the ocean to telling
telling us what the LM of Allah subhanaw taala is. So if that we
know that is the end of Allah subhanaw taala How can anyone
claim ownership that I know and that's a lesson for us?
It's better thing to say is I don't
I don't know. Okay. So
There is a beautiful heckum of one of our great St. Louis scholars by
from Egypt a few 100 years ago it now Tala a secondary in his
heckum.
The meaning of which is related to this, he said that he Allah
subhanaw taala prohibited you from claiming ownership of that which
belongs to another creative being. In other words, you can't take the
property of somebody else.
Right? You're not allowed to. He said, Allah prohibited you from
claiming ownership of that which belongs to other creative things.
Would he then permit you to claim his attribute like Earl Allen,
while he is the Lord of the words?
Do you understand that he is all Aleem, how can anybody claim that?
Oh, I know.
It's like taking
ownership of what Allah owns.
So I thought this was a beautiful thing it sort of appropriate here
so
go from there. Now uncover Ali Salam was given Allah subhanaw
taala says Rama directly mean and then Allah subhanaw taala said,
for ye Jada Abda minibar dinner and they found mo Salah Salaam and
you chalet Salam found Abdon Allah subhanaw taala does not discuss
our burden is something that is
not specified with a de Deus limb when it is indefinite it actually
Mang In other words, there's no limit to his abou the abdom.
men and men evolved enough from our slaves, Allah says and then he
gives him a noble rank by saying he's from our slaves Allah claims
ownership loans everybody but he specifies that okay.
Are they now who we give Rama Minh andina, who will we give a special
mercy from Us? Of course all Mercy comes from Allah but Allah
specifying all of this.
What alumna who Mila denied Allah subhanaw taala was gave him a
special. Now as we go in the story, you said this person should
have a great, great degree of Rama. But when you look in the
first and second incidents of what happened is where it says, Okay,
we're looking from the surface. So just keep that in mind. This is
just the background.
And he was given this en la Duni which is the inspired.
Now there's another of his Kurama that is mentioned by some people.
Some people said you may have read that he has been granted life till
the Day of Judgment.
Okay.
And of course, this is an area of differences of opinion. Many of
these people have said this can't be because Allah subhanaw taala
said this and Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam had certain a
hadith, in which he said whoever is alive on the surface of this
earth, Allah Wedgetail art today will not be alive in 100 years. So
if you go by that hadith, everybody who was after 100 years
at that time alive, which if he was alive should have died. And
others have said that that's a that's a am statement and there is
a there is dossiers of arm where people are specified outside of
that. And where does this come from? Because there have been
reported meetings of liberal esalaam For centuries with people
with saintly figures who claimed that they met with Alexa
so and some have said that those reports are so numerous that it's
almost Matamata
and it is not difficult for last one Tara to grant somebody that
like he gave to a police.
So this is one opinion but again, this doesn't have a great impact.
I'm mentioning it because you might read about it.
You don't have to accept it, but don't reject it because it exists.
So now let us start the journey.
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70. I mean, 60 to 70. This is the first part that we want to talk
about. So essentially,
Musa alayhis salam, Allah subhanaw, Taala said, said to his
young servant, I shall journey in my quest of knowledge now, because
he heard that somebody knows is your journey in my quest of
knowledge, until I reach my Gmail behind where the two seats meet.
And then you said, though, I may keep traveling for ages. In other
words, or I'm the hopper, but if I don't reach there, I don't meet
him. I will keep traveling for ages How come I mean 70 to 80
years, even if I have to travel that much, I will keep traveling.
In other words, this teaches us
the sincere seekers of knowledge, what they're willing to do, and
that is set this condition right upfront with this, this young lad,
you shall be known, he says, we are going to go and we're going to
travel wherever and if indeed it is there, then you travel from the
holy land all the way across North Africa to get there, okay. We will
if we have to travel years, we will travel
where the two seas meet. But when they reach the junction between
the two seas, so they came to a place where two seas met. And of
course what happened.
They slept, they came to this rock and musalla salah, and usually
Salam set, slept, perhaps usually SLM, woke up a little earlier,
because he witnessed something. So when the reach the junction
between the two seas, they forgot their fish because they were too
tired. And the fish miraculously came to life.
And it made made its way out of that basket, into the sea in a
very wondrous way.
So they woke up, and Musala Salam said, let's continue on now
usually Sam has seen this, okay.
And he forgets to talk about it to musasa. That's very interesting.
We'll come to that. Right. So what do they do? So after that, they
get up, they proceed ahead. And this was in the nighttime, they
traveled all night, all day, next day till door time. Imagine they
proceeded ahead, far ahead of that point for some distance. And Musa
esalaam, the tough messenger who was who kill people just by
pushing them, he gets tired. And he says to His servant, bring us
our weather and
food.
Because indeed, we have become very worn out and tired in this in
suffer in this journey has really fatigued us and Musala Salamis for
take that young boy must be dying from this samosa less than m says,
Bring us up food, our midday meal.
Now, this Young's young man says to him, do you recall when we we
took ourselves to the rock when we rested there.
There he said, I forgot the fish. And then he says, and none but
shaitan made me forget it and made me to forget to mention it to you.
He said, I saw it took its way into the sea in a strange and
wondrous way. Agia
because first of all, it was dead. It came to life. And there's a
narration that there was a stream there which is called annual
health of life, and some of its water. In one narration it said
that usually some dead will do and some of the water fell on the
fish.
And it came but it was going to happen anyway. Because he was told
that you're going to lose your fish in someplace. And it went in
a strange way. Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said that Allah
made the sea stop. So it was like a tunnel in the sea and like an
arch it went into it like this, travel like this and you did
something like this also.
So
he says that I forgot to do
Are you
okay I forgot to tell you
so what is more Silas alarms response? Now what first of all
think what would have happened if we went Musala salons place and
our son was with us and we he knew what he was supposed to tell us
and He made us travel for 1012 hours in the desert. And now I
forgot what would be your response
what's the lesson um does not say a single word of reproach and this
is how the MBRs Rasul Allah. Rasool Allah salAllahu Alaihe
Salam was the same way. Yeah, this is Ben Malika, the Alana as a
young boy, he said, and it's been Malika long said I serve Rasul
Allah salAllahu Alaihe. Salam for 10 years and he never asked me,
why did you do this or why did you not do this? This teaches us as
you know, when we have people under our, our control specially
like our children and all how to treat, no okay. So Musa alayhis
salam says
that is the place that is the sign that we have been looking for. And
so they turned back.
I thought of him in that what footprints they had left Kasasa
repeat go all the way back to
two with now when they got there.
They saw where the rock where they had slept. There was a man sitting
there sleeping according to this hadith in Bukhari, he was covered
with some plot and Musa listen, I'm greeted him with a Salam
Alikum Allah subhanaw taala says that, for what Judah Abdullah
minibar dinner, they told us one analysis and there they found what
Jeddah, the two of them found one of our servants, one of our
servants,
on whom we had bestowed our mercy Allah and whom we had endowed with
knowledge of our own last month, Allah says, No Musa alayhis salam,
as we said, greeted him and had that Salam, where did you get this
from your Musa yours? So Musa alayhis salam said to him, now Mo,
Salah Salem has a higher rank, he says to him.
May I follow you? He's asking permission.
He's not commanding, and I am most of bunnies, right? I'm going to be
with you to learn from you. Okay, teaching us a dub of a student
from the teacher. Okay. He says and Musa lessons personality was a
very exuberant and that kind of personality. So for him to say
this, May I follow you?
May I follow you on the understanding that you will teach
me some of the wisdom and that
Russia that right guidance that Allah has taught you?
Can I accompany you so that you can teach me?
So he responded,
or they responded, he said,
You will not have
in Nikola Tesla, Dr. Maya sobre, you he didn't say you will not
have patience. He said, You will not have the capacity, or the
ability to help patients with
patients enough with me. And then he himself makes an excuse for
mozarella salaam, that's again, not putting him down, you won't
have this. He INNOPOLIS him by saying and how can you have that
patient? Because what you're about to see is something of which
you've been given. No knowledge, no, no news. So it's not expected
that you would have this kind of knowledge. So that way, the
teacher also tells him already makes an excuse for his impatience
ahead of time that you are going to in other words, you are the
keeper of the law, you are going to experience some things that you
will not understand. And you have a responsibility to uphold the
law. So he's saying, I don't think you'll be able to do that. You
won't be able to handle it.
So he said that so Musa alayhis salam says to him,
and so and how can you be patient with something of which you cannot
fully comprehend? Musa alayhis salam says,
In sha Allah, you will find me patient
and I shall not disobey your command in anything.
Interesting thing is
said that J Dooney. Insha. Allah wa Saba, he said, You will
inshallah find me Sabbath and then he says, and I will not disobey
you in anything. So does this insha Allah cover the second part,
or is it only the first part that I will be patient okay. So this is
what he says.
So, Alyssa then makes his condition. Okay. So if you're
going to follow me if you're going to accompany me, do not question
me about anything. I do until I tell you the reason myself this is
a condition. So teacher said the condition the student accepted the
condition.
Now it is said, Imam Bukhari said that Musa alayhis salam is the
first person to travel for seeking knowledge.
And that is one of the great things that we are taught to do.
Look at the Sahaba look at how people traveled for hundreds of
miles on feet for one Hadith that Musa al Islam started the Sunnah
of traveling to find to seek knowledge, the first one to do a
Hijra for knowledge. And that was later taken up by all the serious
seekers of knowledge. And as we know, there are great rewards for
traveling to seek knowledge of our deen. And there are many Hadith
and many rewards including the all the creation of even the fish in
the ocean. Make dua forgiveness for the person who leaves his
house to seek knowledge, and which includes all of you because you
left your house to come here, even that with the right intention. All
the creation is doing the ask for your forgiveness.
And then, when you think of the traveling at that time, you think
of Musa Islam leaving his home traveling long distance and this
was on foot through the heat through the deserts and through
all of that and willing to travel as he said, for a hookup, if he
has to.
So the fish What's the story of the fish? The fish was given as
assigned to Musa alayhis salaam.
And as we said it escaped in a very special way.
Now, as I mentioned, usually salaam saw this extraordinary
thing happened. Let's call it a modulus because nobody is
involved. Otherwise, let's call it a Kurama.
Would you if you saw that thing, a dead fish suddenly jump out of
there and go into the ocean the water stops and it goes in like
this. Would you forget?
So one possibility is that you shall As Salam had been with Musa
alayhis salam for so long. He had seen so many modules that that it
wasn't such a big deal that you forgot, because he had seen many
things. He had seen the parting of the Red Sea. He had seen other
things. Okay, so that's one possibility.
More likely.
Allah subhanaw taala made him forget it because he wanted Musa
restaurant to travel even further. Now why did he want him to go so
far? To teach him the importance of the knowledge to venerate the
knowledge this is how important that knowledge is. You could have
stopped him right there. They could have found the fish I would
be there. Okay, go. Come back double.
Sometimes we miss an exit how irritated do we get that we have
to go next exit made a U turn come back is on 40s Going miles and
miles and coming back. Okay. And you did not reprimand usually
salam for forgetting. So obviously we know that Allah subhanaw taala
made him forget. Now look at the other of you shall escena he does
not say that.
This is the decree of Allah he made Allah made me forget because
these messengers and we should learn never attribute anything
that has a negative connotation to Allah subhanaw taala even though
they know it's from Allah,
or you, Melissa, when it's all the diseases, what is this? He knows
that coming from Allah. He said shaitan must see and adore has
touched me with
Ibrahim alayhis salam were either married to for who is Shireen?
When I fall sick. Allah cures me doesn't say the sickness also
comes from a blast.
So huge. USIA says shaitan made me do this.
Okay. Attribute something that appears to be negative to other
than Allah.
This is the other
so
now about
al Qaeda, Allah subhanaw taala describes him as abdomen Abba
dinner.
A slave from our slaves. Our slaves is a special we are all but
calls him that abdom As we said it's a it's indefinite, which
means it's a way of ennoblement and then he uses again, we gave
him Rama, not Urashima again means you
A lot of it and l again, indefinite, which tells us that
he was given something very special.
Now, why Rockman in because the two are necessary. If you have
only knowledge and you don't have Rockman you become a tyrant. You
become arrogant. You become very tough with people. Okay? You're
not flexible, you know, this is how it is.
And Allah subhanaw taala tells Rasul Allah Subhan Allah listen in
the Quran that had you been harsh with them, they would have run
away from you, but compared so Allah subhanaw taala gives people
Rama so that they can be gentle with people tell, teach them with
gentleness with flexibility within the limits of the law.
And if you saw Rama as a prerequisite of knowledge is very
important
to get rid of arrogance, rigidity, harshness, intolerance and
flexibility. But suppose you have only Rama and no knowledge.
Then anything goes, My Mercy, My Mercy, My Mercy, what do you want
to do? No problem. So you need to have knowledge. So Allah Subhana
Allah gave this great combination.
So if we ask Allah subhanaw taala for knowledge, we should always
ask Allah give me Rama with it so that I know what to properly use
it and if I'm going to teach people if Allah use me to teach
people to use it in that way.
And as we said,
we should again remind
ourselves of the etiquette of Musa alayhis salam in seeking
permission to accompany him, a person of higher rank that he
lowered himself. And then a very important part of seeking
knowledge is that true knowledge is learned by softball by
companionship.
Okay. That's why the Sahaba of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam
became the Sahaba the best of generation because of being in his
companionship. That's why they were devastated when Allah took
him
in they felt like orphans because he was their spiritual father and
he was the he they were with them all the time. They used to go
home, they used to come running back Yola can take it going to, to
their homes, that I don't feel the same as I am with you that Sahaba
so that companionship is very important. For good companionship,
as we know, birds of a feather flock together and you will be
raised with your companion and you will be judged with them and
you're identified by them. But in knowledge, knowledge cannot be
this kind of knowledge cannot be acquired by books. And some of the
scholars have said that a person who only learns the knowledge of
Deen from books will learn more wrong than right because you're
reading it, you don't know if you interpreted it correctly, you
don't know if you've understood it. So it has to be learned from a
scholar. And that's why Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam called the
scholars as what are the two Ambia the inheritors of the messenger?
So you take from them you take from your show you you take from
the real teachers, okay, so sorry about companionship because here,
you experience you're observing your teacher how this situation
happens. What does he do? How does he handle it? You know, under
different stressful situations by observing and this has always been
our tradition. The Quran was learned by from people from each
other, not from books that wasn't memorized from that's where we
have been struggling with memorizing it from books
Rasulullah sallallahu listened ministry recited these two here,
and they were so anxious, he's reciting I better memorize it in
my head. I don't want to lose it.
So, as we said, the teacher sets the condition.
So what did he know about Musa salaam that he said right at the
beginning, that you will not be able to have patience with me. But
he knew Musala Salam was the messenger bunnies, right?
But he knew that Musa alayhis salam has been charged to uphold
the sacred law, the Sharia, in which there is halal and haram and
major sins and minor sins and all of those things. And that the
actions he knew what he was going to be doing,
would appear on the surface to contradict that sacred law, the
Sharia. Okay. So Musa alayhis salam, as the messenger charged to
uphold that law, how can he tolerate that?
Okay, so he knew that and therefore, he said what he said
and that's why he said and how could you have patience with that
which of which you have no knowledge or your knowledge does
not encompass? And therefore the things of the hidden world what is
the real me
meaning of some event that we face in our life is known only to Allah
subhanaw taala and to those who Allah subhanaw taala reveals that
knowledge
and
we are charged to to observe the sacred law we can do things like
that. Okay, only under Allah's command can somebody go and kill
somebody. As we as the story goes, we can just say, we have to follow
for us murder is one of the greatest crime that you can commit
against another okay
so, now the conditions are set Musala Salam
has made a promise what did he say? He himself made the promise
what
I will have supper with you and
he said don't ask me so he agreed to those conditions.
Now they set out now the journey starts from there, okay.
So this is that we are going to read now or from is 71 to 78 fell
on polar paw, either rocky Buffy Safina de haut aka Allah fractally
toda la halacha. Cherian imra, Allah Allah upon in calientes that
way Amalia sobre all Allah to our kidney B minus C to Allah to
reckon him in Umbria house Ra. So Tala call had
either Allah Allah MUFA Potala Allah Katana Epsons a key term be
rare enough sin luck ejector che and nuke Ra, Allah Allah.
Allah Allah a Calaca in Nagaland, testator Yamaha sobre, Allah ins
Touka and che imbibe the half allowed to Sahib in in Karbala of
Tamil Nadu knew the raw. So Tala por
la Perea xs Tata Anna
for about a new day flew home fly Jada, Jada run up doing a coma on
a low ship, the Takata li a gyro all heard of Iraq Biney were
bionic. So Nabil Kobita a wheelie Miralem testator, Ali sabraw.
So the two proceeded on their way. Now the the pronoun that is used
is a doer.
Now how many people were there, there were three, but pronouns now
they say they proceeded is a dual pronoun. So Musala Sullivan
federalism now what happens to you shall be known. Some have said
that he said
or you return, others have said that he could have been
accompanying them, but because he is the servant, so Allah subhanaw
taala chose to address just the two of them, whatever it happened,
okay, just bring that up in case it crosses your mind. So the two
proceeded on their way. And as they're traveling, they see a ship
coming.
Okay. As the ship is coming, they want to get on the ship. So
the people of the ship they recognize Kendra Alyssa, they said
come on board.
So Musa alayhis salam and Cottrell Isola
get on this ship. And they said we are not going to charge you
anything because you're special.
So as they get on the on the ship, what happens first thing we told
you about that bird that comes and drinks the water and federal
esalaam Teacher says that you know are your knowledge my knowledge
and knowledge is less than what this word is taking in speak
compared to the knowledge of Allah subhanaw taala.
And then as they're traveling
Musa listen, I must have lost sight of her LSR he takes you
know, like an instrument like an axe kind of thing. And he goes
down where the hull of the boat is of the ship and he breaks makes a
hole in it. Now what's going to happen when you make a hole in the
hull?
So in one direction is a Musa esalaam took off his robe and he
started stuffing it to stop the water. Now, look at the response
of Musa Sam what does he say?
He said, Have you made a hole in it in order to drown the these
people of the boat?
You see what you say, to make to drown the people of this boat? Is
yonder boat himself is culturalism on the boat. Yes. He doesn't say
around us
as a messenger his concern is about these people that their poor
people, they are generous people. They let us on their boat they
didn't charge us any money and this is what he's doing.
So you're doing this and you want to drown them
for the release rom says and then he says
that this is invalid This is a serious matter what you've done.
So he says Allama call in a calendar study of summer Did I not
say that you will not be able to have patience with me?
More silence alarm says immediately he says, Don't take me
to task and hold me accountable because I forgot saying
forgetfulness, okay. Except here, he is called to task for
forgetfulness. Because He is a messenger as opposed to you shall
be known when he forgot Okay, so here's the lesson I was teaching
him and he says you forgot you said I forgot and then he says and
don't be so hard on me he's asking for leniency Don't be hard on me
and make my
affair that this affair of mine to seek knowledge more difficulty.
Okay, he's let go. So then the two of them get off the ship and they
as they're walking along the beach somewhere along that they see a
young young kids playing and he goes to one of the kids and
essentially breaks his neck and kills.
Mo Salah salaam sees this. And he is completely shocked. So what
does he say?
Our kata kata kata enough senza key atom be rare enough sin so now
he just doesn't say that you made a hole said you killed enough soul
and then he says the key atom a pure soul young innocent Belair
enough sin mean it wasn't in retribution. I fought in our life
for Allah.
And then he says this is
a new crop. I mean, this is horrible, horrific, this is evil
what you have done
okay, now look at it from the perspective of what's happening
what Musa lesson are the same. Okay.
So
this time when he says that, The reprimand because now he was
Musella Salam was even more aggressive and in in objecting to
what he had done. So now the responses last time it is even
more. So this is the only place where he says, I love a call. laka
INEC Did I not say to you, this is added here laka in Nagaland that
you will not, did I not make it clear to you? So he's even
reprimanded more, that you will not be able to have patience with
Musala Salam says, Now Musa alayhis salam sets his own
condition.
He says, Yeah, just to make it you know, he's trying to find a reason
for him to come you say, if after this, I ever question you again.
Then you don't have to accompany me because now I am run out of
excuses. And you are free.
Okay. And so the two went on, and they traveled for a while and they
came to Korea. Korea is like a small town like a village.
Now they've traveled all this time.
What do you think they're going to be? There's no fish, hungry and
thirsty. So now they come to the town people, Allah. And they said,
Can you give us some food? Obviously, they didn't have money.
Remember that also, this is a messenger of Allah and the special
personality of Allah.
Because they expected anybody in a town because this is the
hospitality. That's the right of the traveler in Islam. First day,
a guest comes special treatment two more days and three days is
the fourth is is the obligation on the on the host.
Some of the notions they went from house to house and everybody
refused.
Then as they're walking, they find
a wall that's on the verge of collapse. Can you read the means
is making another wall of course this metaphorical because the
world doesn't have it either, but means it's almost at the verge of
a union of that that's about to just collapse.
So they've been rejected by everybody. They're fatigued and
tired, hungry and thirsty now, Federalist, Allah puts the wall up
and fixes it. Then some narration says that his fixing was that he
did a muscle of the wall and it stood up and fixed like maybe a
Kurama or he actually did all of that.
So he
Did something good. But Musa alayhis salam couldn't understand
that this is how we've been treated. They're so stingy people
terrible people.
So Musa lesson says, you wish, if you wished you could have asked
for a payment means with that money, we might have gotten food
or you could have asked payment in terms of food that I've done this,
give us some food. And
so whether Alesse Salam says ha syrup by noon, this is our
parting, okay, this is the parting of our ways between you and me.
And now, I will explain to you the real meaning the interpretation of
all those events, which la casa de Maya sobre, that you were not able
to have the patience.
So
in the first incident when we look from the eyes of Musa Alesana, or
look with our eyes, okay.
As we said Musala salaam saw the generosity of these relatively
poor people who had this ship, and they were generous, and they gave
them a free ride, and that we harmed them. So externally, you
retaliate with something bad that goes against the Sharia, you're
causing apparent harm in exchange for somebody good that was done to
you. And he sees when you see something wrong being done, what
should you do?
What does the Hadees say?
Stop it with your hand, or with your tongue or at least feel more
Celestra try to stop.
So in that case, he pleaded for forgetfulness and apologized on
that basis. Okay.
In the second incident, as we said, there was a greater
violation of the Sharia, he actually killed somebody. And then
he went into the details, you took a life of pure innocent life. It
was not in retaliation, and he called it a horrible nohcra pure
evil. And therefore, the the retribution from kodra lesson was
also stronger, didn't I tell you?
So
now, as we said, Musa alayhis salam said that condition himself
three strikes and I'm out, okay.
Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, may Allah have mercy
on on my brother Musa
he became shy and said this If you had remained quietly with that
companion without making this condition, he will have seen many
more amazing things, more more amazing things, okay.
So
now comes
the explanation of these events as you said, Now, let me tell you
what this was all about. So this is where all that knowledge that
Musa alayhis salam came to learn is being revealed. Okay.
Starts with the board he says, am Mr. Fina to for candidate Lima
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so he said, Amma Safina to ask for the ship. He said it belongs to
cannot leave Misaki that these were poor people Misaki
and Misaki. By this we learn that you can be poor and needy, even
though you own something, I'm into ownership there was a partnership
some said there were 10 brothers who had owned it, but they can
still be needy as opposed to a player who wants nothing. Okay?
That's why Moroccan also qualify for zakat. Okay, they they may
have things but they're needy. Okay. So they were needy, he says,
and they worked Yama, Luna and they worked on the ocean what is
work on the ocean fishing, transporting people to keep taking
things to make a living. And he said, Now listen to this, while I
read to I desired
to death
damage,
to slightly damage it, because I knew from knowledge that Allah had
given me that behind them what was coming, there was a tyrant king,
who was taking by force, every seaworthy ship that you could find
he was probably building his navy.
And being a tyrant, wherever you found the sound ship, we would
grab it, you can do it. So I damaged the ship so that when the
king and his army come, they say, Oh, this is a damaged ship, we
don't need it. So that way you save the ship.
Then he says an S for the young man.
His parents were true believers movement unless one doesn't say
Muslim movement.
And based on the reveal knowledge, he says, Now, he said, we use that
pronoun, we feared that he should cause them much grief when he
grows up by his transgression, and even disbelief and his wickedness.
And so we desired
and so we desired that their Lord, grant them,
their Lord grant them, instead of him another son of greater purity
of heart, and closer in loving tenderness and mercy towards the
parents.
In other words,
he wanted
the sun swapped for somebody who's going to be luckier
to be swapped for somebody who would be nobler in his heart,
gentler with them. And this knowledge was with Allah subhanaw
taala that this man, this young boy, he looks innocent, they all
look innocent when they're first born, and then they become the
greatest of tyrants. You know, if you look in history, at some
point, somebody's mother and others, Oh, how cute a baby,
right? teenagers.
And it grows from there. So.
So this is the story of that. And as for the wall, it belongs to two
orphan boys living in the city here use the word Medina, we'll
talk about that, instead of the little village, living in the
city. And beneath that wall was buried a hidden treasure which
belonged to them must have been put there by their father, because
they were yet him. The father has died. Their father had been a
righteous man salah. Okay. So now let's look, now this is something
good is happening. So your Lord is telling Musa alayhis salam your
lord intended that when they come of age, when they become old
enough, they will dig up the treasure by your Lord's grace and
mercy to them.
And then he says, Finally, which tells us that he was a Navy.
Moreover, I did not do any of this on my own authority.
Okay. And he said, This is the real meaning of all those events,
which you are unable to bear with patients.
So Peter, Allah CERAM ultimately explains the interpretation of his
actions.
We're going to take some extra time. So I hope you will have
patience with me, because we want to finish this story.
Inshallah,
in the study, my Yes, not law.
Interpretation
means to connect the end result with an the meaning consequence of
what action was done. So
as he said, that the ship it belonged to some poor people,
meaning weak people who could not defend themselves from oppression
from this tyrant. And you call them poor because of their
loneliness and weakness in my psyche.
And therefore, I chose the lesser of two harms. In our Sharia, when
there are two harms, you're supposed to do negative thing you
choose the lesser of the two, as they say lesser of the two evils.
So he harmed the boat, but he chose to do the lesser harm as
opposed to the greater and greater harm would be the ship would be
taken from them by force, and perhaps they'll be taken as slaves
or even killed.
So the fear of the seizure of the of the ship by the tyrant king was
greater, and therefore,
he decided to do that.
And another lesson from that is that the poor people had shown
their generosity even though they were poor, how did they show that
generosity
free and maybe it was that generosity which led to the
protection of the ship because they were generous with it Allah
sent this slave of is to protect. Okay, so if you want to preserve
anything that you have
use it, give it for the pleasure of Allah. That's what preserves
it.
Protecting, including children if you want to preserve and protect
them, let them serve Allah as the
the second story, that in Allah's knowledge, that boy was destined
to be a disbeliever. When he grew up, from the day he was created,
Allah knew that later on he would go and do things
that ultimately he would go into Cofer now what happens to parents
sometimes the parents overlook out of their love for the children,
and they would overlook or they might even be influenced to make
excuses for him. And it would bring lower them in their status
with Allah subhanaw taala they were Mortman Allah didn't want
that to come down because of their love, their attachment to their
children. Okay, and how many times we do things to displease Allah
just to please our children. Just remember that. Okay.
So
it was possible that they would have moved away from Allah and
lowered their ranks because of this disbelief. So Allah subhanaw
taala protected them by taking
now just imagine what the parents from the parents viewpoint.
One of probably I shouldn't say one of probably the most difficult
greatest loss for anyone is to lose a child.
Okay, just to lose a child.
So they have this innocent appearing young boy, and you die.
And they don't know all of this behind it.
And how many in our community have lost young kids knew in in West
Springfield a few Ramadan's ago, when kids ran across in the car
came and killed and what a great thing. And By Allah's grace, that
mother was a rock of patients when he went for condolence, he said,
Amana of Allah, Allah took him
all the people in condolence, the many sisters sitting there crying,
she was consoling, isn't the mother.
Okay, if some of you might know. Yes.
So
for them, it was a great loss. Now he says, and we, Allah would
replace an Allah give them another child.
And some of the nation said that they had a daughter.
And that daughter married one of the prophets of the Bani Israel
and from her progeny 70 prophets skip.
Okay.
So an innocent child that was killed senselessly in his
childhood, because parents would never know what was behind it. But
when they bear it with patients, then a lot elevates the status
standards even more. One woman came to Rasul allah sallallahu
alayhi. Salam said, jasola. I have lost three children in my life. He
said three she said, Yes. He says, Jana is guaranteed for you.
In fact, there's Hadith that when Allah subhanaw taala questions,
the angel of death, sends them to take somebody's child
and comes back What did you find my slave doing? said, You're
Allah. Your slave said in knowledge Allah haywire in Ireland
Rajon what Allah has given the story he has taken and he was
patient. Allah says to the angel, you be my witness that I have
granted him John
or her Jana, and these children would be at the gates of Jana, to
receive their parents, some of them.
The third one, Allah mentions that the what was the reason for
protection of these orphans, Welton, there is because their
father abou, abou masala was righteous.
And that tells us that if you have as a father, if you're righteous,
this is the cause of protection of your children, the risks their
blessings from Allah subhanaw taala. And it's also important to
note that the townspeople were extremely stingy. If those little
orphans if that Wall had fallen and somebody found the treasure,
what would they have done with the with the treasure the town people
know the taking it all he said, orphans go
and just imagine the mother, because she's not mentioned. She
was probably alive because they were, she must have been making
lots of the Yala who's going to support my orphaned children. And
where is this and she may have been thinking, when will the help
come and wisdom of allies doesn't want to give you now because it
will all be taken
From you, when they need it, it will come when they're grown up
strong enough, they will find the treasure this is from
Allah will answer the door of the mother. But at its right time, we
have to know the doors would be answered when Allah has knowledge
of what is best for you just remember, whatever he decides is
always best for you, regardless of how we see it.
So it will be delivered to them safely. So in conclusion, the
consequence of damaging the ship was that it was safe from the
enemy hands. The result of killing the boy was that his parents were
safe from his evil, and they were granted someone better. And the
result of repairing the wall was that the orphans were able to take
that treasure, when they needed it when they were strong enough to
protect it. And again, he said, he did not do it on his own accord.
And that there was a hidden wisdom and a blessed outcome for all of
this. And this is from the realm of the secrets of the unseen that
Allah subhanaw taala knows and he only imparts to someone.
And another Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, how we
wish that Musa had been patient. So Allah will tell us more about
these affairs and because but these three affairs are here.
So just put together some lessons. One,
some speak about Allah subhanaw taala without any knowledge,
sometimes that is worse than schicke. This is a lesson that
comes through. So by saying I don't know, we are actually saving
ourselves from a lot of harm.
So these stories sort of leave us in a state of awe and reflecting
we should reflect after when we go home. And the reflection in our
own lives of things that have happened that we wanted, happen in
a different way. And now we look back and say Alhamdulillah it
happened that way even though at that time I thought the opposite.
And that would teach us gratitude to Allah subhanaw taala for
everything humility that no I don't decide what is. I want you
to decide Yeah, Allah, whatever and you will and to put our trust
our cooling Allah masterplan, everything you decide, it may look
like something horrible.
It's always going to be positive. As long as we are connected to
Allah as long as we are believers, it will always be positive without
a doubt.
So these three incidents give us valuable insights in trying to
discern Hola, Samantha, let's cuddle and plan, it just give us
three glimpses, okay, so that when something happens to us, we can
look at it with that lens. I don't know, because cricket is not
coming to tell me what is behind this. But I know something good is
behind this.
So sometimes in our lives, there will be events that seem
irrational or immediately harmful,
like these events, and a true believer must have absolute faith
and complete trust, your clean and Tawakkol that the eventual benefit
will far exceed the short term harm that we are seeing, with re
experiencing.
And again, that lesson for the parents that Allah protected the
children because of the piety of the Father and of the mother, as
you know, in other cases, and if you want to protect your
children's future, this is a lesson for me. Start with yourself
by being righteous.
And
the other also demonstrated the importance of upholding the rights
of the children of the pious what you did.
Now, we can take it from the knowledge acquiring knowledge,
look at the eagerness to acquire sacred knowledge of Musala Sinha
said I will not rest till I get to that it depicts his determination
is resolved. And he felt no shame in seeking knowledge from somebody
less than less than in his stature. And you took the role of
a student humbly.
And the benefit derived here is that humility to learn the study
and study the truth from anyone is essential. And that goes hand in
hand with enthusiasm to learn.
As a students of knowledge, we must be willing to study under
anyone regardless of their age, background, nationality,
ethnicity. How often do we say Oh, what am I going to learn from
someone so it's just a kid, or he is just this or he doesn't know
how to speak English. He's got an accent. And I know more. I know
more. That's a very dangerous thing. So when somebody has some
knowledge, we should humble ourselves. We learn from everyone
we should learn from. We learn from students. I
Learn from students who I consider who I'm teaching. But we learn all
the time, we talked about the importance of companionship, so
far in acquiring knowledge. And that
we have to always strive, you have to work hard to acquire knowledge,
today, we want everything to be brought to our door, and put on
our screens without making any effort, well, it will have just
that kind of value.
Because what you strive for,
you preserve, and you have reverence for that, because you
know what it was, it's handed to you, we've got shelves and shelves
of books sitting there, nobody even opens them.
And again, we are taught proper other and good manners and
humility before a teacher, and also the teacher how to handle
students without humiliating them and insulting them and finding
excuses for them as a lesson.
And also always understanding that no one can reach the pinnacle of
learning that I have studied, I've got my doctorate is nothing, okay?
Remember, what, what we know. And whatever anyone knows, is less
than that drop
the value of humility in Islam, and therefore we should thank
Allah subhanaw taala for the knowledge he has given us, more or
less whatever, because Allah is Allah Alene. And we have been
given very little knowledge, as Allah Swatara says, And he gives
to whom He wants, and that whom he wants is also triggered by your
own desire to learn about our name. And we always say that, you
know, some of us doctors went to, in many times, the students asked,
How many years did you go to school, I said, if you don't count
the college and school, then we did, you know, four and a half
years of medicine than internship than two, three or four years of
residency and fellowship. And so 10 or 10 years, or 10 years,
that's a long time, then I look at it, how many years do I learn
sacred knowledge, which is more important. And that's the truth
and therefore, the state of what we are in, it reflects that. And
then Allah subhanaw taala can give just by companionship of the
baraka of the noble people, you stay with them, you will learn you
will not have to spend 10 years but
and of course, if we take it at face value, what you shall be
known since then shaitan will want to block you from knowledge
because shaytan is
stronger, against 1000, as the Hadith said, of the bad as opposed
to a person of knowledge Hallym 111, strong against shaitan, then
1000 arbit because you can lead them astray. So shaytan will make
his effort to block you from getting knowledge from putting it
into practice.
It teaches us to forgive an overlooked, overlook the mistakes
of others without reprimand, sometimes we forget people, but we
tell them, You did this, you did this, I forgive you.
Forgive them without saying you did this.
Right.
As we've already said, this federal Islam ahead of all this
happening had already made an excuse for Musa al salaam by
saying, and how can you have patience when when what's going to
happen is beyond your comprehension.
So only once these interpretations are revealed to us from the
knowledge of Hydra lessons from that we understand
all of this.
And also when we learn we have to act on that knowledge as
Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe Salam taught us that someone acts upon
what the knowledge they have, Allah will cause him to inherit
knowledge that he did not, then Allah will give you more person is
hungry, you finish what's on your plate, then the horse puts more
food. If you don't do anything with it, they're not going to pile
more food in it, okay, because waste. So if we act on the
knowledge, Allah will reveal some of these things will be unseen
understanding of these to us.
And again, as we said, the absolute need to put our trust in
Allah subhanaw taala has planned at all times, good times, bad
times, with patience with acceptance with actual pleasure
without humility and acknowledging that I do not know what and how
the benefit and good will come out of this. It may look so bad,
but having certainty that it will because Allah subhanaw taala
wishes only good for easy but as long as we are hitting the bat and
we act like as a burden we are connected to him and striving in
to gain His nearness
Now I just want to point out a few things about the etiquette that
hydrolysed salaam of the pronouns he uses. When he was damaging the
boat. It was a negative thing. What did he say? What did you say?
I damage I intended he didn't put it to Allah Swanton, even though
it was a command from Allah subhanaw taala. He says, I damaged
the boat.
In the second instance, there was good and there was bad, the bad
part was killing the child, and the good part was replacing it. So
he used the pronoun or we
we feared this. And we hope that his there Rob would replace them.
So he gave the positive to Allah and the negative killing to
himself attribute. In the third case, there was only good, so he
didn't say, I built the wall. He said, Allah intended this. So
whenever there is something good you attribute to Allah, whenever
it is negative, even though it's Allah's command,
he attributed it to himself, this is the other better last month.
Now a question for you.
Musala, Sarah made a promise? Did he break his promise?
Even say
he broke it. He said, inshallah. Well, as we know, when you say in
sha Allah, that's a conditional clause. You know, that's a
conditional clause, so it protects you from having to pay the failure
of breaking a promise. So he did say inshallah.
But did he break his promise in spite of that, yes.
But an OT, just remember promise and OT is only binding according
to one's capacity. Number one, number two, it is only binding,
and you have to uphold it. As long as it does not contradict the
sacred law, the Sharia, you cannot make an oath that I'm going to
kill somebody. Okay, I swore to kill somebody, you can't, you
should not follow that.
So what he saw was violation of the Sharia.
And as a messenger, it was his duty to object to it. Okay, so he
did not break because, as the Hadith said, that there is law
Partille Mahalo. There is no obedience of the creation.
The Marcia tell Holic with disobedience of Allah there is you
cannot obey a creation in something that involves
disobedience of the Creator. So what he was seeing was
disobedience of the Creator. So he had to say something. So, of
course, he did not break his promise. It was just the way it
appeared. Again, that's what it is. And that was his
understanding, wasn't he sent by the Creator to meet with has
consented?
Yes, he was, but he didn't know what he was, he was going to learn
knowledge. But when he's seeing his Sharia being violated, and he
has been sent as a messenger to uphold the Sharia, he doesn't know
what the knowledge behind it is. So on the surface, he has to
uphold this law.
So some have said that there were also parallels for learning
humility with Musa alayhis salaam for these three incidents.
Because he said, you planning to drown these people.
And when he himself took his people through
the water standing on each side, he wasn't afraid of drowning.
Number two,
he killed a man.
He didn't and he ran away.
Now he's holding this man accountable. And the third, when
you finally reach Medina,
he worked did good deeds for those women, the girls, and he didn't
charge any fee payment for it. So he had done something parallel,
and he did on his own in his own life, but he hadn't so this was a
reminder for him. But look, you You did all of these things
before.
We also learn Don't ask too many questions. Don't be too quick to
ask the wait for the answer.
Many times you see when we would scholars are sure you have of the
different spirituality you may see something that you don't
understand. It's best to wait and see
what comes out
That's what the Sahaba used to do. The Sahaba are known to have asked
very few questions. But they used to look forward to some Bedouins
coming from the desert because they would ask, yeah, Mohammed,
what is this? And they will be listening, but themselves. 1315 17
question they asked in all 23 years, they didn't ask
because they would wait for a surah Allah salAllahu salam to,
to I mean, sometimes they did and, for example, when Rasul Allah
salAllahu Alaihe Salam legislated hajj when the IRS came, no one
said Yara Shula every year.
And he kept quiet. So the line is, he said, you have a suit he's
trying to clarify, it's not me, it means you have to do this. Are we
supposed to do this every year? He kept quiet. And then the third
time he said, I kept quiet because if you ask this, Allah could have
made it for you every year and then you would not be able to do
it. So don't ask.
I said do how much to watch.
If it is every year, I will tell you.
Okay, so don't ask too many questions.
Because Allah knows that answer will come to you. And that's also
when we have gatherings we are taught ask question, interrupt it.
If you just wait till the end, maybe what you ask question you
have the answer will come to you later. And then in the end, if you
want to clarify, that's fine. But Allah knows, in your teaching and
share me know, what is the best time to reveal the answer of
something. And if you must ask, the goal should be to ask in order
to seek guidance, with courteous and good manners, not to just have
a debate about things, you know.
And as he clearly said, the condition is that don't ask me
about anything, and therefore the Sufis in their path, their path is
built on silence and submission to the shell to the motion, to the
extent that you do not say why. He says do this. You don't say why.
No matter what they witness from the chef, even if it seems
blameworthy, they stay quiet, to see what will happen later. What
how perhaps the chef may be testing their sincerity and doing
you know, in by doing something wrong to see what what does it
okay. So
one of the conditions for us as seekers of knowledge is patience.
And the other is obedience to the way that our teachers set out
things for us. And that the teacher in has, in some cases, it
higher rank than the parents.
Because parents are your physical
parents, and this shoe you are your spiritual parents
is the body and the soul.
So that's why the rank of the teachers is that tie. And,
again, for the teachers that when you teach someone, you should do
it with love and mercy.
And that knowledge should bring you closer to Allah subhanaw taala
and that you endow you with Taqwa. And then that knowledge becomes a
blessing. And we also know that knowledge can be a trial. If we
use it in the wrong way or not practice it, then that would be
evidence against us.
And there are some other spiritual issues that that are mentioned by
Ignacio Jeeva from North Africa, he had done
some very complex
things I don't know we had at 128. If somebody wants to hear it, it's
another three more minutes or I can stop at this point.
As you continue,
if not Jeeva, or Hautala has said that what we learned from damaging
the ship is that hidden knowledge and divine secrets will not pour
out onto the disciple until he breaks the habits of his soul, and
damages the ship of his existence through demolishing its outer
form, until no one turns towards him, nor he towards anyone else.
By that his heart will become isolated and steadfast in the
remembrance of his Lord. As long as his outer form remains
decorated with ordinary robes. He has no hope of receiving gifts and
benefits. Another way of putting it is like this. We have a heart a
club that is full of dunya
we have to poke holes in it to let things drain out.
Then only Allah will
still thinks if we maintain everything we have in that we want
all of those attachments, then nothing, there's no room the cup
is full.
And then he said, from the killing of the boy, one can extrapolate
that it is necessary to kill one's unlawful desires,
as well as the demonic and selfish influences the lower the force
that exists within him. The method of obtaining this is to examine
that which is heavy upon the soul and charge it with burying it
patiently. In other words, go against the Lord desires. Mahalo,
Mahalo for lafortune, nuts. And one should deny it that which is
easy for the nurse Oh, I like this. No, you're not going to get
until nothing from the the head weighs on it. And from repairing
of the wall, we can understand the importance of implementing the
divine legislation, upholding the etiquette of slave hood, and
preserving the secrets of Lordship. In other words, those
are treasures of what Allah has given treasures that you have to
protect those treasures for the right time when they can be used.
One can understand from this the importance of doing good to those
who treat you ill indeed people of that town wronged them, but by not
treating them hospitably yet credit Alehissalaam return their
ill treatment with good treatment by repairing the wall.
There's two other points that everywhere.
The word Allah subhanaw taala has used in this and federal Islam use
uses in a cannon that they are Maya sobre Deus tortilla there's
and the last time when he ends it he says lump does that allow you
Sabra there is 1/3 missing.
meaning is the same.
And some said this reflects the separation of the two that one has
gone means most anchored that are separate.
And then, as we said in that place, when they go into this
village, it's called a courier small. And then when he's
explaining it, he says they were in the Medina.
So some have said, generally Korea and Medina are not used
interchangeably. So they said the cochlea something small. So when
they were going in there that had to deal with the stingy people
hold the people, the whole township was lousy. So I'd like to
demean them because of the characters. It's a little village
when it was explained, now they were talking about the man, the
solid man and the orphans. So because of his nobility, Allah
scolded him within the greatness of the city. That's another.
So these are some of
the reflections and some of what I have been able to find and present
to you and
don't dwell too much into the details of federalism in this. The
lessons are more important. Those things exist. Did was the eternal
was not was economic. We've told you general opinion is he was an
abbey who was given special and that's it.
Okay.
So
if we can take away from this is what happens in our lives, what
may be happening currently in our lives, that is not tasteful. For
us, that's not something that we are happy with. Something that's
happening, or something that's not happening that we would want to
happen.
Yeah, Allah, if it's not happening, that is fair, because
you know, if it's happening, it's fair because, you know, if it's
happening, and I don't like it, it's still here because you know,
I'm going to wait and see
the Tavira of this, the interpretation of this, when you
reveal it to me, maybe you will reveal to me in this life, maybe
in the Hereafter I will know what you protected me from. So with
that, Allah's candor and acceptance, it gives us so much
strength, you can handle any difficult
including loss of a child
a loss of
loss of your livelihood, all of those things. So just three
examples were given it was a lesson was destined to, to have
more patients, and we will learn more but this gives us enough.
So Inshallah, we'll open it up for questions and answers, we ask
Allah subhanaw taala to to instill in us this reality of the cutter
and to know that as long as we are on the right path, trying to sense
surely learn and practice our deen and to come closer to Allah
subhanaw taala that no matter what happens, whether it's a loss of
life, loss of child loss of wealth, whatever happens is by the
wisdom and blessing of Allah subhanaw taala in a way that we
don't understand, and may Allah subhanaw taala strengthen us in
whatever
way that we individually need to be strengthened because we all
have weaknesses. And my last one and Allah make the reality of all
of this
be embedded in our hearts. So that moving forward for the rest of the
life that Allah has granted us that we are always grateful,
thankful to him and putting our full trust in Him Subhana Allah
humma with him the condition to Allah ilaha illa stuff