Mohammad Badawy – Reflections on the story of Musa As
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The importance of following Allah's teachings and his structure is emphasized, along with the struggles faced by people coming into conflict and the way Islam is structured. The importance of faith and actions is emphasized, along with the promise of love for one's mother and setting boundaries between faith and reality. The story of the beast is also discussed, including the promise of Islam to destroy the woman who attacked him and his army, rewarding individuals for their behavior, and set boundaries between faith and reality. The end of-speech is also emphasized, along with the message of Islam showing the end of-speech.
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We begin in the name of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and ask him to send his
timeless, purest,
most abundant peace, blessings and mercy upon our
dear beloved prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
his wives and his family members and his
companions
and all those who follow their example till
their judgment praying that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
makes us amongst them. Allahu Amin.
Welcome to the house of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala as we reflect a little bit over
some of his guidance together with the book
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And specifically in
the context of this season that we're in,
the season of Muharram of Ashura.
And
there's a lot of narrations about Ashura. The
most authentic of them and the most well
known of them being that what happened on
this day, 10th of Muharram, which was last
Tuesday. What is the most significant event that
we know happened on that day,
Islamically speaking?
So the salvation of Musa and Bani Israel
and the drowning of Firaun.
Right. So this is a major event that
was highlighted in our deen. There's a lot
of other narrations that are not as prominent
like the
landing of
Noah's Ark.
Right? Landing safely.
Like Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accepting the repentance
of Adam
and so many other narrations
about the prophets. The prophet highlighted that as
a day that the prophets
all fasted,
and some scholars extrapolated from that or from
other narrations. They said it was a day
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta showed favor on
prophets continuously,
so they would always fast it. So some
of them say Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta saved
Ibrahim alaihi san from the fire when he
was born on that day.
They explained that it's out of gratitude commemoration
for this event, and he said,
that we have more of a priority over
him. We're more in line with his teachings.
We're more in line
with his mission. Right? We're actually following this
way of life. In the Deena and Allahu
Islam, the only way of life with Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is this pure submission to
him, the Sharia that he revealed throughout history
which is Islam.
So
with that being said, just some reflections because
because we can't do the story of Musa
in, you know, the 60 minutes that we
have.
It's the most mentioned story in the Quran.
He's the most mentioned name, proper name in
the whole Quran of any human being, Musa
alaihis salam, over 70 times.
Any guesses why? Why is Bani Israel's story,
the story of Musa, in its bits and
pieces, the most mentioned story?
Can you guess why?
He's not the last prophet before us. Right?
That was ayes alaihi salam. So there's some
gap. Yes, sir. Because we should be the
opposite of them. We should be the opposite
of them.
Not always. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions a
lot of their example that we should follow.
Right? He mentions how
from them were people for example
who stood by their Prophet in the worst
of times.
He said,
How many are Prophet from the previous nations?
Many godly men stood by his side in
battle.
They never wavered, they never weakened. Even and
the tafsir says, what does it mean they
never wavered, they never weakened? When that prophet
himself died,
he was standing by their side in battle.
Imagine that, the one who's telling you jannah
and nar and the promise of Allah and
victory and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is on
your side, his head goes flying.
What would happen? People would say this is
all a lie.
What just happened? What were you just telling
us? Now you're dead. But Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says they saw that and they didn't
move.
They didn't waver.
And the only thing they said is, oh
Allah forgive us. Maybe it's our sins that's
doing this.
Maybe it's our sins that caused this. If
this is a problem, if it's a problem
because it could not be. The the promise
of Allah is unaffected and these are people
from Bani Israel. So no, they're heroes amongst
them and they may have they may not
be the common theme of the Quran but
they're there. Right. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions
how some of them would spend the night
in prayer, right, and spend it in devotion
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that we
should follow that example and so on and
so forth. That being said, the majority of
the example, as the brother said, is not
good.
Right? The majority of the example of what
they did, how they dealt with their prophets,
how they argued,
how they dragged their feet with the commands
of Allah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us
to to highlight, don't be like that.
This is stuff for you not to do,
how not to act. So that's one thing.
K. Anything else?
So their rulings are very similar.
Before a lot of scholars have said before
Bani Israel, there was no jihad.
The people just have to struggle to the
very end, a supernatural
help will come.
But this ummah, Allah swam wa sallam, there's
no there's no pillar of fire that's gonna
come swallow the disbelievers.
There's no supernatural
norm that's gonna happen. The norm is you
keep struggling. Right? There's a there's a
the onus is put onto the ummah that
you preserve the truth, you preserve the Quran,
you struggle to memorize it, you struggle to
learn and teach it to your generations.
And then also in terms of those who
disbelieve and reject the message.
What used to happen before is that they
were given a period of time. Once that
period of time is up, Allah would punish
them and destroy all of them. There's no
repentance. Now he allows the struggle to continue.
The time for repentance is open to the
very end. Right? People being taken supernaturally
doesn't happen anymore or at least it's not
the norm, we should say. So their way
of life and the the changes that happened,
their sharia in terms of, like, jihad, the
struggle, the way Allah deals with mankind now,
the dua that they do, that is something
that is is very similar to us. So
good. These these are a lot of the
reasons this call is mentioned. The prophet told
us you're gonna follow their example to the
t. Everything they did wrong, meaning.
Everything they fell into of trials, of tribulations,
of mistakes, he said even if they entered
into a lizard's hole. Right? You see some
a creature.
If you imagine you see a person trying
to get into a rock, a small dirty
spot, and they're trying to get inside this
rock. You would never follow them. Right? It's
something absurd. It's illogical.
But then he said, if you saw them
doing that, you would follow. Right? The the
the example being that you're going to follow
them follow them blindly, right, even in their
mistakes. So for that reason, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala want us to hear their story over
and over. In addition too, we're gonna be
interacting with them a lot. Right? These these
are people who are going to be continuously
interacting with
in terms
of literal examples of people who act like
this and then also just their faith. Right?
Their faith being remnants of these prophets,
of these revelations of the Torah and and
the Injil. You'll be dealing with these people
on the norm, so you need to hear
these stories. So all these reasons amongst the
reasons why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions the
story and over. So
all that was the point was that it's
a very long story. We won't be saying
all of it, but we will be reflecting
on certain parts that relate to the lead
up to Ashura. So it was really reflecting
on certain parts that relate to the lead
up to Ashwara. So it was really hard
to wonder where to start, like, because it's
the story of Musa Islam. So we'll start
from the very beginning even though that will
take time, but we won't mention every single
detail, just snapshots.
Reflect with me and I want you to
think about 2 things in your reflections. Number
1 is yourself.
Your own struggles.
Your own
goals. Your own worries.
And
how much of this and the char which
of these characters resonates most with you
and the message Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants
to give you in these verses. And then
number 2, of course, is the Muslim Ummah
worldwide.
Think about all the conflicts, Think about the
struggle in Palestine. Think about your feed that
you're seeing nonstop and then weigh it against
what you hear and try to make it
make sense in the midst of all this
because again, that is why the Quran was
revealed. So the story begins Musa alayhis salam
is born into slavery. Right? Bani Israel as
a ethnicity
and the estimates of the scholars go from
tens of thousands to 100 of thousands of
men, women, and children.
They're enslaved by the ruling class of Egypt,
as many of you already know, And Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the Fir'awna alafilad.
Fir'awna was a tyrant in the land. He
raised himself above others. He put them down.
And
he made its people into parties. You're high
class, you're low class.
You're preferred,
you're undesirable.
Slaves, masters. That he did that. It was
unnatural.
Right? It was a form of oppression, as
it always is. Right? This is how,
a lot of
rulers do. Right? They divide the people in
terms of preference according to their own whims
and desires. Allah subhanahu wa ta'am is saying,
so this is the stage that is set.
On top of that, he has a dream
one day that one of the children, the
males from this slave class that he's enslaving,
will overthrow him.
He has a dream that one of these
males will kill him. He gets it interpreted
and that's the interpretation of what's gonna happen.
So he freaks out
and he asks his advisors, what should we
do?
And they say you should
He he raises the idea, I'm gonna kill
the males then. I can't have any of
these newborns grow up to
overthrow me. He's afraid. They said, if you
do that, we're gonna run out of slaves
because if you kill all the males and
this is the slave ethnicity, the slave class,
where are we gonna get slaves from? So
he decides, you know what, 1 year we'll
kill all the male children and 1 year
we'll let them live. That way, what's the
percentage of catching the one who's gonna overthrow
him?
5050.
And Musa alaihis salam is born in what
year?
The year that he kills babies.
So he he his math was were worked
out, right?
His probability, his gamble actually worked in the
sense that the one that he was looking
for was born in the year that he
kills the males, not in the year he
lets them go. So his gamble would have
worked out if it was up to him.
So that's Fir'an's story. This is like his
backdrop. What is the backdrop of Bani Israel
and Musa? Allah subhanahu tells us. So
that's what Farhan wanted. He want to be
a tyrant. He want to oppress people. He
claimed divinity. He made slaves, and he began
to slaughter them to make sure that it
stays like this. That's his context. That's his
background.
It's completely
juxtaposed
to what Firaun wants. It's the complete opposite.
Not only that, he also says, and we
wish to show Firaun and his cronies, Haman,
and his generals exactly what they feared.
We want their absolute worst fear to come
true, that's what Allah wants which is they
lose their power and they are destroyed.
And then for these people to turn from
slaves
into those that will inherit the earth, that
will be left, They will be the ones
who live.
And to establish them on the earth.
And this is the first point of reflection.
Both these contexts begin with the same thing,
the dream.
Firaun's desire
to keep himself in power
is the first step of his plan,
and it's also the first step of Allah's
plan that will lead to his demise. His
chasing down the children of Bani Israel will
be the first domino
that leads to his downfall. What is the
reflection here?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does what he wants.
His plan,
the first step of it is the tyrant's
actions
in this story.
Because when when's what's the next scene? This
is from Surat Al Qasas by the way,
Surah number 28. The next scene is the
mother of Musa running frantically with her baby,
in fear that he will be killed,
wondering where am I gonna put him? They're
chasing him. He's crying. He's hungry. He's an
infant. Infants cry.
So that's the very next scene. And in
her mind, at that moment, is absolute fear
and anxiety. This child is not safe. She
can never never fathom. You can never in
a million
worlds, lifetimes, explain to her that you running
in fear
is what will cause
Firan's downfall.
So when we see the Muslim ummah, when
you see your own life and you can't
make sense of things,
Allah
has a plan.
And that plan is set in motion and
will come to pass no matter what.
You have to trust in it. That's one
of the most central themes that we're gonna
come back to over and over, but the
story starts like that. Because Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala tells her, well, hayna ila ummi Musa
an abder here first thing
he inspires her to breastfeed him, keep him
quiet. That's the very least that'll do with
the scholars mentioned. Right? An infant who's who's
crying out loud, the first thing is if
he has some
sustenance to to drink, he's he's gonna be
quiet. So that will keep him safe for
now. And then he tells her what, when
you worry about him, when you're unable to
take it, when it's when they're coming close,
when they're closing in on you,
then you throw him into the water. You
throw him into the river.
If you're afraid for him, put him in
a box, throw him in the water.
It's a it sounds absurd.
That could be opposite of what a mother
would do in fear. Not only that, then
he tells her,
don't be afraid.
Don't distress. Can a person even respond to
that? Is it possible?
What makes it possible?
We're gonna give him back.
He's coming back to you. That's a promise
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. On top of
that,
he will be a prophet. He has an
epic legacy. Not only will he be safe,
not only are you going to get him
back, his story is gonna be an epic
story that's gonna be echoing throughout all of
time. He's gonna be a prophet.
So she obeys
because the promise of Allah subhanahu ta'ala,
she's a believer in it. And as much
as you fear in those moments,
as anxious as you are, as much doubt
as you'll experience,
Nike had the right idea of things, you
just do it.
You just gotta follow, you just have to
comply. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will not leave
you hanging. And at that moment, that's all
you have to do, just comply.
You don't need to see where it's going.
You don't need to understand how the ends
connect. You don't need to even know the
next step. Just comply.
It won't be easy as we're gonna see
because what happens next
is that baby is picked up by the
very people who wanna harm him.
And the first person to come across him
is Asiya, the wife of Faraun.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is in charge
here.
So Musa alaihis salam's mother,
she asks that he follows that she asks
his sister to follow him to see where
it ends up, and they find out that
it ends up at the house of Faraun
himself,
at the banks of the river that is
connected to his palace.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells him later
in the story,
I made people love you. I cast upon
you love
from me. So the second that Asiya saw
him, she fell in love with him.
That's all it took
for him to be safe in the belly
of the beast, in the mouth of the
monster. Allah
simply makes the mother of the the wife
of Faran love him. I love this child.
Let Aktuluh, don't kill him. Soldiers have to
listen, she's the queen.
Me and you will take him as a
son.
Firaun claims to be god,
claims to be divine.
I'm your lord the most high.
These rivers underneath my feet, they flow. I
control this.
Everyone else is
dirt.
But then when his wife says we're keeping
this kid, he keeps the kid. Right? That's
a there's a lesson there,
which is even the man who was king
and claimed to be god had to listen
to his wife when she said, we're we're
keeping this kid. She said, I want him.
We're not gonna kill him.
We're gonna enjoy him as a child. He
said, I have no part in any of
that. No. But then he had to say
yes.
So
this is how he ends up in the
house of Firaoun.
But Musa's mother doesn't know all this. She
doesn't know that Asiya is taking him lovingly.
She doesn't know that she's gonna stand up
to Firaoun and say, you're not gonna kill
this one. All she sees is him getting
picked up and taken into the very worst
place possible. So what's her state now? She
believes in the promise of Allah. She complied.
But then here,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala describes her,
her heart became empty, an abyss.
In she
was about to blow up his spot. She
was about to say she's about that's my
son. She was about to expose the whole
thing. She couldn't.
She couldn't bear
seeing this happen.
What was the differentiating factor?
She didn't learn anything new. She didn't find
out, no. No. Asiya loves him. He'll be
fine. Firam didn't know what to do. He's
keeping him.
She didn't know any of that.
So what changed? What stopped her from faltering?
It was Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We
fastened her heart.
Because when you comply,
when you do your part, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will take care of you. Doesn't mean
it's gonna be easy, she was afraid. It
doesn't mean that you're gonna say, oh, no.
I obeyed Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his
promise is true and you're gonna waltz through
it all untouched, unfazed. No. You're gonna be
afraid.
You might feel like in your insides it's
empty just like her.
You might feel like you're about to break,
Inkaadatatubdibi.
She was about to blow up the whole
thing, ruin the whole plan.
But Allah says we fastened our heart, we
tied. No, don't do it now. Don't break.
Why? Because you complied earlier. You heard the
promise, you believed in it, and you fell
through. You did what you're asked, you did
what you're commanded. So now later when things
get beyond what you can bear, Allah steps
in and says, no. No. You won't break
here. I'm going to take care of you.
And this is something that you will experience
yourself.
In times where you look back like I
I I don't know. How did I get
through that? It was Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It was his hand on your shoulder.
It was him refusing to let you break
because that's what he wills for us. He
wills more good for us than we will
for ourselves. That's who he is
He does that
often
not often, all the time without you even
asking.
Years later,
as we'll see in the story when Musa
alaihis salami begets revelation,
he freaks out too. He says, I have
to go to Firaoun,
have to go back to the the very
tyrant that I ran away from, that I've
been escaping for the last decade of my
life plus,
that ruined my people's life. I have to
go confront him. So he has a he
has a list. When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says that's your mission, he says
expand for me my chest. It feels tight.
It feels constricted. This is huge. I'm anxious.
Make easy for me my task.
And undo the knot in my tongue. Don't
let me stumble over my words and stutter
so they can understand me so this message
could be clear.
Grant me a counselor for my family, Harun
Akhi, my brother Harun.
Don't just make him help me,
make him a prophet too, send him revelation.
He has a list.
Allah is revealing to him you're a prophet,
he shows him the snake, the staff turning
to the snake, he says you're gonna have
miracles, I'm on your side, and he's like
no no no I have all these requests
that I need before I can go. Allah's
answer is what?
Done.
But by the way,
we have shown you favor multiple times before
this, and he mentions this whole story that
we just started. When you were born and
your mother was afraid, and you went into
the water, and you ended up in Firaun's
house, and I made people love you, and
I protected you.
What's the point of all this the scholars
say? Why is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala answering
Musa's dua and then saying his life story
before that?
The assurance?
Exactly.
The assurance is in that if I took
care of you this whole time with these
intricate details
without you even being aware, let alone asking.
Now that you're aware and asking, would I
say no?
SubhanAllah.
And the scholars say imagine on the day
of judgement,
when you stand in front of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and hear your story for the
very first time, you have no idea your
own story.
The times that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was
there, the times that he was that invisible
shield from absolute destruction,
that your career or your goal or your
aims were going to be absolutely missed, but
he took your hand and he made it
aim the proper way.
How many times has that happened and we
don't even know?
And then when we ask, we say why
would Allah answer me?
Why would he listen?
He's been here the whole time. He's been
here for decades, hasn't he? Hasn't he? Aren't
you here?
Isn't there so much that you enjoy?
Isn't there so much that you've procured? Isn't
there so much that mean you have avoided
of things that we didn't want? That was
him.
Imagine when you stand in front of him
and hear your story for the very first
time, how involved he was, how observant he
was,
how in the times where you wanted to
say I'm done, he said no no no,
and he fastened that hard like he did
for the mother of Musa. How much do
we owe Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
for being there the whole time?
So
Allah
wills that
Musa alaihi salam will reject all of
the breastfeeding that comes his way. All the
wet nurses that they try to feed him,
he rejects all of them.
We made all
the the the wet nurses,
all those who tried to breastfeed him haram
on him. His he would not be able
to lack. She would not drink from them.
So now they have a screaming baby who's
starving and they don't know what to do.
And his sister is observing the whole time,
says, I know a family that could take
him in. And she suggests his mother, and
they're desperate. They'll try anyone. They're bringing wet
nurses. So they bring his mother in and
she becomes hired as his wet nurse. So
in the beginning of the story, he's wanted
by being born
to be killed and there's no escape.
Because even if they escape for a week
or 2 or a month, he's a newborn.
He was born in this last year. He's
he has a target on him for at
least a
year, and his mother's a fugitive for just
being a mother. And then now how has
the switch has the situations changed? He's being
adopted by the very man who wants to
kill him, so he cannot be harmed.
His mother is paid now to breastfeed him,
which she would have been doing her for
free free because it's her it's her child.
Now she's being paid to do it in
the palace of Faraun. He's gonna be raised
with all of these amenities, with all of
these services surrounding him, and he's gonna have
access to his mother to learn from her,
to be to have a relationship with her,
While his foster mother, Asiya, loves him dearly
and will be a believer eventually too. So
Allah puts him in the actually the safest,
most
equipped place for his mission.
Even though just a few short moments ago,
it looked the absolute opposite. Why did Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala do that? He says, We
returned him to his mother. Why? So that
her eyes could be pleased with seeing her
child back.
That Allah
cared about her emotional state
because of her submission,
because she heard that promise and said done.
As afraid as I am, as unsure as
I am,
I'll do it. So when she did that,
when she was about to break, Allah fastened
the heart, and then the promise came true
almost immediately.
Not in the greater sense. He didn't it's
not a prophet yet. The mission is not
commissioned, but here he is back in your
arms.
Someone could argue, but technically, he's not her
child. He's *. Yes. She has to go
see him. He's back, safe,
in her arms, under her care, regular access,
being fed and cared for by his birth
mother, as opposed to being hunted and wanted
and rerunning in fear. This is the best
possible solution,
not just for them, but for the plan
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant victory
to these people and relieve them of oppression.
We fast forward a few decades,
and now he's a young man. He's a
believer in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. As the
scholars have mentioned, he received upbringing from his
mother.
And he enters the city and he sees
2 people fighting.
One of them is from Bani Israel. I'm
gonna rush through it just a little bit
just for the sake of brevity. We wanna
get to the, you know, the climax of
of Firaun's
demise. But he he sees 2 men fighting.
1 of them is from Bani Israel. 1
of them is from the people of Firaun.
He intervenes, and he unintentionally
kills
the man from the people of Egypt, the
Egyptian man from the people of Firaoun.
Immediately, he says hadhem and amal al shaytan.
This is something that was influenced from the
influence of shaytan. This action was from the
influence of shaytan. Either some scholars mentioned his
anger or his excessive accidental
use of force, but was still excessive. Whatever
it is he
says this is from the shaitan, he repents
immediately. I did wrong and Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala forgives him.
Oh, Allah, I oppressed myself. I transgressed.
So forgive me, so Allah forgave him. And
this is our second reflection now after the
first being the promise of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and our role in it, is that
that is the simple formula for our entire
lives.
That is the formula that began humanity. That
Allah created Adam alaihi salam, gave him a
command. He faltered,
he repented, Allah forgave him.
This formula is so important
that the prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi salam said,
if you didn't abide by this formula,
if you were physically incapable, you're you were
perfect,
Allah would do away with you
and bring about a group of people that
this formula would apply to, meaning they make
mistakes and they sin, and then he would
and they seek his his forgiveness, then he
would forgive them.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants you to abide
by this formula.
He didn't say don't make mistakes ever.
But he says the second that you do,
follow this formula of our father Adam alayhi
salam, follow the formula of Musa alayhi salam,
of all the prophets. Recognize, step 1,
I did wrong. I oppressed myself. I transgressed
against
my creator.
I'm the one who's out of line here.
2nd, I recognize that. I do the ateraf,
the acknowledgement. I now turn to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and regret. And as he said,
sallaihi wa sallam, and nadamhu wa ta'aba, regret
is repentance.
That's the fundamental component.
Then what happens next? It's not a mystery,
it's an equal sign.
So he forgave him.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala responds.
So this is how we have
to have the mindset of our life,
of the mistakes that I make. I recognize
them immediately. I stop immediately and recognize. Don't
keep going.
Don't insist.
Recognize immediately. Show regret,
then seek forgiveness. Allah will forgive you even
if you were to repeat it.
These are the words of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
That he said the servant will commit a
sin
and then seek sincere forgiveness with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, and then Allah will forgive them.
Then they'll fall into it again and then
Allah will forgive them when they seek forgiveness.
And then again and then again until Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala announces,
faliyahfaalabdi
mayasha. Let my servant continue this process forever.
I don't care. I will continue to forgive
him as long as he knows and believes
and acknowledges that he has a lord that
forgives. This isn't a green light to do
whatever we want, but meaning if someone tried
their best sincerely then fell short into the
same sin, then said, no no no, today
I'm done,
And then fell short again, but it's an
honest mistake, they're struggling, they're trying. Allah doesn't
care, there's no number.
As long as they're sincerely trying their best,
as long as we really sincerely say, no,
no, I'm done with it. Looking up methods,
hitting up friends maybe, keeping people in the
loop, seeking therapy if that's a part of
it, seeking outside help, medical help, keeping a
diary. Whatever it is, I'm actually trying to
stop this thing. I'm trying to repent to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. If I'm trying that
to the best of my ability, sincerely and
it's failing, Allah doesn't care
as long as I keep trying.
And he said if you reach me in
this state at the end of the road
after this struggle sincerely
and your sins,
it reaches the heights of the heavens, the
peaks.
And
and you come to me with the earth
load of sins, you've maxed out, I'll bring
you an equal amount of forgiveness.
I don't care. I don't gotta check with
anybody. He doesn't have to check the budget.
He doesn't have to check with the treasurer.
Is it okay if we hand out this
much forgiveness? Is it okay if we forgive
this one?
Is this number past the quarter of the
season? There's no It's no such thing with
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He says, I don't
care. I'll just forgive you. Done.
The amount, the size doesn't matter as long
as you follow the formula.
We gotta teach that formula to our children.
You did wrong. Habibi Habibi. It's okay. John,
make ask Allah to forgive you.
Stop right then and ask Allah to forgive
you. He will forgive you, and I forgive
you too. You preempted. Don't wait. Are you
sorry? Sometimes we do that with our kids.
Right? We try to drag it out. Like,
are you really sorry? You don't look sorry.
You don't sound sorry.
Sometimes they don't.
I agree.
But maybe we should tell them the formula
is a lot simpler than that.
If you say you're sorry
and you feel sorry, Allah will forgive you
and I forgive you too. Let them know
that there's always that lifeline that they never
have to cut themselves off because Allah
never do that to them.
This false murder,
which that's what it becomes later, it becomes
a story of murder
even though it's an accident,
makes a target on Musa yet again. So
he had a target on him from birth
and now there's another target on him. And
now he has to run from Egypt. He
runs. He goes to Midian. He lives there.
He gets married. I'm I'm I'm rapping. I'm
I'm, I'm skipping this part of the story
for the sake of brevity. But Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala blesses him in the sense that
when he gets to Midian,
he sees women in need,
that they're struggling to,
draw water from a well because the amount
of shepherds have crowded
the well. So he
and the the the scholars mentions that he
traveled for a week or more to get
to Midian on foot with no supplies. He's
starving.
He's thirsty. He's exhausted.
He doesn't know what to do. He has
no direction. He has no revelation from Allah
yet, so he has no idea what's next
or what to do or how he's gonna
eat. But then he sees 2 women in
need and he stands up because that's what
men do. Alright. This is the this is
the role of men.
This is the role of fathers and brothers
and even men to women that they're not
related to. If there's a role that we
play, that's our job to step in. Right?
This is something we should teach our sons.
Right? Any type of feat or endeavor that
requires physical strength
that might in that might procure some kind
of harm. It's our job to step up.
Allah made us for that.
So he does that, and it's part of
his ihsan
to show service
in a time where who needs it the
most.
Describes the sahaba. They prefer others. They show
them preference even when they themselves have the
dire need. They themselves could be hungry and
they're giving sadaqah
because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us through
his messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is in the aid of
the servant as long as the servant is
in the aid of his brother.
That whoever conceals him and satara Muslim and
sataraahuallahu yamal qiyama. Whoever conceals the sins of
a Muslim, Allah will conceal their sins. It's
reciprocal, and you'll never outdo Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
You're in need, go find a Muslim you
can help.
You're looking for some help, career moves, go
find a Muslim who needs the same thing
and maybe you can help them. Maybe they're,
like, a little bit lower in their journey.
They're just starting.
You need somewhat something for someone higher, give
to someone lower.
And watch how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
from his ihsan,
from his perfection, refuses to be outdone by
you and will give you more.
So he helps them out. That ends up
in them relaying that story to their father,
and
he offers him one of them in marriage.
He ends up living there and working for
him. 10 years later, as the Skars have
mentioned,
it does not mention the Quran directly, but
he decides to go back to Egypt.
Some say that he had this homesickness.
It's been 10 years. Doesn't know what's going
on.
Has it died down? People aren't still looking
for me? Let me go see. Some say
he wanted to visit his mother, that he
hasn't seen her now for 10 years.
And some say Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just
put it in his heart. This is where
you need to go. Head in this direction.
Not necessarily to Egypt yet, but in the
direction of Egypt. So he just was wandering
aimlessly, but out of the sense that this
is where he was what he's supposed to
do. You get that sometimes. Right? Some kind
of,
supernatural pull or inclination that this is what
we're supposed to be doing, this is what
he felt.
And that's where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala calls
him and reveals to him and tells him
the mission is that you will face Fir'aun.
Right away, he responds in the way that
we described. So first, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
tells him to cast down his his snake,
his staff, and he turns it into a
snake. And he is terrified.
What is this? What's happening? It's supernatural. So
he runs in fear, and Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala tells him, khudha walataqaf, take it and
don't be afraid. That's one of the most
interesting parts of the story.
That command
is the most repeated in the story of
Musa, do not be afraid for his mother.
Throw him in the river, don't be afraid,
you'll get him back. Take the staff, don't
be afraid. He tells him, your mission, you
and your brother,
is are is to go to Fir'awn and
confront him. They said,
We're afraid he's gonna transgress against us. He
Allah responds, let akhafa, both of you, don't
be afraid.
He now goes stands in front of Fir'aun,
and as he enters upon him and discusses
with him and then the whole showdown with
the musicians that we we may or may
not get to,
Musa experiences a fear in his heart.
Don't be afraid.
Throw down what's in your right hand. You
got this.
Every single part of the story, after seeing
miracles, after being given promises, after doing his
job, he still experiences fear
because it's normal,
because he's a human being.
So believing in the promise of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, doing it right, being one of
the best prophets to ever exist,
one of Ullazim, right, the top 5 prophets
of the greatest determination as Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala titled them,
is still constantly afraid
because it's normal.
But when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commands him,
when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promises him, he
falls he falls he falls in line.
He doesn't fall through. He doesn't crack despite
that fear, and that's what it's all about.
It's not about becoming fearless.
It's not about becoming superhuman.
It's about developing past that fear,
such that he gets to his graduation day,
which is the whole point of the story
that we're discussing.
That after the struggles and as some scholars
said, it took decades of going back and
forth with Firaun, the 9 plagues of Egypt,
they see one miracle after the other, one
torment after the other. They promise to believe,
they go back on their word. A lot
of things, some that we'll mention, most that
we won't.
But after all of that back and forth,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, okay, they're done.
They've had all the opportunities they had, they've
had all the dawah they needed,
they're done. Your job is just to leave.
No more dawah, no more miracles, no more
shore downs, no more discussion. So they leave.
Firaun follows them. They get to the edge
of the water, the edge of the Red
Sea.
When they get there,
perhaps hundreds of thousands of men, women, and
children,
They ask Musa alaihi salam, what's what's going
on here? Why are we here?
He says, this is where Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala commanded us, to come here.
So they look now on the horizon and
they see a cloud of dust. It's the
army of Firaun.
When the 2 groups see one another, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says in Suraj Suraj Sura'ara,
the people of Musa, they say we're done
for. They're gonna catch us. We're all dead.
And
in the tafsir, it mentions how even Harun
alayhi salam,
even Yusha Ab Noon, who will later become
a prophet himself,
the most righteous of many were
they were believers,
but they faltered. Their belief in the promise
of Allah, their compliance wasn't on the same
level as, of course, their prophets or even
on the level that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
necessarily approved of for much of the story
as well as as you'll see if you
go through it.
But then the most sincere of them,
Harun alayhi salam, who's also a prophet. Yusha
Ab Noon, as some of the tafsirs mentioned,
they questioned Musa alayhi salam, like, where? Where
exactly? Because, like, they're coming now.
They believe him, but they're saying, what what
next?
And the Musa alaihi wasalam says, forward. So
Yusha Abnuun says, sure. We believe in it.
He goes forward with his horse until the
water reaches
all of its legs, and he turns back
to Musa alaihi wasalam,
and he says,
Here? Like the horse is drowning at this
point, like what what what else could we
do?
And Musa alaihis salam says,
I'm not lying to you neither was I
lied to. This is it.
So when the true groups see one another,
and those with Musa said, we're going to
be caught, we're done. How did he answer?
No way. There's no fear today.
He's seen the story too many times to
be afraid now.
He saw he heard about it with his
mother. He heard about it when he was
afraid in Midian. He heard about it when
he needed a life and a wife and
a job and he got all of that.
He heard about it when he was lost
in the desert, when he had to take
that staff when it became a snake for
the first time. Then when he stood in
front of Firaoun on his own, and then
the showdown with 70,000
magicians,
and then the years in which he was
tormented, him and his people by Firaoun.
Now when he's at the edge of the
water and there's nothing to be done, there's
nowhere to go, there's no means to use
even. He doesn't care. He says there's no
way. There's nothing to be afraid of today.
My Lord is with me. He will guide
me. He'll tell us what to do.
What does the command
come?
Strike for them
a dry path into the water.
Don't be afraid again.
Don't be afraid of getting caught, and don't
be afraid. Don't worry about what's gonna happen.
So even then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, again,
the command comes, do not be afraid because
what's about to happen is gonna be epic.
We're gonna see the water moving, you're gonna
have to walk in the middle of the
sea. Fear is gonna come into play for
sure. If Iran is still chasing you, don't
worry about that.
So this is one of the main points
here.
We kinda went into several of them. The
first reflection is the promise of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. Number 2 is the formula for
forgiveness,
the lifelong formula that we should memorize
and tattoo or figuratively tattoo, right, into our
minds.
And the third point was that
he was a source of good
regardless of his situation.
Right? He was in the most need, and
he knew that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reciprocate
that. And then after that, this last one
that we discussed is
the path,
the journey, your own personal journey is gonna
have a lot of fearful moments.
Your job is not to necessarily
be fearless,
but to overcome that fear in the sense
that it never stops you from doing what
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded you. It never
leads you to consider that which Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala forbid.
Maybe I'll I should tap into that. I
should consider that as an option now, because
of my fear. Never. It can be.
This is the whole test. This is the
whole point.
This is where the promise comes
to play. There's so many other parts of
the story I don't want to,
drag along and if we if we get
into it,
it'll be inevitable. But
the last part
or let's do 2 more quickly.
The one before the last is
after the showdown with the magicians,
Musa alaihi salaam
confronts them.
They set up a meeting day,
a challenge where
Firaun wants them to prove
through their sorcery, through their tricks, through their
illusions or whatever they have going for them
that what Musa alayhis salam has is not
special.
Allah subhanahu tells him to cast his staff
and it destroys their magic,
consumes it, and they immediately believe.
They immediately fall down in Sujood. Zero lectures,
0, you know, logical points or rhetoric. They
see the truth, and they recognize it immediately.
Right? That should be a formula that we
abide by as well. If you recognize that
as true,
you recognize that this comes from your creator,
comes from his messenger, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
you recognize it is how you will succeed
in your hereafter. It is a command. You
have to do this. It's an obligation.
It's a prohibition. You cannot do this. You
never respond with not now.
I'm working on it. No. The first step
is to submit in your heart even if
you're not doing it. You may struggle to
do it. You're still you're still working on
it. That's fine. But the first step is
in my heart. No. This is an obligation.
This is a prohibition. I accept it.
First and foremost is the acceptance, the submission
in your heart
before you even begin to address whether you
will how you'll do it or when or
or any other details. So that is what
the magicians did. They recognized the truth. They
submitted immediately.
One moment ago they were asking if
we win, what do we got? How will
you hook it up once we win? What
status will you give us? What wealth? And
then now he tells them who told you
to believe? And they say, lenno thiraka, we're
not gonna choose you over the truth that
we just recognized.
5 minutes ago, they said, what will you
do for us? We want your favor. We're
gonna work hard.
The second they saw the truth and recognized
that it's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who calls
the shots. It's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who
deserves that supreme status. And he told them,
how dare you? They said, you? Who are
you?
One moment ago they were trying to appeal
to him and now they're saying, who are
you? That's what true faith could do for
you, put everyone in their proper place.
So they recognize immediately and that is a
formula that we want to abide by, but
that's not the point that I wanna reflect
on. What happens to them?
What happens to these 70,000
men? They're executed
in a brutal fashion.
I'm going to cut off your arms and
your legs in opposites. So your right arm
and your left leg go get cut off,
and then you will be crucified on the
palm trees. I ain't get executed. You die
there from from bleeding or from the elements
or from the animals.
And they said,
no problem.
Deal.
That's fine.
We'll take it.
Because there's something called the hereafter.
Because you have no power except to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala decides. They do all of
that just from recognizing the truth.
The power of submitting,
the power of recognizing the truth and accepting
it. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala pours it in,
it's from Him. It's not really about what
we're doing.
We appeal to Allah through what we do.
Oh Allah, it's a prayer. It's a sadaqa,
please.
I'm appealing to your majesty but if you
can pour that in for me, if you
can fasten on my heart like the mother
of Musa, that'd be that's all I need
because nothing else would matter,
nothing else would ever tempt me,
Nothing else would ever put me in harm's
way
even if I'm physically harmed. I'm not talking
about physically, they died,
and there's more to come. What happens next?
We have the story of Masheretatibint
Firaun,
the hairdresser of the daughter of Firaun.
That the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he ascended
through the heavens in Islami Arraj where he
met Musa alaihi salam and other prophets, where
he met Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and spoke
to him directly and received the command of
the 5 daily prayers.
And in that journey, he said, I came
across
one of the heavens,
and I turned to Jibril alaihislam and I
asked him,
Oh Jibril, what is this beautiful smell? What
is this scent that I'm detecting?
This heavenly otherworldly smell. And he said,
This is the smell, the scent of the
hairdresser of the daughter of Firaoun and her
children.
Because as the struggle continues,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he tells Musa alaihi
salaam
to he begins to allow him to exhibit
other miracles, put the people through different tests.
So the first miracles were what? What are
the miracles that Musa alaihi salaam came with?
We all know.
The staff that turns to the snake and
his hand that turns into a bright blinding
light, a supernatural blinding light that would fill
the room. Right? It's not just like a
turn color. No. It's a a blinding light.
So these were benign miracles.
They just their their job is to wow
the people, to show them the power of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, that a human being
can't do this. Like, the purpose of a
marjazah is al ajaz, to show you you
can't do this. Arjaz means weakness, means failure.
So marjazah, which is miracle means you can't
do this, it's humanly impossible.
That's their purpose. But then Allah sends other
signs that that's not their purpose.
Like all of their water turned into blood.
Like the frogs that overran their city.
Like
the locusts
that began to eat all their crops,
ehsinin, the years of drought
and difficulty.
So now these are signs that harm them,
that they struggle through, that some people
for the most part, didn't sound like anyone
died in them, but maybe with the water
turning to blood no one could drink. Right.
That's that's something that maybe some people died
from, but other than that, but they're clearly
harmful.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, his
sunnah,
his way of dealing with us as humans
is that the first one's an alarm clock,
and then you choose to hit snooze or
to wake up.
But if you hit snooze, you know those
apps that like the they give you a
math problem?
I downloaded it once and never again. Like,
you're just, like, you're like this trying to
do math. It's the worst. You'll take it
out on innocent people.
So it doesn't work for me, but I
don't know if anybody likes it. There's other
ones, like, you gotta do, like, a puzzle.
You gotta, like, put it into the green
and, like, when you're about to put it
into green, it turns blue, so the green
goes there. And the whole point is to
wake you up, and it just it puts
people in harm's way, for sure, at least
for me. But
the point is,
you can't refuse it. You must wake up.
By the time you solve this puzzle
or you do this math problem and they
get increasingly difficult with, like, each snooze,
there's no way you can't be awake.
Right? That's that's what they assume. I'm sure
there's someone out there that will that will
put it to the test. So likewise, Allah
sends us alarms.
The first one's benign.
Could be something happening to someone else.
It could be a a thought that you
reach,
a conclusion that you have naturally,
just from observation, just from simple experience that's
not necessarily
profound or harmful.
That's from Allah.
It could be just time passing.
And you have the warner has come to
you. There's so much tafsir of this. Some
of the scholars have said this is gray
hair. The warner has come to you.
That you've gotten a warning that your hair
started to gray, dunya is wrapping up.
I know some people get it early. It
is what it is. That's not the point.
But it's it's it's a sign that all
of us, hey, you're getting along.
These normal
everyday
life occurrences, these changes changing of states as
our life goes on. It's a sign from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alarm clock.
And then some of it could be more
extreme, something that harms you again. And some
of it, god forbid, may Allah protect all
of us, is some life catastrophe now. You're
being shaken violently.
Absolute loss of wealth or health or family.
May Allah protect all of us. We pray
that Allah subhanahu wa'ala imbues us with the
tawfiq and the sincerity to wake up without
needing that. Allamaamin.
And all of our families and the Muslim
Ummah, Allamaamin.
So anyway,
the hairdresser of Firaoun
the hairdresser of the daughter Firaoun through these
processes, she's one of the people who wakes
up. She becomes a Muslim.
And some say she was from Bani Israel,
some say no, she was from the people
of Firaoun. Whatever it is, she becomes a
Muslim is the point. She is a Muslim
and as she is combing the hair of
the daughter Fira'un, she drops the comb and
she says, Bismillah, in the name of Allah.
Every basic action should be Bismillah. Right? This
is something that is is is, Islam 101
for us.
So the daughter of Haram means says she
that that gets her interest, like, who's in
the name of of God? Who's God? That's
my father. Right?
He says no. The hairdresser, you know, she
had the chance to say, oh, whoops. I
but she's like, no.
The Lord
of your father
and me and all people is Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. Like, your father's tripping. Your father's
out of his mind. That's basically what that
says. So that's that's a big deal. She
said, I'm gonna tell him. Like, this is
don't don't think this is like a conversation
between me and you. Just tell him.
I'm not afraid.
I'm not worried about the repercussions of this
faith. So she tells her father he tells
she tells her father and he summons her.
And he says, listen. Like, you're just a
frail old lady. I'm gonna give you a
chance to say to retract your statement.
And she says, over my dead body.
This is a faith that I will hold
sincerely in your face.
The the king who claims divinity, who's oppressing,
who's
enslaving, who's killing, I'll say it to your
face.
And that's a mini reflection here, a mini
lesson. In tough times,
in times
of struggle,
we need heroes.
The Muslim Ummah needs people who will stand
and say it doesn't matter what's gonna happen.
I will hold on to his faith and
proclaim it proudly and adhere by its tenets
proudly,
irrespective of what happens. And if this body
is the price to pay, it's a small
price.
The Muslim Ummah always needs people like that
and there are always people like people like
that.
And we just seen tens of thousands of
them coming out of Gaza in these last
few months.
Coming from all over the Muslim Ummah. May
Allah grant them aid.
Showing us that if push comes to shove,
this heart contains a faith that's more important
than the physical structure that houses it.
So
she doesn't fear. She doesn't falter. She says,
I have one request, though. If you're gonna
execute me and my children because he threatens
her children as well,
you bury us altogether. Put us together. Honor
us. Don't leave us just corpses.
And despite being the worst human being ever,
a tyrant of tyrants, he agrees.
Shows to tell you something about the Zionists
today, right, in Netanyahu and these guys who
don't even have that decency
to not desecrate the dead or allow them
to be buried properly. Even Fir'aun told this
woman, I'll execute you and your children, and
I'll gather you together in one cloth to
be buried.
Even he afforded them that despite being the
most despicable human being ever to exist, but
even some people today have fallen lower than
him.
They bring a copper structure,
and they heat
it, and they begin to throw her children
in 1 by 1.
Each child stops.
They look at
her. Renounce your faith. She refuses. The child
goes inside and burns to death.
And this happens 1 by 1, child after
child. The prophet
told us
until it gets to the one that's in
her hands. This one is still a newborn.
This one's just a few months old or
a year old.
So she hesitates
out of worry for him.
Not this
one. It's a baby.
How could you guys have some humanity?
The most despicable lowest of human beings you
would assume
can't look at a baby being harmed,
but that's clearly not the case.
So
they she she hesitates
and Allah
inspires that infant to speak.
Oh, my mother, You
Oh, my mother move forward. Go.
Because the torment of this world
is nothing,
is so much lighter than the torment of
the hereafter. This is nothing. We'll be okay.
Allah
inspired that child to teach us that lesson
that this is nothing.
This is a small price to pay. You
will be okay, my mother. And so she
goes, faktahmet.
And then Allah afforded her this lofty place
in Jannah. So the magicians
are executed in a brutal fashion. This woman
and her children executed in a brutal fashion.
And the trial of faith reaches the point
till Faraun finds out that Asiya,
his wife is a believer in Moses and
his mission.
Now he doesn't know what to do. Right?
This is the queen. Can't just execute the
queen.
So he
uses the public opinion. He uses his counsel
to turn public opinion against her,
and he has her tormented.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala eternalized her words
in the Quran where she said,
Oh Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, build for me
with you a house in paradise. And they
said even look at her words. She said,
oh Allah, build for
me not a house in Jannah next to
you, a house with you in Jannah.
As
they say. She chose you choose your neighbors
before the house. The house could be good.
And you're like, no. This house, we love
it. And you didn't look into the neighbors.
Then you moved in. You closed because it
was the perfect house. Then you find out
who's next door,
somebody
that you're not too crazy about. That could
ruin the whole house. That could change the
whole house from a fine to an absolute
disaster. And now you're locked into a 30
year or something. Right? So definitely look at
your neighbors.
So she's chose the best of neighbors. Oh,
Allah, build for me a house where you're
my neighbor, and then it's in Jannah.
That's secondary, the fact that it's in paradise.
So they tormented her, and Allah the the
hadith tells us that every time her captors,
her tormentors turned to prepare something, to do
something, to take a break, the angels will
descend and put their wings around her, a
supernatural shade.
Someone will ask, what's the point if she's
still being tormented?
She's still being punished.
What does the angel's shade do for her?
It does the most important job, shows her
that all this is nothing.
Because when they come down and give her
that supernatural aid, she'll face that torture and
know that this is nothing. This is meaningless.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is with me.
The hereafter is right around the corner,
and that's all that matters. That is more
important than the protection
and the continuation of that physical body.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not give them
the satisfaction of killing her. That when she
refused,
when she absolutely refused to submit in this
faith, to submit and and give up this
faith, they got a huge boulder
and ascended
at a height
and then threw it. And when they threw
it, as some of the tafsir mentioned, is
that's when she made that dua, oh Allah,
grant me a house with you in Jannah,
in paradise.
And Allah
decreed after that dua that her soul would
leave her body.
So the boulder was cast onto a body
that was soulless. They didn't kill her. He
decreed that she would die beforehand,
and that end was an end to a
physical body where the soul was already extracted.
That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala already took it
to him into his care. What's the reflection
here? What am I trying to say? What
should we reflect on? What's the commonality between
the magicians
and the hairdresser
and Asia?
I heard a bunch of mumbles.
Faith. Faith? So faith is is is all
throughout, but what specifically with these people? They
all died. They all died. They didn't see
it.
They didn't see the victory.
They didn't get to see Fir'aun's lifeless body
float to the top. They didn't get to
see the establishment of Bani Israel that Allah
promised 40 years before all of this.
Allah reassured them. They didn't need to see
it. They didn't say, well, get to show
on the road. Once Palestine is gonna be
free. Show me some advancement, some some kind
of progress so I can believe all this.
They didn't need that because when they complied,
Allah fastened their heart. You'll never gonna falter
because you're doing the right thing.
It happening or not happening, or moving or
not moving is not your business.
When he himself, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam was struck in his face, and he
wondered, how will Allah forgive these people? What
hope do they have if they're doing this
to me? Allah answered him right away with
a verse in the Quran, mind your business.
None of this concerns you. If Allah will
forgive them, if He'll guide them, if He'll
punish them, if they'll be guided, and most
of those people who physically attacked him on
that day became Muslim.
It's not your concern where things are going,
when this promise will come true.
Allah swanahu wa ta'ala has promised those who
have believed,
He will establish them on earth.
Just as he did to previous nations, he's
telling you the story to show you the
same thing that he's showing Musa.
You're not seeing it live in front of
you with a staff you don't need to,
he's telling you the story so you can
have the same training process, so you can
understand, comply,
believe. Don't be afraid.
This same promise, this same combo, this same
formula, this same sunnah applies to you as
well. What is the end of it? What
is the end road?
Is that Firaun says them.
We'll be fine. The rivers will be open
for us as well. The waters have receded.
This is a sign that we should go
forward. He takes that same thing
that Allah
is gonna use to destroy him as a
sign to move forward, and he does.
And Allah causes the water to close on
top of him,
to destroy him and his army.
And
the last moment, as we mentioned Jummah,
he sees this happening now. The waters come
crashing down. He says,
he says, I believe
I believe that there is no this is
what he says. I believe that there is
no god except the one that Ben Israel
believed in. It's called
It's it's it's a much simpler statement than
that. Musa alaihi salam has been telling it
to you for 40 years. I'm pretty sure
you know what it is. I'm pretty sure
you've heard it word for word. He knows
exactly how to believe in Allah
But out of arrogance, this is the statement
that he says to show that it's not
sincere. But on top of that, we have
the narration
of Jibril alaihis
salam himself where he's telling the prophet Muhammad
salallahu alaihi wa sallam, if only you could
see me, oh Muhammad.
Well, I am I'm
taking
from the sediments of the water and stuffing
it into the mouth of Firaun, Makafatun, and
Tudukul Rahma out of fear that Allah will
have mercy on him, that maybe he'll in
his sputtering breaths, he'll make a real tawbah
and Allah will accept it. And Jibreel is
like, no way, not after what I saw.
Of course if Allah willed it, Allah willed
it. Nothing could stop it, but this just
shows us that the end of tyrants is
epic.
This is the end of tyrants.
That he said, hadithil andharu tajjimintahdi,
these rivers, this water flows underneath me. I
control it. Allah said, here's your water.
Control it now.
He said, oh, Haman,
build for me a tower from thin, from
mud, so I can look at Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. I can challenge him. Here's the
mud from the bottom of the water, now
it's being stuffed into your mouth.
Compensation for a deed, whether good or bad,
reward or punishment, is in the same manner
in which the deed is performed.
That's a very Islamic concept.
The prophet Jibreel alaihi salam once came to
the prophet Muhammad alaihi salam and said, I
have 5 advices for you. One of them
was,
do as you please. You will be paid
with that same action. It's gonna come back
to you. And we said that already in
the hadith earlier, whoever
whoever conceals a Muslim, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will conceal him on their judgment.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is in the aid
of the servant as long as the servant
is in the aid of their brother.
All these hadith that show us. And
whoever builds for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala masjid,
Allah builds for him a house in paradise.
Allah reciprocates
and levels up on top of it in
reward and in punishment.
Should excellent character and behavior be rewarded and
repaid with anything but excellent reward, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala asks in Surat Al Rahman. So
as they
wrap this up, Musa alayhi salaam, as some
of the tafsir mentioned where Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says,
and we drowned the people of Firaun. As
you looked along, you saw this happen because
at the very end, they see the body
of Firaun float to the top after decades
of torment.
After hearing all him glow and all of
this, they are pleased with they are soothed
with the sight of vengeance because people deserve
that. People deserve that after all they've been
through of subjugation and torture
and sadness and sorrow and broken families
and dismembered bodies.
They deserve to have that soothing of their
hearts and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives that
to Bani Israel, and he gives that to
believers time and again.
And we ask him to soothe our sights
with the victory for this Muslim Ummah sooner
than later, allhum Amin.
There's so many stops that you could highlight
here,
but I want you to
be one of these characters.
Who would you be?
Be Musa alaihi salaam?
Be his mother?
Be the magicians? Don't be a magician, but
be the magicians in the story.
You have to you have to, you know,
put the asterisk. You don't know how far
this will go. Be the hairdresser.
Be her children.
Be Asiya.
Be all of them depending on the states
of your life and the struggles that you're
going through. Don't be frown.
Don't be heman.
Don't be the magicians in the beginning.
Don't be the cronies that surrounded them and
just said yes yes yes all the time
because he constantly sought their permission. They could
have said, why are you seeking our permission?
Aren't you God? Musa.
Let me kill Musa, guys.
Why is he asking permission?
Because
this is the reality of tyrants. Right? It's
all a facade, but they they they didn't
say anything, his counsel, his malah. Don't be
Karun,
right, who was one of Bani Israel who
worked with them and said if you guys
will afford me a better status, don't treat
me like the rest of Bani Israel as
some tafsir say,
I will do whatever you want.
I'll be your your inside man. I will
I'll I'll help you bridge the gap. What
are all these other nonsensical terms? When in
reality, he was aiding the tyrants. Don't be
the soldiers who followed Faran every step of
the way, seeing miracles, seeing all this happen
on the other side and just saying, well,
Faran's our leader.
So find yourself in the story and make
sure that you always make the right choice.
This season
is a time to reflect over the story
of Musa alaihi salam, and it's one of
the most mentioned stories because there's so much
to gain from it. We ask Allah
to instill these lessons in our hearts and
to constantly guide us to that which is
pleasing to him.