Mohammad Elshinawy – Divine Parables #06 The Rescue Rope Quran & Fraternity
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The importance of remembering to be a fuller um prais of Islam and protecting one's own life is emphasized in these emphasizing groups and valuing one's religion. The speaker uses a parable of Jesus saying, I will keep you in the best interest of my friend, and emphasizes the importance of valuing one's religion and not being on the brink of death. Additionally, the speaker discusses the negative impact of being on the brink of death and surrounding oneself with people who believe in the same thing as one.
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I ask Allah azza wa Jal to make
this a month of great mercy for you
all,
and a month of major changes in a
positive direction for us as an ummah, aaraba
alamin.
We jump now to a
parable in Surat Alimran,
Wherein Allah
right after
Can we lower the gain a bit, Ali?
Appreciate it.
Wherein Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala right after the
famous verse you hear of Riju Mu'awala tamutunnaillahuanto
Muslimoon,
and be sure not to die except in
a state of Islam.
The very next verse now,
it is almost as if he is telling
you the bottom line of what you need
more than anything
to make sure you die in a state
of Islam.
And He says,
And hold tightly to the rope of Allah,
all of you together,
and do not allow yourselves to become divided.
Hold tightly to the book of Allah the
rope of Allah.
So you imagine someone stuck about to drown
or on a ledge or something
and the rope is extended.
The rope comes dangling down. As he said
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, in nahath al Quran,
this great
Quran. 1 end of it is in your
hands. And
the other end is in the hand of
Allah himself.
So hold on tightly to it.
Because if you do that you'll never be
lost and you will never be doomed after
having done that.
So that is the rope and the rope
is our hope in Allah aza wa jal
and the book he extended to us.
This is the first stop.
The second
is that Allah azzawajal
in the Quran though in this ayah doesn't
say tamasaku like the hadith. Hold on to
it. He says
And some have said the word
has a very subtle meaning here and an
additional meaning to keep in mind.
Translated loosely as hold tightly
comes from the word and the is the
wrist.
So it's as if Allah azzawajal is telling
you be so careful about
get not loosening your grip on this rope,
not losing this rope that you wrap it
around your wrist before you hold it. Understand
the image?
And so what happens there, if for whatever
reason you slip, it's holding you now. Even
if you slip for a moment that holding
it. And that is what the Quran does.
Every ayah you recite even without understanding it.
Every ayah you put in the effort to
understand.
Every session you attend to learn more about
the Quran.
Most importantly,
every time you apply
some of the guidance of the Quran, you
are being further and further protected by it
from
the doubts and desires that could jeopardize dying
Muslim.
That's the bottom line. And that is why
Hasan al Basri
when someone said to him,
Quran. So and so has completed his hif
of the Quran. You know hif like a
hafil and hafad like memorize.
But the word hif actually means protect. So
we say protected from being forgotten by memorizing
it. That's where the word hif comes from.
So when they said to him, so and
so did his hif of the Quran,
he said,
Quran Rather the Quran is doing hif of
him.
The Quran is actually protecting him more than
he's protecting the Quran, right?
Because the Quran is not dependent on us.
If we don't safeguard it, someone else will
safeguard it. Someone else will be honored with
that mission.
But we are dependent on it. It is
just like you know when Allah says,
Allah says, Safeguard Allah
or the Prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam said,
Safeguard Allah, He will safeguard you. What is
greater? You're safeguard No. You're safeguarding the the
rights of Allah in your life.
Whereas Allah safeguarding you is far greater.
When Allah azzawajal says fathquruni afkurkum,
Remember me and I will remember you. What
is greater?
Walathikrullahi
aqbar. Allah's remembering of you is far greater
than your remembering of Him subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Likewise, this Quran you you hold on to
it tight, rather you tie yourself to it.
So that if you slip for a moment,
it catches you.
And then he says,
and do this, tie yourself to the Quran
all of you, all together and don't become
divided.
It's as if it's reminding us
that this has to be done together. It's
as if holding on to the Quran or
being held by the Quran
won't work if you try to do it
alone. It's a group effort.
And for most people it is.
You know we celebrate in the Quran Ibrahim
alaihis salam for being an ummah by himself
because most of us cannot be an ummah
by himself by themselves. You can't. You need
the group support. Right?
One of the major blows to Christianity today
was the divisions, the endless divisions within their
communities
that fractured their communities, and the and then
their belief in their faith went with it.
You know
interestingly, many of our youth and the adults,
they are challenged on their faith and they
are told, if you weren't born into a
Muslim family, you you wouldn't be Muslim today.
By the way, I don't want you to
ever be rattled by this question. Because if
he was not born into a religion hating
era, he would not hate and be suspicious
of all religions. If this person was born
in the 1500,
he'd be advocating for something else. Right?
But the idea is though for this talk
tonight, he's kind of right. She's kind of
right.
That of the ways Allah protected you,
and your sort of regard for the Quran,
your regard for Islam
is the fact that you're surround He surrounds
you with Muslims.
I don't mean that Islam is right because
you were born into a Muslim family.
I'm saying Allah helped you
hold on to what's right by surrounding you
with people that believe in the same thing.
This is very important to realize.
Be You know the sahaba, they used say
It's reported by multiple of them. Mas'ud and
Jabir. They used to say a wonderful statement.
They used to say,
The things you hate about the community
are far better for you than the things
you love
about division. I just want to like be
all alone, do things my way, my comfort
zone. But don't
This is dangerous to your deen now, right?
The community is the extended family, right? That
you want to surround yourself with. It is
your second and most second most important safety
net,
so that you can be able to hold
on to the book of Allah azzawajal subhanahu
wa ta'ala. And the last stop I will
make, there's another parable or metaphor here. He
says,
And recall the favor of Allah on you.
That He gave you the Quran, He made
you a person of Islam, He surrounded you
with Muslims to make the the task easier.
Right?
Recall the favor of Allah on you.
When you were enemies of each other outside
of this,
and He mended between your hearts. Don't take
that for granted.
Don't underestimate that.
The other religions fell apart. Why?
Of the reasons we just said, they kept
splitting up on racial lines, and then on
religious lines. They're not like you. They can't
just go into any church anywhere and make
their prayers. Right? Is this a white church
or a black church?
Is this sort of a Lutheran or a
Protestant or a Methodist or you They don't
Do you do that? No. You Google mosque
near me and keep it moving, right? And
you make your salawat.
That's part of the great favor of Allah
on you.
If were it not for Islam, we would
be the same way.
So we are spared of this greatly but
we are not totally immune to it.
Here's the final metaphor.
And you were on the edge
of
a ditch
or a volcano as some have said. Right?
Or a, you know, a big hole, a
canyon filled with fire. You're on the brink
of an inferno.
And so he saved you with it
using the Quran
and using
the brotherhood that the Muslims are called to.
That sounded very wrong, I e c p
a, Muslim brotherhood. Never mind, that was I
didn't say that.
I know someone's gonna take this clip and
misuse it now. The fraternity of faith, how's
that? I'll pick a synonym.
But through these two things,
these two things,
Allah protects your iman for you, so value
them. Otherwise, you were on the brink of
falling deep into that fire.
Walayadubillah. Because the default is, and I'm done.
That you have a very short span to
get this right, you know. Like what do
you mean you were on the brink of
the fire? Well,
you were dead for 1000 of years. You
didn't exist. And you will be dead for
1000 of years.
And so you need to make sure that
this moment that you spend on earth, you
come out of it with Islam, the ayah
before it. And the default is that we're
not guided. Allah gave you guidance through the
Quran, through the unity of Islam, He gave
you these 2. So you were right there
and just in time He saved you, so
recall this favor of Allah azza wa Jal
on you. Umr ibn Abdul Aziz
he sent a letter of consolation to another
about his son who had just died. He
said, Listen, We're not from this world. We're
from the hereafter. That's where we really live.
We were given a short term in this
world.
Right?
And so
he said, and it's crazy that a dead
man He means I'm bound. I was dead
forever and I'm gonna be dead for a
long time. Right? A dead man is extending
his
regards to another dead man about
someone that has died. So just
understand how short this term is. That is
the reality.
In that, Allah saved you with these two
things, so treasure them.