Mohammad Elshinawy – Ramadan 2024 – Divine Parables #02 Fires & Rainstorms – Shades Of Hypocrisy

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			ask Allah azza wa jal to accept in this month, your every door I say I mean
		

			and allow for us moments in this month that better our trajectory in our lives towards him and his
pleasure, Allahu Allah, I mean, and contribute to the betterment of this ummah and its condition
Allahumma Amin.
		

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			we begin on our journey with the parables the M fell of the Quran. And we say that these parables
are stories, actually, they're not even stories, they're snapshots. They're scenes that Allah azza
wa jal strikes for us, so that we may adopt for flawless perspective to have the best perspective on
life, on the world on reality on ourselves. The very first parable in the Quran in the beginning of
Surah Al Baqarah, is a parable that we had to rush through a few Ramadan's ago during taraweeh.
Which, when we were speaking about the FARC, or the shades of hypocrisy, what happens when a heart
hypocrisy creeps into it or ruins it altogether May Allah forbid. And these are two parables, the
		

			parable of fire and the parable of rainfall.
		

			On the second page, second full page a total Bukhara and this is already very profound because fire
is the source of light. And rain is the source of life. And this Quran came down to be our light.
And likewise, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was called the light and of Allah's Beautiful
Names and nor the lights the guiding lights of Hannah who are to Allah, and then life coming with
rainfall, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, my fellow man, Attorney Allah who be mean
alHuda the example of what Allah sent me with of guidance is like the example of life and Asaba
Alden, a rainfall that came down when the earth needed it most to quench a dry earth. And then some,
		

			some lands sort of dismissed the water some lands held it for others didn't manifest themselves,
some land actually blossom. So the greatest objective of this rainfall which Allah sends down is for
our lives to blossom. However, when the heart became infected, it was a very different experience.
So there are two parables, one of them for the full blown worst form of hid it hypocrites. That is
hard to imagine to be honest in our day and age because there isn't much worldly reason to pretend
you're Muslim. And the major hypocrite is someone pretending to be Muslim while knowing they're not.
Allah azza wa jal, it says about them. methylome Camus alila distell cada Nowra their example is
		

			like the example of someone that seeks to kindle their torch from someone else. So they pick up
faith from their fellow believer, right? For Allah Allah Atma, how Allah Who Falana Allah and
Muhammad Allah whom they have Allah Who venuti him, and then when it was fully illuminated all
around them, they're in the company of believers. In other words, not just the light of Allah, not
just the light of the messenger saucer lamp, but they saw faith in action. They saw the Enlightened
believers around them, and they still didn't benefit from that. They still didn't and so Allah says
he did away with their lights that have Allahu venuti him, the light is still on, but their light is
		

			off in the middle of that. May Allah protect us. What are our care home field little Matt in law,
you will see rune and he left them in darkness is where they can never see. Notice they kindled a
fire. He didn't say he did away with their fire, he said he did away with their light. So tucked in
there is a threat that the heat and the smoke and the suffocation and the burning remain. So monbulk
Women are immune for whom like your yard, your own. Allah says deaf, dumb and blind in the spiritual
sense. They're a lost cause, and they will never returned. These are people that are locked out of
faith. But this is hard to imagine, in our context living as minorities because once again, why
		

			would you pretend to be Muslim? Right? Hard to imagine not impossible, but hard. The second example,
the example of rainfall, Allah azza wa jal says or the example of another shade of hypocrisy is Casa
de bien Mina Santa rainfall that comes down from the sky, supposed to make you blossom, but for them
because the receptacle what they're receiving with is compromised. Fee here little math when Laura
dunlea bark, they experience it as darkness and lightning and thunder claps your Aluna or sabia whom
feet then he means slower at the hazard will melt that causing them to
		

			stick their fingers in their ears from the thunderclaps. The guidance is disturbing to them because
they are torn in between without there being abena VALIC. Other verses say they're one foot here,
one foot there. The guidance to them is disruptive to the comfort they wish they could have now
before Jana, it is sort of intrusive on their frivolous lifestyles, right? So they wish they could
but they can't stop. So they just tried to close their ear to it.
		

			And then the next verse goes on to say, you can't do Berkeley UCLA for Apsara home, The lightning
almost snatches away their eyesight, you can go like this all you want. The truth is glaring for
these people. And it's so painful. It's so truthful, it's painful, painfully true. We call it right.
Coup lemma. Allah Allah home. And as I'm wrapping up quickly, every time the lightning flashes, and
I always say, you know, when you take a picture, have you ever seen those award winning photos? When
the lightning flashes even at night, it looks like it's daytime. Look, if you ever seen it, right?
Every time the lightning fast flat mesh selfie, they walk in the light, wait for either of them, I
		

			lay him camo and then when it becomes dark, again becomes dark very fast. Again, they stop
		

			meaning of the signs that the heart is compromised, is when you're go stop, go stop in your faith.
You hear the reminder, okay, I'm gonna forgive the person. Okay, I'm gonna pray my five or maybe you
just start or you take a few steps, then you stop again. That's of the most dangerous signs. But you
know why? Because the very next line in these ayat is well I will share Allah who doesn't have that
be seminary him well beside him. And if Allah Who wants he could get rid of the hearing and the site
altogether, you could be category one. Meaning these lightning flashes they get farther apart until
the flickering of the light stops happening all together. And I say this you know, we always say
		

			like be protective of the flickering flame, be protective of the light of your faith. Think about
Ramadan, start your Ramadan with the end in mind. This is true. But we can also flip this on its
head and say the opposite. That Ramadan is the month of lights. Protect this one light Allah gave
you at least one more. They're not unlimited. They're not guaranteed ask Allah to protect your life.
Some of you have started already for giving more graciously. Some of you have already started
praying more regularly. Some of you have already started giving more generously. Some of you have
already started dressing more appropriately, protect it, protect it. Now there may be no more and
		

			that is why the most frequent dua of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ever was yarmulke level
cube Oh Turner of the heart. stabilize my heart. stabilize my light for me. stabilize my heart on
your dean. Think about you must believe this brothers and sisters I'm done. But we must believe you
came into Ramadan by invite only
		

			at least one more illumination for us. You came into the masjid tonight by invitation only no one's
allowed in his house without his permission.
		

			So may we value that and appreciate it and make more out of it than ever before. Allahumma Amin wa
sallahu Salah Baraka b&m. $100 early here are some of your dream just like locally