Mohammad Elshinawy – The Tragedy of Disbelief

			Oh four weeks ago, we spoke about the lights of a MA in the hearts of the believer the light of
faith and the lights of guidance. That splendid parable Allah strikes for us in the Quran in surah
noon, the chapter of light. And we spoke about the importance of seeking that light through the
masajid these are the lighthouses and the Prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam would ask Allah to grant
him light in his heart sight and hearing front of him and behind him right and left above and below
Allahumma Azzam li Nura O Allah may great for me my light as he was headed to the masjid. And we
said that light is found in Allah's guidance, his laws, they enlighten our conduct in our life. And
		

			also Allah's light is experienced through our connection, our spiritual connection with Allah also,
where the message is, what the message is a hub for,
		

			and then the second hook but after that, we spoke about how our knowledge of everyone having the
readiness for this light, the example of the oil, the pure fitrah makes it necessary for you to act
on that when you call them to Allah, they are ready for it. And that's why the message of Islam
strikes such a uniquely deep chord in people when simply shared with whoever is open minded of them.
		

			In this next set of verses in the same sequence after Allah spoke about his life, it's being in the
masjid people who are not distracted from the masjid find it. Allah azza wa jal then speaks about
the converse or speaks about the opposite, when he speaks about the darkness and the tragedy of
misguidance and Faithlessness. Not faith, but the darkness of lack of faith, the darkness of
disbelief in two is the 39 and 40. It is in surah noon, Allah subhanho wa Taala says, well, Lavina
Cafaro as for those who disbelieve Amanda whom Castle Robin beauty it in
		

			their actions those who disbelieve are like a mirage in a lowland. What happens when someone is in
the middle of the desert and they are thirsty. Allah says the Cebu alum and OMA, this Mirage when
you hallucinate from the extent of the heat and you're so dehydrated, you're so desperate, you want
to see water, so you start imagining water. So Allah says the thirsty person assumes it to be water,
he assumes it to be an oasis, what happens at that point? They tell themselves that must be true.
And they use whatever's left in the tank to run towards it, they actually accelerate in that
direction. had either a look at this parable Allah says and then when they finally reach it, and
		

			discover there's nothing there, then when they finally reach it lemmya G, who che and they find it
to be nothing at all. They find a tragic disappointment. Well, where Jade Allah Harinder who fell
affair who he said but who Allah who said he or when he said, and then Allah says they dropped dead
literally, right, they die at this point. This was their last attempt. That's why they tried so
hard. They steamrolled ahead, found it to be nothing, were tragically devastated. Allah says then
they find Allah in front of them, and he repays them in full. You see, there's like, a quick shift
here between the parable and the reality, the disbeliever who saw the truth, who saw the truth and
		

			turn the blind eye to it? This idea is about the leaders of disbelief, those who are not just
following the herd effect. Where are you going? I'm going where the people are going, where are the
people going? I'm not sure No, not those people. The people who knew what was right and chose not to
follow it, the people that notice something was wrong with their belief system and chose to ignore
that right? These people Allah turns their hearts off, Allah blinds their hearts, this is imperfect
fairness, he gave them chances not just a chance for Allah Mirza who has ever Allahu Kaluga whom
Allah when he saw them deviate, he deviated their hearts, so sorry for an 80 and Levina it's like a
		

			balloon and fill out of the behind it. I shall turn away from my verses my signs, those who are
pompous, arrogant, rejecting of truth on this earth without do right.
		

			And the ayat about this are so many.
		

			And so these are the people that were intentionally rejecting faith knowingly rejecting truth, Allah
causes them to assume that their falsehood is truth. We can't ever fully know on our own who is like
this, but there's a category of people that are like this. And so a person should not be surprised
why someone can be so adamant and so determined that they're wrong is right. Sometimes you'll wonder
But like, how is it his fault that he's so convinced
		

			Maybe he's not so convinced maybe he's pretending, or maybe he was not so convinced at one point in
time, but he doubled down stubbornly. And so Allah allowed him to believe what he told himself. Only
Allah fully knows. But there is a class of people like this, Allah has not been unfair to them. And
then so they drive harder and they pursue with greater confidence wrong until it's too late. Until
they get there and all of a sudden they're in front of Allah, they spend the rest of their life like
this. And then they find themselves in front of Allah and turns out it was all nothing. It was all
an utter waste. And this also, by the way, is fairness. Because someone will say, but but people you
		

			know, just because they just believed in Allah knowingly. What about their good deeds, Allah is the
perfectly just, he will give them blessings in this world for their good deeds, but they will have
nothing in the bigger picture, they will have nothing in the Hereafter, they will not get a reward
from the God that they refuse to submit to, you know, where let us assume such people were good, why
are we assuming Allah did not reward them already for their good here? Let us assume they were good,
but to refuse to recognize Allah as the source of their goodness. You know, a good example for this
also is plagiarism. You know, when you copy someone else's work and you hide it, when people see
		

			your research people see your design people see your, you know, your paper, or whatever it is, say,
Oh, that's really impressive.
		

			And then when they find out you stole it from somebody else, and forgot to give credit in the in the
margins in the footnotes, they don't just find this ugly and disgusting, they prosecute you for it,
right? Likewise, even if a person were good, but refuses to acknowledge that my existence without
which I couldn't be good as from Allah might kind heart without which I couldn't be kind was made
kind by Allah, my resources with which I'm charitable or otherwise, or the time that I can extend an
offer was granted to me by God. If I say God has nothing to do with any of this, that don't expect
their award from God. So this is the idea they such people will imperfect justice, find nothing at
		

			all for them in front of Allah. When Allah who said he said, Subhana, Allah to Allah, and Allah is
Swift in reckoning, meaning he has not created us in play, he will not just let this play out
aimlessly. Ultimately there will be there will be a reckoning everyone's going to have to answer for
their decisions in the highest court in front of the most perfect judge, and just rulers subhanahu
wa taala.
		

			And whoever is this blind,
		

			in this world, will be blind in the hereafter. The parable extends to the hereafter in Bukhari and
Muslim the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us that Allah will bring groups of people on the
day of judgment. And he will say to them, who did you use to worship and some will say Hosea, some
will say the Messiah, each of them will say the Son of God, and Allah will tell them you are lying.
Allah never said he had a son.
		

			And then he will say to them for Matt, that type of goon, now that they're not here to help you What
do you want, they will say we are thirsty. Notice the connection, they will say we are thirsty, oh
Allah.
		

			And so it will be made to appear to them. That there is a source of water here, the way they
contrived made up a illusion of illusory, an imaginary source of hydration water in this world. They
chase something else as if it could offer them anything. They will imagine and see water and waste
on the day of judgment, and they will chase after it. He said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, until
they fall off of the cliffs into the hellfire. May Allah azza wa jal protect us and you from such a
fate of Holy Holy * that was tough for Allah Altima Lee welcome.
		

			hamdu Lillahi wa wa Salatu was Salam ala Milena via shadow Allah Ilaha illa Allah or the hola Cherie
Cara, who is Shadow Ana, Mohammed Abdullah, who, whenever you who are sort of
		

			the second of the two verses that speak about the tragedy of disbelief is the next is the 40th ayah
and Surah Noor and it speaks about a different class of nonbelievers, a different class of
disbelievers. Those who are the masses who imitate their leadership, imitate the influencers, just
go with the flow.
		

			Allah Subhana Allah Allah says, l the example of the deeds of the disbelievers is like this Mirage
we spoke about he said, or here's the second verse l Kelvin nomads or like layers of darkness, Fi
Baron Luigi
		

			ie in an endless sea and endless ocean. Layers of darkness you find in this endlessly deep ocean or
unfathomable sea, the translation says Yun Xiao Hua mode you mean filthy hemos you mean filthy he
sahab on top of you are waves on top of those waves are waves. On top of those waves are clouds of
little Madsen bog who have felt about darkness is one piled on top of another. Either a frog Jada,
hula Miaka Dr. Raha to the point that if a person were to try to pull out their hand and look at it
in these layers of darkness, they would not be able to see their own hand recognize their own hand.
Women lamea jalila Hula who know Ron firmer Allah Who me nor and whomever Allah does not grant a
		

			light to they will never have any light.
		

			So this is the example of the suffering and the confusion that anyone who is in disbelief anyone who
does not have the light of faith in their life is experiencing this estrangement.
		

			You know,
		

			it is hard for us because we are truly blessed having been guided to Islam, to imagine what it's
like to not have Islam in our life. Like, you know, people who don't know who their parents are,
they spend their whole life distressed over this issue. And sometimes they go to great lengths just
to figure out who my parents are. Can you begin to imagine what it's like to not know who your God
is, and how you got here and where you're going to go from here. How this weighs down on a person.
There is actually a statement for shaken Islam and it's a me or Hema Allah that used to always, you
know, bother me till someone gave me some closure on it. He used to say, faith is like a garden of
		

			fruits. Whoever does not taste any of its fruits in this world will not taste the fruits of gender
in the next world will not you know, there's a paradise in this world, if you will, the paradise of
Eman, whoever doesn't enter it will not enter the paradise of the next life. And so at times, I just
wonder like how much of faith do I actually taste? But then one of my mentors said to me, you don't
understand whether you realize it or not, you are enjoying the fruits of Eman. The very fact that
you know who your God is Subhanahu wa Taala you know who your prophet is the immensity of that
blessing. You know, when you stand up to make saw sometimes it might help for you to think how many
		

			people are between you and the Kabah right now that are just oblivious. And Allah erected you to be
of the select few that are standing in front of him at fed or at Asia or otherwise, he chose you.
		

			You know, some people think like, what's the big deal? I'm just Muslim, because I happen to be
Muslim. I happen to be born into a Muslim family, and this other person happened to be born into a
non Muslim family. Some people tell us this, the only reason you're a Muslim is because you were
born Muslim. And that is the reason why we're Muslim. But why is of the reasons for sure, for so
many of us, but who chose that I get born to Muslim parents who chose that that's by design. And
that's why we say back to them. By the way, you're no different than me. You chose to be atheist
because you grew up in an in a godless society, in an atheistic society. So don't act like you're
		

			the one with the open mind. Right? So just ignore for a second, my brothers and sisters, you know,
trust Allah's justice. Allah said to us in the Quran, when Hakuna Matata as the Bina Hatena bathala
sola, we will never punish someone without first sending them a messenger. Allah subhanho wa Taala
told us when our Allium Allah houfy him played on last night at home, if Allah Who knows good dinner
person, he will give them a chance to hear the message. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
to us, the people that don't get a chance in this world will be shown another messenger on the day
of judgment. And if they obey Him, they go to paradise. And the people that obey Him will be the
		

			ones that had they met Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi wasallam, or any of Allah's prophets and
messengers and dunya, they would have accepted. Just I say all of that, why? Ignore that for a
second, don't let that ruin your moment of gratitude with Allah, Allah chose for you by whatever
factors to be Muslim.
		

			Own that taste that experience that because without it, you cannot imagine the depths of the sea of
darkness that people are in.
		

			And once again for your data, well keep that in mind. Without Allah subhanho wa Taala people, no
matter how much they try to mask it, they are lost. They are hurting, they are suffering, the
darkness of believing that there's no force in the universe that carries things things aren't in one
hand, or to believe there's multiple forces in the university and Yang competing and I'm the victim,
right? I'm just a pawn in the game. All of these are darkness they are pain they are distress
		

			The fact that you know your appointments with Allah five times a day, the fact that you are told Do
not come near fornication, Do not come near adultery, take care of your families, this all light by
which Allah rescues you taste it, experience it. Don't ever overlook that, and also go out to the
world knowing that without it, they are in the darkness of disbelief, the darkness of disobedience,
the darkness and confusion and estrangement, the ISS if he pulls out his hand, he can't recognize
it. Meaning the most familiar things to you are off your own hand, it doesn't quite Something's off.
So may we forever be grateful for the blessing of Islam? And may we be a service to those that have
		

			not yet been given enough information or enough inspiration to embrace this Islam? May Allah
subhanho wa Taala make us an instrument of his guidance and a channel and conduit for his light to
reach the world? May Allah Subhana Allah guide us and guide with us and make us a reason for others
to escape escape the tragedy of misguidance and disbelief Allahumma Amin, Allah Who Medina Divina,
which isn't necessarily about the man who said it's me Milena, Nolan Robina thriller, homonyms
Romina, and Muslim that's what you need on me nuts. Yeah, even Mr. Hamlin what was Allah Allah wa
salam baraka and Ebina Muhammad are on early he was on the edge marine
		

			Allahu Akbar Allah