Moutasem al-Hameedy – The Monumental Tafsir #65 Surah Ar Rahman
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We continue with Surat Abdulhaman,
and, subhanAllah, just looking at last week, we,
we only covered the first 2 or 3
verses, and we didn't even
honestly, like, we didn't delve very deep into
them.
And, some Suras, and I I am hoping
that some of you still remember
that we said that a few times before,
that some verses of the Quran pull you
in. You can't just sort of glaze over
them. You can't.
If you wanna get benefit, you'll have to
get with them.
I think it was,
Abu Idris El Khaulani, 1 of the great
worshipers of the early generations,
he
said,
So he says, I recite.
He's standing up in prayer at night. He
says, I recite 1 verse,
and he pulls me in.
1st night, 2nd night, 3rd night, and I'm
just repeating this verse.
Repeating this verse. I can't leave it.
Until Allah blesses me with forgetfulness
or some distraction,
and then I make it to the next
verse.
So some verses pull you in and you
can't just leave them.
You can't. So you would and you would
see even in Surah Al Rahman here, we're
gonna, insha Allah, just move quickly over some
verses because
we have set a frame for them and
you can relate to the frame, but you
don't need to get into the details. But
the beginning of the Surah is so deep.
Surah Ta'uha'maan
is 1 of these special Surahs.
It's so powerful
that, subhanAllah,
you can't just, you know,
brush over it and keep moving. You have
to deal with with those. 1 of the
things that I was thinking about
about Surah Al Rahman and Surah Al Wakah,
and again if you remember we said last
week that there is a connection,
Right? These surahs are like a pair
themselves.
Al Rahman and Al Waka act
again according to some scholars as a pair.
They go together. There are similarities.
There is they are connected.
And I was thinking, SubhanAllah, Allah starts with
Surat Al Rahman
and then Surat Al Waqah.
Al Rahman highlights
the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala or
Abrahma. And we said, again, the word mercy
does not do justice at all, not even
close
to the word
Arrahman and what it means.
That's Saruman.
Highlights
what? By the name of it. The name
of 1 of the names of the Day
of Judgment and 1 of the scary names,
Barlovik.
1 of the
scary names of
the Day of Judgment.
And what is this what do you find
this week this sequence in the Quran?
Mercy that Allah mentions
the Day of Judgement and His power and
might.
Surah Al Fatiha.
So these 2 these 2 surahs actually serve
and in the same sequence as the Surah
Al Fatiha. Surah Al Rahman
is more like the commentary
on Ar Rahman Al Rahim.
The master and the king
and the owner of the day of judgment
is Surat Al Waqah.
It's the commentary
on the first.
The same sequence. This is why the Quran,
as many scholars said, the Quran serves more
as a commentary on Surat Al Fatiyan.
See the connections?
Beautiful. There are always beautiful connections in the
Quran.
And the best tafsir according to the companions
of Allahu Anh, tafsirur Quranibul Quran. So because
tafsir is levels.
There are superior levels.
The
highest and utmost
level
of commentary on the Quran is when the
Quran
explains the Quran.
When a verse
explains another verse
and puts it in perspective.
That's the highest level
among the companions and oldest scholars.
Then number 2,
explaining or a hadith statement from the Prophet
or an action from the Prophet explaining a
verse.
Then
3rd level,
commentary on the Quran using the words of
the companions, their own explanation of a verse.
Then the explanation of subsequent
scholars, obviously, using proper Arabic language.
So here
you can find in this sequence, Surat Al
Ahmad and Surat Al Wakrah exactly matches the
And very similar.
Surat Al Bahman explains
and Avraham is explained by
which is
which is the Day of Judgment.
The Day of Judgment. And the balance there
is this is where the balance is.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when He talks about
his gentleness, his kindness, his mercy, his care,
and his
providing for his creation,
his rahman.
Right?
It
entails
or it suggests
gentleness,
forgiveness, and ease.
And there is something with the human self
that it can abuse
kindness and gentleness.
This is why if you are a parent
and you are
merciful all the time, you have Rahna all
the time, all the time, all the time,
all the time.
Inevitably
you're going to spoil your child.
Your child will not learn discipline,
which is an important part of their growth,
an important part of their growth.
So you will need decisiveness.
You need decisiveness
to balance it out. Otherwise
humans get corrupted. Most humans
get corrupted
when there are no repercussions,
when it's all Rahmah,
when it's all Rahmah. This is why there
are
in every legal system, there is the penal
law, right? There are the punishments.
There are the consequences
of you acting against
the
law.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala balances this tendency in
humans when He mentions Ar
Rahman Al Raheem and in Surat Al Rahman
Allah balances his balances this hour
even gently
Allah doesn't say Allah
is severe in punishment after Ruhaman Al Raheem.
There is time for questions inshallah. We leave
them towards the end.
So
Abrahman
al Rahim
and,
Surah sorry.
And
Surah Al Waka'ah, what are they?
They balance out
the tendency to abuse the Rahmah of Allah
and
the ease and the kindness
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Where's your hey, hey, hey.
Do you know what the sound of the
background is?
Can you find out?
Okay. But Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala doesn't say
he's suffering punishment. Allah says, Allah insinuates,
implies,
it's indirect. Allah says,
and
Okay. So that's a way to look at
some of the connections in the Quran.
We mentioned that
Right? And this is this shows the importance
of
the Quran and that we need the Quran
more than anything else. In this surah, you
will see that Allah
mentions a lot of the blessings
that are necessary for our survival
and for our prosperity.
Allah mentions them as signs of His UHna.
But also Allah
starts with what
which is the greatest duhna from Allah
So humans need the Quran and the guidance
of the Quran more than we need
food,
drink,
even air to breathe.
And Ibn Taymiyyah
He says
humans need the guidance of Allah that's in
the Quran more than they need
shelter,
food,
drink,
and air to breathe. He says because the
lack of those resources
means the death of the body,
But the lack of Allah's guidance which is
in the Quran means the death of the
soul and the heart.
And the death of the soul and the
heart is greater
and graver
than the death of the body. Because the
death of the body disconnects you from this
worldly life. Whereas
the death of the heart, the death of
the soul
disconnects
you from
Allah and from Jannah forever.
That's when you give everything its true value.
But if we are if we have swallowed
a lot of
modern ideology, we find it very hard to
wrap our heads around this. Why? Because
we're all obsessed with ourselves.
Okay. Arrahman al lamal Quran
Khalaqal insan, we said he created man and
SubhanAllah how Allah starts with what?
Allah starts with the purpose,
then he goes to the mechanism.
Allah starts with the end, then he talks
about the means.
So Allah says Allah taught the Quran,
created man.
Why did Allah create us? To learn the
Quran.
Allah created us to learn the Quran. You
might say, Oh Allah created us to learn
a book. It's not just a book because
the Quran contains the truth that is necessary
for your well-being
in this life and the next.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, Allah created
you to learn the Quran, so that when
you learn the Quran, you learn the truth,
and when you learn the truth you make
it to Jannah.
You make it to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
That's the purpose of your life.
That's the ultimate purpose of your life.
So Allah started with
this. Why? He puts the mean he puts
the end before the means because due to
its importance, to highlight its importance.
Another mechanism. We said Allah taught humans
and we explained but again,
you
know, Insha'Allah, it's still helpful to
mention a summary of that. Al Bayan in
the Arabic language, if you want to get
closer in the translation is
expression of what is within.
Clear expression
of what is within. The
Quran is described as what?
Right?
Why is it Because it's a very clear
expression of the truth.
The Quran is a very clear expression.
Is the same root as
and Allah describes the Quran as Bayan.
This is
very clear expression of the truth of what
really matters.
So Allah taught humans
Bayan,
the ability to express,
the ability to communicate
because when you express clearly you are communicating.
Alright. And this communication takes different levels.
It does take many levels. And as we
said, the most basic, the most fundamental
is to put the human experience,
codify it in words
that you can then transmit
in the form of sounds,
right, sounds to others or symbols in the
form of writing. Right. And then the person,
the other person receives it and they unpack
it.
They unpack it
and then they understand it. They make sense
of it. So your experience
is transmitted to them through this process. That's
And part of Al Nahul Bayan as well,
he not only taught you to express yourself,
meaning he created the devices for you, which
is Al Aqal,
reason,
intellect, intelligence.
Right?
Your mind, Allah created your mind so you
can
express and you can also receive.
That's part of. You can receive. Others can
express and you can receive that communication
and understand
it. So humans are able and this is
why some scholars said,
the level of the perfection of a human
being
or part of the perfection of a human
being is their ability to express.
Some of the most complete and perfect people
are the ones who are best able to
express and communicate.
And by the way this is something almost
universal.
Almost universal.
The Greeks,
the Greek philosophers,
almost
now
some of those who who specialize in Greek
philosophy, they say
the highest virtue
the highest virtue among the Greek philosophers that
they seem to agree upon is articulation.
The ability to articulate, Which is bayan?
The ability
to articulate.
And look at, again part of an extension
of this, Al Bayan, ability to express,
codify,
express in words, human experience.
Put it in a completely different format, in
a
code, that is,
that lends itself to be unpacked and understood
and understood.
So you're able to send and receive.
How did Allah communicate with you?
How did Allah communicate with us?
What's the communication that Allah sent to us?
The Quran that he called it Bayan. So
Allah taught you the Bayan
to be able to receive as well because
his Quran is Bayan so you can understand
what Allah is saying to you. And this
is what Allah that means you are equipped
as a human being to understand the Quran
by your nature.
You can relate to the Quran.
If there are no
barriers, psychological,
cultural,
ideological,
and linguistic
barriers,
you can understand the Quran. And spiritual, obviously,
corrupted spiritual
stuff.
You can understand the divine
the clear divine communication. Al Bayan,
Al Lamur Bayan, and the Quran is Bayan,
ada Bayan.
So you are able to understand,
SubhanAllah.
So Allah
equipped us, and this is what Allah says,
and
we
have
made
the Quran easy,
reachable,
comprehensible,
so that
you can
for what? For remembrance, for comprehension, for understanding.
Allah is not necessarily talking about intellectual now,
Allah is not necessarily talking about the academic,
or I studied these books,
I memorized this.
I memorized that. I know, for example,
the rules of Tajweed. I know Akam Al
Quran. I know the rules of Tafsir.
No, we're not talking about this. I know
the meaning of this verse. No.
A dhikr is not comprehension.
It's when your heart accepts
truth, the grasping of the truth and the
acceptance of it. That's what I've already said
in the Quran.
So the Quran is easy.
But again, what makes it difficult?
There's a question.
Allah says we made the Quran easy for
remembrance,
for to be reminded of the truth.
Why is it difficult in the experience of
some people?
Is the Quran easy in the experience of
everyone? Many
struggle. They say, I can't learn much of
the Quran. I try to read the Quran,
but I can't be consistent.
I try to understand, but there is,
you know I don't understand the language.
Even those who speak Arabic they struggle with
the Quran, a lot of them.
So why is it difficult?
Because of the heart?
Yeah. We want something more specific.
Still general. Yeah. It's correct. But we want
some we wanna get away from the clicier
words. Almost every question I ask you here,
if you say heart,
iman,
you might get it right. But we want
to get behind these words that have become
a little cliche because we've been using them
a lot.
Lazy.
Laziness.
Laziness is on the surface. It's definitely a
barrier.
The intention.
Lack of intention or inability to put the
intention
intention or attention?
Intention. To learn. Okay. Intention to learn. Okay.
Another barrier. Yeah. Since.
Okay. Since, which ties in with the heart
thing. Yeah.
Shey Pan.
Yes. Definitely, Shey Pan.
What else?
Sins?
Right?
Mahas, yeah? Yes.
Yes, it could be. Yeah. So the Quran
is easy. Allah says the Quran is easy
for you to remember to, to be reminded,
to comprehend it, to be able to relate
to it. Why are we not able to
relate to it?
The problem is not with the Quran.
Allah makes a clear statement.
Allah makes
a
clear and We have made the Quran easy,
facilitated
the process
of understanding,
grasping,
comprehending
the message of the Quran,
the themes of the Quran
which awakens the heart. The reminder here is
also awakening the heart to the truth.
Is there. Who is there? Who is there
to take that reminder?
Point. That's the point. If you find
that you are struggling in your relationship with
the Quran,
don't ever think,
let alone say,
don't ever think
that the Quran is difficult.
It's not difficult.
Where does the difficulty come from then? If
the Quran is not difficult, where does the
difficulty come from?
Yeah. The things that you guys spoke mentioned.
There is something wrong
with with who? With us.
Now this is not to beat ourselves up.
It's not about beating, but it's it's about
trying to figure out, trying to diagnose, making
a good diagnosis.
If you are struggling with the Quran, you
find it difficult to be consistent with the
Quran, you find it difficult to relate to
the Quran, or find the Quran relatable,
or if you struggle to see how the
Quran applies to your life, to the modern
problems of the world today,
then there's no no problem with the Quran.
There's no issues with the Quran. Where is
the problem?
It's on our side.
Again, we're not beating ourselves up.
We're trying to identify where the problem is.
The way we have been, again,
we are in a sense, we are in
a sense, but this doesn't make you innocent.
We are in it with all of us
to a certain degree or to a great
degree, we are victims
of collective
brainwashing and ideology.
Collective systematic
brainwashing
and indoctrination.
This is how the minds are controlled.
The way you think, the very basic way
we think
has been fashioned,
has been purposefully designed
to keep you blind.
Yes. To keep you blind.
So as long as we function according to
this mindset and according to these ways of
thinking, modes of thinking it's like the operating
system in the
IT world.
Operating system is what
reads the programs. It's not the programs, it's
what reads the programs, right? The very basic
language.
That's where the problem mainly is.
Our understanding of ourselves, our understanding
of the world, our place in the world,
who we are, what is life about, what
we are supposed to do with life. If
you are someone who thinks that, Oh, I
am here
to make a good life for myself,
to excel,
right, academically,
financially,
physically,
socially, and all of that stuff, and make
a good career for myself and be better
than everyone else in terms of my achievements
in this life,
then
you're already a part of that.
That's the system you're functioning upon.
And if now, as I'm saying this
it's gonna be a little sketchy, but bear
with me.
If now, as I'm saying this, you're thinking,
so you want us just to leave the
dunya and not be successful,
to to do well in school. If you're
thinking this way, you also have swallowed a
lot of stuff
that is causing
this bloating,
that's causing this,
you know,
let's say, spiritual
metabolic syndrome.
It holds you back from the Quran.
It holds you back from the Quran.
And if you think it's irrelevant, many people,
many Muslims, you know, they want to say
they actually say it. They say, I want
to excel in the dunya and achieve all
of the success there, and I wanna achieve
success in I wanna achieve the highest in
the akhirah.
So they follow the modern model of life,
and the goals of life,
and the competitiveness
in this life,
just like any non Muslim
who's very aspiring and ambitious when it comes
to their worldly achievements.
Right?
They think this is a system and this
is a separate system, and I can have
them together, and they don't see the dissonance
between both.
And because the emphasis is always on my
personal success,
I am more intelligent than my cousin, than
my neighbors, than my,
classmates.
Right?
I I have to do better than all
of them. I have to be number 1.
I have to get the best career. I
have to get the the highest grade. I
have to get the best certificate or the
best degree,
and I have to make the most money.
I have to get the highest paid job.
Otherwise, there's something wrong with me. Someone is
more intelligent.
Someone is more successful than me, and I
feel shame about that.
Right? And this is then
you have to know that you are using
the religion as some kind of decoration in
your life.
And then you will start to latch on,
when it comes to religion, to what? To
the things that are most public
but hold little value.
You would want to become a half of,
but not necessarily as someone who practices Islam
properly.
You want to get some
certificates
and some
here and
there. Or you want to be part of,
like a charity organization or a Muslim organization,
I sit on the board.
And I'm not talking about by the way,
that this is something bad. No. But there
are some individuals for them. Okay. Now I
I secured religion.
You start to treat religion as you treat
this worldly life with all of its accolades.
And Allah is not there.
So these are serious flaws. So this is
what hold us from the Quran.
This is what's holding us from the Quran.
Okay. So how do we undo this stuff?
Is there anyone in this room that is
free from this? No.
No. But we are plagued and contaminated to
varying degrees.
Okay. So how do I know where I
stand?
The safest is to
assume, right, that you are fully contaminated.
And there is a little bit of hope
and there's there's a glimmer of hope there.
And this is your starting point.
This is a very valuable asset.
Your love for Allah, your love for the
Quran, this desire to learn the Quran,
This identity as a Muslim is a very
good place to start.
But it's not enough. If you stay there
and if you're content with that,
you know,
you you are playing, you know it's it's
a like it's a it's a loser's position.
But that's a good starting point. This is
where,
you
know, the the fire is still burning or
the coals are still burning. So you can
light a fire from those
embers. You can you can get some fire
from those. But if you stay there, it's
not gonna give you any warmth.
So you have to build on this.
Okay. So how do I start undoing this?
Okay. How did you get here? By exposure
from a very tender age in your life.
Exposure to how to think, how to view
yourself, how to view life,
and basic principles
that have become
guiding principles
in your life.
And these are messed up.
So how do I begin? You start
you start by exposing yourself
to something that has the power to undo
this. What is this? The Quran.
But that's my problem.
Like, I can't engage with the Quran because
of this.
You have to keep pushing through. And we
said that many times. You have to give
yourself that exposure to the Quran. You have
to strive
first with your intention,
you have to strive with your consistency with
the Quran, your exposure, read it and
contemplate it and try, strive to make your
intention for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, not for
anyone else. Make sure that there are there
are. You're not getting any external
immediate reward from your engagement with the Quran.
No 1 knows, no 1 sees, no 1
acknowledges,
and you are struggling,
then when there is no other payoff
and you only leave sincerity for Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala as the only possible option,
as the driving force behind your engagement with
the Quran, most likely that door is gonna
start opening up for you.
You have to keep pushing and at some
point it opens up.
When?
Allah knows.
And you don't place conditions on Allah. If
you you say, okay, I'm gonna give it
3 months. If Allah doesn't give it to
me after 3 months, I'm gonna give up
on
it. You know, Allah doesn't lose anything. You
are the 1 who's gonna lose. You need
Allah. You need this path, and it's your
life, and it's your final it's your final
destination. It's
your future.
It is your future.
So how how far should I go until
you die?
And you have to keep striving until you
die, and Allah promises, And
those who strive
in our way,
we shall guide them to our paths.
To the paths that lead to us, to
the ways that lead to us.
When
Allah knows Allah, you know, Allah is ar
Rahman.
And He knows when to give you.
And He knows how much to give you.
He
knows when to withhold and how much to
withhold.
And he has wisdom behind this.
And he does for you better than you
do for yourself.
This is why you should trust him more
than you trust yourself.
So how far do I go trying to
expose myself to the opposite, to the remedy?
This is why Allah describes the Quran as
what?
Shifa.
Shifa. The Quran is shifa. Why is it
shifa? Because it
has the capacity to undo, if you engage
with it properly, has the capacity to undo
all of this indoctrination
that we have been poisoned with from a
young age.
And your goal and your responsibility is not
to free yourself completely from that indoctrination,
but it is to hold on to your
freedom that is given to you by Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Because the ultimate slavery is
the slavery of your mind and your heart.
Yeah. You will be working against yourself and
against your Umnah
when you are thinking based on these ideologies
and all of this indoctrination.
And you would think you are doing well
because Allah mentioned that in the Quran. Allah
says,
Shall We not inform you, of
those who would who'd
lose the most, whose loss is the greatest,
the ones
whose actions have been misled,
whose works and their striving has been in
the wrong direction,
while thinking that they were doing very well.
So when you are acting from those ideologies
and this kind of indoctrination,
you think
you are achieving progress when in reality you're
going backward, but you can't see it.
You know, this is what manipulative people do.
How do you know, when you when you
deal with a manipulative
person,
they actually provoke you
to act in ways to see that you
are defending yourself, but they are incriminating
you by you reacting in this way. They're
actually they have it figured out before you,
and they know your response. And that's the
response they they want you to elicit, or
they want you to to to bring about,
so that they can get you
more in trouble.
But you're thinking you're defending yourself, and you're
thinking it's gonna be it's gonna be, you
know, an advantage
to you.
But it works out it backfires. Right? It
works against you.
These are many punitive people, and the ideologies
and the indoctrination that we have swallowed, we
have been fed from a young age throughout
my life, throughout our life is manipulated,
and we are victims of it.
So your goal is not to free yourself
fully from it.
Your journey, your
your struggle is to
take the path to freedom.
Where do you reach? What's the point that
you reach in that? It's from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
That's how you go about this.
Okay. Let's get back to the Quran.
Last week we read the commentary,
from,
Sheikh Asadi, but we're gonna read it again
from
because here here Allah starts to talk about
the
natural phenomena
or the
signs and the creation,
which are signs of Allah's what? Allah's rahman.
Allah Allah talked about the greatest rahman that
He gave us,
which is You would find this, by the
way, echoed
throughout the Quran when
Allah says,
Allah give you hearing, sight
and the hearts
to comprehend, to reason. That's these are the
devices of Al Bayan,
Expressing and receiving
Al Bayan.
So this is why Allah says you have
to be thankful for these things. Now let's
get to the natural signs in the horizon
in the creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Let's see what
Al Imam Saadi says.
Yeah.
The sun and the moon follow their calculated
courses. That is, Allah created the sun and
the moon and made them to be of
service, running according to their calculated courses, out
of mercy and care for His slaves
and in order to serve their interests thereby,
and so that people may know how to
count the years and measure time.
And the stars and trees prostrate to Allah.
That is the stars in the heaven and
the trees on earth acknowledge their Lord, prostrate
to Him, obey Him, humble themselves and submit
themselves so as to be of service to
Allah's slaves and benefit them.
He raised the heaven and made it affirming
for the creatures of earth and enjoined justice.
That is, Allah has enjoined justice in word
and deed among people.
Hence he says, so that you should not
transgress the limits of justice.
That is, Allah has enjoined justice so that
you do not go beyond the limits of
justice.
For if it were up to your own
reason and opinions,
there would be troubles such as only Allah
knows, and heavens and the earth would be
corrupted.
Therefore, establish weights and measures with justice. That
is make them based on justice as much
as you can. And do not give short
measure. And do not be unjust
for giving short measure is unfair,
unjust, and a transgression.
He, namely Allah
has spread out the earth
as as it has the attribute of being
solid and stable. And it has various attributes
from 1 place to another.
For all creatures, foremost among whom are humans
so that they may settle on it as
it is smooth and plain.
Hence, they will be able to build on
it, till the soil,
sow seeds and dig in it, travel through
its roadways and mountain passes,
and benefit from its minerals and all that
is in it of things that they need.
Let's
comment on this and then we'll continue.
Now we can go a little bit at
a fast, much faster pace.
So Allah talks about now signs of His
Uhman
in recreation and how He
created
an environment,
home, and accommodation, temporary accommodation that is conducive
to our survival
and also our thriving.
That we can thrive on this earth. Allah
created the, as we said, those
conditions
as perfect for our progress, for our prosperity,
for our well-being.
And again, humans take credit for that.
They take credit for that.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, first, he
talks about these 2 signs that we see
on a daily basis. And most of us,
subhanAllah, how many times has Shamsul Qabal are
mentioned in the Quran?
So many times.
The sun and the moon are mentioned so
many times in the Quran.
Why? Because
if you really and this is what Al
Mudakir. Right? Allah says we have made the
Quran easy. Who are those who want to
take reminder? Really? Who are seeking the truth?
These are signs. If you're looking for the
truth, these are very powerful signs. But, you
know, we have become so accustomed
to the point of desensitization
that we see the sun and the moon
fine. Like, words,
so normal.
But the reality of such celestial bodies movies
moving at such a precision
that we know exactly when the sun rises.
We know exactly when it's gonna sit.
We know exactly the distance and it's it's
running according to this fixed system.
And they are they are running on their
own orbits
measured. Allah says,
Hashimsu will come out will be Husband. Husband
comes from where? Hissab.
Hissab in the Arabic language is what?
Measure.
Measure, calculate,
words, numeric,
all of these
meanings.
Basic algebra is Hissab.
Hissab.
So
everything is calculated.
Precise measure. They are following the exact,
you know, numbers.
The exact prescribed
numbers,
locations,
positions, angles.
So they didn't happen to be there. So
these are very profound signs from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. This is why he mentions them
in the Quran. And
as we've
struggled to take
proper reminder and lessons from the Quran, we
actually are struggling
even to take
the reminder
from the great creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. How often do we reflect on the
moon
or the sun?
You might say, But you know, people are
busy with their life. That's it.
That's how we are taken away from Allah.
What is the reason behind this busyness?
Is it legitimate? You have to question sometimes
the the system that you are operating on.
Hashem Suwal Kamaru bi Husband Allah says these
are designed for you for you. Imagine
the amount of service and benefit that you
get from the sun and the moon running
according to their prescribed measure in their orbits,
how consequential is this to your life? We
know that if, you know,
if the sun slows down or the earth
sorry. If the earth slows down
as they know in in astronomy today, if
the earth slows
down, what's gonna happen? It's gonna break from
its orbit. It's gonna go into chaos, complete
chaos. Any of the planets.
The sun has its own orbit.
What if it starts acting up? What's gonna
gonna happen? Don't be alone. No life on
earth. It becomes impossible. So who maintains all
of this? This is what Allah says in
Surat Al Mulk.
No, sorry. I'm referring to another verse.
Help me out. Allah
Allah
holds
the skies and the earth in place.
And if they were to move away from
their place,
you know what's gonna happen? No 1 holds
them but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So they're
not there because they are there. They are
there because they were put there. And they
stay there because they are kept by Allah
there. Allah maintains them there.
So there is management ongoing management.
So these are some of the greatest signs
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And if we
are unable to see them, if they are
if we are not taking the reminder,
if they are not impacting us, if they
are not reminding us of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala,
then what does that mean? That means our
hearts
are either dead
or sick,
and they're not doing their job. The job
of your heart is to take the reminder,
to catch the reminders.
Do you know the scholars of the language?
What's the meaning of 'al-'amin' in Surat Al
Fatihah?
'Al-'amin.' What's 'al-'amin?' 'Rabbi-'amin.'
'Al-'amin.'
what does that mean? How is it translated?
Everything except Allah.
Everything except Allah. Okay.
All the worlds. Right? The worlds.
Okay. So Al-'Al Amin, what is it? Is
it singular or is it plural and linguistically?
Plural.
Plural. Right?
Plural of what?
Of what?
Adam. Adam. Single. The singular is Adam, a
world, a universe.
So why is the 'aynam
called 'aynam' in the Arabic language?
Show you the intelligence the the inherent intelligence
in the Arabic language and the beauty of
those powerful connections.
Adam. What is the root of Adam?
The root of the word Adam.
Right?
Right? Which is the same as what?
Knowledge.
What's the connection?
There is
Arabic language is systematic.
It's systematic.
So what is the connection if they come
from the same roots?
And world and knowledge,
that means they have
a common ancestor
common ancestry.
What is the connection between the ilm and
the alam?
Do you know who helps us understand this?
Their cousin.
There's another word from the same root called
Adam.
Those who speak Arabic will know some Arabic.
What is Alam? What does Alam mean?
Alam. Allah says,
1
about Islam.
What'salam?
Sign.
Sign. Yes. This is why flag is called
Adam. Why? Because it's a sign.
Sign.
Adam.
Right? It's a sign. It's an indication.
So
the scholars of language, the linguists, they say
is
called
Why?
Because it's a sign that gives you knowledge
about Allah.
That's why it's called Alam.
It is called the adam
because its
fundamental
function
is what?
It points you to Allah, gives you knowledge
about Allah. This is why it's called the
Adam.
Yeah. It's called the Adam. This is called,
say,
is called the hannah because
it is an indication that points to Allah,
gives you knowledge
about Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. So the sun and the moon,
they tell you so much about Allah. This
is why the, Arab poet, he said,
In everything,
there is sign, there's an indication
that points to the fact that he is
the 1.
So everything
in the world
has an indication, like it's pointing its finger.
It's pointing its finger to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. It's a reminder of Allah
It tells you something about Allah.
That's the basic function of everything in the
world,
on top of other things.
So when
we are not taking these signs,
then that means our hearts are not functioning
well.
We don't have to make it complicated.
Your heart remembers. Allah
says,
In this there is a reminder,
again an awakening,
an awakening, some something that awakens you to
the truth.
For those who have a heart, meaning their
heart is alive, is not dead.
Oh here, it doesn't mean or. Okay? It
means and they listened.
They paid attention.
So if you are not taking signs, not
taking reminder from the creation of Allah around
you,
from the sun, from the moon,
it's 1 of 2.
Either you're not paying attention,
and your heart is okay,
or your heart is not okay.
There's no other way.
There there's no, like, there's no other possibilities.
These
2.
So this is why Allah mentions these in
the Surah, and they are a sign of
Allah's mercy.
They are a sign of Allah's mercy.
They help us what?
Allah Subhanahu wa Jalalah designed the world in
this way so that you know the days,
and you can number the days. And Allah
made the sun rise in the day so
you can work
during the day and you can go about
your life.
And Allah made
the the the darkness of the night as
a cover for you. Why? So you can
rest,
you can recede,
you can
go to sleep, go to your private affairs.
That's the night.
And we made the day for your livelihood,
and for your livelihood you need to deal
with things. You need to work, you need
to work with tools, you need to work
with people. You need to do things. You
need to build things. You need to transport
things. And for this, you'll need vision.
You will need lights, salami. And you will
need not only vision, you will need even
your physiology to be optimized for this. And
we all know from modern studies in physiology
that in the morning, you know, cortisol
is
secreted. It's like reach climaxes in your body
in the in the early hours of the
morning. Why? Because you're ready to work. This
is why it's not good to sleep during
the day. It's unhealthy,
especially consistently
for a long time. Why? Because your body
naturally is optimized by the rising of the
sun.
It's now optimized for work.
It's now optimized. You go to sleep,
you're gonna start, you know, creating imbalances in
your body. Then you wake up at night,
that's when actually everything goes to sleep in
your system
so it creates a problem. These are signs.
These are all signs and they point to
the mercy mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
When Najmoo was Shadru wa Yesjudan
and the star
and
the trees, they
they make sujood to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
So this is an invisible thing,
but it's a reality.
It's a reality. Allah says, Wa'lim min shayin,
Ila ybahu bihamdhi
wa'alaqillatifahumunatisbeham.
Everything
glorifies and praises Allah
But you cannot comprehend
the tisbeeh.
You can't comprehend it. You can't hear it.
You can't recognize it. You have no access
to it. It's not Bayan. For you, it's
not Bayan. So you can't understand it. You
can't relate to it. You can't detect
it even. You can't some unfortunately,
some,
Muslim
educated people, especially educated in science, they would
wanna say, oh, we know these things, you
know, from the plants.
They have a rhythm.
Or they have a vibe that we can
actually record, that we can capture in some
with some devices.
So this is the
how did you know?
How did you know? But this obsession with
trying to prove Islam through science,
this neediness, this inferiority,
you know,
is is is humiliating.
Allah says,
Leave it. Allah didn't say anything about that.
Allah says, you can't comprehend it. Leave it.
We don't need to prove it.
There's no point.
So everything praises Allah Subhut the Prophet
and this is the world of the unseen.
We can't see it, we can't understand it,
it doesn't work according to the dynamics that
we know dynamics that we know about. For
example, hadith of the prophet
where he says
That the sun when it sits,
it prostrates
before or under the throne of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. I remember a few years ago,
unfortunately 1 of the Muslim youth,
very, very like, again so much into science,
but unfortunately ended up listening to a lot
of atheist
arguments and stuff,
And he was confused about Islam and he
he had some serious doubts and he says,
this hadith,
now we know that the sun
rises on other parts of the earth. So
how is this hadith like for? Apparently it's
wrong.
Apparently it's wrong. Now that's that's the delusion
of modern times.
You think people didn't know that before?
You know, we there's a there's an interesting
similarity between humans today and every time and
Quraish.
There's a very interesting similarity.
You know, humans always think at almost at
every stage of human history, humans think that
they are way more advanced than the nations
before them.
And they're not completely wrong.
In certain areas, they have advanced,
but they don't realize that there is a
lot about what their ancestors knew that died
out and they have no clue about.
They haven't even heard about these things.
They don't even register
on their on their screen at all.
So they don't realize this.
So that's the delusion of
modernity all the time.
So so this is why we think now
we are the most advanced ever and we
have we know about everything
what no other human being has ever known.
We know better than all of the previous
generations about everything.
That's exactly what Quraysh said to the Prophet
They said we are more advanced and this
is why this stuff that you came up
with
is outdated, belongs to the past.
We have transcended that. We are far ahead
of this. They said what?
That's the meaning.
That's all. This is outdated stuff, man. We
are far more advanced than this. That's what
God has said. And today we say the
same thing.
And we don't realize that we are delusional
about some of these things. You think Muslim
scholars didn't know about the sun?
They knew about the sun.
There are actually
records of Muslim scholars talking about this and
Muslim
Muslims who were studying astronomy and
math and all of that stuff because these
were 1 science, math and astronomy were 1
science
at the time, that they actually knew
and they could measure the distance
according to their calculations
between the Sun and the Earth.
And they believed that the Earth was a
sphere and the sun would just
be shining on the opposite side of the
Earth. They knew about this. I never questioned
the hadith. Why?
Because you
are thinking singularly.
You're thinking singularly
in only 1 way. You don't realize you
are refusing the world of the unseen and
that you have no access to it and
you can't interpret it. But you're trying to
pin it down by your understanding of this
simple physical plane, the dimension that we live
in. You think this has the capacity to
explain
everything and all of the other dimensions of
life?
That that's that's really a textbook definition of
stupidness.
You think that what you know can explain
everything.
Whereas knowledge is actually
knowing that what you know
is limited to what you know and there
are things that you don't know and you
don't have the tools and the tools that
you have cannot explain that.
So it causes you humbleness.
For example, as early as Ibn Hazm, Rahim
Allahu Ta'ala. Ibn Hazm lived in 300
late 300, early 400.
Ibn Hazm
says
in Nihalul Fisul, his book about the groups,
the different groups of Muslims, non Muslims, religious
groups, and philosophical
groups. He mentions
that and he takes it from the Quran
That if the night and the day are
circulated in that way, that means the Earth
is a circle,
is a sphere.
And there are again the ones who specialize
more in math and astronomy have more about
this, more details. And they knew the hadith,
but they saw no contradiction. The contradiction is
in, again, a limited mind
that's only trying to explain the world of
the unseen
with the rules
of modern science.
That's a problem.
So
so again what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
everything is frustrating to Allah, everything remembers Allah,
everything glorifies Allah. That's the truth that we
don't know about,
that we really don't know about.
And that's the world of the unseen. So
what do we do with it? We accept
it. And we realize these creatures are serving
a purpose. And Allah says in the Quran
If we were to reveal this Quran in
terms of a responsibility,
like hold the mountain
this mountain accountable. Give it the burden or
the
responsibility
of holding the words of Allah.
It would have collapsed
under this burden.
So it has a life of its own.
Obviously now in science they started to realize
some things, but again we don't have to
make this connection.
They say in science plants talk to each
other, they recognize each other.
I read about an experiment where they had
a few plants together
in a room,
and they they were there for a few
weeks.
And then the
researchers
burnt
the leaves of 1 of the plants,
And they were observing the other plant. And
they said again, I don't know exactly what
it is, but the second the other plants
were reacting
in signs that are similar to showing pain
and something like crying.
They were in pain.
It's just like when you attack them you
know, when you attack a plant, it does
the whole system responds in some ways to
defend itself.
So they said when we burnt 1, the
others responded
in
trauma to it.
Again, fine.
And that's
that makes sense.
But things in the world, in the existence,
you know, have secrets that we don't know
about and we will never reach.
And these are signs
of the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And Allah raised the skies as a canopy,
as a ceiling.
Allah set justice.
Justice is the rule that governs the world.
Justice, appropriateness,
everything is in its right place. Everything is
to the right degree.
Justice. And it's a very important thing. This
kind Al Mizan, this justice is extremely important.
If you develop a sense of justice, and
justice is not only
in the in the in the sense
in the legal sense today,
right?
Like justice and equality. No no no. There's
justice this in everything.
Justice means everything in its right place, to
the right degree, at the right time. Everything
is just right.
That is what 'Enmizan' and Justice' and 'Adil'
mean.
This is what sets the affairs of this
dunya and the akhirah right.
Justice.
This level of justice and fairness and balance.
Balance.
Right?
And you know there's a famous rule
that I think it was Ibn Khaldun that
mentioned it as well,
This justice fairness establishing
this balance and justice
is the foundation that keeps
nations intact.
And keeps governments
and systems in place.
If you remove that,
they will collapse.
They will collapse.
Injustice oppression brings, you know, decline of
nations, and in everything. And subhanAllah, this is
a discussion beyond
this halaqaq, but
it's good if you get if you know
this.
Ibn Uplayim in
his book on Al Qadr
and also in his book Madaraj Sadiqim,
he talks about evil, the nature of evil,
the nature of evil.
Because there's a lot of confusion about what
is good and what is evil. What is
the definition of evil? There are many theories
with regards to what evil is. And Ibn
al Hayne gives a very beautiful
a very beautiful definition and insight
that I think he took mainly from Ibn
Taymiyyah, but he expounded on that.
That puts your heart to peace and also
helps us understand because some people say, how
come Allah creates evil? Because Allah is the
creator of everything, the good and the evil.
Right?
So how do how do we reconcile things?
So it gives you a good understanding, but
I'm not sure we can do it
with this glimpse. But he said, Ibraham says,
evil
is the inappropriate
arrangement
of good things
which is a violation of Al Miza.
This is what evil is.
Evil
is not a thing.
Evil is a judgment.
Evil is a judgment
on inappropriate
arrangement
of good elements.
He gives an example. He says,
very famous example, knife.
It's good that the knife cuts is a
very useful tool. That's good.
Hand,
the ability the hand mobility,
motor
ability of muscles
and joints, muscles to contract and move, and
handle
a knife
is a very useful thing. It's an asset.
It's a good thing that Allah gave humans.
Right? So that's good.
The knife and the capacity of a knife
to
to cut,
humans ability to handle things and use things
is a utility. It's good. It's useful in
that sense. So it's good.
Now Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala inspired humans with
these to make these tools and use these
tools.
Now when someone takes this tool
and uses their knife to stab
an innocent person,
If you unpack it,
each individual
element of this scenario is good.
But it's how it where it's placed,
where it's applied
is wrong. Right? You applied that capacity
in the wrong place with the wrong person.
And this is where evil comes about.
So evil is the wrong arrangement of good
elements.
That's where that's where evil comes from.
So again, it boils down to what?
Or
Do
not mess with this balance. Because you mess
with this balance, you mess with life.
You're gonna bring about,
you know,
destruction upon yourself if you mess
with
what keeps the world together.
Balance
is the measure that keeps the world together.
You mess with it,
what's gonna happen? It's just like like you
have your car and you hear some sound
and you start, you know, undoing
some screws and, right, and
playing around in the car thinking, oh, I
wanna tighten some some some
some
nuts and do this and change this and
change that and fix that. Then you go
on the highway.
You might just be
you start losing wheels. Right?
1 tire goes this way, 1 tire goes
this way, or the engine,
you know, explodes or whatever happens.
Why? Because you messed with a system that
is way more complex than your understanding.
Keep it in balance. The world is in
balance. Don't mess with it. So when humans
play God
and they then they try to create things
again systems,
concepts, ideologies,
and they mess around with life this way,
they do injustice,
they violate the rights of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
and the rights of Allah, the creation. What
happens? You're messing with a system that is
way more intricate than your capacity to understand.
So it's gonna backfire.
It's like you're riding this car, you but
you have done a 1, 000 things to
this car and you don't know. You have
tightened so many nuts, and
loosened many screws,
and changed many pieces,
and you think, Oh that looks fun. So
I probably did a good job. It looks
good. Right?
But you don't know. You might kill yourself
with this.
That's exactly what humans are doing. Now again,
you know, they created financial systems.
They created a way of
life
that rewards
greed for money and promotes it. Right? And
rewards it.
It's the worship of money.
Life has become about the worship of money.
And they say, Oh, that's the superior system.
Look at the advancement that we have.
Right?
Well, you're you're messed with the divine system.
What's gonna happen? Wait until it runs its
full course. Let's see what happens.
And every now and then, there is a
release valve, and they they get what they
call,
what is it? Depression
and recession and all that stuff.
But these are
these are,
release valves.
But what when you bring the destruction upon
yourself with your own hands, with these own
systems
That's why when you humans don't know. Allah
knows. Allah knows. And He gave you the
system for your prosperity, for your well-being in
this life and the next. But when you
turn away from from Allah,
you're gonna pay a hefty price.
So that's Al Mizan.
Allah
set the ground at the earth, designed it
so that it is conducive for your livelihood.
Everything about the earth is just
is so yielding
to human productiveness,
for human prosperity,
for human benefit, for living. You can build
houses.
You can,
dig wells.
You can,
you can get out, you know, minerals from
the earth and utilize them.
You can travel, you can
plant, you can so it's the earth, subhanAllah,
is such a productive thing. Right? Such a
productive asset from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
the way Allah shaped it and designed it
is just conducive
for your struggle on it.
It does serve that purpose. So that's part
of the mercy. Everything in the surah should
be seen through the lens of mercy of
Allah
Let's, just
go quickly over those ones. We don't need
to eat that again. Just
again the fruits.
And these are again, these are just Allah's
Allah mentions those as symbols or samples, if
you like, of the great variety that Allah
created in this world. Fruits and pleasant things
to eat. I
don't know. I don't want to start going
deep into this stuff.
But
generally speaking, we translate it today as fruits.
Right? But
has everything. And
the comes from the roots.
So basically things you find pleasant
and pleasing.
Pleasant things that are pleasing to your senses,
pleasing to you overall,
these are fakya.
These are fakya. Tafakka. Tafakka.
This is why, for example, when people sit
and chat and they enjoy the chat, they
call this tafakko.
Right? Why? Because it's pleasant. It's like you're
having good a good time. The same thing
with anything you eat, not necessarily for your
survival,
but it gives you a pleasant experience as
you eating it. Right? You're eating for fun.
So that's more of
it doesn't mean it's not nutritious. It's nutritious,
but Allah here is emphasizing as well it's
not only nutritious, but it's also pleasing to
your senses.
It fixes your mood as well.
Again and the palm trees that produce
all these the sweet fruits, etc.
And
again, all these plants that are not trees,
right, plants that are not trees,
wood, whatever they produce and you can use
them as hay and feed for your animals,
etcetera.
Vallejhan,
again, is either this, the pleasant
plants that
produce pleasant smells, but it also some scholars
say it refers as an here, it refers
to everything that
gave us. Every utility that Allah calls to
grow in terms of vegetation.
Which of your Allah's signs
or your Lord's signs are you do you
deny? Which of them do you deny? And
Allah here switches. This is called an in
the Arabic language. It's in
in rhetoric.
It's called alitifat.
You're speaking, for example, in the 3rd person,
you switch to the first person.
You're talking in general, then you address
the person.
So Allah is
then Allah speaks to 2
creations here
who are
And
this is called. There's no
dual dual in the English. There's
no there's no similarity like that in English.
We can say 2.
Which of the signs of your Lord or
the blessings of your Lord do you deny
or disbelieve in?
And when the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam recited
the surah to the jinn, the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam had a few meetings with the
jinn to invite them to Islam. Some of
them, they came by him by accident.
Some of them, they were already prearranged.
So the prophet met them and he recited
to them Surah
the the response of the jinn was better
than your response because every time
I recited the verse, which occurs how many
times in Surat Al Rahman.
Hammam. How many times?
31 times.
Every time I recited to them,
Oh, our Lord, we don't deny any of
your signs, any of your blessings.
So the companions started to say this after
the Prophet
that Allah
mentions that He created. So since Allah brought
the jewels, so obviously your mind is asking
who are these 2 that Allah is speaking
to? Right? So Allah
says,
which is the origin of the creation of
humans and the origin of the creation of
jinn. InshaAllah, we're gonna come to this,
next week. Again, I I had intended to
move faster, but it didn't happen.
So, hopefully, we can at least get some.
Okay? The point here, inshallah, is to get
but from now on, I think we can
move quicker
because we have
dealt with the
the overall frame. We can take, I think,
a couple of questions before we go, Insha'Allah,
if there is any questions.
Shouldn't get lost in this world and try
to achieve everything.
But this at least also teaches us we
should try
to be a strong believer financially, physically, mentally.
So how do we strike that perfect balance?
Okay. Let me unpack some stuff.
So the question is so everyone is on
board.
Our brothers, Zalallahu alaihi says,
the prophet
says in the hadith
that the strong believer is better than the
weak believer.
And in both of them, there is good.
So the brothers the brother says here that
this hadith tells us to be strong financially,
physically,
socially, etcetera. So how do we balance?
How do we balance?
1st, the original meaning of the hadith.
The original meaning of hadith.
Strong believer
in iman.
But we Muslims have hijacked that. Why? Because
when we push our kids to do the
best in school and we want them to
be better than everyone else, not for the
sake of Allah, for the sake of showing
off
and making others feel bad that we are
more intelligent
than you. My kids are more intelligent than
you.
So then that's that we hijack a hadith
or a verse,
and we make it for Allah. That's like
serious that's a serious problem. That's when we
use Allah and His religion for our petty
desires. That's very, very dangerous.
Although
many people make light of it, but it's
very, very serious.
So that's the original meaning of the hadith.
But what you said is not
wrong. What you said is not wrong.
Yes. Stronger believer. Why? Because the stronger believer
physically, financially,
socially, personally, in terms of character, all of
that, they are an asset.
They are an asset.
So how do we strike the balance? First
intention.
If I work most on my heart, my
iman being the strongest,
we're not saying leave this dunya. On the
contrary, when you work on your iman, the
dunya
opens up for you as tools,
as a toolkit. It really presents itself to
you as a toolkit,
and Allah will bring it to you in
as much as He knows it will benefit
you
in seeking Him.
Sometimes Allah will not open it for you.
Sometimes
there are people that Allah doesn't open the
dunya for when they seek Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. If somebody says, I started worshiping Allah,
but you know, I'm not getting anything from
the dunya. It's turning away from me.
Allah is managing your affairs well. Allah says,
Allah expands the provision of some people and
He limits the provision of some people
for their own sake, for their own benefit.
Allah knows that some people will get
spoiled
and corrupted
if Allah expands their
and distracted if Allah expands their provision.
So when you focus on your iman, the
dunya will start to open up, generally speaking.
Whatever is available to you, you use it
for Allah. Your intention is for Allah, it's
not for this dunya. So that's why you
it's not a matter of balance, it's a
matter of it's completely different story. There are
people who seek the dunya
for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because they've worked
on their iman and they're coming from that
place, and there are people who are seeking
the dunya and Muslims,
and might seem practicing, by the way, to
the same degree.
Apparently, there's no difference.
This is doing it for Allah, this is
doing it for himself.
It's not a matter of balance, it's a
matter of intention. It's a matter of configuration.
What is going on inside?
Why are you seeking this dunya?
Are you seeking it for yourself for itself?
Or are you seeking it?
Because it just came about to be handy
in your journey to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So that's a big difference.
That's a huge difference.
You know there's a lot of speech now
about, oh, the Muslim should be strong and
should be wealthy and should be this and
you can be.
This is a very dangerous territory.
Get me any verse in the Quran.
Or
very or or any hadith from the prophet
that encourages people to be rich.
Not to earn a living,
to be rich. To make it a point
to be rich.
You won't find.
You won't find that.
But the prophet
would say,
It's good that for a righteous man to
have good wealth. It's good. Generally speaking,
Abdul Haas, but the meaning is general.
But Amrulhas actually, Amrulhas what was Amrulhas doing?
The prophet told him, I will send you
as a leader of an army and you
will get a lot from this. And he
said, no. I I don't want that. That's
not what I followed you.
Right? So the intention is obviously different.
In this case, if dunya comes, it's good
for you.
Why? Because
you hardly have enough capacity
to save yourself in this life. So if
you're gonna prioritize
the world
as a goal
in and of itself,
as al Hassan al Maslih said,
Whoever seeks the dunya for his own sake,
he has harmed his
Inevitable.
It's inevitable.
Right?
Finally so again, do we get strong? Yes.
Get strong. The thing is
we we don't follow the right order. We
should work most on our iman, and the
dunya will open up. And the Muslims advanced.
It's not they shunned the dunya,
but it only fell in place
to serve their greater mission.
It was not their mission. That's when they
made it because
when by definition, when you seek the dunya,
you are a weak believer. By definition, you
might be strong financially, but you won't benefit
the Ummah.
When you are coming from that place, you
will weaken the Ummah, you will not benefit
the Ummah.
By definition.
When you are very resourceful,
but it's not for the sake of Allah,
but you call it for the sake of
Allah, you're weakened, the Ummah has
The Muslim Ummah is probably 1 of the
richest nations on earth. Right?
Why is it not the strongest Ummah?
A lot of this wealth is destroying the
Muslims more than others.
It's the disadvantage of Muslims.
And finally, as Al Qawi, the Prophet SAW,
The strong person is not the 1 who
every day, all day, he's he's putting everyone
else to the ground like he's wrestling and
beating them.
He's not the 1 who beats everyone.
No. He's the 1 who's able
to take control of himself when his anger
bursts.
Which is what? A teskia.
When you reach this level of teskia, you're
able to transcend yourself. I have to give
the sisters an opportunity before I take a
question from here. Sisters, question?
Okay.
I saw a question there. Yes, brother. Go
ahead. So it was more of a statement.
I'd like
to that? If it's quick, yes.
I was doing some research, and I found
out that
intelligent,
the true people of strength,
the people with the money, they're the
Muslims. Because things like eating healthy,
it leads to prosperity. It leads to wealth.
I don't know how you define success, but
happiness, well, the right with all of all
those, they fall under success and all those
who do good
deeds,
get next. The law says, I'll give you
this life and the next. It's both. So
think about it. You're gonna try it. Eat
healthy for a year.
What happens? You're in shape. You have energy.
That's what he says. You know the good
things. If you jump in for a year,
what happens? You come lazy flat now.
So the same video, he says,
us. And I can tell you from firsthand
experience. I used to do security in the
nights,
and I realized,
I used to sleep in the day,
and I used to study in the night.
I used to work in the night. I
used to eat in the night. I used
to be in the night. And it's difficult.
That makes sense. I make the day to
see I made the night for us. So
now Exactly. Yeah. III work in the
Exactly. Yeah. III
work in the day. I study in the
day. Good for you. Problem in the day.
Good for you. The right dynamics in this
world, you can't work without them.
Definitely, you have to observe them. The right
way to support them. Yeah. There's a lot
of confusion there, and
I think Okay. Can we end it there?
Otherwise, we'll
the thing is and this is an assumption.
People think of me saying, Worship Allah. Focus
on Allah
automatically. And that's why I said we swallowed
so much stuff that is governing how we
think and what conclusions we arrive at. When
we say worship Allah, people automatically think, oh,
then you're not gonna study, you're not gonna
work, you're not gonna
take care of your health, you're not going
to do this.
No. These are all assumptions. They come from
the faulty operating system that we are using
to arrive at conclusions.
Not at all. When you worship Allah
you can't avoid the dunya. You are in
it. And you will, you will see it.
This is why I said the dunya will
open up to you in ways
from a different angle, where it comes to
serve you. It doesn't serve you for, as
the Arabs say, for the beautiful color of
your eyes. It's gonna serve you because you
are what?
Because you are serving Allah, and that's what
the universe is created for.
You are here to serve Allah and Allah
created the world to serve you, serve Allah,
to help you serve Allah.
So that's the hierarchy we're talking about.
And this kind of dichotomous thinking, either this
or that, this,
you know,
fixation on if I follow the deen and
we have this from a category of people
who are more like hermits.
That's not the way of the Prophet who
was more engaged with with life than the
Prophet
Who was more engaged with life than Abu
Bakr
Amal Khattab, the companions? But they didn't do
it from a relationship with the dunya. The
dunya was a toolkit that Allah made available
to them.
And when it came, when it
was around, when it was available, they used
it, utilized it, then they sought whatever resources
were there because their goal and their mission
was great.
And that's the right approach. And this is
where the dunya opens up. We know the
hadith mentioned it many times, that whoever has
an akhirah the last day, meaning Allah as
his main concern, Allah would collect all of
his affairs and put them in 1.
Allah will reduce your worries and make you
focused on Allah, but all the details will
take care of themselves. That's the point. It's
not like you're going to leave everything behind
and you're going to live a miserable life.
No. Allah will that this life is designed
to work this way, and you're getting to
that secret of this life.
And then Allah will take care of all
of your affairs
and will place a sense of wealth and
abundance in your heart. And then
this life will come, even against its will,
to offer itself to you.
Again, not for your own beauty and intelligence,
because you are fulfilling Allah's will,
and that's what the Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
designed the universe to fulfill.
So that's what we're talking about. So it's
a different ballgame. I hope this makes sense.
We have to close. It's time for Maqrib
Jazakumullah khairah. Inshallah we will continue
next Friday
for your patience.