Moutasem al-Hameedy – The Monumental Tafsir #70 Surah Al Qamar
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Are inaccurate.
We have a lot of books in our Muslim tradition that are lost.
We have a mention of them. We have a mention of them, but we don't
have the books.
And there were, again, some,
some of those who are interested in manuscripts, they would
actually follow traces in books that mention where scholars came
across a copy of this book and they tried to trace it back.
So you would find a book that had a few copies here and there, but
all of them are lost.
So it's not like today you have millions of copies or 1000s of
copies. They didn't have this luxury.
In order to get a copy of the book, you had to pay a lot of
money to someone to transcribe it, even to find the copy to be
transcribed. So it wasn't an easy thing, like getting access to a
book was not as easy as it is today. It was very difficult. It
was very expensive, and most people didn't have access to that.
So it's important to understand this. So it was easier for
historical facts to be lost or to be sort of
wiped from from history.
It was easier,
and today, for example, we have,
you know, we have people have cameras on their cell phone.
Everyone has a camera. Everyone is a cameraman. So that's why you get
a lot of what's happening in Reza is documented, right? A lot of
this. Imagine, this has been happening for a long time, but
there was no documentation. People didn't have cameras. Like, how,
like, maybe one in 10,000 had a camera,
right? So a lot of these atrocities were happening, but
there was no documentation of them. And a lot of history was,
you know, a lot of, by the way, a lot of the history that we know
today is distorted. A
lot of it is this. Just the other day, I was listening to one of the
top experts in the world.
I think he's a Syrian
in the field of oil,
petroleum,
and he says the narrative that is accepted in the world today by
almost everyone is that petroleum and oil and the use of oil and the
refinement of oil, and all of that stuff was actually discovered or
was developed in USA in 1859
That's where the history of oil starts.
So he says, I'm an expert in the field. He says oil production and
use in machinery, and a lot of the like the early machines or engines
that were created that would run on oil, and the refinement of oil
into different components, like gasoline, diesel, etc,
was actually in Azerbaijan.
Took place in Azerbaijan 20 years before it started even in the in
America.
And it was part of what the Russian Empire. At the time.
It was part of the Russian Empire. Um,
and it happened that the financing was done by some Europeans and
Americans, and when part of the project failed, they took over the
project, and
then they transported the technology into the USA and so on
and so forth. He says, Okay, that's just one side.
But he says, I delved into the Arabic language.
And he says,
Well, we have clear description, very accurate descriptions, of
petroleum, the different substances you get extract from
petroleum, and the different uses, even in Arabic poetry before
Islam,
Qatar on
other stuff, all of the details. He says the Arabs like when a
camel developed some kind of like lice and bugs that would cause the
skin to start falling off. Jarab, basically in Arabic language,
What's jalab in English? What would that be? Jarab?
Okay, jarab is when you have an itch and you have some skin issue
and it starts falling off. And it's very itchy, right? So camels
used to suffer from this. How did they treat them? They they treated
them with Qatar on
within it's actually, it's more like what you use now to pave, to
pave the roads and the streets with and where did they extract
this from? They extracted them.
From,
because most of the oil at the time that appeared was on the
surface. And it's actually known like there are countries like in
Iraq, there is oil that comes out up on the surface. There are men.
There is mention, even at the time of the Omega khilafa, that there
were some areas where there was this, again, this very thick
substance, oily substance, that's that that they used to light
torches with, and the light, or the fire, would last for a long
time.
And they used that at the time of war. So when there was war and
there was an Army coming, for example, when the moguls were
coming over, many of the areas in the Muslim in Iraq, West West,
western part of Iraq and south, south Syria. Now
the Muslims would actually dump so much sand over these areas where
oil was coming out to the surface so that it's not used by by the
invaders, because it was a very dangerous
weapon could be used dangerously. So again, it's not like something
new. It was used, it was used in manufacturing. It was used in
cosmetics. It was used in cleaning as well as detergents. So he says,
we have a rich history of that, not only the Arabs and many other
nations as well. So the thing is, who knows this?
The history of colonialism, a lot of it is distorted.
A lot of it is distorted. So the thing is, we live in a world that
we take what we are told for granted, and we think, Oh, we know
what we know. We are just so civilized. We are so honest. We're
so educated now that you can't deceive people. And we don't
realize, you know, we joke about the matrix, but we're pretty much,
there's a lot of accuracy, there's a lot of truth to it. There's a
lot of truth to it. So this is why, again, as a believer, the
concept of vyakkawa in Islam, the concept of vyakawa is very
important. Is very important you can't we live in years of
deception. There's a lot of deception that is going around. A
lot of what we were fed from day one in this life was wrong, was
false, and it controls how we think, controls how we process the
world, controls how we see the world, and that just makes us
again. It takes our freedom, the freedom that Allah gave us, just
by means of enslaving our minds and our hearts, your your thinking
within the constraints of what we were taught. And a lot of that is
wrong and false.
So it's important to understand that you know, the human
experience, or the
at least the world that we live in today is not as
is not as good as it presents itself to be,
is not as good as it presents itself to be. There is a lot of
deception, and because we are sucked into it, we don't see it,
we just deluded. Okay, so that's again, that would be a way to
approach this, why such a great event in the life at the time of
the Prophet sallallahu was not recorded? Well, who knows that?
Who said it wasn't recorded?
You know the history of Isa alaihi salam, for the most part, the
99.999%
of the documents are, what a false history of that era, false. It's
only traces, small traces, here and there. Allah SWT says
in the Quran about is Ali Salam Vishal al balasuli. Yet, I mean by
this, Muhammad, right? The Allah actually Salam profess the
arrival, or the coming of Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, and
that the prophet is doing a hum aktuban in the humfit rati. Well,
Injeel Allah says that the Prophet, the unlittered Prophet,
Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, they find him written
in the Torah and the Injeel, where is he? Where are the copies? You
don't even find them. Some people say there is the bernadah, you
know, copy, whatever it is. But again, it's that one single copy
from what, from millions of other copies. So, such an obvious fact,
right? How was it hidden easily when there is no much writing,
when there is no much books around, in circulation, you know,
it's easy to control, you know, what gets handed down to later,
later generations. So
it's important to keep this in mind. Okay,
for example, where is the history of Prophet Ibrahim alaihi salam?
Where
is the history of Prophet Ibrahim alaihi salam, other than the Quran
and the scriptures. Where is it?
Where is the history of Prophet no halahi, Salam and the flood?
It's only in religious scriptures, right? So where is it in human
accounts? It got lost, but these were like major events in human
history, so it's important to under.
Abu
asmaati, Having
mentioned,
yep,
having mentioned the situation of those who rejected His Messenger,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, and that the signs did not benefit
them or have any impact on them at all, Allah subhanho wa Taala warns
them and alerts them by mentioning the punishment of past nations who
rejected the messengers and how Allah destroyed them and sent his
punishment upon them, Allah mentions the people of Nur, the
first Messenger whom Allah sent to people who worshiped idols, and he
called them to affirm the Oneness of Allah and to worship Him alone
with no partner or associate. But they refused to give a polytheism
and said to one another, do not forsake your gods. Do not forsake
wad suar, Yahoo, yaruk and Nasr nur kept on calling them to Allah
by night and by day, in private and in public. But that only
increased them in stubbornness, transgression, opposition and
criticism of their prophet. Hence Allah says here they rejected Our
slave and said he is a madman, because they claim that that what
they and their forefathers followed of polytheism and
misguidance was that that was that was what was supported by reason,
and that what Noor alaihi salam brought was ignorance and
misguidance that could only come from those who were insane,
but they were lying and turning upside down facts that were proven
according to religious teaching and rational thinking, what he
brought was the established truth, which guides enlightened and sound
thinking minds to true guidance, light and maturity, whereas what
they were following was ignorance and clear misguidance. And he was
rebuked and threatened. That is his pu his people rebuked him and
told him off when he called them to Allah subhanho wa taala. But
they did not stop at they did not stop at not believing in him or at
rejecting Him. They went to great lengths in trying to harm him as
much as they could. This is how all the enemies of the messengers
were and how they treated their prophets at that point, Nur called
upon his Lord, saying, I am overwhelmed and cannot stand up to
them, because no one among his people believed except very few,
but they had no strength to resist His people. So help me, O Lord,
against them. According to another verse, he said, My Lord, do not
leave on Earth a single living soul from among the disbelievers.
Allah answered his request and helped him against his people.
Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us here, so we open the gates of
heaven with water pouring down in torrents. That is a great deal of
water pouring down, and we caused the earth to burst forth with
springs. So the heavens began sending down an extraordinary
amount of water, and the earth burst forth with springs. Then the
waters, namely the waters of the heaven and the waters of the
Earth, met for a purpose that had already been decreed by Allah. In
other words, Allah had ordained it and decreed it from eternity as a
punishment for those transgressors and evildoers. We carried him on a
vessel made of planks and nails. That is, we saved our slave, Noor
on the ark that was made of planks and nails. In other words, it was
made of planks that were held together with nails.
Just
some so two points. Point number one, why does Allah, if you look
at the Quran, the stories of the prophets are mentioned so many
times, right?
And the Quran, as Allah says, we're going to come to come to
this verse, wala padiya sa na, Quran, Ali dikri, Fahlman mukher,
we have made the Quran easy and accessible for those who truly
want to take heed.
Why is the Quran filled with stories of prophets and messengers
and the same stories occur over and over again, different details,
different versions of the story, or different sides?
To say different viewpoints on the stories. Why?
Not for entertainment?
Not for entertainment.
Allah doesn't mention anything the Quran unless it's relevant and
important for our own survival,
our survival on the path to Allah. So that means, when these stories
are repeated so much, they occur so often in the Quran, that means
they are of paramount importance, and it means there's an obligation
upon us to see the parallels between these stories in our
lives, because there is a lot in common. And if these stories
remain as distant and remote ancient stories to us, and we
don't draw so much from them, that means we miss we're missing out on
a wealth of practical advice from Allah subhanahu wa helps us
contextualize our reality and understand it,
and that's a way, that's One way the Quran frees us from the grips
of the you know, control over the minds in our times and in every
time.
The more you pay attention to those stories, the patterns repeat
themselves, the pattern of rejecting the truth and that the
story of humanity boils down to two things, the full truth and
falsehood, those who side with the truth and those who side with
falsehood. That's what it boils down to. Everything else is a
bluff you will find today. There's a lot of talk recently about,
like, you know what's happening in the UK, what's happening in
different places? Now, there's a there's a growing
narrative or rhetoric about, oh, immigration, too much immigration,
yes. I mean, take it as procedural. That's something for
authorities to deal with you. They could be criticized, etc. But what
I'm talking about is
masking racism and hatred of Islam
under these kind of maybe
partially legit grievances or concerns,
fine. And they would tell you, like, for example, if you look at
what's going on in the UK,
they say, Oh, it's too much migration, and we don't care about
your color or your religion, but you can see the focus is on
Muslims when you know none of it has to do really with what has to
do with Muslims, but and they say, oh, it's about our values, and
it's about adopting our values. We are losing ourselves. We're losing
our way of life. We're losing our culture, right? London is not as
it used to be. It's not the London that I know and things like that.
And you hear all of this stuff as if London has always been the
same,
like London 1800 is it the same as London 1900 and I believe we all
saw the, you know, the this colored footage from the maybe
just 1900 the year, 1900 from factories in the UK and other
places in Europe. When women are for the hijab, right?
Have you seen those videos that have been again colored, or even
if they're still black and white,
you'd still, you'd actually see these women. You think, oh, that's
a Muslim country, and they are filming people in the streets of
UK, cities in the UK.
And what was it? Women were covered.
Women were covered. They were wearing long dresses, very loose,
nothing tight, and they had shawl over their head, and a lot of them
were holding it here, so nothing shows but their face and their
hands.
So that was the UK 100 more than 100 years ago. So which UK are you
talking about? Which culture are you talking about, which values
are you talking about, as if, like the UK has been the same since
eternity. Every culture changes, right? But it's not your concern
about our values or our cultures. They know Islam spreads. They know
Islam makes sense. They know if people are left to realize and see
Islam for what it really is, a good number of people are going to
turn to Islam. I mean, with all of the distortion, all of the lies,
all of the media war against Islam over these decades, past decades,
which was very heavy, right? Describing Muslims as backward,
describing Muslims as terrorists, describing Muslims with all names,
right.
Still, people were flooding into Islam.
So cultures, including European cultures all over the world.
Culture keeps changing. That's a fact of life.
But they're not concerned about culture changing. They're not
concerned about that. They
are considered. They know the power, the inherent power, of
Islam. It's the it's the natural way. It's Allah's religion. It's.
The truth, and many people, once they see it, they will just start
to embrace it. They
start to come to Islam, and that's what they fear. So it's a matter
of truth and falsehood. That's what it boils down to everything
else, otherwise that everything else is a bluff. It's more of a
cover up. Why? Because it's politically incorrect to speak
about religion
in such a like a blatant way. But even though they still with all of
this, they still speak about Islam blatantly, and they say, you know,
we're against Islam, we're not against Muslims.
So this is narcissistic. Why? Because they want to define what a
good Muslim is, if you hold on to Islam, you're not a good Muslim.
You're not a good person, right? It's only when you meet our
expectations. You are you we accept you as a Muslim. So you're
not accepting Muslims,
you're not accepting Muslims, because what a Muslim is is
someone who adheres to Islam,
you see, so it's all there's so much play on words, and it's
happening a lot now, and it's happening in many countries.
So just to That's exact, that's exactly what was used against
these prophets.
They said about Muhammad Islam, He's a mad man, right? He's upon
his guidance.
So they thought they were educated, they thought they were
intelligent, they were enlightened. But Noah was coming
with backwardness. He was coming with What madness.
So if you, if your feet are not firm in the fitrah and in divine
guidance, you have no compass. You don't know what's right from
what's wrong. You can't, you come you can. You can be easily
indoctrinated with whatever.
You can be easily indoctrinated. Your sense of of good and evil,
right and wrong, truth and falsehood, does not stand in firm
grounds.
It's not established. So it's this is what Allah says about Islam and
Uruguay. What's a lot the
strongest handhold? If you want to get something firm, you want to
hold on to something firm as a compass, if you don't have a sense
of north, south, east, west, and you are in the middle of nowhere
and
there is no sign. Let's say it's cloudy. How do you know north from
south? How do you know directions
without divine guidance? This is how humans are. Whatever is
trending, it starts to, you know, dominate your thought and your and
your moral system. You start to go with it. Go with flow.
This is why humanity cannot, like Allah, is saving us from ourselves
with that guidance. So they know this, and they don't want it. They
don't want it, as simple as that. And they would use the same
rhetoric, or similar rhetoric, as that was used against the prophets
and the messengers, the same kind of resistance. And a good lesson
that we take from this is that don't pay attention. Don't pay
attention to don't take these words seriously.
Don't take these don't let them shape you. And that's a problem
when you allow, when you allow those people to give you, even to
manufacture or even to contribute to your self image, you're doing
yourself. You're shooting yourself in the foot. And
unfortunately, many Muslims are just again, trying to be cool, or
trying to be look civilized, or trying to be up to date. They
would pay so much attention to all of this propaganda and swallow it
and then try to please and appease and in the process, they lose
themselves.
They lose themselves.
So you need to be established in firm grounds so that you don't
lose yourself. And there's no enmity in that. There's no hatred
in that. There's no like again,
there's no violence in that. On the contrary,
on the contrary, that's what everyone teaches, that's what
every ideology teaches, that's what every background teaches,
right?
But as a Muslim, oh no, no, you What are you up to? Right? Maybe
you mean violence, maybe you mean terrorism. Maybe you're trying to
take over.
Don't pay attention to that. That's a way to manipulate you.
That's a way to manipulate because when and it's again, it's a it's a
narcissistic way of manipulating someone simply. It's as simple as
just throwing an accusation on them and get them to defend
themselves, and then you can take over the situation. You already
created self doubt. Now they're so busy clearing their name. Now you
can do what you want,
right? So, so it's important to understand it's more like
gaslighting. Don't let it get to you.
Don't let it get to you. How do you protect yourself from it? Take
the.
Definitions, the basic definitions from the Quran, from the Quran,
take the definitions good, evil from the Quran, right, wrong from
the Quran. You can't lose you have a compass. You can know true
north, as they say, right. You can tell the directions. But if you
just depend on what is being circulated, you're not going to
have an absolute direction. It's going to change based on trends.
So you don't have an absolute morality.
That's why humans need divine guidance. Otherwise, shaytaan is
going to take you away from the truth. Is going to get you
misguided, and you would be fully convinced that you are upon
guidance. How you feel about it doesn't really matter.
Okay, let's
continue. Wahamedana, beha
Suha Tajiri,
Abu
Allah,
we carried
him on a vessel made of planks and nails, that is, we saved our
slave, Noor on the ark that was made of planks and nails. In other
words, it was made of planks that were held together with nails
sailing under our watchful eyes. That is, it sailed with Nur and
those who believed with him, and the different kinds of creatures
that he took on board with him, under the care of Allah, who
protected them from drowning. For he is the best protector and best
Disposer of affairs, a recompense for one who has been rejected.
That is we did what we did for nur saving him from the widespread
drowning as a recompense for him after his people had rejected him
and disbelieved in him, but he patiently persisted in calling
them and continued to obey the command of Allah, from which no
one could deter him or stop him. This is like the verse in which
Allah says of Him. It was said, O nur disembark with safety granted
by us and with blessings upon you and some of the communities who
will spring from you, from those who are with you.
It may be that what is meant is we destroyed the people of Nur and
did what we did to them, of punishing and disgracing them as a
requital for their disbelief and stubbornness. Verily, We have left
it as a sign. Is there, then any, any, any who will, any who will
pay heed? That is, we have left the story of Noor with his people
as.
Signs so that people may pay heed and realize that Whoever disobeys
the messengers and stubbornly rejects them, Allah will destroy
them with widespread severe punishment. Or it may be that the
pronoun it refers to the ark and ships in general, and that Allah
taught his slave, NUHA salaam how to make them then Allah subhanho
wa Taala left that craft among the people as an indication and sign
of His mercy and care for His creation and of his great might.
Is there? Is there then any who will pay heed that is is there any
who will pay heed to the signs? Pay attention and reflect upon
them, for they are very clear and straightforward. Then, then, how
were my punishment and My Warnings? That is, how do you see
the painful punishment of Allah and His warnings, which left no
excuse for anyone? We have indeed made the Quran easy to understand
and remember. Is there any who will pay heed? That is, we have
made the words of this, this Holy Quran, easy to memorize and
recite, and we have made its meanings easy to understand and
know, because it is the best of speech and wording the truest in
meaning and the clearest in interpretation. So for anyone who
for everyone who reads it with focus of mind, Allah makes it easy
for him to attain what he seeks of knowledge, understanding and
remembering includes everything that those who seek knowledge want
to know of what is lawful and unlawful, commands and
prohibitions, rulings of Requital exhortation and stories from which
to learn lessons, what one needs to know of true beliefs and true
stories of the past and future. Hence, knowledge of the Quran, in
terms of both memorizing and understanding, is the easiest of
knowledge and the noblest of all branches of knowledge. It is
beneficial knowledge which if a person seeks it, he will receive
divine help to attain it. One of the early generations said
concerning this verse, There is no seeker of knowledge, but he will
be divinely helped to attain it. Therefore Allah calls his slaves
to study the Quran and pay heed to its contents by saying, Is there
any who will pay heed?
Okay, so Allah subhanho wa Taala destroyed the people of Noah. And
something important to pay attention to here is that Noah
state among his people as Allah mentioned, Phil abi, tahim al
fayna in illaham, Sina Hama,
1000 minus 50 years. That's how long stayed among his people,
inviting them day and night, in public and in private, yet they
desisted from accepting the truth and the message. And that shows
that,
as a messenger, you are entrusted with a mission. Fulfill the
mission. The results are with Allah.
The results are with Allah,
and imagine like having a message or a call, having a mission for
950 years, and only a few people follow you, and the majority are
rejecting you and your message,
you know, we give up from the first attempt, right? We feel
offended.
We feel offended.
And if someone persists, it's just for a short while, then eventually
they are frustrated. Why we need to see the fruit of our work. We
don't see the fruit. Okay? I'm gonna lose my motivation, I'm
going to be demotivated, right? So I'm just going to give up, because
I need the sense of efficacy. I need to see the results.
Otherwise, I'll lose, you know, the drive.
And here is the difference between a believer
and a non believer,
because no halahi Salam, although he was he wasn't getting great
results in terms of people's response,
he saw beyond this.
He was every time he was inviting, he was obeying Allah subhanahu wa,
and he was getting reward from Allah. He was fulfilling a
responsibility.
That was his reward,
that was the outcome, that was the results.
But if Allah guides people through me, Alhamdulillah, that's a
blessing. That's the cherry on the top.
But my reward
is already within the action itself, within my obedience to
Allah, and Allah is pleased with me. I'm fulfilling my obligation
towards Allah, Subhanahu wa it's not about me, it's about the
mission that Allah wants me to fulfill,
and that the distinction is very important. Ibn Al qayyim speaks at
length in many places, specifically in Madar. He says, in
acts of worship, Allah has a share, and you have a share.
Make sure that your share does not seep into your intention. I.
To
make sure that the payoff that you get from acts of worship does not
seep into your intention so you start to expect it. So when you
don't get it, you lose the drive to do the action, you lose the
intention, and that means your intention has been hijacked by
your expected payoff?
It's very subtle. That's a very subtle thing, but it's important
to pay attention to that.
It's very important to pay attention to this.
Okay, so, so no part of the resilience of NUHA Islam and his
ability to continue for nine for 950 years, despite all of this
rejection, and what helped the Prophet sallallahu sallam, persist
in Mecca, despite all of the resistance,
was what
they were not controlled and limited by what we call facts on
the ground.
This is belief in the unseen. We see the bigger picture.
I mean, this is a pleasant payoff to have, where people accept the
invitation, they accept your advice.
And this applies like I would say it's more pertinent to when we
give advice to someone, oftentimes we advise with the sense of
obligation that the person should respond to our advice and accept
it, and if they don't, I'm going to get upset. I'm going to stop
advising people. People don't deserve my advice.
What is that point? That points that points to one fact that you
know your intention
as the scholar say, fihin, there is smoke in it. It's contaminated.
It's somehow compromised.
Why? Because it's not about you. Allah gave you a mission. Go and
fulfill it,
okay, but I'm not getting these results. The results are not up to
you in naked and Allah, you don't guide who you love or whom you
love. Allah guides whoever He wills man. The obligation upon the
Prophet SAW Salam is merely to convey,
as long as you convey, you're the messenger. They respond. They
don't respond. You're
entrusted with the mission. Just fulfill it. That's all you have. I
want to see results. You're playing God now
you're playing God,
especially when it comes to so many people, for example,
you might actually do something good, and it doesn't pay off in
the sense with what you get in this world. Fine.
I one Arab poet, he said, a very beautiful line of poetry. He said,
many Adam jawazia, whoever does good, they will not lose its
payoff. The payoff is guaranteed. What is good. Good deeds are not
lost between Allah and between people and Allah.
The payoff is with Allah. Your deal is with Allah. Your deal is
with Allah. So that's important. That's important with everything
you do. Sometimes you treat people nicely and you know, they don't
reciprocate. Maybe you're faithful, but the the other person
is not as faithful. Does that mean? Okay, then I should respond
in kind. No,
no. We are upon the we are truthful because Allah tells us to
be truthful because it's good, it's the right thing to do. People
lie against us. We don't lie against them.
Why? Because we are we dealing with Allah. And I think Ibn
Taymiyyah raham, Allah,
He said, I am illness. Let
your treatment with people be dealing with Allah. Treat them for
Allah.
Treat them for Allah. Don't treat them for their own sake.
Give them their rights for the sake of Allah, regardless of how
they, how they how they respond, or whatever. And that gives you a
sense of freedom. Again, gives you a sense of freedom, how the world
treats you, how people respond to you, what results, immediate
results you get. Okay, it's it's up to Allah. It's not with you. If
Allah gives you, if Allah wants to give you something, fine he gives
you.
But if Allah doesn't want to give you, no amount of effort or
frustration is going to get you what you
want. And by the way, this applies today. A brother asked me a
question. He said he was getting into business entrepreneurship,
although this is a big topic, but I feel tempted just to talk about
this,
because there is a lot of and we mentioned that a few times. But
bear with me. I think these issues are important to bring about,
because there.
Very slippery and tricky. There's a lot of speech now, but you will
find it basically a trend. Something is
catching on among the non Muslims. Give it a few months, then you
will find a Muslim version of it. It's actually not a Muslim
version, a Muslim copy,
a Muslim copy of that. So they talk in for some time, they talked
about feminism. Then
Muslims started talking about feminism, and they will say, Oh,
Islam says this. Islam say that Islam, but it's all the non Muslim
talk, trying to force it into a Muslim system, cherry picking
whatever text or incidents, and, you know, discarding and ignoring
so many other texts that is to the opposite effect, right? And so you
see, Islam agrees with this. That's what Islam says. And by the
way, it happened even by some respected writers, even
previously, I think, in the 1950s some
Muslims started talking about socialism in Islam,
because communism and socialism was rife in Russia and some east
and East Europe, and it was gaining some popularity. And then
Muslims started, oh, socialism in Islam? And then they tried to
argue. So a lot of that is actually already in Islam.
That's a problem.
When you are just, you know, following the wake of others,
you're a copycat. That's not the religion of Allah.
The religion of Allah is the leader.
Is the leader.
And again, this goes back to what we refer to as this deep sense of
inferiority that has been hammered into our consciousness for a long
time, and we need to be aware of it so we free ourselves from it.
It's so subtle
and it's pervasive within our being that we don't realize we're
doing it when we are guilty of it,
and you can't be free as long as you have it operating within you.
So you will have, now, more recently, Muslim masculinity.
Same thing
you were taking the ways of the non Muslims and the reactions they
are having to social problems that they have created with all of the
bias and all of the vengeance and the anger that is inherent in that
experience, we're taking it with all the flaws and bringing it into
Islam and say, okay, so we have this in Islam already.
And then you can make a YouTube channel, and you can get a lot of
donations. You can get, make, get a lot of views. And you say, oh,
that's Islam. This Islam. And you're exactly talking like these
red pill guys,
who, most of them, most of them have a background, sorry, with the
wrong type of woman, for the most part, a lot of these people, and
excuse me for the word, they have the mannerism of pimps, and that's
how they treat women,
and that's the type of women that they deal with. And thus, they
most of what they have devised in the way of treating women comes
from them. And then Muslims pick that up, right? Or say, Oh, we
have this in Islam, right? The Prophet saw them said this, there
is this incident in this era. What about the other incidents that
really, that that really cancel everything you're saying? They
want to get into that.
And then again, one of the the trends is business. You know,
entrepreneurship coming out, and we're doing the same thing,
copycatting, getting exactly the same thing. And just say, Oh, you
see Abdul Rahman, Bin ouf Othman, Abu Bakr rode Allah ano. There
were this business. There were like, filthy rich. There were
multi millionaires, millionaires. There was this, there was that,
and they made this money and that money.
And, okay, we look at the content that you are presenting. You're
literally presenting the worship of money,
the worship of Prophet,
and then they will choose from Islam. Oh, Islam encourages you to
be rich. Where did you get this from?
They will start twisting like statements. The Prophet SAW Salam
said to Abu as for example, that
doesn't talk, that doesn't speak to what you're saying at all.
You're just forcing a meaning on it. What does Islam say? The
Prophet SAW Salam, the best of humanity, said, Allah. Muhammad,
Oh Allah, make the provision that you give Muhammad and his family.
Aliyah, salatu wasallam, what
the sufficiency
that? What covers the necessities? That's it. That's you. That's all
relationship with wealth. Now if Allah, if you.
Your career is business. Go ahead, if Allah gives you and your
business flourishes. Alhamdulillah, that's a blessing
from Allah, Subhanahu wa. But to go out with the obsession that I'm
just going to get rich by any means possible, that's not the
ways of the believers. And you can't find any clue in Islam that
shows that the spirit was there at all.
But you sort of projecting what you have learned from the non
Muslims who worship the dunya. And
instead of worshiping Allah, they worship success, they worship
wealth. They worship whatever, like titles and goals that they
set for themselves. You're just taking that
and you, and then you're trying to sort of project that on Islam.
In Islam, your relationship with money is, money is a utility. It
helps you worship Allah.
And Allah knows who to give and who not to give to,
yeah, and we
know, you know that you can try, but results are with Allah. That's
the connection to this. The results are with Allah. You can
try, but you should not try or aspire to be obsessed with wealth
and obsessed with success and obsessed with mansions and
obsessed with supercars, and then say, oh, Islam invites you to be
rich. No. Islam invites you to Jannah and invites you to Allah.
And it says, if Allah and you should seek a living and
sustenance, and if Allah gives you and puts barakah and multiplies
your wealth, use it to make it to Allah, Subhanahu wa, that's that's
categorically different from what is being now shared as you know,
Muslim entrepreneurship, rich Muslims
and stuff like that, creating slogans like this and that
we're playing with our religion. And Allah warns against those.
Tahadudhi in a home, lahwa walayna, they take their religion
as game and play. You
can't mess with the religion of Allah, Subhanahu wa, and all
you're doing is copying stuff, copying stuff. You don't even have
any original stuff, apart from the twists, the funny twists, and, you
know, stunts that you're having with the with the text of the
Quran and the sun.
So the point here is what Allah gives Abdul Rahman bin aof was a
businessman. He traded in the market. Allah gave him
Alhamdulillah
Abu Bakr, al the Allahu anhu, traded in the market. Allah gave
him in the Dawah. In the early stages of dawah, Abu Bakr almost
lost all of his wealth.
He put it in the Dawah for the sake of the Dawa spreading Islam,
right. And Allahu balaka in his wealth, if man, when I found the
same,
he traded and whatever Allah gave him, he used that for the Dawah,
and Allah increased him in blessing. Abu Bakr al the Allahu
anhu, when he became the Khalifa,
when he became the Khalif. Abu Bakr, one day, in the early stages
of his khilafa, Abu Bakr, you know, went to the market. He says,
I have a family to feed. I'm
going to do business and trade. He said, No, no, no, no, we got to
give you, we got to give you a set amount of, you know, something to
cover your basics. You can't trade as the Khalifa, you can't you
can't trade.
Where's the wealth of Abu Bakr? He spent it for the sake of Allah.
Why was he going to the market to feed his family?
He didn't go to the market to become filthy rich and buy
supercars
and and rent those, you know, supercars, and claim that they are
yours, and making video, you know, videos, and posting them and
saying, I mean, just buy my program. You can become, you know,
wealthy. And
what wealth and worship, whatever like slogans they come up with,
huh? I just enrich. Yeah, it's become famous. So I don't want to,
I don't want to get in trouble. I don't like this, okay, but the
thing is, again, but you know what? Islam so where is tawakkul?
Sorry, if you can guarantee you'll become rich, follow my recipe and
you'll become rich. Where is tawa? Where is Allah in the process?
You're just saying there is complete causality with with me,
with my program, invest in this way, learn my mindset and my my
way of trading, and you're gonna become rich. And there is a money
back guarantee.
I mean, not exactly, but there is a lot of guarantee. There's a lot
of testimonials. Okay, so you are a Muslim speaking like this.
That's exactly how non Muslims speak.
Because as a Muslim is a do business. Islam doesn't say don't
do business, any type of business, even if it's a job,
even if it's trading, if it's halal, if it's selling or buying,
whatever that is.
Is do it. Why sustain yourself, sustain your dependence, your
family,
right? If Allah, that's what you should aspire for the rest of the
effort that you have, they should put your focus with Allah,
subhanho wa taala. Now, if Allah puts barakah and blessings in you,
on your wealth and it grows Hamilton, that's a blessing from
Allah. That's a blessing from Allah. That's our relationship
with wealth and money.
But many people, again, it's just sort of Satan. Shaitan gives you
this trick, and he, you know, takes the better review in this
way, saying, you know, but I want to become filthy rich. So the
Muslim ummah gets stronger. Because when Muslims are rich, the
Ummah are stronger. With this spirit, you make the Ummah weaker
when you get richer.
Yeah, because someone who you literally worshiping the dunya.
And when you are worshiping the dunya, you don't add to Islam. The
early Muslims, most of them were what almost had nothing. Muslims
went out into the world almost having no resources.
So again, even we're processing the world, we're thinking we're
planning exactly the same way the non Muslims are planning and
viewing the world.
So what's Why is the Quran there? The Quran is not some sort of,
again, some cosmetics or some accessories. It's nice to have,
right? We read it, we understand it fine. But you know what our
lifestyle is, none is not different than what non Muslims
are. Our worldview is not our the dynamics that we follow, the goals
that we have, the recipes that we follow in this world, pretty much
what the non Muslims have. So how is Islam different?
How is Islam different?
So we are marginalizing Islam when we're doing this. We are
marginalizing Islam. We are hiding Islam from the world when that's
what we do.
Okay? So, so that's, that's okay, that's, that's a problem. The
thing is, you don't guarantee results.
Results are with Allah, you can try
and by the way, generally speaking, in business, there is
this bias, again, towards success. Successful stories get told,
stories of failure, what they call failure, they don't get told. So
you don't hear about them. So you have this bias.
Have this bias, because the stories of failure don't get told
and they are way more than the stories of success. And the
stories of the success populate the, you know,
all the platforms. So it seems like, oh, all if you follow this
recipe, this plan, you're going to be successful, and it gets you the
delusion. And there are many victims of this, many there's that
a lot of that is spam
and manipulation.
So as Muslims, we know that results are with Allah. You can do
what you whatever you have, or whatever you can then results are
with Allah subhanahu wa does? Does this mean helplessness? Not at
all. But you shouldn't be worshiping the dunya, because what
happens with most of those who follow these programs is that they
weaken their Imaan by aspiring more for the dunya. Start to
worship the dunya, and eventually they don't get much of it.
Eventually, what have you done to those people unto their hearts?
Okay,
Allah,
okay, let's so that's
there's the last bit. Walapa, ya Sana. Quran Dakar, and how does
this connect to the story of the splitting of the moonshallah,
we're going to start with this Biennale next Friday, we can take
maybe two quick questions, what time is mahalapir?
One minute,
one quick question. Might
be a long question, but what tools can you give young people to
navigate that kind of
love for money? It for money. So tools to navigate this love for
money, Allah says when Shadid man's love of wealth is is is
tremendous, is excessive. So that's a weakness within us. If
the heart is filled with Allah and the love of Allah, then there's no
there's no space for money in it. Really, it's a matter of occupying
the heart with what is good,
engaging with the Quran, doing Salah with sincerity and with
hushuar and with focus, it creates wonders. Was tainu Ba Sabari was
salah? There's no secrets. Honestly, the answers to all of
these questions are in the Quran, but it's just our adherence to
them, and maybe inshallah next week, as we talk about Fahl minut
Dakar, why does Allah says we have facilitated the Quran? Many people
find the Quran difficult,
a struggle. Why fahelm in muddeck? The answer is, Fahl minut Dakar,
is there someone who is true?
Lee committed, okay, okay, Zach, main, you.