Moutasem al-Hameedy – The Monumental Tafsir #80 Surah At Tur
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Alhamdulillah, now we begin with Surah Tafseer, Surah
At-Tur, Tafseer Surah At-Tur.
Surah At-Tur was revealed in Mecca.
If I'm not mistaken, it's Surah number 9
in terms of revelation, order of revelation, around
this.
It was revealed around the same time with
Surah Al-Sajdah, or maybe Surah Al-Sajdah
was before.
So it's one of the early Surahs.
So it addresses the issues that the people
of Mecca raised, and it addresses the challenges
the Prophet ﷺ faced in the Meccan period.
So it's about establishing aqidah, it's about establishing
the truth, talking about the reality of this
world, talking about the rights of Allah, talking
about disbelief and its reality, exposing it, and
maybe as well talking about the Day of
Judgment.
Surah At-Tur is also one of those
poetic Surahs.
It has short verses, especially at the beginning,
and they have what is called in Arabic
Al-Jars.
So Al-Jars means rhythm, but it's a
very powerful rhythm.
It's a very powerful rhythm.
So let's begin with Imam Al-Sa'di.
InshaAllah we will comment on his words.
Let's stop here.
Tafseer Surah At-Tur.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala starts with an
oath or Allah swears by some of magnificent
features among his creation.
And the list of things that Allah swears
by, can anyone peacefully deal with the kids?
The connection between this creation of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and the conclusion of this
oath that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala concludes
this series of oaths with is a very
powerful connection.
So Allah is saying, Allah starts with At
-Tur.
At-Tur in the Arabic language is the
mountain.
It is the mountain.
A specific shape of mountain is called At
-Tur.
Up until today, the Arabs still call certain
type of mountains At-Tur.
But because of the uniqueness of the mountain
upon which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala spoke
to Prophet Musa a.s. on his journey
back from Median to Egypt.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala spoke to him
in that area.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala set up a
meeting for Musa a.s. afterwards.
After Allah saved them from Egypt, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala gave Musa an appointment.
40 days.
40 days.
This was by At-Tur.
So this specific mountain in Sinai.
Some geologists, they say it's to the south
of Sinai.
It's one of the highest peaks in Sinai.
I'm not sure whether we know exactly which
mountain it was.
My understanding is that we don't know.
We don't know the exact place or the
exact mountain.
But it was in Sinai.
So Allah met him there.
Allah had a real encounter, a real meeting
with Musa a.s. How?
We said we don't know the nature of
Allah.
We don't understand the nature of Allah.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala spoke to
Musa a.s. directly by At-Tur.
So it became known.
When you say At-Tur now, it is
known.
Just like you say Al-Madinah.
We say Al-Madinah.
Madinah means city.
Al-Madinah means the city.
So when you say the mountain, because it's
known and it's unique.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is talking
about the Mount Sinai.
Al-Tur, Tur-i-Sinai.
At-Tur, so Allah swears by it.
Wa Kitab-i-Mastur.
Kitab-i-Mastur, again there is two possible
interpretations.
Either the preserved tablet, which was the first
thing Allah created.
The first thing Allah created was the pen
and it wrote on the preserved tablet.
Everything that was going to happen from that
moment on till the day of judgment.
So everything is written.
Big, small, everything.
At every level.
So everything that happens was already written.
It's a complete story.
So that's the first interpretation.
And that's a great miracle.
That's a great thing.
That the fact that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala knows everything.
That nothing is new to Allah.
And everything that happens now is actually the
word of Allah that manifests through his creation.
Allah creates it.
Allah turns it into a reality.
The second possible interpretation is that it's the
Qur'an.
The Qur'an.
Wa Kitab-i-Mastur.
Because the Qur'an, and this is a
promise from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
it will be written.
It will be written.
Wa Kitab-i-Mastur.
Mastur means written.
Physical writing.
So it will eventually be documented in writing.
And we know during the life of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the majority of
the Qur'an was memorized, was committed to
memory.
Companions had parchments.
They would have their own copies.
They would write, scribe their own copies of
the Qur'an and keep them to themselves.
But they were not a complete version of
the Qur'an.
None of the companions had a complete version
of the Qur'an written.
But many of them memorized the Qur'an,
the full Qur'an, by heart.
Now Mastur here means written.
Satara, to write.
Today the Arabs use Mastur to mean Satar
which is line.
Kitab-i-Mastur, we use Satar to mean
line today.
But Satar, reality, means writing.
Inscribing.
That's what Satar, Mastur means written.
It's transcribed or inscribed.
Kitab-i-Mastur, fi raqqin manshur.
Again, raqq, waraq, which is paper or parchment.
Manshur, and it's open.
It's wide open.
It's available.
Al-Bayt-al-Ma'mur.
Al-Bayt-al-Ma'mur is the name of
the place of worship above the seventh heaven
where the angels worship Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
And it is aligned with Al-Kaaba.
It's aligned with Al-Kaaba.
It's aligned with Al-Kaaba.
That's the place where the angels worship.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in
the hadith of Al-Isra and Al-Mi
'raj, his journey to the heavens, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saw Al-Bayt-al
-Ma'mur.
And Ibrahim alayhi wa sallam was resting his
back to the wall of Al-Bayt-al
-Ma'mur.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
Every day 70,000 angels, 70,000 unique
angels enter Al-Bayt-al-Ma'mur to worship
Allah.
And they leave it and none of them
comes back to it until the Day of
Judgment.
That gives you an indication of the number
of angels.
Every day 70,000 unique angels come into
Al-Bayt-al-Ma'mur and they worship and
they never come back again.
So that tells you about, gives you an
idea of the population of the angels.
So that's Al-Bayt-al-Ma'mur.
But it could also mean, Al-Bayt-al
-Ma'mur on earth is Al-Masjid-al-Haram
in Mecca.
And Al-Ma'mur, it means it is frequented,
it is revived, it is full of life.
Okay, Ma'mur, full of life.
As-Saqf-al-Marfoo, Saqf is the ceiling
and that's the heavens.
That's the heavens.
We don't know exactly the nature of the
heavens.
But they are the ceiling of the earth.
They are the ceiling of the earth and
there are seven heavens or skies.
And I think we mentioned previously, and I
recommended you read the beginning of Al-Bidaiya
wa-Al-Nihaiya by Ibn Kathir.
And I hope some of you did.
There's a description of the creation of the
earth being at the lowest level.
But then the seven skies or heavens.
And then above the seventh heaven there is
paradise, the hellfire.
And then the ceiling above all of the
creation, all of existence that is created, is
what?
The throne of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And Allah is above his throne.
So you'll find Ibn Kathir actually describes this
structure of existence.
As-Saqf-al-Marfoo, wa-Al-Bahri-Al
-Masjoor.
At the end of Al-Bahar, Al-Masjoor,
the ocean or the sea.
Al-Masjoor, Sa-Ja-Ra, has the meaning
of being filled.
And not only being filled, being dynamically filled
with something dynamic.
Something that has life to it.
Something that has dynamism to it.
So this is why the fire, when you
light a fire and it starts burning, starts
sizzling.
That is this kind of dynamism, this kind
of energy.
They say about the fire, Sa-Ja-Ra
-Naar.
The fire is burning very well now.
And it can be used as well, wa
-Al-Bahri-Al-Masjoor.
The ocean is filled with water and this
water is not static.
There is life there.
There are creatures living, there are currents that
go up and down.
They go horizontally and vertically.
So it's a very active medium.
That's also, you can use Su-Ja-Ra,
the word Sa-Ja-Ra.
Wa-Al-Bahri-Al-Masjoor.
So it could mean actually the oceans that
are full of life.
And that's a great, that's a sign of
the greatness of Allah.
SubhanAllah, if Allah created all of this.
And only recently, in recent years, SubhanAllah, as
they study marine studies, as they go deep
in the ocean, in the deepest recesses of
the ocean, they are discovering creatures, a whole
genre of creatures, that are nothing like what
we know.
And the previous theories, that were actually valid
only 20 years ago.
There was no life at that depth.
Why?
Because the pressure was enormous.
They said it was like biologically impossible for
any creatures to live at those depths.
And the darkness, lack of light.
And without light, a lot of the vital
biological processes cannot be done, cannot happen.
So these theories were valid, there was no
life there.
But now with the development of these submarines
that could handle the pressure, and they go
down, now they are discovering a countless number
of creatures that are thriving in those depths.
So that's the great creation of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
And look at what is the earth compared
to the universe.
It's a speck of dust.
It's nothing.
So what about the rest of the universe?
And that's nothing.
That's nothing compared to the power and the
might of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So all of this dynamism, all of this
variety, all of these creatures, and all of
these great things that Allah talked about, At
-Tur, about the mountains in general, and about
At-Tur itself, and the signs that Allah
gave to Musa alayhi salam, and by extension,
all of the messengers as well.
All of this human history.
And then the revelation that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala gave.
Or the fact that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala wrote down the script of everything that
was going to happen before the creation of
the heavens and the earth.
These are marvelous things if you think about
them.
That point to a great creator.
And Al-Bayt Al-Ma'mur, also this feature
of worshipping Allah, of the angels worshipping Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, or humans worshipping Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And this whole structure of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala designing the concept of places of
worship, where humans worship Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
This is more like a social structure.
And all of this great creation, all of
that is not random.
All of that is magnificent.
All of that is very well designed.
All of that is just perfect.
All of that points to one end.
What is it?
Indeed, when you look at all of this,
the only logical conclusion, that the punishment of
your Lord will definitely happen.
It's inevitable.
It's unavoidable.
That's the only logical conclusion of all of
these things.
So Allah, when Allah swears by all of
these things, it's actually, there is a causal
link between all of that, leading to this
conclusion, So it's not just like Allah is
choosing random bits and pieces of His creation,
that are magnificent, and Allah is just putting
them, grouping them together, then saying, these show
you that the punishment of Allah is inevitable.
Although that would be a great argument, but
still, there is so much harmony in the
flow of all of this, and eventually how
it leads to that conclusion, that this is
not in vain, all of this is done
for a purpose, and with purpose there is
responsibility, there is accountability, you are given a
mission, and this is all created to serve
you, fulfill this mission.
And if you do not fulfill this mission,
there is punishment.
There is accountability.
إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّكَ لَوَاقِعْ مَا لَهُ مِنْ دَافِعٍ
We haven't read that bit, right?
Okay.
So that's what it leads to.
Let's read the Arabic and continue inshaAllah.
He said, إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّكَ لَوَاقِعْ مَا لَهُ
مِنْ دَافِعٍ لَا يُغَالِبُهَا مُغَالِبٌ وَلَا يَفُوتُهَا هَارِبٌ
ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ وَصْفَ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ الَّذِي يَقَعُ فِيهِ
الْعَذَابِ فَقَالَ يَوْمَّ تَدُورُ السَّمَاءُ وَتَدْطَرِبُ وَتَدُومُ
حَرَكَتُهَا بِنْزِعَاجٍ وَعَدَمِ سُكُونٍ وَتَسِيرُ الْجِبَالُ سَيْرًا أَيْ
تَزُولُ عَنْ أَمَاكِنِهَا وَتَسِيرُ كَسَيْرِ السَّحَابِ وَتَتَلَوَّنُ
كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنْفُوشِ وَتُبَثُّ بَعْدَ ذَلِكِ حَتَّى تَصِيرَ مِثْلَ
الْهَبَاءِ وَذَلِكَ كُلُّهُ لِعِظَمِ هَوْلِ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَفَضَاعَةِ
مَا فِيهِ مِنَ الْأُمُورِ الْمُزْعِجَةِ وَالزَّلَازِلِ الْمُقْلِقَةِ أَلَّتِي
أَزْعَجَتْ هَذِهِ الْأَجْرَامَ الْعَظِيمَةِ فَكَيْفَ بِالْآدَمِيِّ الضَّعِيفِ
فَوَيْلُ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِلْمُكَذِّبِينَ وَالْوَيْلُ كَلِمَةٌ جَامِعَةٌ لِكُلِّ
عَقُوبَةٍ وَحُزْنٍ وَعَذَابٍ وَخَوْفٍ ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ وَصْفَ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ
الَّذِينَ اسْتَحَقُّوا بِهِ الْوَيْلِ فَقَالَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي
خَوْضٍ يَلْعَبُونَ أي خوض في الباطل ولعب به
فَعُلُومُهُمْ وَبُحُوثُهُمْ بِالْعُلُومِ الضَّارَّةِ الْمُتَضَمِّنَةِ
لِلْتَكْذِيبِ بِالْحَقِّ وَالْتَصْدِيقِ بِالْبَاطِلِ وَأَعْمَالُهُمْ أَعْمَالُ
أَهْلِ الْجَهْلِ وَالسَّفَهِ وَاللَّعِبِ بِخِلَافِ مَا عَلَيْهِ أَهْلِ
الْأَهْلُ التَّصْدِيقِ وَالإِيمَانِ مِنَ الْعُلُومِ النَّافِعَةِ وَالأَعْمَالِ
الصَّالِحَةِ يَوْمَ يُدَعُونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعْهَا يَوْمَ
يُدْفَعُونَ إِلَيْهَا دَفْعًا وَيُسَاقُونَ إِلَيْهَا سَوْقًا عَنِيفًا
وَيُجَرُونَ عَلَى وُجُوهِهِمْ وَيُقَالُ لَهُمْ تَوْبِيخًا وَلَوْمًا هَذِهِ
النَّارُ الَّتِي كُنْتُمْ بِهَا تُكَذِّبُونَ فَالْيَوْمَ ذُوقُواْ عَذَابَ
الْخُلْدِ الَّذِي لَا يَبْلَغُ قَدْرَهُ وَلَا يُوصَفُ أَمْرُهُ
There is none who can avert it or
ward it off, and there is no impediment
that can prevent it, because no one can
resist or escape the might of Allah.
Then Allah describes that day on which the
punishment will come to pass.
On the day when the heavens will convulse
in a great convulsion, that is, the heavens
will rotate in turmoil, continuously moving in a
chaotic fashion and not remaining still.
And the mountains move and pass away, that
is, they will shift from their places and
move like clouds, changing color.
Then they will crumble and become like scattered
dust.
All of that will be due to the
immense fear and terrible events of the day
of resurrection, and the turmoil and upheaval that
will cause the disturbance to these great entities.
So how about feeble human beings?
Then woe that day to the deniers.
The word translated here as woe is a
word that encompasses all punishment, grief, torment, and
fear.
Then Allah describes the deniers who are deserving
of woe, those who amuse themselves with vain
discourse, that is, discourse about falsehood with which
they amuse themselves.
Their knowledge and learning is aimed at the
pursuit of harmful types of knowledge, for the
purpose of rejecting the truth and confirming falsehood.
Their deeds are the deeds of people of
ignorance, foolishness, and idle pursuits, in contrast to
the way of the people of faith, who
pursue beneficial knowledge and righteous deeds.
On the day when they are shoved forcibly
towards the fire of *, that is, on
the day when they are pushed harshly and
driven violently towards it, dragged on their faces,
it will be said to them by way
of rebuke and blame, this is the fire
which you used to deny.
So today taste the eternal punishment which no
one could estimate or describe.
Okay, so let's put that in the context
of the Arabian Peninsula, the people of Quraysh,
very, very connected to nature.
So when you are talking about the heavens,
you're talking about the mountains, you're talking about
things they deal with on a daily basis,
and they are strongly connected to them.
And subhanAllah, there is something we, the humans
of this age, we have missed out on,
connection to nature, connection to nature, and we
underestimate what that means.
We think we are so privileged because we
are so sheltered, we have devices around us,
we have facilities around us, we have amenities,
and we think, oh, life is easy, right?
You know, we are protected, very well protected,
we have well-designed buildings, very well heated,
very well ventilated, we have running water, we
have all of this.
Life is quite easy.
This comes with a price.
When you are disconnected from your natural environment,
you lose a great deal of intelligence.
You literally lose a great deal of intelligence.
And the problem is when we become so
arrogant and we think we are wiser than
people of the past.
And yes, there are great things that humans
have figured out, have discovered, and have developed,
definitely.
But we need to have a very balanced
view of this, look at the downside of
this.
And by the way, you don't have the
luxury to compare.
Why?
Because we are disconnected from what the people
of the past used to know.
People of the past had a lot of
knowledge that we don't even know about.
And they have been kept away from us
so that we are under the view that
people in the past were dumb.
We really think, all of us, we think
people of the past were dumb and we
are intelligent.
We think they were stupid.
And we have some stories about some of
them who were really maybe ignorant or who
had some weird ideas about certain things.
This is what was filtered down to us
so that we have an idea of humans
were just like the caveman who was trying
to figure out even how to light fire.
But humans were very, very intelligent.
And some of the stuff that has reached
us about them is really amazing.
So for example, there is something called, and
you will have this in every nation, but
something that was among the Arabs was called
Al-Qayafa.
Al-Qayafa.
What is Al-Qayafa?
It is a form of insight that comes
with, obviously you would get training from people
who know it, but also it comes with
experience and with time and exposure.
And it is also a talent.
So Al-Qayafa, for example, they could tell
if they were not sure if this girl
was the daughter of this lady.
Sometimes babies would be switched, sometimes they would
be lost.
So now the mother is maybe in her
50s and the daughter is in her 20s.
And they want to check.
They didn't have DNA test.
So we think we are intelligent today, we
have DNA test.
Is it a great thing?
Yes, definitely.
It is a great technology.
But we think people in the past didn't
know.
No, but Al-Qa'if or people who
practice Al-Qayafa, they would actually get the
mother to walk on sand and the girl
to walk on sand and they could tell
if she was her daughter or not.
And they were correct 100%.
100%.
People who dealt with camels, who had Al
-Qayafa, they could tell exactly the lineage of
the camels and the horses and they could
trace them back to generations.
And they could tell from just glancing at
them once.
And they would know what they are.
Up until recently, by the way, I was
just reading a story about someone who died
maybe just 40 years ago.
He lived in Medina, Medina of the Prophet
ﷺ.
This guy, his specialty in Al-Qayafa, he
could tell water in the ground at what
depth it was.
Without digging.
Without digging.
People would pay him for that.
People would bring him to the land.
He would have a look at it and
look at the surroundings and he would tell
them, you have to dig 50 meters.
He has a record of 100% accuracy.
Did he have some scanners?
Did he have some waves that would recognize
the different layers?
How did he know that?
This was knowledge that was handed down from
father to son and so on and so
forth.
So this guy actually, one of the incidents
that are documented, very well documented, in Medina,
there was a farm and they were trying
to dig a well.
And they dug something like 40 meters.
And they didn't find water.
So they were going to sell the farm
and find somewhere else.
Build a new farm, start a new farm
somewhere else where they would find water available.
So they thought, oh, 40 meters, there's no
water in this piece of land.
But they decided to pay him to give
them an opinion.
He looked at the land and he studied
and he said, listen, at 30 meters you
hit some black gravel, right?
They said yes.
He said, dig 60 meters, 20 meters more
than the 40 meters that you have reached
and you will find water.
And that's a very good source of water.
They dug 20 meters down and they hit
water.
We think people were stupid, right?
No, people had other ways of dealing with
the problems of life.
But we were told that they were dumb.
And the knowledge that they had and the
intelligence that they had was actually destroyed deliberately.
Yes, civilizations were disrupted.
And there was a reason.
It's all about power and hegemony.
It's about control.
When you outroot people from their civilization and
their knowledge, you weaken them.
They become dependent on you.
They've been doing this with agriculture, with messing
with genetic modification.
They've been messing with original species of grains
and seeds and all of this stuff.
Why?
So that you become dependent on them.
And, you know, a lot of those seed
banks and what a biology, biotechnology, whatever, whatever,
whatever that is, they've actually been deliberately destroying
native crops and their seeds.
They've been buying them out and destroying them.
And when you buy their seeds, by the
way, you sign a contract with them that
you can't use the seeds that come from
the crop.
You have to buy new seeds from them.
That's binding.
And they have some of the most powerful
lobbies in the legal system.
There's big names among those, by the way.
There are big names.
So there is a lot of people.
You know, some of the people who practiced
medicine in the past, some of them would
look at you and they could get an
accurate diagnosis of what you had.
How come?
The medicine of today doesn't know anything about
this.
It might have.
Medicine of today has some great things, a
lot of brilliant things, a lot of practical
things, right?
But people of the past had other schools
of thought.
They followed other models and they worked.
They worked very well, by the way.
They worked very well.
But the story that is told to us
about those times were inaccurate stories.
They were deliberately inaccurate.
Okay.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about,
yeah, the point was, people of Quraysh were
so connected to nature.
We are disconnected from nature.
And this, by the way, has an impact
on our fitrah, has an impact on the
things, natural things in us that go dormant
when we don't deal with nature.
People were connected to the land.
People ate from the land.
Now we buy stuff from the store, right?
We don't have any connection to the land.
And that's why people don't realize, you know,
if there is drought.
Because, I mean, drought has nothing to do
with me.
I go to the store and get my
groceries, right?
I get my vegetables from there.
I get fruits from there.
I don't care about rainfall.
I don't care about droughts.
I don't care about anything else, right?
It's just like a child, you know, the
child that keeps getting their dad to buy
toys and toys.
And the dad says, look, I have no
money left.
He says, go to the ATM machine.
Get money from there.
The child thinks there's money in the ATM
machine.
You just go and draw money, right?
So you're just looking at the first, what
is it, like the source that you're getting
from.
Although it's not a source.
It's a medium.
It's a medium.
So disconnection from nature, disconnection from nature, is
not healthy.
It's not good for us.
It's good for you to actually grow your
food.
It's good for humans.
And a lot of people who have some
issues, by the way, like autism, ADHD, et
cetera, they recommend horseback riding for them.
They recommend connection to animals, connection to nature.
And it does have an impact on them.
Because a lot of what we call diseases
today, many of them are the result or
are exacerbated because of the lifestyle that we
have.
That is way, way disconnected from nature.
So the people of Quraysh were connected to
nature.
So when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
to them, وَالسَّقْفِ الْمَرْفُوءِ وَالْبَحْرِ الْمَسْجُورِ And Allah
says, وَالطُّورِ That actually strikes like so deep.
These are things that we know.
These are things that we are connected to.
So when Allah swears by those and the
conclusion is, إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّكَ لَوَاقعًا This is
a very compelling argument for them.
But for us, what are you talking about?
Mountains?
Mountains for us are tourism.
Like when we go on vacation, right?
That's it.
السقف المرفوع Who even looks at the sky
these days, right?
We don't care about that.
البحر المسجور Who cares about any of that?
All we care about what?
Our social media, the food that we eat,
the processed food that we eat, the video
games that we play, right?
The things that we study.
You know, we live in a small bubble
and we are disconnected from everything else.
And this bubble is maintained by the very
sophisticated technology that we have become so dependent
on technology and technology has become very complex.
And it's a very elaborate system that is
very hard to maintain now.
It's growing into a monster now and it's
very hard to keep it in place.
It's very expensive to keep it in place.
So if it starts falling and you have
to deal with nature, you will find that
we are unequipped to deal with nature.
Many of us humans won't survive.
We don't know how to live.
We don't realize because we have been born
into this system and we think this is
how life is.
But life has never been like that.
I mean, just, you know what?
Interestingly, in the recent hurricanes in Florida and
North Carolina, I was looking at some of
the aid that was taking place there.
Some guys were transporting food, drink, fuel, etc.
Interestingly, they spoke to one of the guys,
the main guys on the ground who was
distributing stuff and they asked him what is
the thing that people want most?
And they thought they were going to talk
about, I don't know, any type of food,
maybe water, or maybe fuel.
He said internet.
People need their internet connection.
And you might think it's for them to
play video games.
No.
It's for them to notify authorities that they
are stuck.
So they can locate them.
There's a lot of remote areas that were
cut off from the whole world.
We have become so dependent on this that
we can't live without it anymore.
Life becomes dangerous without that.
So there's no internet connection.
All of a sudden, you're by yourself.
You're on your own.
And you have no facilities.
Even your life might be in danger.
We've become so dependent.
But the problem is these systems are so
dependent on humans and all of this work.
And if any element or any component of
it collapses, it's going to be a domino's
effect.
And we will find ourselves foreign.
We don't know.
We are in a foreign land.
We don't know how to deal with it.
We don't know how to grow our food.
Imagine there's no stores.
There's no electricity.
We don't know even how to keep ourselves
warm.
We don't know.
Where are we going to get our food
from?
So we are so disconnected from nature and
this is not good.
Now, am I inviting you to go and
just live in the woods?
Go live off grid?
I'm not saying that.
But I'm just saying at least be aware
of that.
Be conscious of this and its impact on
you.
And if you are ambitious enough to explore
alternative modes of being, be my guest.
If I could do it, I'd do it.
If I could afford it, I'd do it.
So these arguments made so much sense to
the people of Quraysh and this is an
argument you hear from a lot of the
youth today.
They will say, things in the Qur'an,
they have no connection to me.
It talks about things that are not in
our environment.
But the problem is we speak with authority.
We want the Qur'an to speak about
our environment.
But our environment is the anomaly.
Humans have never lived like that before.
We are a small blip in history.
We are a departure from all of human
history.
And it's not natural.
And definitely in many ways it's not good
for us.
So it's important to be humble and realize,
you have been kept away from all of
these natural things.
Okay, so Allah says, then Allah says, the
punishment of Allah is inevitable, it's going to
happen, nothing will push it away.
So if you think you are intelligent, you
think you are rich, you think you are
strong, you think you have support, you think
you have, whatever you have, nothing will protect
you from the punishment of Allah if you
deserve it.
So the only way for you out of
this punishment of Allah is to what?
Be good with Allah, be in good terms
with Allah.
That's the only way.
That's the only way.
يَوْمَ تَمُورُ السَّمَاءُ مَوْرًا So you see the
سَقْفِ الْمَرْفُوعِ Allah says, on that day, this
sky will lose its structure.
Like it will be in turmoil.
It will melt down.
It will not be the same.
This great creation, this magnificent sign of Allah
SWT will drastically change and melt down and
vanish.
It will not be the same.
وَتَسِيرُ الْجِبَالُ سَيْرًا الطور, like al-Jabal, Allah
says about the Jabal, the mountains, all these
great mountains, look at the, for example, the
Rocky Mountains.
These are going to what?
They're going to become what?
Mobile.
They're going to transition.
They will change.
They will be soft.
They'll be like soft, like wet wool.
Imagine a pile of wool that you pour
water on.
It becomes spongy, right?
That's how the mountains will be.
These Rocky Mountains, these very magnificent, powerful creation
that leaves you in awe when you visit
them.
You're baffled by their magnificence.
They will be like sponge.
They will lose their strength and their structure.
So Allah says on that day, فَوَيْلُوا يَوْمَئِذٍ
لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ Woe, punishment, pain, misery will be for
those who disbelieved, who have disbelieved.
Who are the people of disbelief?
Allah SWT goes on to clarify.
They are الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي خَوْضٍ يَلْعَبُونَ فِي
خَوْضٍ خَوْض The verb is خَاضة.
خَاضة is to venture into something you don't
know very well.
خَاضَة الماء خَاضَة البحر Like the Prophet ﷺ
before the Battle of Badr when the caravan
of Abu Sufyan managed to escape and the
people of Quraysh brought an army.
The Prophet ﷺ had had an agreement with
Al-Ansar to protect him in Medina.
But the agreement did not say that we
would defend the Prophet ﷺ outside of Medina.
So the Prophet ﷺ told them أَشِيرُوا عَلَيَّا
What do you think?
What should we do?
Abu Bakr stood, Umar ibn Khattab stood and
they said, Oh Messenger of Allah, we'll do
whatever you want us to do.
Then the Ansar sensed Sa'd ibn Mu'adh
يا رسول الله لعلك تريدنا Oh Messenger of
Allah, you want us to talk.
قال نعم He said to the Prophet ﷺ
وَاللَّهِ لَوْ خُدْتَ هَذَا الْبَحْرَةَ لَخُدْنَاهُ مَعَكِ خَاضَ
خُدْتَ If you were to venture into the
ocean, the Red Sea, we would follow you.
And there was nothing more scary to the
Arabs than the ocean.
The Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula who were
in the mainland, inland, like the most scary
things for them was ocean, sea.
They would not even sail.
Literally they would not sail.
If they were to go to Egypt, they
would travel all the way and never cross
the Red Sea out of the fear.
So Allah ﷻ says الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي خَوْضٍ
يَلْعَبُونَ خَوْض So they venture into what?
Into what they don't know very well.
And this is what Allah says وَلَا تَقْفُ
مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ إِنَّ السَّمْعَ وَالْبَصْرَ
وَالْفُؤَادِ كُلُّ أُولَئِكَ كَانَ عَنْهُ مَسْؤُولًا Do not
engage with, do not act when it comes
to something that you have no knowledge of.
Your heart, your capacity to understand, to grasp
and to learn and your sight and your
ears, all of these faculties you will be
questioned about.
You're responsible for how you use them, where
you use them.
So Allah ﷻ says about these people, These
are the people who will receive the punishment
on the Day of Judgment.
الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي خَوْضٍ يَلْعَبُونَ So first they
venture into what they don't know very well.
So they have a way of life.
But there is no proof for it.
They will tell you this is good and
this is bad.
They have no proof for it.
They'll tell you this is what's worth your
life.
They have no proof for it.
They'll tell you this is the legal system.
This is a crime.
This is a virtue.
This is allowable and this is prohibited.
Right?
And they have no solid knowledge of that.
خَوْضٍ And Allah ﷻ says about, if you
remember in Surah Al-Muddathir, وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ
الْخَائِضِينَ Right?
وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ The people of Jannah will ask
the people of the hellfire, ما سَلَكَكُمْ فِي
سَقَرٍ What got you into the hellfire?
قَالُوا لَمْ نَكُوا مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ We were not
among those who prayed, worshipped Allah.
وَلَمْ نَكُنُوا طَعِمُوا الْمُسْكِينَ We did not feed
the poor.
قَالُوا لَمْ نَكُوا مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ وَلَمْ نَكُنُوا طَعِمُوا
الْمُسْكِينَ وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ الْخَائِضِينَ And we used
to what?
Venture into those who ventured.
We spoke about things.
We lectured about things.
No solid knowledge of.
And then Allah not only says فِي خَوْضٍ
Allah says يَلْعَبُونَ They're messing around.
They're playing.
They're having fun.
What can we take from this?
Two important things.
First, this life, don't take it with a
spirit of playfulness.
Don't take this life with a spirit of
playfulness.
Take it seriously.
Take your life seriously.
It's serious business.
There's nothing more serious than that.
There's nothing more serious than your eternal life.
It's your eternal life.
Where you're going to end up.
Where you're going to spend eternity.
So Allah promised you eternal life.
خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا Allah promised you eternal life.
You're going to live forever at some point.
And when we say forever, meaning there is
no end.
Your mind cannot even imagine eternity by the
way.
Your mind can never imagine eternity.
The closest you can get to eternity is
that after today there is tomorrow.
And after tomorrow there is day after tomorrow.
And so on and so forth.
That's the only way you can even conceptualize
it.
But eternity, no end?
You can't.
You can't imagine it.
Your mind cannot wrap itself around it.
So you're going to live and there will
be no end.
There will be no end.
So you either live in bliss and Allah's
bounty or you live in complete misery and
pain.
Does it get more serious than that?
You are now in the process of choosing.
You are in this world, as you go
to sleep, as you wake up in the
morning, you decide what you're going to do
with your time, what your priorities are, what
your goals in this life are, you are
choosing.
Over this period of time that you are
here on earth, you are actually drawing, you're
making a drawing of your final destiny.
Is there anything more serious than that?
There is.
So when you say, I'm having fun, what
are you talking about?
My goal, I want to enjoy my life.
What are you talking about?
That's what they told us you should do.
Enjoy your life.
And Allah says, الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي خَوْضٍ يَلْعَبُونَ
Don't play in this life.
Take this life seriously.
And when someone says, you mean there's no
fun in life?
We're talking about the hellfire.
We're talking about paradise.
We're talking about eternal life.
And you're asking me about fun?
The thing is, fun is a given.
When you do the right thing, fun is
a given.
Fun is not a goal.
Fun is not something you strive for.
Fun is a feature.
When you do the right thing, fun becomes
a feature.
That's the problem.
People worship something or people like waste their
life chasing something that is already granted.
It's already granted to you.
And a lot of the pleasure that people
chase and they think it's fun and I
want to get it.
Like if I make this amount of money,
I'll get that fun.
This is the false promise of shaitan.
And we've heard this.
We've heard this from people who achieved all
of the goals that they had, no matter
how bold their goals were.
And they told you, once you get there,
you ask yourself, is that all the whole
thing?
Is there anything else?
It always looks more beautiful.
And you think, but this is what shaitan
promised.
Allah says, يَعِدُهُمْ وَيُمَنِّيهِمْ وَمَا يَعِدُهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ إِلَّا
غُرُورًا Shaitan promises them and he makes them
wish.
He showers them with wishes.
And shaitan only promises them lies and deception.
So take this life seriously.
You say, oh I'm young.
Let me finish school.
Let me find a good job.
Let me get married.
Then I'll get serious about life.
The problem is once you build a pattern
of being playful, of achieving your own greatness
in this life and your own success and
becoming the very special person that you are.
The person that never happened in human history.
And you want to prove that to everyone
else.
You want to prove them wrong.
You want to show everyone.
You want to show the haters how good
you are, how great you are.
And you want to get all the fun
in the life.
You have already built a pattern of behavior
that it becomes a prison around you.
It's hard to break from it.
You become addicted to it.
And the problem is you have gone too
far in the opposite direction and you have
made the distance even bigger.
Now you have to walk back all this
distance.
Is that what you want for yourself?
So take life seriously.
That's point number one.
يَلْعَبُونَ Don't play in this life.
You are in serious business.
You are in serious business.
And this is why you will find many
of the early generations, one of them would
never laugh or smile.
And I'm not saying don't laugh or smile
because the Prophet ﷺ laughed and smiled.
But we just want to highlight the seriousness
of this and how they took their life
seriously and they understood the gravity and the
weight of this life and what it means
because you know this quote in the film.
What is it?
What you do in this life echoes in
eternity.
What you do in this life echoes in
eternity.
Was it Maximilian?
Maximilius?
Whatever that was.
It's true.
What you do here is going to have
eternal consequences.
It's going to have eternal consequences.
You either end up in paradise or *.
So take it seriously.
Take it seriously.
And what do I take seriously?
Every minute, every moment in your life.
Every moment in your life.
Because if you are not getting closer to
Allah, you are getting closer to shaitan.
There's no third alternative.
If you are not getting closer to Allah
in a specific moment, that moment is getting
you closer to shaitan.
There's no neutrality here.
And that means, putting it in other words,
if you are not taking a step closer
to Jannah, you are taking a step closer
to Jahannam.
To the hellfire.
How serious is this?
And you know, if you are so worried
about fun, which is not a good thing.
As I said, it's guaranteed.
It's a given.
It's going to come to you.
And the fun that Allah gives to the
people who worship Him and who obey Him,
is far greater than the fun, the delusional
fun that people get from this dunya.
If you are so worried about fun, Allah
will give you that.
Allah will give it to you.
But the thing is, the fun that you
chase in this dunya will disappoint you.
When you get it, it will disappoint you.
Your expectation is greater than the reality.
But, when you worship Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, the fun that comes accidentally into your
life, it seems like an accident, is real,
genuine, and everlasting.
Because Allah created you for the truth, and
if you live a life of truth, Allah
will reward you with the sweetness of iman.
And it's way more fun.
Scholars of Islam have always said, وَاللَّهِ إِنَّنَا
لَفِي سَعَادَةٍ لَوْ عَلِمَ بِهَا أَهْلُ الدُّثُورِ لَجَهْلَدُونَ
عَلَيْهَا بِحَجَّ سَيْثٍ وَاللَّهِ ۚ We live in
a state of joy and happiness.
If the people of wealth, you see the
millionaires and the billionaires and the rich people
try to get you to buy their course
of how to become rich, and they show
you their cars and their castles and their
vacation homes, and all of that stuff, and
they show you how happy they are, these
are Ahl al-Duthur.
So these scholars say, وَاللَّهِ We are in
a sweetness and joy if the people of
wealth, whose hallmark is enjoyment in life, if
they get to know about it, they would
wage war against us, they would fight us
with swords to get it from us.
This is how bad they would want it,
if they only knew about it.
And that's true.
And Allah promised, وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ أَنذِكْرِي فَإِنَّ لَهُ
مَعِيشَةً ضَنكَ And whoever turns away from My
remembrance, then they will have a miserable life.
وَنَحْشُرُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَعْمَى And We will resurrect
them on the Day of Judgment blind.
So in this life miserable, and in the
Hereafter blind, and even more miserable.
Allah promised.
Allah promised.
If you don't give Him your heart, you'll
be miserable.
And there's a lot of deception around.
People who make themselves, who look happy on
social media and all of that stuff, don't
believe them.
Wallahi if someone doesn't worship Allah, they're not
happy.
Wallahi.
They're not happy.
So what about the joy that some people
get?
That's intoxication.
And it's not, these people live like zombies.
That's the only way they can cruise through
life.
And these are not my words.
These are the words of scholars said that
clearly many times.
And it's a reality.
It's a reality of life.
But their life is about giving this image.
It's always about giving this image.
And they get a lot of joy.
Probably the only joy that they truly get
is from people believing their lie that they
are happy.
That's the joy that they get.
Is when they are able to deceive you,
and you start desiring what they have and
looking up to them, thinking that they are
happy.
That's probably the only kind of joy that
they get.
So Allah SWT, again, so first take life
seriously.
Don't get into things you have no knowledge
about.
Learn.
Learn.
And learn when you sit in a class,
in a halaqa, and you learn a book,
and you learn, let's say, fiqh, right?
Many people think, Oh, we've studied this book.
We've studied level number one, level number two,
level number three, level number four, level number
five.
I've studied these books of fiqh.
Let me sit and start giving fatwa.
You're not qualified.
You are not qualified.
You took a course in aqeedah, two courses,
five courses in aqeedah.
You are online.
You are an online warrior.
You are a defender of the sunnah.
This person said this way, this person wrong,
this person is on the sunnah.
You're not qualified.
You are not qualified.
Knowledge is not about having information.
Knowledge comes with time when you know how
it functions and how it works.
So learning the knowledge is one thing.
Learning how it applies to the real life
is a completely different art.
It's a completely different art.
But you know what?
We just want to use this knowledge.
We want Islam to serve us, but we
don't want to serve Islam.
We want to rush into things.
We want to build again our reputation, our
legacy.
We want people to admire us, to look
up to us, right?
To take us as their teacher, as their
shaykh, and so on and so forth.
None of that benefits you on the day
of judgment.
You would be deceiving them if you are
sharing that with them without proper knowledge.
And proper knowledge, as I said, it grows
with you over time with a lot of
training.
After you have studied the text, it takes
time, a long time, maturity with the scholars
back and forth, dealing with life, going through
experiences, maturing in this world before you can
open your mouth and talk.
And if we just adhere to that, a
lot of the nonsense in social media, in
the dawah scene, would not be here.
But once you have an ignorant person refuting
an ignorant person, who's refuting that ignorant person,
and they play this ping-pong, and the
problem is a lot of the Muslim youth,
they think in good faith.
They follow that.
They side with this, or they side with
that.
And you waste your time, which you're supposed
to take your life seriously.
You're wasting your time about this person refuting
that person, and this person refuting that person.
And any person of knowledge who looks at
both arguments, he sees how foolish and incoherent
each argument is.
And look at the comment section, it's on
fire.
And then we say dawah scene.
What dawah scene?
You have taken people's attention away from Allah
to yourself.
That's what you're doing.
And you have the guts to call this
dawah?
This is why Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib
said, العلم نقطة كثرها الجاهلون Knowledge is a
dot.
It was only magnified by the ignorant.
When they spoke, they added so much stuff,
completely unnecessary, completely incorrect, but people don't recognize.
So a dot now was a huge thing,
and you have to sift through all of
this.
This is why one of the great scholars
of Islam, Ibn Nuqtah, his name is Ibn
Nuqtah, subhanAllah.
Ibn Nuqtah, he said, لو سكت من لا
يعلم لسقط الخلاف Had the people who didn't
know, had they just remained silent, most of
the differences, disagreements that we have would have
disappeared.
So that's خوض.
That's خوض.
You're getting into something you don't know.
But why?
Because you think you know.
Why do you think you know?
Because you have not studied properly.
You have not studied with the scholars.
You are impatient.
You want to be in your twenties, and
you want to be Ibn Taymiyyah of your
time.
You know, it's rare in our times that
someone in their twenties, and by the way,
mostly as well in their thirties, that they
are able to address the issues.
And you know what?
The good thing, like the bad thing, is
that they talk about what?
They talk about history.
They talk about aqeedah.
They talk about fiqh.
They talk about manhad.
They talk about hadith.
They talk about the shia.
They talk about the khawarij.
They talk about Christianity.
They talk about Judaism.
They talk about Buddhism.
They talk about modernism.
They talk about liberalism, libertarianism.
They talk about naturalism.
They talk about all of these ideas.
Like, how old are you?
Honestly, like how old are you?
Right?
Twenty-nine.
Thirty-five.
When did you get to study all of
that?
To a point where you can actually lecture
and teach, and arrive at conclusions about all
of these.
When?
When did you do this?
But when you dig into these arguments, get
specialists in each of those areas, when you
listen to this, complete nonsense.
But how would the average person know?
You don't know.
So that's the advice, is don't waste your
time with those people.
Wallahi, don't waste your time with these people.
The knowledge that you need, oh, I need
knowledge that is relevant.
Where you are is not good.
You need to come to the knowledge knowledge
doesn't need to come to you.
A lot of people under the name of
making knowledge easy, by the way, killed it,
destroyed it.
They really destroyed it.
There is a level of ignorance that you
cannot translate knowledge to.
So people who are stuck there, they need
to come over.
They need to have the courage to come
over.
A lot of what we need about Islam
is actually very well written by scholars, and
it's in the box.
And all you need is a decent student
of knowledge just to direct you, give you
general directions.
And know their worth, and know their limit
as well.
So when a sign of, I'm telling you,
a sign of a good imam, a sign
of a good student of knowledge, those who
graduate from Islamic universities, when you ask them
questions, they answer one, and about another one
they say, I don't know.
You say, how come you don't know?
Like you studied four years.
Like what's four years?
You hardly studied the alphabet with four years.
Really, the knowledge of Islam, the wisdom that
is in it, it's not like, oh, it's
difficult.
It's a specialization.
And it takes a lot of maturity, by
the way.
It takes a lot of maturity.
A sign is when a person says, I
don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Not that they are just trying to pretend
to be ignorant, or that they don't know.
But they truly, like they might know, they
might have studied this issue in the books
of fiqh.
But how it applies to your situation, and
your circumstances, is a completely different story.
We know from the Prophet ﷺ that a
man asked him, about, again, kissing his wife
during the day of Ramadan.
The Prophet ﷺ said, no.
Don't do it.
Another companion asked the Prophet ﷺ, the Prophet
ﷺ said, yes, you're okay.
Now you might think this is contradiction.
No contradiction.
How the ruling applies, this is called fatwa,
in a specific situation, completely different story.
The Prophet ﷺ, when he was asked about
this, he said, this is a young man.
He doesn't have the control over himself.
The other one is an older man.
He can restrain himself.
So there's no risk on his fasting, on
his siyam.
Okay?
So it's very important to know that, look,
Allah says, المكذبين who will have the punishment
on the day of judgment, are the ones
who, في خوضٍ يلعبون.
These two traits are very dangerous.
Don't get into things, don't speak about things
you don't know.
Your safety is better than, creating a false
reputation, or giving an image of someone who
knows.
And eventually you will be found out.
You would waste people's lives for years, right?
And they would talk about you, and they
would follow you, and you would become a
star, and so on and so forth.
But eventually you're gonna run out of gas.
Because you don't have any serious stuff.
So they will find you out, but you
know what?
Seven years, ten years have passed, you've wasted
people's lives, you've made a good amount of
money, right?
But eventually what happened?
You've taken people away from Allah, and to
yourself.
That's what happens.
So my advice, don't waste your life.
Take it seriously, and don't get into things
you don't know, and don't waste your time
with those, who, you know, venture into what
they don't know.
Okay, I wanna keep the class around this,
InshaAllah.
We can take a couple of questions.
We'll stop here, and we'll take a couple
of questions.
Again, keep the questions on topic, bi-idhnillah,
so we can deal with them.
Now, okay,
so we said that, people who just say,
I wanna build my career, I wanna finish
my studies, I wanna achieve this, I wanna
achieve that, then I will start practicing, and
I will take life seriously.
If these people have already come too far
in this way, to, let's say, they are
in their final stages of their studies, or
a few years into their career, and things
like that, we're not against career.
The problem when you start without the proper
connection and direction to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, is that your relationship with Allah becomes
one, let's say, like one path, and then
your career and your life becomes a parallel
path.
So you lose on a lot of opportunities.
Because whatever, anything that is good, that is
inherently halal, or good, in this world, career,
studies, family, relationships, these are inherently positive.
Or they are neutral, and they are good
potential, but they can be used either for
good or for bad.
So they're neutral in their moral charge.
When, when you have them running parallel to
your relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
they will take from it.
They will compete with Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
Then you will be split between both.
Then you will definitely make poor choices.
Then you will struggle, there will be pain
in your heart because your heart is split.
And that's the problem with this.
When you start with Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, then your career becomes part of that
path.
Your family becomes part of that path.
You have this unity that the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam says, you know in the
hadith, where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
says, مَن كَانَتْ الْآخِرَةُ هَمَّهُ جَمَعَ اللَّهُ لَهُ
وَشَمْلَهُ Whoever has the last day as their
main focus, then Allah will gather their affairs
for them in one.
So that's the reality.
So that's the advantage of this.
So your career becomes an act of worship.
Your family becomes a field for a lot
of goodness and worship.
Your studies become an act of worship.
Your socialization becomes all for the sake of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You're more integrated.
This is integrity.
All of the bits and pieces in your
life are integrated harmoniously.
And you get so much momentum.
You get so much iman.
You get so much sweetness of iman.
So if you have already gone on this
path as a parallel path, other than Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, what you need to
do is to build enough momentum.
Keep doing that.
Don't give up on your job or your
family or your friends or anything.
But when you build so much momentum, this
has the capacity to pull this in.
And it becomes a hierarchy.
This becomes the goal.
So it's an alignment.
It becomes an alignment.
But without strength of iman, without so much
love of Allah, you can't technically force it.
You can't get a course and say, how
do I align my life?
Like happens in management.
No.
The more tazkiyah you do, the more love
of Allah you have, the more dhikr you
have, the more your relationship with Allah truly
gets stronger, it automatically, you don't have to
do it, it starts to pull in everything
that it can use for the sake of
Allah, including the things you already built.
So that's how it usually happens.
Okay, sisters?
Questions?
Okay.
Brothers?
Huh?
A question?
Okay.
Okay, so there are those online who teach
you something and give you ijazah, either hifadh,
Quran, tajweed, or maybe hadith or other things.
No, you have to understand, the ijazah that
they are giving is that you studied this
book with them.
That's all it means.
The ijazah sometimes states, and I allow them
to teach this.
I really think they should hold back on
this.
I really think they should hold back on
this.
This is the wordings of this ijazah, that
so-and-so has attended this class or
halaqah with me and studied this book with
me, and they have shown satisfactory results of
good comprehension and understanding, and thus I give
them permission to teach this book.
Okay?
I think nowadays this is going too far.
Going too far by allowing them to teach
this book.
Because generally speaking, those who gave ijazah for
someone to teach a specific book, they knew
what other knowledge this person had, so they
trusted the background and everything, so they felt
this person was qualified.
But now you have people online, just you're
attending a class with them, probably you're snoring
half of it, right?
And then they will give you the ijazah
just because of attending or maybe passing a
multiple-choice test, and then say, you can
teach this book.
And I guarantee you, most of the ijazahs
that are given now, people can't teach the
book.
The problem is people take these ijazah as
accolades.
They pile them up, they print them, hang
them on the wall, you know, I have
ijazah in al-Fiyyat ibn Malik, I have
ijazah in this, I have ijazah in that,
I have ijazah in al-Ba'ath al
-Hathith, I have ijazah in al-Arba'een
al-Nawiyya, I have ijazah in this, I
have ijazah in this, and for them it's
just like a matter of, you know, see
me.
I am this person who has so much
ijazahs.
But ijazahs have lost their weight, by the
way, because they've been given so easily to
people.
Literally, they have lost their weight, unfortunately.
So, serious students of knowledge, they know that
ijazah doesn't mean anything now, because it was
given to all in a sundry, unfortunately.
So I would say it's not really, I
personally don't see much value unless the person
is someone who is very studious, they've studied,
they have a good background, that's a different
story.
But someone who has taken a couple of
ijazahs here and there, anyone, like anyone, give
them a week, and they can get an
ijazah on some of the books.
Who has no background in anything.
This is completely against the tradition.
Okay, sisters, another question?
Nothing?
Khair, brothers?
Yeah, Mohammed.
I mentioned what?
Danger of speaking without knowledge.
So, you're saying since you came here, you
see a lot of people speaking without knowledge,
they say, don't take from this sheikh, don't
take from that sheikh, don't take that, don't
take from them.
Don't take from them.
How do you deal with them?
Stay away from these people.
Save yourself.
And by the way, if you get involved
with these people, they're very, very, very toxic.
Very narcissistic.
So stay away from them.
We can take one more question.
Okay, so if a beginner student of knowledge
studies a book, can he, with a sheikh,
can he then teach it to others, maybe
with some explanation, and if there's questions, he
refers them back to his sheikh?
Yes and no.
I would say, if he's been a student
of knowledge for a good time, and he
studied quite a bit of books, he sort
of established himself, and the sheikh, his own
sheikh, has seen that he's okay to explain
it, to a very limited scope, maybe, maybe.
But there is a danger.
When young people start to teach, you have
to realize, your sincerity, sincerity is something you
build over time.
So when you start teaching early, you are
risking your sincerity, when it's still fragile.
That's it.
When you start practicing Islam, when a non
-Muslim comes to Islam, we think, oh, their
slates are wiped out, they're clean and everything.
They have to build with a huge load
of bad habits, internal habits.
The journey just started.
They have a long way ahead of them
before they go public.
Even at a limited scope.
So I would, for the sake of tazkiyah,
I would definitely advise against it.
Because even you might start with good intention,
people, the ones who are attending your halaqah,
will start pushing you up.
And it's unconscious, you won't realize it, you'll
start to like it.
And when you like it, you start to
expect it.
And when it doesn't happen, you will get
upset.
And that means your sincerity was taken out.
This is why, take your sincerity here very
seriously.
Guard it at all cost.
Before you try to bring maybe doubtful benefit
to others, make sure you protect your niyyah.
This is a greater priority.
That's what I would recommend.
And this is why, generally speaking, and if
people want to learn, there is his shaykh,
why don't they come to the shaykh?
This is why I say, and by the
way, it's natural.
Everyone is going to find in them, I
would love to teach, I would love to
start.
And it sounds like a good, I want
to help people, I want to educate people,
I want to enlighten people, I want to
spread this knowledge.
But you don't realize that this is a
trick of shaytan.
He knows that your sincerity is not strong
enough.
So he wants to expose it to a
lot of toxins too early.
It's just like when a seedling starts to
grow, it's very weak.
If you expose it to harsh environmental hardships,
it's going to break.
Because you have exposed it too early.
But if you protect it, shield it at
the beginning until it gets stronger, then you
gradually start to expose it to more harsh
elements of nature.
It will get stronger and it will push
against and it will survive.
So starting too early with any risks or
any dangers is a very, very bad idea.
Very bad idea.
Just like a child, you expose them to
the hardships of life and say I want
them to get strong.
Not now.
Not now.
Let them grow healthy a little bit.
They're still weak.
Until a certain age, then you start to
expose them to a certain level of hardship.
Yes.
But if you expose them to hardship too
early, you'll break them.
You want to guard your intention.
So everyone, protect yourself.
Avoid.
You don't need to teach.
Honestly, you really don't need to teach.
Working on yourself.
And it will, by the way, when you
starve your love for recognition, it starts to
die.
It starts to die.
Khair, inshallah.
Okay, I can take one more quick question.
Then we'll go, inshallah.
As-salamu alaykum.
As-salamu alaykum.
What do you mean by apply them literally?
The laws
of inheritance?
What does this have to do with the
mountains and the...
These are rulings.
Rulings of Islam apply across the board everywhere.
Even today.
Rulings of inheritance apply today.
They don't change.
They don't change.
Yeah.
And the change that, social change that happened
to humans is destructive.
So preserving the rulings is actually part of
pushing back against all of this corruption.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And by the way, just in terms of
the people of today, it just occurred to
me as you were asking the question, if
you want a child, if you want to,
maybe a child or someone who's addicted to
video games, if you want them to get
the same impact as with Quraish, when the
skies crack down and fall, tell them if
the internet gets cut off.
They're probably going to panic the same way.
Tell them on the Day of Judgment, all
these video games are just going to be
what?
Wiped out.
So for them, what?
That's going to be serious.
But inshallah, we'll see you next Friday.
And again, if some people did not adjust
to the new time, to the new shift,
so it's after Isha'a, bismillah ta'ala.
If you can just pray after Isha'a,
two rak'ah sunnah, and come quickly so
we can start 8.20, that would be
great.
Jazakumullah khair.
Wassalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.