The Monumental Tafsir As Sadi #55 Surah Al Hadid
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And, welcome to the continuation
of
our commentary on,
Tafsir.
As expected, it's gonna be a slow start
after Ramadan.
Most people are just catching their breath, I
guess, or they have other commitments.
Ramadan came in the middle of the week,
so
I guess today is Friday, so some people
are
doing their Eid
visitation
around today,
khair, inshaAllah.
But inshaAllah, we also
we thought inshaAllah we don't want to
take a long break.
Usually what happens since we build some momentum
after Ramadan, it's better to actually utilize it.
Sometimes under the pretext
or the excuse of rest,
we kill our momentum.
So rest should be taken minimally,
as much as needed. That's it. But most
people tend to take
rest more than needed,
and what that does, it kills their previous
progress.
It holds their momentum,
then they have to start, you know, from
behind and it just this makes it more
difficult, subhanAllah.
So this is why we thought, you know,
we're gonna have today's session insha'allah,
no matter what
and we'll take it slow more of a
warm up insha Allah.
I forgot that
it's, it's in the previous volume. So is
it handy?
Okay. I don't have it here. So
So inshallah, we'll have a short start, and,
we wanna connect this to Ramadan. Since, inshallah,
hopefully, we are still in the spirit of
Ramadan.
We wanna connect this.
I'm I'm hope and I am hoping that
this Ramadan
that
you guys have built some some relationship with
the Quran,
some improved relationship
with the Quran. I really hope so. I
really hope so. Ramadan is the month of
the Quran,
and there is something special about the Quran.
You want guidance, you will find it in
the Quran.
You will you need comfort?
You will find it in the Quran.
You want
advice on how to deal with
life, you will find it in the Quran.
You want healing, spiritual healing and physical healing,
you will find it in the Quran.
These are the divine words of Allah, and
they are very special.
So but we
in our life, in our experience, they are
underrated.
They are underrated
and
one of the main reasons that pushes people
away from the Quran
or does not
allow them to invest more
in the Quran or derive
more from the Quran
is
that they judge their relationship with the Quran
too early.
There is a threshold or there is a
buffer zone
that you need to push through an initial,
an activation effort, it might be tremendous. Most
people give up too early.
Most people
give up too early with the Quran. If
you continue with the Quran, the Quran is
gonna give you way more than what you
give it. Most people many people say I
don't have time.
I don't have time. And you know,
we all know that it's not a matter
in most cases, it's not a matter of
time.
We actually
time becomes a euphemism,
a cover up
for
lack of commitment
and lack of interest.
When you value something
when you value something,
you will find the time for it. You
will give it the time.
But when something is not valuable,
or is not too high on the on
your list of valuable things,
you can't find time for it. And it
would seem as though there's no time for
it. Yes. Your immediate experience, your subjective experience
would feel, will feel as though there is
no time.
But the reality is it doesn't boil down
to time. It boils down to value, perceived
value.
Perceived value. When you perceive value in something,
you will find the time. When it becomes
a priority, priority, you will find the time.
And this is why the excuse is
like if you have someone,
an old friend, a relative and say, oh,
life keeps us busy. I would love to
spend time with you. I would love
to see you.' But you just see them
once a year
on Eid. You know, you better check your
language. Maybe
the person is not as valuable.
You just have other maybe maybe they're valuable
but there are priorities, higher priorities.
So it's really time is tied
so much
to value, perceived value.
The same applies to the Quran.
People say, oh, I don't have time for
the
Quran. Well, that's because you don't see value.
You don't see the true value in the
Quran. But if you truly see the value,
what do you think
got the prophet
to connect with the Quran at such a
deep level? We know the famous narration from
Abdullah ibn Mas
Mud and also a similar one from Abdullah
ibn Abbas,
that one day they went to pray with
the Prophet
So Ibn Abbas for example, he said, I
slept one day in the house of the
Prophet
And,
I was waiting for him to start Qiyam
al Layl, wake up at night. I prepared
his wudu for him,
and I was waiting for him to wake
up for qiyam.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
woke up for qiyam
and he noticed that I prepared the water
for him,
and he made dua for me.
Then the prophet started his prayer, Qiyam, and
later I started with him.
So he said the Prophet started the 1st
raka. The 1st raka the Prophet recited,
started reciting Al Baqarah.
So he says to himself,
okay, I thought the Prophet was going to
recite the first 100 verses
of Surat Al Baqarah, then go for Ruqarah.
He hit 100, then continued.
I said, okay, he's going to hit 200.
But he hit 200 and continued. I said,
okay, he's going to finish the surah. So
So the prophet finished
the Surah, but he also continued.
He started reading Ali Imran.
And I thought, okay, he's gonna read probably
a 100 verses from Al e Imran, which
is almost half,
and he's gonna make ruku.
But the prophet hit 100 in Ali Imran
and continued. He said, okay.
So the prophet was gonna read
Ali Imran as well.
The prophet
finished Adi Imran, then he started Surat An
Nisa.
So ibn Abbas says, for Allahu lakadhamamam to
be amrisoo.
I was about to do something evil.
I was about to leave the prophet in
his salah
and you know withdraw from it.
Withdraw from it.
So the prophet prayed
1 raka Al Baqarah, Al Imran and Nisa.
5 juz plus.
5 juz plus 5 pages.
That's first takkah.
But not only that, he said the prophet
went for Ruqun,
and his Ruqun was almost as long as
his recitation.
A little shorter,
and so on and so forth.
So where is the connection?
Where did this connection come from?
The value that they saw in the Quran
the value you want to know Allah?
Read the Quran
read it with a reflection
read it with
believing
you're gonna know more about Allah in the
Quran than anywhere else,
that Allah is telling you about Himself.
Invest more in the Quran. It doesn't show
up, I read, okay, I read the Quran,
I've been reading in the Quran for a
few weeks, for a month, for 6 months,
but I'm not getting there. Continue.
It's been a year. Continue. It's been 2
years. Continue.
You don't know when Allah will open the
doors for you. Allah will open the doors
at the right time,
but just don't give up on the Quran.
Continue until Allah opens for you, even if
it takes you 10 years.
Sufyan Thawri, He
says,
He says I forced myself,
I committed myself to Qiyamal Layl, I strove,
I struggled
in committing myself to Qiyamal Layl for 20
years,
then
I enjoyed it for another 20 years.
The fruits sometimes come later and Allah knows
when to give you the fruits,
So, don't give up on the Quran,
commit to it, commit to reciting it, and
commit to reciting it with reflection,
with attentiveness,
and with an open heart. And so we're
gonna start insha'Allah with Surat Al Hadid. And
Surat Al Hadid has a verse on this.
There is a verse in Surat Al Hadid
on this.
Recently I was watching a podcast with Sheikh
Abdul Rashid Sofi,
the famous Qari, you know,
and he mentions an incident, an interesting incident,
when he was studying in Egypt,
Al Qura'at in Al
Azhar.
He had been away from home for years,
and we are talking about
what probably
60s, 70s?
70s, probably
70s. There's no mobile phones, there's no emails,
there's only landline, and it would cost a
fortune to make an international phone call.
I guess a minute was a dollar or
a couple of dollars.
So
his father was also a famous car and
his father was ill, he was getting treatment
in Italy, I believe,
and one day he was on his way
back home to Somalia,
so he stopped over he had to stop
over half a day
in,
in Cairo,
in Egypt from Italy
to Somalia.
He stopped over in in in Cairo,
so the,
Somali embassy,
booked him a hotel.
So he sent somebody
to get and get his son from the
school residency,
from the the the
where where he was staying, the dormitory,
to come over because he had some cash
he wanted to give him.
Money so that he could, again,
whatever, like, if there's rent, pay rent, buy
food, buy clothes.
So he says the car
comes and picks me up. It's the probably
the embassy's car
vehicle. Comes and picks me up, takes me
to the hotel, I see my dad.
He says, it's been probably been a couple
of years.
I had not seen him.
So he says, I sit with him, and
he gives me some cash.
He says, I mean, that's for your needs.
And then I started asking him, What about,
about the, you know, people back home? Family,
uncles, cousins,
family members, what's happening? What's going on? He
says, Then my father says, Did you come
to distract me?
I have my time for my world of
the Quran today. Now
I need
I have to I have to read my
word, which is my daily portion of the
Quran. Did you come to distract me to
asking me about people?
You either sit with me and read,
or you go back to your school.
So he says, I sat with him and
read. Then he says, my father asks me
how often do you complete the Quran, do
Khutma of the Quran? And I told him
7 days,
every 7 days, once a week, I finish
the Quran once recitation reading.
So his father said that means
each verse stays away from, like you stay
away from each verse in the Quran 7
days until you come back to it.
That's a long time.
7 days, you don't visit that verse?
He said, you should make it every 3
3 days. Every 3 days you should read
the Quran once.
Sheikh Abdul Rashid said I couldn't do it,
for me 7 was like the sweet
spot for me, but his father would do
10 juz every day, which is finish the
Quran,
every 3 days.
That was a must for him. What was
interesting again, this is the point,
Sheikh Abdul Rashid says, you know, nowadays he
gets a bit busy, there are Quran competitions,
he travels and things like that, and sometimes
he doesn't get to read. So if you
are going to read the Quran every week,
you will have to do 4 just
plus every day.
Yeah, almost, for just a plus, with a
few pages on top.
That's about
80, 85 pages, let's say, every day.
So he says, Sometimes I don't get to
do this, the whole thing.
So he says,
When the fajr
of Friday
I have to complete my khatma, weekly khatma
I have to so he says sometimes
Thursday evening
Thursday after isha
I'm there and I am 15 juz short
he says I don't sleep
until I finish my khutbah.
He says, it's that commitment.
It's that commitment with the Quran
that pays off.
It's that commitment.
So I'm hoping that with these examples that
this would inspire us to really take the
Quran seriously.
Take the Quran seriously, and hopefully this
this is part of this effort to
get you closer to Quran to the Quran,
connect you more to the Quran,
and,
to the,
the importance, to the beauty, to the sweetness
of the words of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Many scholars, I believe Imam Ahmed said, if
you truly want to know
your place with Allah,
where are you with Allah?
How much Allah loves you? How much Allah
accepted you? How good is your relationship with
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Look at one thing,
some narrations mention salah, some of them mention
the
the Quran. Your position with Allah
is exactly identical
to the position of the Quran with you.
Don't look for any other parameters, That's the
reality.
If you love the Quran, then you love
Allah.
If you are unable to love the Quran
and find that sweetness and attachment
to the Quran,
then you have to work on it
So how do we get the love of
Allah? Connect to the Quran
Really connect But somebody says, but I find
it tedious.
I don't feel the sweetness.
It's hard work.
And I'm
not it's like it's not clicking with me.
It's not
I'm not finding, you know, that that connection.
Continue until you find it. One day you
will find it.
And all of your effort in the past,
all of your struggle to find this will
not go in vain. It will start to
pay off later on.
Later on you will experience this exponential
growth.
Like, you know you know, exponential growth, you
have this very flat
kind of growth for a long time. You
put in so much work and so much
time and dedication, and it's flat and you're
not getting a payoff.
You get this plateau kind of growth.
But then there's at one point,
growth explodes
exponentially.
It doubles and triples
10 times over sometimes
in one day.
Where is this momentum coming from? That
was momentum built in from the days that
you did not see any fruits.
Now they're paying off.
So this really works as well with the
Quran.
So don't give up when you find
you're not enjoying it. One of the things
that shaitan will do everything he can
to hold you back from Allah is to
make reading the Quran difficult for you. There
are people when they start reading the Quran,
they become very tense. They read the Quran,
they get very distracted.
Very distracted unlike their natural state, Very, very
distracted. Some people start to sweat and shake.
Some people find find great discomfort.
That's shaitan messing with you.
Yeah. Shaitan will mess with you. You will
some people, I'm telling you, some people will
shake,
will fidget,
will sweat,
some people will experience fear,
you know, inexplicable kind of fear. They don't
know what's going on. Where is this coming
from? Why am I some people will start
their their heart, you know, starts to race,
they start to breathe rapidly.
Where is this coming from? What's going? What's
happening to me? Shaitan wants to, you know,
put fear in your heart so you you
don't read the Quran. I'm feeling uncomfortable.
That's shaitan.
Push through
it. Keep reading, keep reading, eventually that will
go away.
And then you know something else will start
opening up for you.
Okay, so,
just heads up about what we are going
to do,
is this from
the
that's probably the other building.
Inshallah, what we are going to we
we managed to finish,
3 Juz
starting from
the
end.
Now
we have reached,
the 20 27th
juzal,
27th juzal, very interesting juzal,
and all of people's favorite surahs are found
in this juzal.
You'll find Surat Ar Rahman,
Surat Al Kamar, Surat Najm,
Surat Al Waqi'ah,
Surat Atur,
Daria'ah.
For some people these are the favorite
Surahs.
InshaAllah we're gonna start again from the end.
We will start with Surat Al Hadid. Now
where will we stop? I'm not sure,
but at least at least we're gonna cover
Al Mufasal.
And
we mentioned Al Mufasal previously. Anyone can remind
us where is Al Mufasal?
What is Al Mufasal in the Quran?
Yes, from Suraqaaf,
pretty much Suraqaaf till the end that's Al
Mufasa the early generations, the companions, the Tabi'in
they used to give this
priority over everything else. After al Fatiha they
would learn this,
they would teach this to their kids. Why?
Because the gist of the Quran is found
in Al Mufasal
and then once they master Al Mufasal in
terms of recitation meaning and actions then they
would start going to expanding more
Yeah. Surat Al Hadid.
So Surat Al Hadid
just a small introduction brief introduction.
Surat Al Hadid,
most of it was revealed in Medina after
Hijra, but some of it, the scholars say
was revealed in Makkah, especially the beginning. The
first few verses of it were revealed in
Mecca
but for the most part it was revealed
in Madinah. Why was it called
Al Hadid?
Why is it called Al Hadid?
Why is the surah called Al Hadid?
Mentioned the law of bringing down higher? Allah
mentioned Al Hadid in the verse.
Allah
mentions
towards the
end of the Surah and there is a
lesson, there is an important lesson with the
mention of
Al Hadid.
The
overall topic of the surah is 'Al Eman'.
Actually
the root word 'amanah'
and other forms from it like 'mu'min, iman,
aamanah'.
Is this the other building?
Or is it?
It's mentioned 14 times
14
times in the soil.
14 times
in the soil.
Okay. So let's begin with the Surah, Insha'Allah.
Let's stop here. Do you wanna read?
I think we'll have to switch the mic.
It's okay. I'll just well Okay. Just say
like that.
Okay. Just speak up. The
Tafsir Surah Hadid, Bismillahir
Rahmanir Rahim.
Here, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us of
his greatness and man is majesty
and the all encompassing nature of his authority.
All that is in the heavens and on
earth of living beings that speak and those
that do not
speak and inanimate
objects. Glorify and praise their Lord and declare
him to be above all that is not
befitting to his majesty.
They are obedient to their lord and submit
to his might. And the effects of his
wisdom are apparent in them.
Hence, he says, for he is the almighty
most wise.
This highlights the fact that all creatures in
both the upper and lower realms
need their lord in all situations.
That his might subdues all things
and that all of all of his creation
is subject to to his wisdom
and all his commands are based on divine
divine wisdom.
Then he tells us of the all encompassing
nature of his dominion.
To him belong the dominion of the heavens
and the earth. He gives life and causes
death. That is he is the creator of
all that who grants it provision and controls
it by his might, and he has
power over all things.
He is the first before whom there was
nothing
and the last after whom there is nothing.
The manifest above whom there is nothing
and the hidden. And there is nothing more
hidden than him. And he has knowledge of
all things. For his knowledge encompasses all that
is apparent and all that is hidden. All
that is secret and
Sunday and the last of which was Friday.
And then rose over the throne in a
manner that befits his majesty above all of
creation.
He knows all that goes into the earth
of seeds, animals, rain, and so on. And
all that comes out of it, of plants,
trees, animals, and the like. And all that
descends from heaven of angels, divine decrees, and
provision.
And all that ascends to it, of angels,
souls, supplication,
deeds and so on. He is with you
wherever you may be. This is like the
verse in which Allah says, there is no
private conversation among 3, but he is there
in 4th. Or among 5, but he is
their 5th their 6th. Or among fewer or
more than that, but he is with them
wherever they may be.
This being with means that he is with
them by means of his knowledge and his
being aware of them. Hence, he issues a
warning and a promise to them of requital
for deeds by saying,
and Allah sees well all that you do.
That is, he sees all the deeds that
you do and the intention and attitude behind
these deeds,
whether it is righteous or evil, and he
will requite you for it for he has
recorded it against you.
To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens
and the earth. That is he has dominion
and control over his creation and his slaves.
And he disposes of their affairs who, however,
he wills
on the basis of his universal and religious
decrees, which are based on divine wisdom.
And it is to Allah that all things
will return. Both deeds and the doers of
the deeds.
All people will be represented before him, and
he will separate the evil from the good.
He will reward the doer of good for
his good deeds, and he will punish the
doer of evil for his evil deeds.
He causes the night to encroach upon the
day, and the day to encroach upon the
night.
That is, he causes the night to encroach
upon the day. So the night covers people
with his darkness so that they may become
still and rest.
Then he causes the day to encroach upon
the night. So that so that darkness is
dispersed from the land and everything becomes light.
So that people may move about and pursue
their interests and livelihoods.
Allah continues to wrap the night over the
day and wrap the day over the night
alternating between them, making one longer and the
other shorter and vice versa. So that there
will be seasons and time will be regulated
and many interests will be served thereby. Thank
you for sending Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of the worlds, and exalted be the most
generous, most kind, who bestows upon his slaves
many blessings, both visible and hidden.
And he knows well what is in people's
hearts, So he guides those who he knows
he guides those who he knows are deserving
of that, and he forsakes those who he
knows are not fit to receive his guidance.
Okay. So this is the beginning of the
Surah and really Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala introduces
himself.
Allah tells us about himself and I would
I would recommend
that today,
tonight, or tomorrow,
as much time you can find
according to the level of priority, right, that
you can give to these verses. Just reflect
upon them. Just reflect upon them. Take about
15 minutes.
Read them.
Read their translation.
Read their meanings. Read a simple tafsir. Read
the tafsir of Imam Masadi
and just flow with the
words, flow with the meanings. They're very powerful.
They are very very powerful.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us about His
might and His power and you would see
that everything
returns to Allah. Everything comes from Allah and
everything returns to Allah. And in between,
everything is under the command and the full
control of Allah. Even when you see chaos
around, it's under the control of Allah.
It's controlled. It's measured.
And it's for
a
reason.
There's
no might, no power, no ability to change,
no ability to sustain and continue except with
Allah.
The power that you see that people
display or people possess,
all of that
is from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
He makes it available
and Allah can take it away at any
moment.
So even when they abuse it, Allah allows
that for a wisdom, for a greater wisdom.
So don't take things at face value.
Don't be deluded. Perception is an incomplete story.
Perception
is an incomplete
story. It doesn't tell you the full truth.
It just reveals to you the
interface,
the layer, the surface layer of existence.
There is more happening
in the world than
what meets the eye.
There is more to the dynamics.
Even when you see people who have the
power and people who are who are able
to wield to to, you know, to to
use this power and apply it.
These people
don't think they possess this power.
It's not their power.
They are drawing on the power that Allah
made available to humans and Allah could take
it away if He wishes.
But Allah allows them to abuse it
for reasons that are beyond our understanding. Obviously,
Allah wants to reveal who the good ones
are
from the evil ones.
So it's important to see how power all
all comes from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
is in the hands of Allah. And
the people who seem to be to have
power, they are the ones who are they
are tools.
These are tools. And I think it was
ibn Taymiyyah
gave this beautiful example and he said Allah
creates everything.
Everything is created by Allah
and the causes or the reasons that you
see which we call them cause and effect,
right? What you see
like, I can see, for example, I can
move I can move this object, right, with
my hand. It seems like my hand is
the only cause that is needed. My physical,
you know, power is the only,
cause that is needed to move this. This
is an incomplete story.
There is no cause
that functions by itself.
There is no cause. This is how you
understand the world. People have or people develop
a worldview. I need to understand the world,
right?
Most of us are living in a delusion.
When we live in materialism, in a worldview
of materialism, which we, most of us Muslims,
are contaminated with, we have swallowed the whole
thing.
We literally think, we view the world, we
analyze the world like non Muslims
in a materialistic fashion.
There is no cause,
there is no complete cause
that is independent in producing its effect
or its outcome.
What does that mean?
That means this is not a cause.
It's a it has causality,
but the reality is it draws that from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The design Allah designed
it this way and Allah enabled it
with that with that power
to be a cause, an effective cause.
And if Allah chooses so, He could withdraw
this.
Just like He did with Ibrahim alaihis salam.
Allah created the fire in a way that
it causes
something to be burnt. It burns.
That's causality, cause and effect.
The fire itself, by itself,
doesn't burn. Allah put that capacity in it
and Allah could take that away when he
wishes. And in the case of Ibrahim alaihis
salam,
when His people threw him in the fire,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala withdrew that capacity.
So there is no cause that possesses its
causality.
It's imparted on it from Allah. It's borrowed.
It's not original.
It's not intrinsic.
And it's important to see these things with,
you know, with this you can navigate the
world better.
And sometimes, you know, people when they think
materialistically,
they misinterpret what some of the scholars say.
You know the early generations
many times when there were oppression like Al
Hasan al Basri.
For example at the time of Al Hajjaj
people complained they said we you know he
has spread so much oppression
he killed 100 of 1000 of people. He
killed some of the righteous the most righteous
among the Tabi'een he killed Sa'id ibn Jubayr.
And he caused so much fitna and trial
among the Muslims, we're gonna fight against him.
What did Hassan al Basri and others say?
He said, this is a it's it's not
with him. Like, so who's who's bringing all
of this oppression? It was the hajjd,
an obvious cause. But Hassan al Basili,
he said, that's a punishment from Allah.
Fix your ways with Allah and Allah will
fix this. This is not some sort of
like
weird thinking.
This is deep causality.
This is deep causality.
And
it does not mean Hasan Mas'il did not
mean don't engage with the reality of your
times.
But he would recognize
when there is something in Islam limitations limits
of sharia that you should not cross,
That means okay that's where your
engagement with causality should stop.
With immediate causality.
But your heart should be attached to the
ultimate causality of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
There's no real power except with Allah.
No one brings any effect but Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. But Allah brings it through tools.
So back to the example that even Tamiyya
came, he said those people who say, oh
we see how the rain is formed. You
know, water evaporates from
water bodies,
from the ocean,
goes up
and it accumulates in the form of,
clouds.
Right?
And under certain conditions,
the condensation
happens
and then the water be like this condensation
becomes so heavy for the air to carry
it, it falls down as rain. So we
see the causality.
It's a complete circle.
Oh sorry, it's a complete cycle, so there
is no
divine intervention.
So Ibn Taymiyyah responds to this and he
says, you're just looking at the surface.
He says when,
you know with right he he he draws
an analogy from writing. He says when you
write,
people say the my pen wrote
and then they say,
buy the pen or in the pen or
what I don't know what's,
in the Arabic language,
The the pen writes.
Right?
Immediately, if you look at the if the
at the exact situation technicality,
it is the
pen with the ink in it.
The movement
that creates
the writing, right? That's immediate causality.
But he says, who's the true writer?
Who's writing? It's the person that is holding
the pen and it's their mind
that is writing this. So there are levels
of causality you always need to trace it
back to the origin. So he says the
same thing these
mechanisms what we call physics today chemistry,
biology
That they try trying to explain existence by
means of them. He says this is the
pen with which Allah writes the story of
existence.
So he says it's foolish for someone to
assume that a pen writes by itself,
or the pen writes all of those ideas,
right?
He says people who say the creation was
perpetuated by itself,
it developed by itself, it evolved by itself.
These people are
no more intelligent than someone who says, you
know, I can see the pen writes.
I can see. I can see the movement
of the pen. It is what writes. That's
all I
can see. So that's it's the pen that
writes all of these books.
He says
these people are just as foolish as these
people are. Cause you're just taking a small
spectrum of reality and you're saying that explains
everything.
So go back to the ultimate causality. So
when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala here at the
beginning of
this surah subhanAllah the am how Allah talks
about that everything
comes from Him and everything belongs to Him
and everything is gonna go back to him.
It's all about Allah. This existence is all
about Allah.
And everything in existence, you said everything
glorifies Allah. Everything,
celebrates the the greatness and the perfection of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And also Allah says,
There is nothing but it makes the of
Allah, but you don't understand. You can't comprehend
the tisbih. Why? Because they are different creatures.
You don't understand their language.
So this includes what?
Living creatures
and what we call unliving creatures.
Actually
ibn Hajj al Asqalani he
says,
it is
not far from the truth to say that
every creature,
every type of creation Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
gives it
its own version of
consciousness.
Of consciousness, of awareness,
of functionality.
So everything glorifies Allah. Stones,
wood,
moon,
sun, stars,
air, birds,
animals, trees,
all of that glorifies Allah and prostrates to
Allah.
In a way that we cannot see,
in a way that we cannot understand.
So everything in existence
is glorifies Allah, everything worships Allah.
It's humans and jinn that are given the
choice and they abuse
it. So everything in existence knows the the
the might and the power of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Okay, so
He's the one who brings things to life
and he's the one who causes them to
die.
What is left? He owns everything and everyone.
He's the one who brings
things into existence and takes them out of
existence. What is left?
Who has power?
Who has mine?
It's only this parenthesis
in
the time and the universal time that Allah
gives us a little bit of
ability to use whatever resources he put, doesn't
mean that we own them. Doesn't mean we
own them. Allah gives you a little bit
of power, Allah gives that person more power
to test them with. That's not theirs.
They didn't create it, they did not originate
it. This is why when some people feel
they are physically strong, it's not your virtue.
Or some people feel, oh I'm more handsome
than others, I'm more beautiful.
Like did you create yourself beautiful? That's from
Allah, why you take credit for that?
That doesn't mean it's not a blessing and
it's not to be enjoyed, it is to
be enjoyed. But don't take credit from it.
It's from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
You did not design yourself, you did not
create yourself.
He's able to do whatever he wants. There's
nothing, there's no limits to the power and
might of Allah. There's nothing.
The first and the last.
As in Sahih Bukhari from Ibn Abbas
akahn
Allahu.
Narration.
At some point there was Allah and there
was nothing else.
There was Allah and there was nothing else
From Makhalak Al Kalam, and Allah created the
pen
So everything in existence, where did it come
from? Allah created it.
Allah brought it for a reason, there was
a plan.
There was a plan and Allah brought it
for that, as part of this plan and
for a reason to be achieved.
And everything is going to die and collapse
and vanish
And there will remain Allah
at the end.
Because Allah
is always there,
but things come and go.
Allah
the manifest
and the uppermost.
The manifest and the uppermost.
Allah is the most obvious.
Allah is the most obvious. You know when
you delve more into the aqeedah of tawhid
Just sometimes when they talk about the existence
of Allah,
they
literally they say, you know, we are just
mentioning these arguments
for the sake
for the sake of argument with these people.
Hopefully that it would help them see the
blindness of how they think. Otherwise
any proof you bring to prove Allah, Allah
is the proof of it.
Any proof, any evidence you
draw.
In order to prove the existence of Allah,
it needs
the existence of Allah to prove it itself.
So Allah is the ultimate evidence of everything
else. But it's just when people's logic is
faulty
you have to just for the sake of
argument
just run with them a little bit to
show them how futile that argument and illogical
this argument is. But in reality,
you know the most obvious of all things
is Allah
and that's in our fitra
And that's in the real 'aql, the real
reason. If reason is not contaminated,
the most obvious thing to it is Allah,
His existence and His ways. That's
is the innermost.
Here it says the hidden.
That's also a meaning of the but the
innermost.
What does that mean?
He's closer to you than yourself.
He knows you more than yourself.
He can get to you
quicker than yourself.
He knows your thoughts before they are born.
He knows your feelings before they are there.
And He is closer to you as we
said than yourself. He knows you more than
yourself.
And He knows everything.
Okay. These are just details.
He knows everything that goes into the earth.
So there
is communication
heavens, always. Angels,
other creatures,
actions,
blessings,
provision
from Allah,
reports
going back to Allah, everything.
And what goes into the earth,
you know, into the belly of this earth
and what comes out of it. Talk about
mining, talk about whatever,
people who are dead, who are buried, things
that are
that others that people hide,
Everything. There's nothing hidden from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. Everything is just known to Him as
you know, even more than you know the
most obvious things in your life.
And He's with you wherever you are in
terms of His knowledge.
And to Him belongs the Dominion,
and the decision about everything
is with Allah.
So the things that happen in this world
happen
by the permission of Allah, even when they
are evil. Why? Because there's a greater good.
Evil only happens, Allah only allows evil to
happen when there is a greater good,
period.
Allah does not allow a situation
to happen where good and evil are even
equal, Allah doesn't allow
that or evil is more than good. Allah
never allows this.
It's only when the good is greater than
the evil that Allah allows this and only
when it's necessary as well. When the lack
of that good
would be worse than the presence of this
evil then Allah allows it.
The alternation of the day and the night
that's
all in the hands of Allah He designed
it this way, The day gets longer, shorter,
the seasons change and all of that stuff.
All of that designed by Allah. All of
this is designed by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and for a reason.
For you to go through this time and
to add structure to your life. Imagine there
is no day and night.
Life would be like a
what?
So too fluid it would be confusing. But
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala added structure day and
night. At least we can count.
So
you know the pass the the passage of
days years, months years, and so on and
so forth.
Okay. Let's,
let's stop. And he knows what's in your
hearts, what's in your chest.
I think it's Maghrib time. Right?
What time is the adhan here?
58. 58 today? Okay.
Any
2 quick questions?
2 quick questions, inshallah. We'll stop here, and
we continue
next Friday. The halakhah will be at 7,
InshaAllah. We'll be at 7 till Maghrib, InshaAllah,
as we move on, this time will increase.
So starting with an hour or less than
an hour today,
Insha'Allah it's gonna increase and be long.
Questions?
Sisters?
No questions? Okay. Then see you
insha'Allah, next,
Friday. And don't forget the connection with the
Quran, don't let the momentum of Ramadan die
out.
Use it, build on it. At least the
connection with the Quran should be something that
you never do away with,
are something you don't wanna miss out on.
are something you don't wanna miss out on.