Ramadan 2007 – Day 5

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We'll be learning Amina shame on the mean.

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excellence presents jewels from the Holy Quran. A series of lectures by Mufti is mine even Moosa menc.

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Lecture five choose five to six and quarter. A Salam aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh smilla rahmanir rahim In the name of Allah most Gracious, Most Merciful Alhamdulillah wa sallahu wa salam o Baraka Abadi, Medina Stouffer, All praise is due to Allah subhanho wa Taala blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and all his companions. May Allah subhanho wa Taala Have mercy on us and May he accept the Salah that we've just engaged in and may He except the fasts that we have been engaging in and May He grant us the acceptance to elevate spiritually inshallah, during this month of Ramadan, honor the ruler, my beloved brothers and sisters and

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dearest listeners. Tonight we read verses of Surah Nisa, and we completed pseudotumor EDA as well. Surah Nisa, if you recall yesterday we made mention of the fact that it is connected to the women folk and there are lots of rules and regulations which are pertaining to the women which happened to be in Surah Nisa, Allah subhanho wa Taala commences the sixth power or the sixth juice of the Quran, where Allah subhanho wa Taala makes a very, very

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important declaration. He says, law Your

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job is to me not only

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work long Samia anonima Allah subhanho wa Taala does not like for a person to make clear or to speak in public or to publicly state words which are defaming and bad about someone else, unless the person has been oppressed,

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which means generally a person would not be able to go out to others and say, you know, that man is like this, and this woman is like that because it would be regarded as Reba. Reba means to backbite and we all know backbiting is bad, but where someone has oppressed you, where someone has wronged you, and you need to make it clear to others for two reasons, then it's permissible, that is the green light that is given and it will not be considered as Riba, Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Lamin loulan, which means besides the one who has been oppressed, the first reason why it would be permissible is to rectify the problem, you need to speak to someone to say, Listen, my dear brother,

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my dear sister, you are close to this man. This is what he has done to me, that would not be Riba because we are trying to solve the problem. The second reason is to make it clear to the public that listen, that man is a crook. So don't go near him. That is also permissible, if you have solid evidence, and the man has wronged you, or the woman has wronged you. And you would like to stop the other believers from from dropping into the same hole. And from being bitten from the same Python, then obviously, it is very, very Islamic to go out and tell the people that Be careful here. Similarly, when it comes to the issue of Nika, and someone comes to you and says, you know what I'm

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interested in marrying so and so what do you know about them? It is haram to lie. And to cover up you must tell the truth. If really, you want to run away from it, say, look, I prefer you ask someone else. But don't ever lie to say no, no, no, everything is okay. The person is very, very good. And I'm happy for you. And deep down, you know that they've stolen from you. You've seen them doing wrong, you must make it clear, because that is a very big Amana? If not, you'd rather just point to someone else and say, You know what, why don't you ask someone else you will come out of it. And also when someone wants to do business with another person, and they come to you and say,

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Look, I'd like to do a business deal with so and so. You've done business deals with them in the past, what type of business man is that? It is haram for you to lie. You have to say, look, they've stolen my wealth, or they took three years to pay me so much. rands and I incurred so many losses. It's up to you. I'm not saying don't do business, but this is what I have had. So this is something Islamic and it is not regarded as Riba because there is oppression involved and our intention is one of to either to solve the problem or to make it clear to others so that they don't be bitten in the same way that we were. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala over and above that says that if you are going

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to forgive such a person, if they've wronged against you, and you are going to forgive them, it's better, but not everyone is on that level. As we mentioned yesterday, Justice comes before goodness, sometimes a person might be able to own

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overlook the evil that someone might have done upon them or to them. But not everyone is capable of that. And even the same person, they might be a limit whereby after that they will not be able to handle it. Take a look at Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he handled the evil of the kuffaar for a long, long time, until one day he declared war against him because Allah subhanho wa Taala told him now it's enough. Within alladhina pata Luna

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lemo. Those who have been fought for all these years now we grant them permission to revenge Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam prepared an army to retaliate May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us all understanding that you know forgiveness is up to a certain limit and it differs from person to person. The winner is the one who can forgive totally. But as I said, we are not all like that. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions the story of Isa Allah is Salatu was Salam. Why is it salat wa salam in the Surah Surah? Nisa I tell you some of them have a Syrian have said it is in order to give hope to the women folk to show them that Maria Maria salatu salam was a woman but she

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was granted so much virtue that she was the mother of a Salah his salat wa salam who was born miraculously and she was a great saint. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make our women folk also great saints inshallah. And may Allah subhanho wa Taala. Make them inshallah, closer to this Deen. And may He make us also closer to this Deen? I mean, I see when we spoke about the womenfolk people said I mean very fast. But when we spoke about the menfolk, I was waiting to hear the amin and I didn't hear it. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us all upliftment in sha Allah. Then what had happened is Allah subhanho wa Taala made making mention of the three aspects the three major differences between

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us and the Christians. Allah subhanho wa Taala clarifies them in these verses. The first aspect is the fact that they say is Allah Salam was killed and crucified. So Allah clarifies it and says, on katello masala boo wala

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should be Allah whom he was neither killed, nor was he crucified, but it was made similar to them. There was someone else who was actually crucified, and they felt it was him. That is a long story in the history of East LA Salatu was Salam. This is just a single verse clarifying that first point, the second point clarified his way they mentioned the issue of Trinity Father, Son, Holy Ghost and Allah subhanho wa Taala says, while at a coup de la raza, don't say three, don't say three. Don't say a trinity. Don't say God the Father, God the Son, there is no father and no Sunday. Allah is the Creator, the rest of the created. May Allah subhanahu Allah grant us understanding and as we've

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mentioned a few nights back, Allah subhanho wa Taala says the example of he sallallahu Sallam and Jesus Christ is similar to that of Adam, Allah Salatu was Salam ala de and he was so we should not undermine the power of Allah subhanho wa Taala. He creates human beings in four ways. He has created Adam Allahu salatu wa salam, no male nor female, he created Adam, he created a Salah is in fact Hawa alayhi salatu was Salam was created through a male without the involvement of a female, amazing and there is Allah is Salatu was Salam through a female without the involvement of a male and all of us we are created to male and female, that is the power of Allah subhanho wa Taala May Allah grant us

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all understanding. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala clarifies the third issue and that is the issue where they say he is the Son of God. He is the Son of God. And Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Can I kulanu

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him and his mother Mary and Jesus they both used to eat food. This verse is in pseudotumor EDA and Allah subhanho wa Taala and Sunita says lanius key pharmacy

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kunafa then in a while.

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mera kaam Babu, Isa AlLahi salatu salam and the angels they will not deny the fact that they are just worshippers of Allah, they will not be too haughty, to claim and to declare the truth that they are just worshipers of Allah subhanho wa Taala they will utter that so they will worshippers. In fact, he Salli salaatu wa Salaam is a worshipper of Allah subhanho wa Taala and not a son of his May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant does understanding so Allah chose to clarify this issue in Surah Nisa, as well as other sutras and I told you one of the reasons why Allah makes mention of this is to show us that every time you see a man who is very successful, either India or Indonesia, you should know

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that he has a mother. And every time you see a woman who is also successful, you should know that she has a mother as well. And the mothers definitely have a greater reward than anyone else because they held that particular child for a period of time and then gave birth and thereafter looked after the child when he had she left that child the child would have probably died. So that is

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The status of a mother and a female mentioned in Surah camisa. In fact, Allah subhanho wa Taala goes on in Surah Nisa to mention something even more names of many more of the prophets are mentioned in Surah two Meesa Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about the prophets and he says, What are hyena Illa? Ibrahima is Mariela is hot Oh yaku bolus burpee. Where are you?

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insha Allah, Allah homos at Lima. Look at all the names of the Prophets, each one of them had a matter. This is Surah Nisa, Allah subhanho wa Taala saying, you know, they are champions in the form of women who have really mothered all these prophets who are great warriors, and who are great prophets chosen by Allah subhanho wa Taala. their mothers were also chosen. May Allah subhanho wa Taala choose our women folk to being the mothers of the champions of this online Sharla amin

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And may Allah subhanho wa Taala choose us as males to also be the fathers of the champions of the sama amin and Allah subhanho wa Taala says there were so many other prophets, some of them we mentioned their names to you, some of them we told you their stories, some of them we did not tell you their stories and Allah subhanho wa Taala after that commences surah Tula either What is the meaning of Alma? Alma de means the lay the tablecloth, I know it's the month of Ramadan, but I'll handle at least at this moment we are not fasting so we will be able to speak about the lay tablecloth. This sutra is named the late tablecloth, the mufa serien have mentioned the two reasons.

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The first is at the end. There is a story of how a Salah is Salatu was Salam was asked by his disciples that we want to lay tablecloth to descend from heaven. And he Salah is salatu salam made that some of the scholars say that that was the last supper. Some of the scholars say that that's what it was. But we believe that yes, the tablecloth laid with food from heaven descended. And Allah subhanho wa Taala gave it as a gift and Allah subhanho wa Taala gave it as a sign. So for that reason, this surah is named after that, number one. Number two is what do you have on a laid tablecloth? You have food and that food, what is halal and what is haram? That is mentioned in the

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surah Allah subhanho wa Taala makes draws up a list of things that are haram and he warns us about halal and he tells us about our consciousness, the opening verse, He speaks about consciousness and he speaks about fulfilling the pledge. Yeah.

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Oh, you who believe fulfill your pledges and your promises. He's speaking about food and he starts with fulfilling the pledge. Why? simple answer.

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Because if someone can fulfill their pledge to Allah subhanho wa Taala they will automatically be concerned about what goes into their mouth. Is it halal? Is it haram? Is my sustenance halal is it haram so it's very closely connected whereas a person who doesn't bother regarding the pledges he makes so that person will not be bothered about the pledge that he or she has made to Allah subhanho wa Taala and after that the person won't be bothered about whether the income is halal or haram whether the food is halal or haram. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala says

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to me, Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks immediately after that about what is halal in terms of the cattle. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make our mouths from those mouths that can only put that which is halal in it by the power of Allah subhanho wa Taala May he protect us from Haram in every way.

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Then Allah subhanho wa Taala continues and he says a few verses down, he says you must cooperate not only when it comes to halal and haram should you cooperate with one another. But when it comes to all forms of goodness, cooperate with one another, whenever there is something good to be achieved, help one another. And whenever there is something bad to be achieved, don't even be found near whenever something bad is happening be further away.

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a little

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while at

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always assist and help and be together when it comes to goodness and righteousness and do not assist one another when it comes to haram when it comes to sin when it comes to that which will displease Allah subhanho wa Taala because then we will be breaking our promise to Allah subhanho wa Taala and it is haram. And Allah subhanho wa Taala thereafter blows up the list and he says hurry Mattila como una de Mola Mola de mama de la Hibi wellmune honey, boo, boo da da to one

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nominee has one. Ocala Sabu Illa

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Allah subhanho wa Taala draws up a whole list of things that are Haram. He says Haram is the dead animal, the swine and so on and the list is quite long. May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us from Haram. As I said, it's not either the late tablecloth we must ask ourselves when food is laid, or when we are purchasing the food. Is this halal or haram? I'd rather stay away from something I'm doubting then fall into Haram. And for this reason and normative niboshi Ravi Allahu anhu makes mentioned in a very famous Hadith which is reported in Sahih Muslim in the Halla division, we're in the Caribbean, verbena, Houma.

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munakata Dominus Takashi Bahati led by a woman with coffee shuba to coffee.

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Hema Yoshiko Ania coffee

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Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says halaal is very clear. Haram is also very, very manifest. In the middle, there is a gray area that we might not be sure in the eyes of Allah He knows whether it's allowed or haram. But sometimes we might not be so sure whoever partakes from that has fallen into Haram. Because of the doubt. And whoever abstains from it has protected himself or herself from harm, just like a shepherd, who is grazing his flock very close to the border of his land and he doesn't know whether it's his or someone else's. Obviously he is taking a huge risk and just grazing your flock on land that is questionable, automatically renders that meat questionable. May Allah

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subhanho wa Taala grant us understanding and then Allah Subhana Allah says Allah was enough in just a de la moda. This is in the Hadith continuation of it. He does Allah azza wa jal, Sudoku,

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Sudoku, Allahu Allah.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, in this body, there is a little piece of flesh. If it is pure and clean, the whole body will be pure and clean. And if it is infested and infected, the whole body will be infested and infected. Definitely that piece of flesh is the heart.

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May Allah subhanho wa Taala purify our hearts, that is the root of everything good of goodness and root of evil. The heart, may Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us purity. So Allah subhanho wa Taala thereafter speaks about Salah. not a coincidence. Why is Allah He spoke about firstly fulfilling the promise. Then he spoke about how we should help one another in goodness. Then he spoke about the list of things that are Haram. Now he's speaking about Salah why Salah because a person who fulfills his pledge to Allah subhanho wa Taala and is concerned about his food or her food and income and sustenance, automatically the person's Eman is becoming greater and stronger. And that person will

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then perform the Salah or fulfill the Salah in a better manner. Allah speaks about Whoo, why we do because we do his purification externally. You're washing your face and the organs the internal purification is that heart we spoke about and the food that went in also builds the body from inside. So it's important that everything is halal and in conformity to what Allah subhanho wa Taala wants. It's extremely important. So Allah subhanho wa Taala says oh you who believe when you get up for Salah you must make sure that you have done your will do correctly in a nutshell that is what the verse is telling us.

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can tune in US Allah t fou ha Kumar idea come in and mafia, one Sabu si como una come in cafe in Allah is now explaining the external purification in the in terms of Voodoo, in preparation for Salah May Allah subhanho wa Taala make a steadfast in our Salah. Some of the Allah have said that a person who is concerned about their will do and they are Salah, and they come to the masjid five times a day insha Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala will save that person from consuming haram because the two are connected. And have we seen the connection tonight and the person who is not bothered about whether they eat halal or haram, such a person would not really be interested in coming to the

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house of Allah subhanho wa Taala because if you can't fulfill that this is connected to it. How would we be able to come here? That is why when Allah puts it in our hearts to come to the masjid, we must realize that it's really a gift of Allah to us. Because if Allah does not one does in his house, we will never be here. Do you know if someone comes to your house without knocking the door they walk in? That means they have to be very close to you to do that. They come in food time, meal time, and they walk in and say Salaam Alaikum. How are you doing? What are you gonna say? Come let's sit down, isn't it that shows the closeness of the relationship but if someone is distant, they

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don't know you. You don't know them. You've had a problem with them. They don't listen to you. You don't listen to them. They won't even come to your house. They won't even want to knock even when they are in need.

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Same applies with Allah subhanahu Allah Allah, Allah Allah Allah. Allah is examples of our higher obviously but

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a person who doesn't come to the masjid it shows that they've got no relation with Allah and the person who's always there. It shows that Allah loves them and they love Allah subhanho wa Taala that's why they find it so comforting to come to the mosquito, even at the time of salah and outside the time of Salah, come to the masjid, read your Salah, radio, Quran and then go out it's the best house in the area, the house of Allah, Allah so Allah subhanho wa Taala after that speaks about standing up for justice, we must be just not only in declaring what's halal and haram and not only in assisting one another when it comes to goodness and and not assisting one another when it comes

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to evil. But in everything we must be just stand up for justice. Don't worry about what someone is going to say when it comes to uttering the truth. We must utter the truth with wisdom obviously, but we must utter the truth. We must not spray the message with something great with gray paint so that people don't see the message may Allah subhanho wa Taala make us clear as crystal and May Allah subhanho wa Taala really use us to speak the truth and to be just at all times. And Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of a brilliant verse powerful

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demon Akuma Shanna comin Allah, Allah Tarantino

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Rahmani toccoa de la, don't let your hatred for someone make you be unjust with them. Know when you dislike some nation, or when you dislike a certain type of people, or when for some reason you have had a problem with someone or some group of people don't ever allow that hatred in you to be unjust.

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Because injustice is definitely something that will anger Allah subhanho wa Taala I don't want someone to be unjust with me. So even if the person is a non Muslim, even if they are enemies of Islam, even if they fought you in person, when it comes to the truth, Atari, no, you know, this man, I've got a very big problem with him. But otherwise, he's a good man, he's really a gentleman, he speaks very well and so on. Be Just don't let the hatred that you have for someone overtake you, and just punish them for nothing. You know, sometimes we have a problem with someone, then we see their children in the machine. And then we go and complain, you know, what, what are the these people

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these children are making a noise here, or we give them one smack? And they go home and say you know what, daddy? This person smacked me. That was the smack genuine. Why should we be smacking somebody else's children, we should go to talk to them. But sometimes we are guilty because I've got a problem with the Father and I'm coward to face him. I go and give the child a smack. May Allah save us all. This is what is happening sometimes. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make us from amongst those who can stand up for justice at all times. So Allah subhanho wa Taala tells that to us, then he speaks about why the People of the Book were cursed. Why the certain group of people were kissed. He

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says fabby manna calling him Misa home. They broke their covenant. They promised Allah things they they said they will believe is but they didn't even go according to the book. And Allah subhanho wa Taala says that that is why we kissed them because they broke their promise for the man

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because they broke their promise to us. We cursed them. And we made their hearts hard so that when the truth came to them, they rejected it when Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasallam came some of the People of the Book who are around Medina, some of them accepted but the others their hearts were hardened. They knew he was right. Yeah, una una cama de una de la according to the Quran, they knew the prophets they know the message, they know the Quran, as well as they know their own children and they know that it's the truth. But Allah subhanho wa Taala says, they were cursed. Their hearts were hardened, and therefore they didn't understand and they didn't want to understand. Sometimes it

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happens to us, when we turn away we break our promise to Allah subhanho wa Taala what will happen? He that is what happened to those in the past. Do we think it's not going to happen to us, so let's not transgress and if we do, let's turn to Allah subhanho wa Taala immediately if we have transgressed in the past, because that is the mercy of Allah that will descend automatically and immediately when we turn to Allah subhanho wa Taala as soon as we have transgressed out of error, or by human weakness, may Allah subhanahu Allah protect us all, let's not receive the curse of Allah subhanho wa Taala and let's not let our hearts become hard to the message when someone comes to us

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and tells us what's right and wrong. We must crumble in sha Allah and it must at least make us think that you know what I really need to get somewhere and I really need to get better in sha Allah and Allah subhanho wa Taala after that speaks about the story of the

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Children of Adam Allahu salatu salam, the first murder that was committed. Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks of hobbylink carbene, Abel and Cain and how Cain killed Abel, and so on. And Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about it in these verses. I'm not going to go into the details of that. But it is very, very interesting how Allah subhanho wa Taala taught mankind how to bury their dead by sending crows, the crows were sent, one killed the other, and one buried the other. And then cabin, so because he had his murdered brother on his shoulder, and He then said, You know what, why don't I do what this crow did, but that was Allah subhanho wa Taala sending you the crow to show you how to

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Bury Your Dead. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us understanding.

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Thereafter, Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of something that we all have a lesson to learn from. He addresses the Prophet sallallahu Sallam and he says, Oh messenger, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Don't let something review what don't let the statements of those who come to you and in front of you. They speak very nice and behind you they speak bad. Don't let those type of people grieve you. They are this believers. They are hypocrites. Don't let them grieve you. They are the ones who love to spread gossip. They are the ones who love to listen to lies to believe the lies and to spread lies. And they like to listen to people who spread rumors about you who don't even know

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you who've never even seen you. Amazing. Listen to the verses.

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So Nola Kalani do nothing cool free mean alladhina kado

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muku boom wamena Lavina had some

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awesome

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14 Allah Mia to. Allah says O Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, don't let those disbelievers grieve you who come to you and speak good words and then behind you, they speak bad and evil. And Allah subhanho wa Taala says, some of the people of the book are guilty of the same. They are doing the same. May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us. And Allah says, describing those who make life difficult for others. Allah says they are the ones who believe gossip, they listen to it, they spread it. So the message here is twofold. One is for the perpetrator, we need to ask ourselves do we make other people's lives difficult by spreading rumors about them by spreading gossip by talking

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about them behind their backs and when we meet them Oh, Salaam Alaikum. We show all 32 teeth Mashallah. And then behind them, we are frowning and we are spreading the the the worst rumors about them. If that's the case, surely we might be cursed just like those people, workers, so we should stop that. So one is the perpetrator and the other is the victim. If you are the victim of such statements, Allah says Allah, Allah tells his message His Messenger. Don't let those people breathe you. Don't let them grieve you don't worry about them. Don't stress and don't be distressed by their statements. Just carry on you be focused and continue Allah subhanho wa Taala is in control. Allah

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speaks about those people who are bent on spreading rumor and spreading tales about others and being concerned about others lives. Allah says

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Allah de nada mucho de de la

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Popa hero coup de whom those people Allah did not want to cleanse their hearts. Remember we spoke about the heart and the softening of the heart, people who spread things and are bothered about others. Allah says them we don't even intend to clean their hearts. Do you know the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says Pooh bah dementia Allahu Ibu and openness, glad tidings of an abode in general, for the one whose own weaknesses occupy him from engaging in the weaknesses of others. Whenever you want to talk about someone else's weakness, think about yourself, what about your weaknesses? May Allah subhanho wa Taala make us all strong. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala

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speaks about the limits of friendship with the people of the book, we are allowed to befriend them, but to a degree, we are allowed to have business dealings and so on. But we should know we must not give preference to them over our faith. So you must not be for example, if you are invited to a function by someone who's not a Muslim, you may attend if that function is within the limits of the Sharia, but don't give up your Islamic dress code. Don't give up something Islamic in order to achieve that because those are the limits and the limits are set by Allah subhanho wa Taala and he warns those who give preference to others over the Sharia and over the Quran and the Sunnah of

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Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he says, a day of torment full and grievious meaning very painful punishment is coming May Allah subhanho wa Taala not do that to us. And may Allah make us conscious of the fact that may make us proud Muslims who really can uplift this Deen without being worried.

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because really we believe in religious freedom.

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We let others do what they want to do for as long as they don't trample on our feet and we do what we want and we do not trample on other people's feet. No one forces anyone else to do anything. The Muslims don't force the non Muslims to do something and the non Muslims should not also force the Muslims to do something, we firmly believe in this freedom. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant that to us and may He make us from amongst those who can understand that. I mean, and then Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks again about halal and haram and he says oh, you who believe listen very carefully. Yeah. Hello Rena Amanullah to remove on Eva tema Allahu la Kumara. Do you believe do not declare

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something that I have made halal haram don't say this is haram when you don't know. So it's better you say I'm not sure about it, and I won't eat it rather than labeling things around because that becomes very dangerous. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about

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hunting. And he speaks about hunting in the condition of a ham.

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And I think I will end on this point or maybe mentioned one more point. That's a very interesting verse. He says, Yeah, I you

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know, so.

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Are you who believe, don't hunt, whilst you're in the condition of a ham. And then he says that I will cause the animals which you normally hunt to come so close to you whilst trying to test you to see Do you believe or not? Are you going to listen to my law laws or not? Are you going to obey instructions are not? My dear listeners, this is an example for our whole life, not just for a ham. Do you know as Muslims Haram, if you'd like to commit it, it's very, very near. But Allah says Lee Allah Allahu.

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Allah wants to know who fears Him, who fears him, unseen. Meaning when nobody is watching besides Allah, do we still go and commit the sin? So Allah says he will bring certain harem very, very close to you so easy to commit, but he wants to watch it's a test. It's not that a you know what, if Allah didn't want me to committed Why did he bring it so close? That's what some people say. especially some of the youngsters when they want to justify, they say, you know what, but it came right to my doorstep. What could I do? Allah protect us? We shouldn't do that. Allah brought it to our doorstep in order to test us are we going to stay away from it fearing Allah? If we do that inshallah we get

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in return?

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Or are we going to fall in it and fail our test? So Allah subhanho wa Taala then says, Hola, esta will copy to Apache boo, wallow our Java caca, throttle, sabi, La,

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tell them oh Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that even and goodness is not equal. Even though you might be amazed and amused by the amount of evil around you, it might be more than the goodness but that does not make the goodness evil. And it does not make evil goodness no matter who engages in what our criteria is not whether the world is doing it or not. Our criteria is whether the Sharia allows it or not. Let's understand that. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make a strong or sallallahu wasallam albaraka Allah Nabina Muhammad Subhan Allah Subhana Coloma behenic Chateau La ilaha illa Anta anastasiou kona to be Lake