Mufti Menk – Ramadan 2010 – Durban – Reminders – Day 08
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The speakers discuss the importance of fulfilling God's promises and forgiveness in bringing people back from past mistakes. They stress the need for forgiveness and apologizing for past mistakes to avoid major sin. The speakers also touch on the use of "by" in various ways, including discourage evil behavior and ask for protection from evil people. The importance of learning the names of Jesus Christ's qualities and their meaning in life is emphasized.
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Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu lillahi wa kafa sallallahu wasallam albaraka Allah.
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all praises indeed you to Allah subhanho wa Taala blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam We ask Allah Subhana Allah to Allah to bless him and bless every single one of us, and to grant us goodness, Allah subhanho wa Taala is the owner of knowledge we asked him saying, Yeah, Allah grant has knowledge that is beneficial and benefit us from the knowledge that you have granted us. Allah subhanho wa Taala has given us so many stories in the Quran of the past. The records of history are in the Quran. One of the main reasons is for us to read and to learn a lesson. The example I normally give is, if petrol together with firewood, and the match
caused a huge Inferno 2000 years back, do we think that the same today is not going to cause that Inferno it will cause the same. So if certain actions
and certain
certain people were destroyed because of certain actions 2000 years ago, when the same actions are repeated today, do we think we are not going to be destroyed? May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us a lesson
and this is one of the reasons why Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of Freetown and Harmon and qarun and all the other the previous people who had lots of power and authority and wealth and might and they were huge burly people. And Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of how he destroyed them because of their deeds. So in these verses Allah subhanho wa Taala in Surah Tara's the verses we read this evening,
at the beginning of what we read tonight, Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of something that is a point for us to ponder.
Allah subhanho wa Taala asks the question to the people of the town. He says, Amina
Suna.
Mo do the people of the towns feel secure from our punishment that can overtake them by night while they are asleep?
And the lesson is for all of us, we need to ponder, do we feel secure at night when we sleep? No, do I know nothing? No salah and we feel secure to say you know what, no tsunami is going to overtake us. No earthquakes, no flooding, like what's going on in Pakistan? May Allah grant them all protection and may He create ease for them.
No disaster like the volcanic eruption in Europe, things that happened where people did not expect anything to occur. When they got up in the morning. Half of them were destroyed. The other half was still alive and suffering. Take a look at the failed fires in Russia. What is happening there?
It happened suddenly take a look at the oil slick off the coast of Mexico. What happened there? People didn't expect. Allah says do the people of the towns feel secure from our punishment? If they are involved in transgression? And they want to transgress? Do they think that we are unable to destroy them once they are asleep? They may never get up the following morning. That's a question. And the next question Allah subhanho wa Taala says our Amina
Suna boo,
boo. Do the people of the towns feel secure from a punishment from our punishment that can overtake them in the morning once they are playing and oblivious. So Allah subhanho wa Taala says sometimes whilst you are watching, punishment can overtake you. And Allah says nobody can feel secure from the grace of Allah subhanho wa Taala besides the losers, for all of us who believe we constantly pray to Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah grant us protection. Ye Allah protect us from calamity, even the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam knowing that he was the best of creation, us to make a dua Allah protect us from calamity protects us from sickness protect us from this evil and that evil and so
on, knowing that he was the best of creation Subhana Allah so Allah says the
Only one who are the only ones who feel secure from the Wrath of Allah subhanho wa Taala whilst they are engaged in evil are the losers. May Allah protect the soul after that Allah gives us the example of one of the biggest losers of all time
around and Allah says, We destroyed so many nations and after that we sent Moses May peace be upon him musala his salam to Pharaoh, Pharaoh.
And Allah says we sent him with our signs to Freetown and his people, his chiefs from Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about how he sent Musa alayhis salam. Allah subhanho wa Taala says, We sent musala his salatu salam to Freetown and his people for LA movida, they rejected the signs, they oppressed themselves, they rejected the signs.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala says, so we destroy them. And thereafter he gives the details of the story of the round, together with Musa alayhis salaam. And what happened in a nutshell.
Iran was very, very powerful, very powerful. He had absolutely everything. The only problem was, it got to his head, Allah protect us such that he began to say, and our buco model Allah, you know what, I am Europe, I am your God. That's what he began to say, worship me. And the devils in the Satan's assisted him and his cronies whom he used to feed with lots of wealth and so many other items and authority, they began to support him, yes, you are a God, you are our God and they used to prostrate and bow down to him and he was happy that got to his head. So Allah says, we have to send the messenger to people of that nature, and they enslaved the week they enslave Vanessa il Allah
subhanho wa Taala sent Musa alayhis salam.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala proved to Freetown that against all odds, according to Brown, still, the messenger happened to be brought up under the nose of round. One fortune teller told him that you know what, there is going to be a young men born every odd year,
or one of the audience from Israel, and he's going to sweep you away, he's going to actually take away the kingdom that you own. So around became angry, he thought he was God, he issued one instruction, what was the instruction, kill all of the of the male children of Israel every second year, because I have been told by a fortune teller that this one is going to be born in every second year, or one of the second years one of the audience.
And miraculously, Musa alayhis salam was born before anyone noticed. His mother took him into a little basket tablets and a little he she puts that basket in the river. And it happened to go on to the shores, right at the Palace of Freetown and his own wife picked it up.
And because according to some narrations, they didn't have children of their own. She was impressed and she thought it's a gift. Yes. And she picked it up. And she wanted to look after it and he was very upset. But there was a test that they had decided to undertake, what was the test or decided to test musala is along with, they put fire on one side, meaning coal and hot burning stuff on one side, and joys that normally children would play with, at the time we wonder what they was, but whatever there was on the other and around said, if this child goes for the toys, they needs to shop, we will have to kill him.
And if he goes for the coal, and he burns himself, then it's fine, you can keep him and guess what he went for the coal, such that he burned his tongue according to one narration and this is what created the list that he had when he spoke the light slight stutter, which Allah has said I was not very eloquent. He started and finances okay leave him and he grew up in the home chop facility. Subhan Allah, best education so to speak, but waiting for what he and revelation from Allah Subhana Allah to Allah, they came a time when Allah subhanho wa Taala sent him to get around.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala told him go to this man and tell him you cannot enslave people you are not the God worship Allah alone my creator and yours. And the story continues until around became so arrogant, so arrogant. He said, Look, I am your God. If not, I'm going to fix you up I will show you what what signs Do you have and musalla his salon came with the signs showed him the signs the magicians
The Magicians confirm that this is not magic, it is actually a messenger and so on.
The Magicians themselves accepted the message of Musa alayhis salam around didn't. He refused. So Allah subhanho wa Taala then said, We sent
them some plagues. We sent them plagues. What were these plagues, Allah sent them locusts. And he sent them frogs. And he sent them various other things so many that wherever they went, they were only locusts. And they knew this is a punishment. So Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of how they told Musa alayhis salam, that okay, if you pray to your God, now look at one God, thinking He is a God, now acknowledging the real God, and he's saying if you pray to your God, and if we get rid of these locusts, we will follow you and we will release Vanessa, from this captivity that we have them in. Lo and behold, musala salon called out to Allah subhanho wa Taala the locusts stopped, they
were gone. Same applies. In fact, after that, they refused. They said no, no, this just happened. Coincidentally, it was around who instructed not you.
The next time when the frogs came about the same thing, they told him the same thing when they went
they refused to accept it and so on. And Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of this law kashia
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when we took away whatever they were affected by for a period of time, they broke their promise. So Allah subhanho wa Taala says
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Our acuna whom billion me. So Allah says so we sought revenge.
And we compensated them for whatever they had done, and we drowned them. Now what do we learn from this?
in our lives, we have difficulties, chests that are placed by Allah subhanho wa Taala for us to get closer to him. Sometimes we make we make promises and pledges to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah Allah. If this happens for me if my child is cured, or if I'm cured, for example, then yeah, I will do this and that and that when we are cured, we forget. Then something else comes about, we get saved from something big. We say Allah, I'm going to do this From this day on because you protected me from that robbery and from this and that, and then suddenly after some time we forget. And the third time and the fourth time and the fifth time and Allah says if people continue like that one day, we
overtake them with punishment, may Allah subhanho wa Taala save goddess. And these are some of the lessons for us to learn. When we promise Allah subhanho wa Taala let's try our best to remain humble and to fulfill that promise. This is why the hadith of what is known as a vow. We call it in the Ordo, Gujarati language.
A vow a pledge that we make these vows the Hadith says they are mcru we should not be vow pledging a lot to say if I am cured. I will give out 10,000 rants Don't say that. It's like playing a game with your Creator saying you know what? I'm gonna pay you 10 grands, you get me cured. But if you do say that you have to give the 10,000 when you are cured. The Hadith says innama use to Harajuku mineral Hill, he says these vows cannot bring about goodness they are only extracted from a stingy person. We should be such we say Allah He has 10,000 SATA kiyomi Allah that's the way instead of hanging it, if you kill me, I'm going to give If not, I'll keep it for myself. I spend it Who are we talking to?
We talking to Allah. I know of a certain brother, he told me that he was sick and he says I promised Allah that if I get cured, I will read Quran the whole Quran, so I'm not yet cured. I told him so what you're not going to read the Quran. But you think Allah needs your recitation of the Quran, Allahu Akbar. We say Allah Here it is. I'm reading the Quran kiyomi Allah I am at your mercy or up May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us a deeper understanding. But let me add to that, if we have promised Allah subhanho wa Taala we must fulfill it. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us a deeper understanding. So Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of how the people of Freetown the people of
Musa they were following Musa alayhis salam after some time
When, if when Fiona had drowned and so on, and the people who were following musala is salatu salam,
some of them, when Musa alayhis salam went to go and get the books and revelation from Allah subhanho wa Taala
they gathered the jewelry of the people, and they made a statue, a statue in the form of a calf, and the calf in the wind, it was hollow inside, and it used to make a noise like a moving sound. And Sammy was the one who thought up this whole idea. And Allah subhanho wa Taala says that when they heard the sound, he said to them, we need to start worshiping this, this calf is a God and sadly some of them fell, and they began to worship the calf. And Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of this. And Allah subhanho wa Taala says, some of them regretted it later on. Those who regretted it and repented for them is forgiveness.
Those who regretted and repented for them is forgiveness. But those who did not regret and did not repent for them is a severe punishment. Allah says in Allah Vina
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de Cana jerseyville moosari. Those who took that cough and began to worship it, Allah zaroff will overtake them and in the dunya they will be disgraced. And this is how we recompense all those who do the same. All those who engage in that type of falsehood. Allah subhanho wa Taala says we will disgrace them in the dunya and we will give them a severe punishment. But Allah immediately says
immediately after that Allah subhanho wa Taala says, One Latina men who are mean oh sorry happy those who believe and do good deeds will Medina taboo. Those who seek forgiveness Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Arabic coming buddy holla for him after the bad if you've sought forgiveness, thereafter Allah will forgive you He is most forgiving, Most Merciful. The lesson is for all of us. Whenever we have engaged in bad deeds, whenever we have engaged in that which is wrong, let's never lose hope in the mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala every day we are speaking of the punishment of Allah and how it will overtake those who do wrong, but there is a way out if we've done wrong in the
past and that is regret your action.
ask Allah for forgiveness, turn the new leaf and move on. May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us from Schick and may He protect us from major sin and may He protect us from minus sin as well. May He make us from amongst those who repent often.
And may He make us from amongst those whom he loves. Because if we would like to achieve the love of Allah subhanho wa Taala one of the ways is to seek forgiveness. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam sought forgiveness more than 70 times a day if he didn't need it. What do we learn from this? Even if you haven't committed a sin according to you, ask Allah to forgive you for those sins you don't even know and ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to forgive you even if you haven't committed a sin, it will result in elevation of your status as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam sinless but he used to say Allah forgive me 100 times a day and not just pay lip service to it as we always
say hold at us be in your hand and it's the loss of loss of no Aston Villa. Yeah Allah I'm a criminal Forgive me Allah. Allah I seek forgiveness. This is what we are saying. And Allah responds to say my worship I have forgiven you. pause for a moment and feel that response. You say it once correctly, you are forgiven wiped out Allah subhanho wa Taala as Mercy is more than I can imagine, and yourselves
when you've wronged your mum or someone a young child is wrong the mother and drop the milk broken a glass Mum, I'm very sorry. What will the mom say no problem with that is your hands. Did you get cut? And Allah says Allah subhanho wa Taala there's no comparison between that mercy and the mercy of Allah which is a billion fold more than that. Subhan Allah. So when we do wrong, we break the glass once, twice. 10 times return to Allah. Allah forgive me. I'm sorry, Allah. I really seek your forgiveness, y'all. I don't wish to repeat this again. Yeah, Allah I will not. And Allah subhanho wa Taala response. My worshiper, my worshiper, I am so happy. The Hadith says it very clearly. I am so
happy that you've turned to me my worship, you are as clean as clean as the day you were born on condition that you have turned obviously, Allah Subhana Allah, Allah grant us that. So this is the mercy of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah. After that Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about how he tested certain people in the past.
There isn't a story that's mentioned in the Quran I will read it for you in Sharla beautiful, but the lesson of it let me inform you before I mentioned the story, the lesson of it is or from it is, whenever there is bad we need to be from amongst those who discourage it and disassociate from it. If we associate or do not discourage it. We may be punished when the punishment descends on those. What happened? Allah subhanho wa Taala tells Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to ask the Jewish people a question
was aluminum Korea. He cannot help the Raja Alba asked them all Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam about the town or the village that was right at the sea. There was a town at the sea. What did they do? He aduna fishability they disobeyed Allah regarding the Sabbath. What is the Sabbath? You asked the Jewish people they're not allowed to work on that day. No working according to them. That was that was the injunction. Allah subhanho wa Taala had prohibited them from working on a Saturday.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala mentioned this in the Quran that on that Saturday, they're not supposed to work, it's the Sabbath.
But when they seem brisk business, they broke that rule. This is what Allah says what was the business?
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he tacky him he tan omeo massarotti misura Wyoming ISP tuna, team Gallic Allah says, On The Saturdays, the fish used to come up and they could see the fish and these were fishermen. And every other day there were no fish lo Akbar. That was a test from Allah subhanho wa Taala. Didn't we make mentioned a few days back that Allah subhanho wa Taala dangles it in front of you to test you? What are you going to do? Here's another one. Allah says we had the fish in front of them on a Saturday when they knew that we're not allowed to work, we're not allowed to fish.
And when it came Sunday, Monday, the fish were gone as though the fish themselves knew that on this day, you all say Mashallah, so what happened? Allah says they broke the covenant, and they began to fish and some of them made a plan. They laid their nets the eve before and left them through the Saturday and then brought them in on the Sunday morning Allah protect us all. Allah says Nay, you cannot do that. But the lesson is what is coming in the next verse? Allah subhanho wa Taala says,
Phelim Allah Summa donkey Ruby, when they had forgotten what they were reminded about who reminded them, there was a group of people who constantly told him, what are you doing? Stop fishing on a Saturday, stop working on a Saturday, it's wrong. Don't fish on a Saturday, and there was another group who continuously or who continuously told the first group? Why are you wasting your time with these people? Why are you wasting your time reminding these people constantly when they are not taking need?
So these people responded to say we will remind them because of two reasons. The first is to fulfill our duty to our Creator. And the second is, they might just listen to what we've got to say maybe there's a possibility, we're not going to lose hope. So Allah says farlam asuma doko be Jane alladhina una
when they had forgotten that which they were reminded of, before we sent the punishment we protected we saved those who used to prohibit that evil. We saved those who disassociated from them, we save those who used to discourage that evil or that sin, and the rest of them were punished severely.
So from this verse, we learn that whenever we see any evil, let us not be part of it, number one, number two is let us discourage it in one of three ways. Either we change it by hand, or either we change it by time or try to make mention by time or either the worst is that or the lowest is that where we feel it in our hearts, but we haven't really done anything about it, but we disassociate completely, but a person cannot say I feel it in my heart, but they are in the midst of the of the mess, that's not good enough. We ask Allah Subhana Allah to Allah protection.
So Allah subhanho wa Taala. After that makes mention of the time of other millennia. Salatu was salam, when he took from the back of Armani Salatu was Salam.
All the offspring and progeny that are to come over to come up to the day of the AMA, including myself.
And your cells
and he puts us all in front of him. This is what Allah Subhana Allah, Allah says in this Surah Surah, Allah Allah. And he asked us one question.
We have forgotten it. Obviously our memories are weak. But Allah subhanho wa Taala asked us one question,
what is the question? Let's do a big room. Am I not Europe? Am I not the one who created all of you? And we all responded valla shahina? Yes, indeed you are we bear witness. So Allah subhanho wa Taala says,
The coloman malkia Mati in.
Fini, don't come on the Delta Yama and say we forgot about this day
and we can't remember it. Now. Allah subhanho wa Taala. grant us the ability to worship him and him alone. And Grant has the acceptance to worship Him alone. If we do not associate partners with Allah subhanho wa Taala we stand the chance of winning, if anyone has associated partners with Allah subhanho wa Taala. They need to repent with repentance, they sins will be wiped out, they still have a chance, but with no repentance, there is no chance May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us. So this is also mentioned in the Quran as I have just read before you and Allah subhanho wa Taala says, We have created certain jinn kind and mankind for jahannam. Who are they?
Who did Allah subhanho wa Taala create for jahannam it's important we know Allah says Allah Casa de la Johanna Kathy,
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We created for jahannam a lot of Jin kind and mankind as well. What are their qualities? The whom kulu ally of Konami, they have hearts, but they don't want to understand these hearts do not tremble in the fear of Allah. Those are the hearts of the people of jahannam they are they don't soften up for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala the heart hearts Allah subhanho wa Taala describes them. They are dangerous, a heart that never softens for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala a person not reading Salah, they don't want to hear about a story of people who were destroyed because they did not read their Salah or they don't want to be reminded at all. These are hard hearts, Allah subhanho
wa Taala warns us lahoma kulu Bula Kona Vina wala whom are
gonna be here, they have eyes but they don't want to see what
is Mona Bina, they have tears but they don't want to hear.
And Allah describes these people of jahannam He says, una can an amoeba whom
Allah says these people are like cattle and in fact worse than animals. Because animals, as we know, I mentioned a few days ago, one of the brothers asked me a question that Why did you say they have a little bit of sense while they do because to be honest with you, and I've given this example in the past, if you have cattle, and every morning at six o'clock, a man comes with food, the cattle will come running towards that man, Mashallah. Because they know at that time we're getting something good. You just do it for four or five days and the cattle begin to understand they have since up to that level.
And on the other hand, another man comes and he takes one at a time and that one never ever comes back. When that man is seen in the morning, the cattle going the other direction they know this is the butcher coming now. Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us but with us, human beings, sophisticated minds. We know we can see we've seen what happened to those who are more powerful than us. But still we find ourselves we don't want to listen we don't want to look we don't want to soften our hearts. Allah says if that's the case, such people are worse than animals. Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us protection and Allah subhanho wa Taala then says he has beautiful names. Use those names when you
are calling out to Allah. Oil in
Nevada, oh, Bihar.
Allah has beautiful names. Call him with those names. When you are sick, we say yeah, Allah kill me. It is better to add the owner of cure cure me. Yeah Sharpie he is the owner of CO
owner of forgiveness Forgive me. Owner of sustenance opened my doors of sustenance May Allah open our doors
oh you whom I'm going to return to when I die? Have mercy on me. The day I die. Oh you who is in control? Oh you who answers the prayers. Answer my da Subhana Allah Samia da. One of the names qualities of Allah subhana wa
Allah, we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to help us learn these names, understand them and use them. This is why to understand who Allah subhanho wa Taala is, it's important to go through his names when narration says and it's a correct narration that Allah subhanho wa Taala has many names. Anyone who is going to memorize just 99 of these names, memorizing means you learn them by heart, you know their meanings, and you know what they imply and you use them as well to call out to Allah subhanho wa Taala he says just by that you will get paradise nothing else.
Manasa Oh, happy Baja. Hello Jana straight. The Hadith says you enter Jannah immediately now Allah subhanho wa Taala makers from those who know these names, who can memorize these names, who know the meanings of the names who know what is meant by these names, and who use these names to call out to Allah subhanho wa Taala it is a serious matter and it is something we need to do. And Allah subhanho wa Taala after that makes mention of how important it is when the Quran is being recited, to be silent, and to listen attentively, in order that you may achieve mercy. Remember we spoke about how it is how one can achieve the mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala through adopting the verses of the
Quran, well if we are not going to listen to these verses and try and understand them, how are we going to achieve the mercy Allah says, or either Cory
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say to Allah, Allah come
when the Quran is being recited, listen to it attentively and be silent, in order that you may achieve Rama and the mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala. May He grant us mercy. I want to end with verses that are mentioned in the beginning of the next Torah which is sorrowful and fall.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala describes the true believers moments ago we heard the description of the people of Johanna we are now hearing the description of the to be true believers Allah says in Malmo camino de la Vina either Tokyo La Jolla, Paulo boom. Julia talai Maya to de de to me mana be Miata otaku? alladhina up Muna sala de la,
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una aapko. Who are the true believers? Allah subhanho wa Taala says, they are the ones whom, when Allah subhanho wa Taala is mentioned their hearts tremble. When Allah is mentioned, their hearts tremble and when his Verses are recited in front of them.
It increases their Eman and their conviction in Allah subhanho wa Taala that is the sign of a movement. And Allah says they are the ones who establish their salah and give from that which Allah has given them. So these are the qualities of the true believers. Allah says those are the ones who are proper, true believers. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make us all from amongst those whom when we hear his verses, it increases our conviction. And really we become more powerful in our resolve to adopt his command and to abstain from his prohibitions. And at the same time, whenever we are reminded of Allah subhanho wa Taala May our hearts be from those hearts that tremble, that tremble
in the fear of Allah subhanho wa Taala and may we never have hearts that are never softened, no matter what happens Till we meet again. So Allah who was ella mobarak Allah Vina Mohammed Subhana Allah who be Hamdi, Subhana, Allah whom will be handig shadow La Ilaha, Illa, anta, zero comma two boy Nick