Muhammad West – Heart of the Quran #9

			James Miller unreliable Armenian salatu salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi Marine,
my beloved brothers and sisters in Islam. So I want
		

			to just like hello. Hi, thank you so much for joining us tonight number nine of Ramadan, 1441,
Ramadan, 2020 and 100. Last night we concluded the first section, the first 12 verses of surah.
Yaseen. And just to remind ourselves, one of the takeaway messages of that first section and one of
the scary things is that Allah mentions that the coloration of the teen years has reached a limit in
terms of how many times I was going to remind him and Allah says that they are living a life that is
often in popular means careless or unmindful. And so, when you get to such a level, we you no longer
heed the signs of a law, you don't no longer take note of all those if, and then you can become
		

			spiritually dead. Do you like that man, it's in a cage, Allah says that he is covered from all
sides, and he's got this color upon his neck week formula up soon, they cannot see any more, they
cannot even see what it could mean, they can see that the guidance, they can't see the truth, they
can't identify truth from falsehood, they can't even see themselves anymore. Sometimes people are in
so much sin, and it does not give them any reflection or contemplation. For example, we may find
that there are people that you know, everyone around them can identify all the shortcomings, maybe
perhaps they're arrogant or vain. They have whatever negative aspect, but they themselves cannot see
		

			their own shortcomings and their own faults, and they didn't in reality, it's not that we should be
looking at other people, but our own selves, the key thing is, we might have this issue, we might be
the one that has the disease, and we are in that prison, and we do not see it. And this is one of
the one of the spiritual illnesses of our heart that is made closed, is you cannot even see the
symptoms anymore for yourself. The person who sends the personal what you have to be life is falling
designer is falling into whatever kind of sense, part of the benefit of a son like that is he knows
what he's doing is wrong, he understands what I'm doing is wrong. But a person whose heart has been
		

			closed off from Allah protect us, he cannot even identify that he's spiritually sick. And so before
we begin the next section, to some points on a life, that is often a life that is killed us, many of
us, we go about our life, a to b, you know, one day to the next, without a concern without a K
without a greater thought as to the meaning of life, the my position in the after the coming of
death. And when you go on the hamster wheel that is life, going from multiple and focusing only on
this dunya slowly but surely the heartbeat needs to become hard and he begins to die actually. And
so let us look a little bit about this. If we say the hardness of the heart is a disease, what are
		

			the symptoms? How could I test my heart? What is the litmus test to know if I have a problem
spiritually, or one of the biggest indicators of it is that you no longer get moved by sin, that sin
becomes easy. The things that we know is to be wrong, we don't worry about them anymore, it becomes
easy, it even becomes second nature, maybe even more dangerous and difficult is especially when I'm
alone now. Maybe those bad habits we lift hopefully we lift them for Ramadan, and we feel like we
missed them sort of like an addiction. Now, we actually counting the day so I can go back to those
sinful habits and even worse behind Allah He phenomenon has come and we still doing those haram
		

			things, then even animal bond is no longer able to to have any effect on us. So that is one of the
indications. Or when we are the is when you mind, you know even for myself, you feel sad for the
state of your own heart, you might give an ayah or Hadith. And someone that listens to the
congregation may burst out into tears. But you've heard this many times and it hasn't brought you to
tears. It hasn't brought you to to change your life. The fact that you're no longer concerned about
reforming yourself, you never have a thought in your mind when you go to bed at night. Am I on the
right track? Is everything okay? with me and a lot. So the fact that you don't, you don't hear that
		

			in mind that we're not even keen to listen anymore to the remainder of our last panel, Donna, this
is a dangerous thing. And another strong litmus test is how averse you are to performing a beta. You
know, panel, we can spend hours binge watching something and hours can go by doing a certain
activity and it won't bother us. You know, when we used to have soccer matches or rugby games, you
know, 90 minutes go by and you can feel like a breeze watch a movie and it feels like nothing but
five minutes of solid and then goes off and to pull ourselves away from whatever we are doing. It
feels like we are moving mountains and it becomes a real you know chore on us. When you bite it
		

			becomes a chore then we should be worried. And for many of us finally buyers are showing him that
his goodness in that we still do it even though it's difficult, but we don't find the ease and the
comfort in that. And so when you buy that the more difficult the binder is to us. It shows us the
binder is our link to Allah subhanaw taala. And if we are not closer to Allah, we don't want to be
our hearts don't want to be near Allah, it will be we will be averse to act. And so the reasons the
things that causes the heart to be hard. As we said the Muslims you do like that, like the man who
has seen the most than you do and of course the sin of pride and arrogance of the worst things, how
		

			we treat people. those sins are like bricks around our neck and they close us off. And one other big
aspect is living a life that Allah is not part of it. If you don't speak about Allah you don't
contemplate about Allah you don't listen to anything with the minds of all your friends and talk
about Allah, your EBI, there is either
		

			non existence meaning we have to rely on performing your signers or you do perform. So that is the
last thing on your list. It's like washing the dishes, what are things that need to get get through
the allies are part of your life, naturally Your heart will be empty of Allah subhanaw taala. And so
indulging only in this life is one of the biggest causes also a hot becoming stale, hot, dying, when
all you focus and if you and if you were to sit down and list all your worries and your concerns, if
all those concerns are money dounia success, dunia things. It's only about this worldly affairs and
you have no concern about the accuracy, then surely the hardest spiritual heart has no place anymore
		

			for the spirit for your Eman And so it becomes hard. Also indulging constantly in your desires these
attention we know this that the more we give into our knifes, even if it's good desires, you know
eating too much, or having too much enjoyment The more we enjoy ourselves and indulge in these
things, the list it is time for the spirit to to flourish. And so one of the benefits of Ramadan is
Allah takes away he deprived the body and the flesh and the knifes of its nourishment in terms of
fasting. And if we make it better becomes easier. But we unfortunately we live in a time where
whenever you want is a click of a button you can easily give into whatever I want. I want to buy
		

			that thing. Now I can click a button and it's here and it's delivered. When we go through the cycle
of just giving in all the time, our nav slowly takes over. And so our life is really geared to
slowly eat away at our at our heart. So what are the cues that how do I solve this problem? Of
course, the most important thing is to return back to Allah and return back to all I could mean is
make more evader makes Allah make it thicker. But beyond that, beyond the ritualization of Nevada
ibadah was meant to connect to Allah. So speak to Allah through da Maybe it means the sama bond do
something differently. recite the Quran with meaning understanding, try to rediscover What does it
		

			mean to be a Muslim? What does it mean? What is your relationship with Allah? So like any
relationship, how do you mend that relationship? It's about spending time with the one that you
love, and slowly developing a love for Allah subhanaw taala importantly, to look at your company,
your friends, what are the things that occupy all your time? Is there any room for spiritual
guidance in that one of the ways in which you bring your heart to become soft? Think about death,
death is a reality that everyone needs to face. So think about this very clearly. When you begin to
think about death, you realize what are important if I were to die tomorrow? What are the things
		

			that are important? Am I happy with my lifestyle? What did I leave behind? So this virus that we
have we don't know if I could be infected you could be affected by law protect us. This is a big
wake up call as to the reality of things it might take away the delusion of life. And then one of
the things that we can do in animal bond a man comes home and he says Yasuda law, my heart I feel
like it's hard you know I hear the word Are you reciting a yo yo guidance but it doesn't move me I
just you know, it's like a stone nothing goes inside. What should I do? And the reason someone said
go and feed the poor and rub the heat of the often when you spend time with those less fortunate
		

			when you look at the struggles of other people, we begin to number one thing connected to the
blessings we have. It also wakes us up from our from our own delusions, our own myself and me and my
selfie, everything about the knifes becomes broken now that there are others out there. And this is
one of the ways in which God softens slowly, smallest panatela grant us hearts that are fearful of
Allah that are conscious of Allah that love Allah, may Allah fill it with a man and Allah allow us
to have that deep loving relationship with Him so that when we meet him on camera, he loves us. I
mean, we're continuing to follow section two of surah Yaseen. So they are seen as we see the number
		

			of sections The next section, we're calling it the story of the town. Allah calls it as Harmon
Korea, the people of the town, and we'll talk about who they are what they do. And it's about 20
verses from 13 to 32. And so again, keep in mind, this section follows the first section. The first
section was about the Navy. So Solomon, you know, we said that the suitor came down at the time when
he was feeling very down and low. He was beating himself up, he was blaming himself for the fact
that the dollar wasn't moving forward. The Muslims were being oppressed, they were fearful. And of
course, the Quraysh are being arrogant and they are abusing the Muslims. And in fact, they have
		

			already harmed physically many Muslims, they even have crossed the line killing some of the
believers, they're getting to the point where they're about to kill or wanting to kill the Prophet
sallallahu wasallam. And so Allah subhanaw taala says, I'll give an example of a people of a town
people that went down the same route. So let us look at the consequence of this action. So Allah
subhanho wa Taala begins the next ayah Allah subhana wa tada says, what the diploma foreigners have
and Korea is
		

			saloon, Allah says and give them the example in the parable of a people of the town only uses a
different v town and Allah one says to learn from is to find a big part of the Quran is a one
speaking of the nations that came before because in history, there is a a lesson for us to take
Allah subhanho wa Taala mentioned in the Quran that he does not change his approach. The way in
which Allah interacts with us is the same with all you know through all the ages, and if you follow
those who are successful, you will find you will reap success and if you follow those who are not
successful, then the results
		

			will be the same sort of loss of hand dialysis. So we give them an example. What do they mean we
give them an example. As Harbin, Korea, the people of the town is a who is john saloon, that when
the the missionaries came to them, now there are many this facility they have gone into the zoo is
this town, some scholars and in fact, a large group of them see that this town is the town of
Antioch, the very famous town in the Middle East in Palestine, close to Jerusalem, Antioch. And they
mentioned the view of the stuffs here are those of you who are seen is that these are not ambia. So
Allah says, we seen the messengers, they said, these are not to messengers have alluded to prophets.
		

			They were other messengers or emissaries of Navy, Navy salesianum. So we know that the ISA lived in
Jerusalem. And so the idea is that Navy Isa seemed to have his disciples to Antioch. And he sent him
a third to call them the stuff cedar, there's some question marks about, you know, what we say
there's one opinion, or all of the strong opinion, and the one that kind of makes it makes sense, if
you look at the verses of the last season that we sent, we sent them when the messengers came to
them, Allah Subhana, Allah says, Allah had seen them. And so these are, this is a town we don't know
who they are, Allah had sent to all nations, from South America, to Australia to across the entire
		

			world, Allah has sent MBI to every people. And so this is a town from the many, many towns that are
that were there over the ages, with two of them, they received two messengers. So the prophets were
also sent to this town received amea messages from Alice pantalla. So interesting, they say
		

			that the messengers came to eat to the town, not to the people, because the NBN are not just the for
the people use for the entire town. And the town is not just people or animals, they are the
environment. It is for the benefit of the messengers bring benefits when they come. And whenever
they come to the enemy. They are a mercy to all of creation, and not just do not just to the people.
And that's why the ISS that when they came to it to the town, not to the people of the town, it's
also not dealing with the need for camdeboo, massages, nebith anything for color in a commercial.
When we send them to overseas, we send them to ambia. And so they forget that Obama and the people
		

			deny them, the people didn't accept them. The people that rejected them for us does not mean we sink
in them. As he's mentioned, the word Aziz means mighty Pfizer's nominee we gave them strength
without anything was a third meaning we sent them a third Nabhi for Carlos are the people sit in so
they said that mbse in a coma salon. They said to the people that we are to you messengers, we have
come from Allah three of us coming for your sake to guide you and to warn you. And of course Allah
subhanaw taala is showing you Allah is showing that the mercy has given to this town one of the
things we take out of Allah sent them one Nabhi and they rejected him it would have been enough so
		

			they rejected one Allah sent them a second one they rejected the second so also I'm sending a third
maybe three ambia working in hand in hand for your sake and for your benefit. And in the elite
kulambu they are saying that we are here for you We are here to to assist you to guide you this is
it is a gift from Allah subhanho wa Taala all the people of the town sigma and to elaborado mizuna,
you let the people tell you, you, you three are not accepted people like us you are passionate like
us You are humans like us. Maya Angelou Romano means that the Most Merciful has not seen anything in
until electrically when you are none but liars, you are only telling telling lies. So the people of
		

			the town rejected all three of them. And one of the arguments that they use, they say like you are
just human beings. Why should we follow you while you're the boss of me? You are just humans, you've
already seen you. You should be like superheroes, you should be Superman. Now we understand a loss
of $100 sooner, his method does not change policies in many times in the Quran. This is a common
argument that the people would use it in the MBA, they would say in another. What kind of Nabhi is
this? That he walks in the streets and he eats and he has a family? Surely Allah seen someone Allah
would send an angel, Allah would seem a super super human being that doesn't have any needs. Allah
		

			says this is not the way he does things Allah seems to people like them a human a man that they can
emulate. Why does Allah say the human being because if you were to send an angel, and an angel, of
course does not sleep his archetype is not tinted, doesn't have any desires. Then we would say to
Allah, it was unfair that you sent us gibreel because we can never emulate your video. He can never
understand us. So almost sins from us one amongst ourselves, who is human like us who is driven by
human emotions, to show that this is the way to follow. It's an example which we can emulate. And
Allah makes this clear in Surah careful Allah says an obese also loves his cool intimate and
		

			emotional Miss Luca Muha la Anima in alchemilla. Why are we so salami saying to all of us, look, I
am a man like you, I'm a human being like you, except that Allah has given me a revelation. So that
I may call you that there is only one God worthy of worship, who is a human being like us and you
know many groups. We want to elevate them.
		

			Some into some supernatural being. He doesn't have a shadow he's made of like SubhanAllah. If that
was the case, they needed a lot as Allah said, I do not send angels to people I see the human like
them. That'll be so solemn. He got hungry like wicked hungry, he had love. A God said he felt
depression. He had wives, like all of us, he had children and to show you that, even with our human
side, we can be a perfect worshipper of Allah subhanho wa Taala. And so it is an example for us to
emulate. And this is the way Allah is he This is he soon now with every nation, he seems a person
like them for them to follow. This is one of the reasons why they disbelieve, they expect that we
		

			want to see a superhuman and of course a lot has not seen angels down to preach to people or the
sins MBA like them, call they said MBs or abouna animal in
		

			the unbusy Our Lord rabona Our Lord knows that we are we are believers, and they are speaking to the
townspeople telling them that it is sufficient for Allah as a validation for us. Allah subhanho wa
Taala is enough for me to know that enough for us to know that we are that we are indeed ambia then
they say we're Marlena illan Bella, and they respond to the people that we are only here to give you
the message. Basically, we our job is only to convey to you the message. So the MBR are telling the
people, Allah subhanho wa Taala knows that we are MPI, we don't have to get validation from you. And
our job is only to convey the message. It's an important message for all of us. Firstly, to get a
		

			measles alarm, it is to tell them your job was never to guide them. Your job was never to give them
guidance. But that means the word burnout actually means to reach an objective. Your job was to
reach to get send the message to them deliver it to them in the best way possible. And then guidance
is between them and Allah only Allah subhanho wa Taala can guide whom he wants. And that is a
personal discussion between each and every person and his or her Benny's load. The NBN people giving
Dawa and the Imam You know, sometimes we struggle so much time to to perfect and trying to force
guidance upon people and trying to make people believe we'll do something quick. This was never the
		

			job of the MBR or the DAO or the teacher or the pain and our job as parents was teachers is only to
convey the message as best we can to to those who are listening in the best possible way. And
ultimately, the issue of guidance, almost guidance is in the hands of a lot and allies the one that
ultimately teaches and so Allah is telling them to be so don't be so hard on yourself also, I have
seen three MBA to a group of people for the profits, and they the job was only to convey and the
people still rejected them. You are also just to convey and leave the rest in the hands of Allah the
results were down to Allah. So now after the MBA had come and preach to them, look at the response
		

			of the townspeople call in Natalya Lambton, Amanda como la massana, camino de la, the townspeople
say to these MBR
		

			Indeed, we consider you a bad omen, you three profits, so you three people, we consider you bringing
about bad luck, magical harm, you are just coming here to cause evil upon us. And if you do not stop
with your preaching, we will surely stone you. And if that's not enough, it will surely touch you
with a painful punishment. So look at the response of this townsfolk. Number one, they blame the
profits of a superstitious evil, you are bad news, you are bringing bad luck, it's because of you
that by last fall upon us, then they said and if you don't stop, we will stone you. stoning could
also mean throwing anything at you, not just stones, it could also mean we will verbally abuse you.
		

			And this is the the usually the next step that what happens we'll call your names will insult you,
we will harm you verbally. And if you don't, then we'll physically cause violence upon you. Now in
any whenever you're in a debate, not just a religious debate, even at work, when someone responds
with this kind of look at the response, they're no longer logical, they're not able to debate and
discuss this rationally. They are now even getting to the point where they need to with a with a
gift to get the point across the violence. You have no legitimacy anymore that you have lost the
debate, when your only way of responding is through supernatural means your only way of responding
		

			is through verbal abuse or violence. They know that you are no longer able to debate logically,
academically, you've already lost the debate. And so it's also a reminder to us in many times we
look at our problems, we are unable to analyze our problems directly. Rather we went to blaming the
supernatural means why my marriage isn't working, my business isn't succeeding. If I can't get
agreement with someone, I abused them verbally or physically. Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah subhanaw
taala is showing that when people get to this level, and the only way of argumentation is not
through logic and reason is through violence, then they have no leg to stand on. And so sometimes
		

			also, it's also mentioned here that they said we consider you bad omens, it could mean that Allah
sent down some difficulty upon them, there was some kind of calamity that went a small calamity. Why
Allah mentions in the Quran, and we seem to know city, a prophet whenever we see a profit to a city,
except that we see its people with barsa what borromini with some hardship, so that they may humble
themselves. So when Allah sends a profit to a nation and they reject them all on us
		

			Send the major calamity or the major destruction on them even since since then, but of hardship,
maybe the rain gets held, maybe there's some kind of famine comes so that they may humble
themselves. So they may see that if they continue on this, these are warnings to something much
bigger. And so it could be that as these minor calamities befell these people, they became they
became more stubborn. And they actually instead of blaming themselves for this, they blame the MBR.
So that would be acid Carlota iroko. Malcolm, by again means bad omens. So the MBR saying, your bad
omens are with yourselves, the hardship that you are experiencing? The lack of rain, this virus that
		

			is upon us, it is the doing of your own selves. And we as people struggle to look at ourselves and
blame ourselves for the consequences of our actions. The MDR saying, this is your own doing called
Utah coma coma in the kilton balentien como se phone. And I was saying, Are you harming us? Do you
want to kill us? Just because we are coming and reminding you we are putting the murder up so that
you can see your own your own doings? Is this why you want to harm us, but untypical mostly for all
the people that are Muslim if you are crossing a line. So they're telling the people you're coming
dangerously close to crossing the line where there is no return. And the section we see from this
		

			beginning section, these people are a people that are misguided guidance has been brought to them.
But instead of taking a long look and analyzing why What is wrong in their life, they respond with
violence, and they refuse to have an open dialogue and discussion. And instead, instead of blaming
them or their own selves for the consequences of they are they doing they blame others how many how
many problems that are going to be try to relate this in our own world. How many, you know, societal
problems are the instead of looking at our own shortcomings, we blame someone else another
community, you know, it's the immigrants who are taking our job is not the fact that I didn't study
		

			or learn what it is the rich are causing versus the poor that is causing that every problem in
society, it's easy to pass the buck on to another community or another person. And many times it is
our own shortcomings and our own mistakes that is causing our downfall and that is what our last
panel data is telling you telling each and every one of us do not be in that cage where you cannot
even see your own self anymore and you can't even see your own shortcomings. Part of being a
believer is to be really flexible on your own life and your own consequences. And Allah subhanho wa
Taala reminds us again and again. Whatever befalls us of misfortune, part of it is statistics and
		

			it's something which Allah wants to wants to bring across to humble us, but also it is what we are
our own cells have done this virus For example, we need to look at each and every one What have we
done to cause this and therefore in that when we fix those things, our last panel will fix the
situation. We continue inshallah, tomorrow, the sounds people will cross a red line and we will look
at the consequences with it. Allah forgive us and protect us. I mean circle of hate