Musleh Khan – Al-Ahzaab Unveiled #4

Musleh Khan
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The shiny wedding of Zaynab and Zayd, the importance of seeking forgiveness and forgiveness to avoid future embarrassment, and the need for healthy heart and spiritual health are emphasized in Islam. The sh pattern of Islam is discussed, including the use of "has been" in Arabic to describe actions and events, the importance of avoiding danger and fear in life, and the need for balance in daily life. The speaker emphasizes the importance of practicing strong values and being firm in one's values, as it is crucial for avoiding cultural embarrassment and the recent Middle East disaster.
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Were the Muslims victorious in Ghazwat Al-Ahzab?

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Did they gain or receive victory?

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They absolutely did, right?

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And Surat Al-Ahzab comes immediately after what

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battle?

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Battle of Uhud.

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And the battle of Uhud, was that victory

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for the Muslims?

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Both.

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Remember the story?

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They actually were victorious.

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But the Prophet ﷺ wanted to ensure that

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all of the Quraysh left Medina.

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But they didn't, right?

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They were all staking out the place, hiding

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in corners of the mountain, waiting for the

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opportunity.

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But prior to that, the Muslims had defeated

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the Mushrikun.

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But because of how things happened and the

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mistake that 17 to 19 companions made, it

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resulted in 70 plus companions losing their lives.

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And so in essence, then it became a

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loss for the believers.

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So you have Ghazwat Al-Uhud, then you

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have Ghazwat Al-Ahzab.

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And did Allah ﷻ also highlight that He

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helped the Muslims in Ghazwat Al-Ahzab?

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That He assisted them?

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Yeah.

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So all of that is captured.

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Today, inshallah, we're going to finish the conversation

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of Ghazwat Al-Ahzab.

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And then next week we will get into

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the next theme of this surah.

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So this is where we're going to start

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talking more and more about the marriage of

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Zaynab and Zayd a little deeper.

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And we're going to talk about how that

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affected the reputation as well as the status

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of the Prophet ﷺ.

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But more importantly, how Allah guides him through

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it.

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And that's going to be really important and

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very beneficial for all of us because now

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we're going to get into some of the

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rules that need to be followed when you

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have problems and conflicts with people.

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Whether it be in your community, whether it

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be in your family, with your spouse.

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How to navigate through those conflicts in a

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way that is appropriate in the sight of

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Allah.

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So very practical, whether you're married or not,

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it doesn't matter.

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It's very much for you and everyone else,

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inshallah.

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Remember when they came at you from the

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east and west, who is Allah referring to?

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Who came from east and west?

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The mushrikun.

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Good.

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وَإِذْ زَيْغَتِ الْأَبْصَارُ When your eyes grew wild

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in horror.

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Whose eyes?

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The hypocrites.

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So Allah is talking here, when your eyes

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grew wild in horror.

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And the word that's used is وَإِذْ زَيْغَتِ

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الْأَبْصَارُ That's here, when the eyes roll up

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in fear.

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Some of you, if not maybe all of

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you, have never even experienced this.

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Unless you went through a level of fear

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that you can't describe.

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And physically, the toll that it takes on

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an individual, these are some of the things

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that happen.

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The eyes tend to roll up, because why?

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The fear is so, so difficult.

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It's so powerful that you're trying to avoid

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looking at it.

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There are other actions that manifest in fear.

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We're going to see a few of those

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today as well, inshallah.

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So Allah describes وَإِذْ زَيْغَتِ الْأَبْصَارُ Very quick

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question, what is Allah highlighting about the munafiqun?

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First their eyes, وَبَلَغَتِ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَنَاجِرُ That's here,

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and hearts were reaching into their throats.

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حَنَاجِر, where the sound comes out of your

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throat.

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And then the rest of the ayah, وَتَظُنُونَ

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بِاللَّهِ الظُّنُونَ What kinds of bad assumptions they

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had about Allah.

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These are three qualities of the munafiqun in

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times of battle, in times of stress.

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Mental stress, physical stress.

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The munafiqun, the first thing is, this level

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of fear expressed through the eyes.

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Then secondly, the hearts tremble in a way

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that they're not able to or they find

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it difficult to say anything.

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Sometimes people get so scared they just can't

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talk, they can't project any sound.

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That's وَبَلَغَتِ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَنَاجِرُ And then the third,

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bad assumptions.

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They're like, man, what did Allah put us

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through?

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Why did Allah make this happen?

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What do you call these three things?

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Put them in one category for me.

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What would you call it?

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The eyes, the heart, and then the mind.

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Their assumption, thinking bad of Allah.

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How would you categorize all of this?

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Good?

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Okay.

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This is the three most important parts or

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areas internally for a believer.

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The eyes, what you see.

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If you control what you see, you control

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what you do.

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If you control your eyes, you can control

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your actions.

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So from the eyes, now their hearts are

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affected.

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When the heart is affected, that's it.

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The actions are gone.

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They're lost.

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They're confused.

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If you don't take care of what you

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see, then it starts to penetrate into the

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heart.

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It starts to destroy, corrupt.

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يُفَسِّد القلوب Like it will really corrupt and

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dirty the heart.

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So the heart is not going to be

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able to understand and internalize good information when

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it hears it.

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Which is a tragedy for the believer.

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When somebody reaches a point where good things

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are being said and brought to them, to

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their attention, they're constantly being reminded, they're surrounded

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with khair, and still no movement in the

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heart.

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How do you know your heart is working

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spiritually for the sake of Allah?

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How do you know this?

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You have a good, healthy, spiritual heart.

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What are some of the signs of that?

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Okay, so there's a sense of concern that

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you missed something.

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Whether it be Salah or anything else.

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Got it?

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So there is some remorse.

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There's some regret.

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There is thought.

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You're actively sitting there thinking and wondering, okay,

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how do I make up for that?

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Then, once you make up the prayer, what

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does the heart then tell you to do

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or allows you to do?

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Do you just make up the prayer and

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then khair, thanks Allah, I'm good now?

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Or do you have to ask Allah for

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something?

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Or do you have to plea to Allah

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for something here?

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So the next thing is, when you make

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up the action that you missed or you

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fix a problem, then immediately it causes your

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tongue to be remorseful and apologize.

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Our way of apologizing to Allah is seeking

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His forgiveness.

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That's quote-unquote the way we apologize to

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Allah.

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Oh Allah, I am so sorry for being

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careless with Salah today.

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Ya Rabbi, forgive me.

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Right?

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You take the onus on yourself.

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You don't blame Allah for this stuff.

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That's actually the etiquette of all prophets and

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messengers.

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Any bad that happened to them, they never

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say, oh Allah, you did this to me.

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I ask you for a cure.

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When she started getting those contractions and she

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felt like she wanted to die, she never

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said, oh Allah, you're putting me through this.

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She goes, I'm feeling like I can't handle

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this and I wish I would just die

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and go away.

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She goes, when I get sick, Allah cures

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me.

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He doesn't say, when Allah makes me sick,

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then He cures me.

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Just not putting Allah's name into something that

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gives the sort of negative or bad image

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of Allah.

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So then the heart then is affected.

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So one of the signs is regret and

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so on.

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This is the most important sign that you

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know you have a healthy heart, a healthy

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spiritual heart.

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And that is when you hear a reminder

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of any sort, whether it be Islamic or

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anything beneficial, it causes you to stop and

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reflect.

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You internalize and you think about it.

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If somebody came to you and be like,

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hey, listen, man, I saw you the way

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you were acting yesterday.

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And I just want to tell you, man,

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you shouldn't do that.

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That's wrong.

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That's just not polite.

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Don't do that.

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That's it.

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You as now a believer, somebody who carries

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Iman, it is the first indication that your

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Iman is either corrupt or it will not

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be accepted by Allah.

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It will be rejected.

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If somebody comes and advises you, they don't

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insult you.

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They don't criticize you.

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And even if they do, they do it

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in a very sensitive and constructive manner.

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But they're telling you with all the etiquettes

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that you did something wrong.

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And you go, man, who the heck does

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he think he is?

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Can you believe so and so just came

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and talked to me and said this and

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said that?

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But don't worry, I was nice.

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So I just took it and I walked

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away.

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That's a sign not for the other person

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did something wrong.

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That's you.

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The corruption in the heart, the sourness, the

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stain of the heart.

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Those are signs that you have or that

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individual has a lot of work to do.

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If the eyes are not controlled, if the

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heart is not addressed, then the tragedy of

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all tragedies, you lose hope in Allah.

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When a believer or somebody loses hope in

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Allah, they start having negative thoughts about him.

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The consequence of losing hope and trust and

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weakening that connection between you and Allah.

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The result of that is you have these

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like ill thoughts about Allah.

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Then you start questioning why would Allah do

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this?

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You know, lots of university students that I

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meet go through that phase.

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And if they don't get their thinking right,

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and they don't really understand how to navigate

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some of these things that are thrown at

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them about, you know, why bad things happen

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to good people?

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Why is there pain and hardship to children?

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And if they don't get the right answers

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to that, this creates a lot of shubuhaat,

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a lot of doubt in their deen.

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So be careful.

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This is what Allah is highlighting.

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He's not just giving us like a glimpse

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of the munafiqun and say, look how terrible

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they are.

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Every single ayah means something to you and

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me.

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Then and there, the believers were put to

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the test and were violently shaken.

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What test?

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What was the test?

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Not just Ghazwat al-Ahzab, but what else

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about this test?

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What is Allah referring to here?

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Is it just the battle itself or something

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specific happening in this battle?

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So this ayah, make sure you write this

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down for ayah number 11, two things that

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it's referring to.

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Number one, it's referring to the battle itself.

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And number two, it's also referring to the

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munafiqun.

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So they were put to the test and

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their iman was violently shaken because of what

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the munafiqun were doing.

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They caused so much trouble for them, right?

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Which we've discussed.

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And remember when the hypocrites and those with

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sickness in their hearts.

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Who is this group?

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So we know who the munafiqun are.

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And then there's another group that have a

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sickness in their heart.

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We talked about this.

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Who is this group?

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The Quraysh in general and any Muslim that

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would succumb to the influence of the munafiqun.

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They didn't compromise their faith.

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They didn't say, okay, I'm not going to

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do this.

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I'm not going to follow him no more.

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No.

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The waswasa got to them.

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Just because you fall into the trap or

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call of a munafiqun or a disbeliever doesn't

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mean that you've exited Islam completely.

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There are certain things that happen.

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If it happens, then yes.

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But those are very clear in the sharia.

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But things like this, nuances like this, where

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we don't know exactly what was said and

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what was happening.

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It's safe to assume that whoever Allah is

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referring to when he says, and those with

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the sickness in their hearts, is sort of

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a lesser degree than the munafiqun.

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ما وعدن الله ورسوله إلا غرور الله And

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his Messenger have promised us nothing but delusion.

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See what I said to you?

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When the heart is corrupt, the eyes aren't

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addressed, the heart isn't addressed, and you think

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negative about Allah.

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Look what the next or a couple ayat.

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Look what they started saying.

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Now they just started saying that the promises

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of Allah and his Prophet is just delusional.

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Like it makes no sense.

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It's just a trap, that kind of talk.

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وَإِذْ قَالَ الطَّعِفَةٌ مِّنْهُمْ يَا أَهْلَ يَثْرِبْ And

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remember when a group of them said, or

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people of Yathrib, nobody knows who's talking here.

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Somebody stood up though.

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Could be the leader.

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What's the leader of the munafiqun?

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What's his name?

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Salul, that's it?

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Yeah, Abdullah ibn Salul.

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Memorize his name.

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Because his name is found in pretty much

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every single battle of Madani Qur'an.

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As well as just Madani Islam in general.

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He comes up all the time.

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This man was really, really persistent.

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Strong, dedicated.

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He was really, really pushing hard.

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And created a following as a result.

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And so there is no hesitation or question.

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This is the head of the snake.

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This is the leader of the munafiqun.

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So a group of them said, oh people

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of Yathrib.

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We talked about why is Yathrib mentioned here.

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It's part of what is the munafiqun trying

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to achieve by referring to Medina as Yathrib.

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It's old name.

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What are they trying to do?

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This is what we mentioned.

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It's the only time in the Qur'an

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Yathrib is mentioned.

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And it's trying to call people.

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Now they're trying to attack the emotions of

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the people of Medina.

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Right?

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We have our own version of this today.

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Everybody understand, right?

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We have our own version of this today.

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So trying to get to the emotions of

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everyone.

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To make them feel like, oh I remember

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once upon a time.

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Before the prophet came.

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Before this Muhammad man, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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Before he came.

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Medina was a peaceful place.

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We were all living just fine.

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Everybody could do what they want.

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But they would mind their own business.

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And so on.

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So that's the goal behind what the munafiqun

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are trying to achieve.

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Is to sort of get back.

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Let's go back into memory lane.

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What life used to be.

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We mentioned awrah.

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What is awrah?

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Why is a house called awrah?

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Because everybody knows what awrah is.

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Right?

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The privates of both male and female.

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So why is that same term used for

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home?

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Yeah.

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Awrah is something that's supposed to be covered.

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Like a hole in the wall.

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And now it's exposed.

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That's what literally awrah is.

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So something that should be shielded and protected.

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But for whatever reason, now it's exposed.

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Okay?

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That's what this particular term.

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So linguistically you can play with it.

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You can use it in other sentences and

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ayat and so on.

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But sharia-wise, then obviously it's in reference

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to the privates of both male and female.

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A hypothetical situation.

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Let's see what happens next.

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وَلَوْ دُخِلَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ أَقْطَارِهَا ثُمَّ سُئِلُوا الْفِتْنَةِ

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لَآتَوْهَا وَمَا تَلَبَّثُوا بِهَا إِلَّا يَسِيرًا Had their

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city been entered upon from all sides, what

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is Allah doing?

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Okay.

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I want you to think about a situation

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where if they got access to you from

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every corner of Medina.

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And they had been asked to abandon their

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faith, they would have done so with little

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hesitation.

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إِلَّا يَسِيرًا So basically, the Munafiqun, if they

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saw the Mushrikun coming from all corners, then

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the first thing they would do is just

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run away from you.

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Just run away from the deen itself.

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Then they would also leave Islam as a

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whole.

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إِلَّا يَسِيرًا Without any hesitation.

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Let me ask you this.

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What is the message in this ayah?

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What is the message here?

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No point trying to tease the hypocrites.

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Because no matter what they will tell you

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up.

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Okay.

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Even if the situation is less good.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Good.

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Anything else?

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Something a little deeper.

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What is Allah teaching us here?

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Sounds pretty straightforward.

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But Quran is never like that.

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Every ayah is a fortress of knowledge and

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reflection.

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What does Allah want us to know here?

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By giving us this situation to think about.

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A situation that in essence didn't happen.

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It could have.

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So what is Allah telling you?

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It could have been the case.

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If they came from all corners.

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That this would have been the consequence.

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Meaning Allah has and will always defend and

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protect the believers.

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Okay.

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This is the message of the munafiqun.

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They're going to be scared and afraid no

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matter where they look.

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But it's an indirect message to them.

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Whether they come from all corners.

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Or from the north and south.

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It doesn't matter.

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Because nothing will happen except by Allah's permission.

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But the munafiqun, they don't see that.

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They'll just run for their life.

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They lost the whole experience.

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And all that's been happening in Ghazwatul Ahsab

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up until this point.

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They've lost and ignored all of that.

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There's something deeper that we learn with ayat

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like this.

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Is this a scary situation?

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If the Quraysh walked in from all corners.

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Is that a scary situation for the believers?

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Oh yeah.

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It's frightening.

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At first glance, it's absolutely frightening.

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You're going to see an ayah today.

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Of how believers felt.

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Or how they would respond in terms of

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emotion.

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In the highest level of fear.

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When they were just surrounded with danger.

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What their attitude was towards that.

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It's just one of the many verses that

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will blow your mind.

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But here, this is also a reminder for

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them and for all of us.

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That it is in times of fear.

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Where the believer and his or her iman

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shines the brightest.

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It will manifest to its strongest and most

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effective way.

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In terms of increasing that individual's faith.

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وَلَقَدْ كَانُوا عَاهَدُ اللَّهَ مِنْ قَبْلٍ لَا يُوَلُّونَ

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الْأَدْبَارِ وَكَانَ عَهْدُ اللَّهِ مَسْئُولًا They had already

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pledged to Allah earlier.

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Never to turn their backs in retreat.

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And a pledge to Allah must be answered

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for.

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Do we have a pledge?

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What's our pledge?

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You see, you probably noticed that one of

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the things I try to achieve in all

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my tafsir study.

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Is I don't like any ayah to quote

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unquote go to waste.

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Like we just read it and zoom over

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and then okay this is just talking about

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that specific moment.

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Let's go on to the next.

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I try not to do that.

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I personally in my journey and I hope

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for all of you as well it's somewhat

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the same.

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I try to like dig in to find

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something about an ayah that's relative to me.

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Like how can verse number 15 affect my

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Iman?

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So Allah says they had a pledge to

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Allah.

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Pause.

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You see this first opening sentence of the

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ayah.

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This should cause you the believer.

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Man, when I promise to do something for

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Allah.

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This is serious.

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I shouldn't take that lightly.

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When I make a pledge or I make

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an intention to follow, to stop this sin,

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to stop this wrong.

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I better take this extremely seriously.

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Even though that's not what's being addressed here.

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We're just talking about how I relate to

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this ayah and you relate to this ayah.

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Because none of us are in Ghazwatul Ahzab.

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So we wouldn't know exactly how the others

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felt.

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But we now, 1400 plus years later, we're

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seeing these verses.

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It's got to talk to us in some

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way.

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See this word here?

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Ahad.

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Ahad is one of many words in the

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Quran to describe a contract.

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Ahad is also a word for an agreement.

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And the difference between this and others is

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this is a more generic word to use.

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So you can use Ahad to describe verbal

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agreements as well.

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And you can describe promises.

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And just things in general that it doesn't

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require much detail.

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As other contracts like aqidun, when you have

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a contract for marriage.

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You would detail exactly what you expect from

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your husband, what you expect from your wife.

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And this is the way you want to

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live.

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And sometimes that can be very lengthy and

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very detailed.

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Ahad is more generic.

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So they already took this kind of agreement.

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What was the pledge, by the way?

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In context, we're going to participate in the

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battle.

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Okay?

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In context, we're going to participate.

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We're going to follow Prophet Ali and his

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instruction.

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But in terms of in general, what this

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agreement is for you and I.

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What is the constitution of Islam?

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What is our agreement?

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Muhammadur Rasulallah.

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Right?

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The Shahada.

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That's why in Surah An-Nisa, Allah says,

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يَا أَيُّهِا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَطِيعُوا اللَّهُ وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولِ

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وَأُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنكُمْ O people of Iman, obey

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Allah and obey His Messenger, alayhi salatu wasalam.

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Meaning, that's our, like anytime you have a

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problem in life, you go back to your

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constitution.

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You go back to this agreement, right?

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لَا يُوَلُّونَ الْأَدْبَارِ وَكَانَ عَهْدُ اللَّهِ مَّسْؤُولًا قُلْ

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لَنْ يَنْفَعُكُمْ الْفِرَارُ إِنْ فَرَرْتُمْ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ أَوِي

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الْقَتْلِ وَإِذَا لَا تُمَتَعُونَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا قُلْ لَنْ

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يَنْفَعُكُمْ الْفِرَارُ Say, O Prophet, alayhi salatu wasalam,

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running away and fleeing will not benefit you

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if you try to escape a natural or

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violent death.

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Who is the Prophet, alayhi salatu wasalam, talking

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to?

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The same group.

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We are now at verse number 16.

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There has been almost a dozen verses only

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about the Munafiqun.

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Do you see why there is so much

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attention and focus on this group?

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One reason why this happens in Qur'an

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is because Munafiqun are everywhere.

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You are not going to escape them.

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They are everywhere.

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I hate to be the one to say,

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but there is a good chance that there

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is at least one or more Munafiqun in

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all of our families.

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Our extended families.

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Maybe not your immediate, but there is always

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that one person.

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Every family has one.

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There is that one person.

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You got to watch out.

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You can't take their word.

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You can't trust them, but they are family.

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Everybody has one of those.

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So Allah, with this constant constant nasihah and

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guidance and exposure to this group, really tells

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you that this group is serious.

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They have their own surah in the Qur

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'an.

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See this word here.

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Another ayah Allah says, run and hasten towards

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Allah.

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The same word, without hesitation.

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You drop what you do and you run.

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That's called Firaar.

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So we as believers are commanded in the

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Qur'an, that you should always strive to

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rush towards Allah.

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What does that mean, by the way?

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How do you rush to Allah?

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Like rush to the masjid?

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Rush and make hajj?

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What do you do?

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Believe it or not, let me tell you

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something.

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Some Muslims, mashallah man.

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I don't know if it's mashallah or astaghfirullah

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or I don't know what it is for

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them.

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One person quoted me this ayah.

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Long time ago, and says, That's permission from

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Allah, that if we're on the road and

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we need to get to a masjid or

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get to a program or get to a

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class, I can break all the speed limit.

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Allah says rush, like hurry up and get

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there.

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I don't know what to say to that.

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I have no idea how to respond to

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that.

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But what does Fafirru ilallah, rushing to Allah,

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what does that entail?

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What you can do today?

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Don't delay it for tonight.

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Don't delay it until tomorrow.

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Fafirru ilallah, don't take for granted your time.

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Don't take time for granted.

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That's Fafirru ilallah.

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Whatever it is that you have intentions to

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do, of benefit to you, that brings you

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closer to Allah, don't waste time.

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We just came a while ago, at least

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one major thing for the ummah is the

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hajj season, right?

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Every hajj season, it's the same thing.

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There are lots of Muslims who are able

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to go, they can afford to go, physically

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and health wise, they can go for hajj.

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They've never done it before.

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But they say a phrase that all of

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us hear, I'm not ready.

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That's from shaitan, man.

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That's one of shaitan's traps.

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You're not ready?

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You don't get to decide that.

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For hajj, but even umrah, if you have

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an opportunity and you say you're not ready,

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that's okay.

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Because umrah, you're not compelled to do it

00:28:43 --> 00:28:44

anyways.

00:28:44 --> 00:28:45

So if you can do it, khair.

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And if you can't do it, but you're

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choosing not, that's no problem.

00:28:50 --> 00:28:52

But hajj now, yeah, those Muslims that say,

00:28:52 --> 00:28:54

oh I'm not ready, you don't get to

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decide that.

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What do we do when Allah opens the

00:28:56 --> 00:28:57

door to get closer to Him?

00:28:57 --> 00:28:58

What do you do?

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You're like, listen Allah, can you close it?

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I'm not ready, maybe tomorrow.

00:29:01 --> 00:29:02

You don't do that.

00:29:03 --> 00:29:05

When Allah gives you an opportunity, you try

00:29:05 --> 00:29:06

to strive and take that opportunity.

00:29:07 --> 00:29:08

Because you don't know, you'll see the next

00:29:08 --> 00:29:08

season.

00:29:09 --> 00:29:11

Say, oh Prophet, fleeing will not benefit you

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if you try to escape a natural or

00:29:15 --> 00:29:16

violent death.

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وَإِذَا لَّا تُمَتَّعُونَ إِلَّا قَلِيلَ If it is

00:29:22 --> 00:29:25

not your time, you will only be allowed

00:29:25 --> 00:29:26

enjoyment for a little while.

00:29:27 --> 00:29:29

So if it's not your time to go,

00:29:30 --> 00:29:35

so the first attitude of, that every participant

00:29:35 --> 00:29:39

needs to have in battle, is the first

00:29:39 --> 00:29:43

thing is that death is prescribed and written

00:29:43 --> 00:29:44

down by Allah.

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Not by somebody else that shot a bow

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and arrow and killed you, or your life

00:29:50 --> 00:29:51

was lost, you were in the wrong place

00:29:51 --> 00:29:53

at the wrong moment at the wrong time,

00:29:53 --> 00:29:55

the enemy came and finished you off.

00:29:55 --> 00:29:56

That wasn't your mistake.

00:29:57 --> 00:29:58

That was your qadr.

00:29:59 --> 00:30:01

That was your qadr that Allah has written

00:30:01 --> 00:30:02

for you.

00:30:02 --> 00:30:04

So these ayats sort of remind us about

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that.

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And if the munafiqun believe that they're going

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to just live life and just run away

00:30:11 --> 00:30:14

from the Prophet ﷺ, do you see what

00:30:14 --> 00:30:15

happened here at the end?

00:30:15 --> 00:30:16

Allah says, Oh, you're just going to enjoy

00:30:16 --> 00:30:17

life for a little while.

00:30:19 --> 00:30:21

What's Allah telling us that he'll do or

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not do?

00:30:22 --> 00:30:24

Like what's the message of the ending there?

00:30:28 --> 00:30:30

Yeah, there won't be punished immediately.

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So don't worry, your punishment will come.

00:30:32 --> 00:30:33

You're not going to run away from this.

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What else?

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What do you think?

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You're just going to have a short time,

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brief period of enjoyment.

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This ayah, it is found in the ending

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of Surah Taha.

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Whoever rejects and turns away from my remembrance,

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from Allah's remembrance, the immediate result is what?

00:31:06 --> 00:31:08

They're going to live life.

00:31:08 --> 00:31:13

Ma'isha is when you like, you live

00:31:13 --> 00:31:15

and you relax, you're settled.

00:31:15 --> 00:31:16

That's called ma'isha.

00:31:17 --> 00:31:18

You're settled down.

00:31:18 --> 00:31:21

Allah says you're going to get comfortable and

00:31:21 --> 00:31:25

settle down with a lifestyle that's going to

00:31:25 --> 00:31:26

be uncomfortable.

00:31:27 --> 00:31:30

It's going to be full with stress, problems,

00:31:30 --> 00:31:35

pain, struggle, emotionally, financially, maybe even physically, like

00:31:35 --> 00:31:36

everything is just going to go wrong.

00:31:40 --> 00:31:41

A side note.

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Does that actually, like, do you guys see

00:31:43 --> 00:31:44

that?

00:31:45 --> 00:31:46

That it happens to the people who run

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away from Allah's remembrance.

00:31:48 --> 00:31:49

Do you see that they look like they're

00:31:49 --> 00:31:50

pretty miserable?

00:31:50 --> 00:31:52

Or do you see, seems like they're still

00:31:52 --> 00:31:53

flourishing to me?

00:31:54 --> 00:31:55

Still got all of his mansions.

00:31:56 --> 00:31:57

As a matter of fact, he got more

00:31:57 --> 00:31:57

money.

00:31:58 --> 00:31:59

He's still the leader.

00:31:59 --> 00:32:00

He's still the president.

00:32:00 --> 00:32:01

He still owns all these businesses.

00:32:02 --> 00:32:03

He's still so wealthy.

00:32:03 --> 00:32:07

Where is this like, you know, depressing life

00:32:07 --> 00:32:10

or this dunka that Allah says, where is

00:32:10 --> 00:32:10

it?

00:32:10 --> 00:32:11

I don't see it.

00:32:12 --> 00:32:13

It is there though.

00:32:14 --> 00:32:16

And you should all be able to see

00:32:17 --> 00:32:21

that despite on the outside, everything about that

00:32:21 --> 00:32:22

individual looks amazing.

00:32:22 --> 00:32:24

It looks like they're flourishing in life.

00:32:25 --> 00:32:28

But Allah says in Surah Taha, you're going

00:32:28 --> 00:32:30

to live a life that is very tight

00:32:30 --> 00:32:30

and restricted.

00:32:31 --> 00:32:36

So where's this restriction or this difficult life

00:32:36 --> 00:32:37

in that individual?

00:32:41 --> 00:32:45

Fir'aun, what was the biggest problem with

00:32:45 --> 00:32:45

him?

00:32:47 --> 00:32:50

What was the number one crime that Fir

00:32:50 --> 00:32:53

'aun committed that that was it?

00:32:53 --> 00:32:56

Allah just prepared a seat for him in

00:32:56 --> 00:32:56

the fire.

00:32:56 --> 00:32:57

What was it?

00:32:58 --> 00:32:59

He had political strength.

00:33:00 --> 00:33:02

He had financial status and security.

00:33:03 --> 00:33:04

He had controlled power.

00:33:04 --> 00:33:07

He had the whole world literally in his

00:33:07 --> 00:33:08

hands.

00:33:10 --> 00:33:13

But Allah still will account him.

00:33:13 --> 00:33:15

But I just want all of you to

00:33:15 --> 00:33:18

understand what you look for when you see

00:33:18 --> 00:33:20

that behind the beautiful suit and tie and

00:33:20 --> 00:33:25

the riches that surround them, the difficult, unfortunate

00:33:25 --> 00:33:29

life is, there's no Iman, right?

00:33:30 --> 00:33:31

There's no Islam.

00:33:31 --> 00:33:31

There's no faith.

00:33:32 --> 00:33:37

And even if it is, right, clearly that

00:33:37 --> 00:33:39

even if you see Muslims that are flourishing,

00:33:41 --> 00:33:44

there could be also something personal that you

00:33:44 --> 00:33:47

may not know or see that person will

00:33:47 --> 00:33:49

go through, that person will struggle with, or

00:33:49 --> 00:33:51

Allah will write down some sort of pain

00:33:51 --> 00:33:52

or hardship.

00:33:52 --> 00:33:53

And if it doesn't happen in this world,

00:33:53 --> 00:33:56

Allah promises they will get it in the

00:33:56 --> 00:33:56

hereafter.

00:33:57 --> 00:33:58

My point here is this.

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The restriction and pain that Allah makes reference

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

to, the people who run away from his

00:34:05 --> 00:34:07

remembrance, they will live this difficult life.

00:34:07 --> 00:34:09

The difficulty and the pain is a life

00:34:09 --> 00:34:14

with no faith, no creator, no Allah in

00:34:14 --> 00:34:14

your life.

00:34:14 --> 00:34:15

That's the tragedy.

00:34:16 --> 00:34:18

Go ahead, enjoy all of your money and

00:34:18 --> 00:34:19

your time and all of that good stuff.

00:34:20 --> 00:34:20

Take it.

00:34:20 --> 00:34:21

That's what Allah is saying here.

00:34:21 --> 00:34:24

وَإِذَا لَا تُمَتَعُونَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا You're just gonna

00:34:24 --> 00:34:25

enjoy this thing for a little while and

00:34:25 --> 00:34:27

then it's over, right?

00:34:28 --> 00:34:32

قُلْ مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يَعْصِمُكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ إِنْ

00:34:32 --> 00:34:35

أَرَادَ بِكُمْ سُوءًا أَوْ أَرَادَ بِكُمْ رَحْمًا وَلَا

00:34:35 --> 00:34:38

يَجِدُونَ لَهُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ وَلِيًّا وَلَا نَصِيرًا

00:34:38 --> 00:34:42

Ask them, oh Prophet, who can put you

00:34:42 --> 00:34:45

out of Allah's reach if he intends to

00:34:45 --> 00:34:46

harm you?

00:34:46 --> 00:34:48

What an amazing question, eh?

00:34:48 --> 00:34:49

Look at that.

00:34:50 --> 00:34:54

Who's gonna reach out and help you if

00:34:54 --> 00:34:57

Allah has already decreed you are going to

00:34:57 --> 00:34:58

be destroyed?

00:34:58 --> 00:34:59

Like, who's gonna help you?

00:35:00 --> 00:35:02

So he asks them.

00:35:02 --> 00:35:02

If he, yeah.

00:35:22 --> 00:35:28

Well, not all of them died.

00:35:28 --> 00:35:29

Most of them didn't even participate.

00:35:35 --> 00:35:38

Yeah, in some ways, yeah, absolutely.

00:35:38 --> 00:35:41

It was their qadr that the decision that

00:35:41 --> 00:35:43

they made, that was it.

00:35:44 --> 00:35:46

But the point here is that whether they

00:35:46 --> 00:35:49

were to die on the battlefield or later

00:35:49 --> 00:35:53

on in life, the core message behind all

00:35:53 --> 00:35:56

of this is you're going to be accountable

00:35:56 --> 00:35:58

and you're not going to get away with

00:35:58 --> 00:36:01

being a coward, especially in a battle zone.

00:36:01 --> 00:36:03

Like, that requires consequence.

00:36:05 --> 00:36:08

So these kind of rhetorical questions is to

00:36:08 --> 00:36:11

cause the people, the munafiqun that made that

00:36:11 --> 00:36:12

decision not to go.

00:36:13 --> 00:36:18

Like, you need to think about what you've

00:36:18 --> 00:36:20

done and how serious it is in front

00:36:20 --> 00:36:21

of Allah.

00:36:22 --> 00:36:23

Like, that's the message.

00:36:23 --> 00:36:24

So whether you were to die on the

00:36:24 --> 00:36:26

battlefield or not, yeah, maybe.

00:36:26 --> 00:36:29

But in this case, Allah decreed that, you

00:36:29 --> 00:36:30

know, that they won't.

00:36:30 --> 00:36:31

Because why?

00:36:31 --> 00:36:32

Their punishment will come later.

00:36:39 --> 00:36:39

Yeah.

00:36:40 --> 00:36:41

Always.

00:36:42 --> 00:36:44

You know what the Prophet ﷺ said about

00:36:44 --> 00:36:44

qadr?

00:36:47 --> 00:36:49

Qadr we will never understand.

00:36:52 --> 00:36:58

The believer will never fully comprehend the true

00:36:58 --> 00:37:01

understanding, the true meaning of what qadr is.

00:37:02 --> 00:37:05

The believer and pretty much nobody, the ulama

00:37:05 --> 00:37:08

agree unanimously that nobody will really understand how

00:37:08 --> 00:37:09

qadr works.

00:37:10 --> 00:37:14

It's incredibly comprehensive, but that's not the point.

00:37:14 --> 00:37:16

The point is like, we don't have a

00:37:16 --> 00:37:20

lot of information of how Allah ﷻ issues

00:37:20 --> 00:37:20

his qadr.

00:37:21 --> 00:37:23

On the one hand, Allah decrees everything, right?

00:37:24 --> 00:37:26

But on the other hand, if you make

00:37:26 --> 00:37:30

a dua on Laylatul Qadr, your dua can

00:37:30 --> 00:37:31

change the qadr of Allah.

00:37:33 --> 00:37:33

Yeah.

00:37:33 --> 00:37:37

I just added more craziness to this conversation.

00:37:37 --> 00:37:37

Yeah.

00:37:37 --> 00:37:39

So now you can change qadr.

00:37:40 --> 00:37:40

Yeah.

00:37:42 --> 00:37:43

Yeah, it is.

00:37:43 --> 00:37:44

It is.

00:37:45 --> 00:37:45

Yeah.

00:37:45 --> 00:37:48

And the Prophet ﷺ told us in another

00:37:48 --> 00:37:53

hadith, don't delve into qadr too much because

00:37:53 --> 00:37:54

you'll never understand it.

00:37:56 --> 00:37:57

So yeah, you're absolutely right.

00:37:57 --> 00:38:00

And there are a lot of shuyukh over

00:38:00 --> 00:38:03

the years that have come up with really

00:38:03 --> 00:38:08

like strange beliefs and understandings about how qadr

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

is and how it works.

00:38:09 --> 00:38:13

Like I remember one famous speaker said, Allah

00:38:13 --> 00:38:19

doesn't decide your qadr until you make a

00:38:19 --> 00:38:19

decision.

00:38:19 --> 00:38:22

Then Allah will create the qadr at that

00:38:22 --> 00:38:24

moment for it to happen based on the

00:38:24 --> 00:38:27

decision you made, which is a really profound

00:38:27 --> 00:38:27

thing to say.

00:38:27 --> 00:38:29

So basically, if you're driving on the highway,

00:38:30 --> 00:38:34

you are going to decide which exit you

00:38:34 --> 00:38:39

take, but not because a qadr was already

00:38:39 --> 00:38:41

planned that that was the exit you're going

00:38:41 --> 00:38:42

to take.

00:38:42 --> 00:38:44

No, that never happens.

00:38:44 --> 00:38:47

But Allah will create your qadr at the

00:38:47 --> 00:38:50

moment after you make a decision, which is

00:38:50 --> 00:38:53

a very like unusual way of looking at

00:38:53 --> 00:38:53

it.

00:38:53 --> 00:38:57

And the vast majority of ulama never ever

00:38:57 --> 00:38:59

looked or explained qadr like that.

00:39:01 --> 00:39:04

So maybe we should have like at least

00:39:04 --> 00:39:06

a section of a course at some point,

00:39:06 --> 00:39:08

or maybe we can try to incorporate it,

00:39:08 --> 00:39:09

and we can delve into some of the

00:39:09 --> 00:39:12

things that scholars have taught us to help

00:39:12 --> 00:39:13

us understand and navigate qadr.

00:39:14 --> 00:39:18

Because it's a really, really, a really important

00:39:18 --> 00:39:21

subject in our day and, you know, in

00:39:21 --> 00:39:25

these days when religion is criticized and belief

00:39:25 --> 00:39:30

is scrutinized and people are usually isolated and

00:39:30 --> 00:39:35

ostracized from communities, from gatherings, when they believe

00:39:35 --> 00:39:37

in qadr in such a way that nothing

00:39:37 --> 00:39:39

bothers them, Allah will decide.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:42

Well, you know, it brings up like a

00:39:42 --> 00:39:43

series of follow-up questions.

00:39:44 --> 00:39:45

Well, when is Allah going to decide?

00:39:45 --> 00:39:45

How do you know?

00:39:45 --> 00:39:47

How do you know it's not from you?

00:39:47 --> 00:39:48

What exactly is Allah decide?

00:39:49 --> 00:39:49

When did he do that?

00:39:49 --> 00:39:51

It brings up all these weird questions, and

00:39:51 --> 00:39:54

if you don't address them properly, there are

00:39:54 --> 00:39:55

Muslims I've met over the years, not a

00:39:55 --> 00:39:57

lot, but there are a few that have

00:39:57 --> 00:39:58

left Islam because of it.

00:39:58 --> 00:40:01

They've left Islam because they couldn't understand qadr.

00:40:02 --> 00:40:04

Yeah, it's very real.

00:40:05 --> 00:40:06

So, inshallah, maybe, you know, at some point

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

we can try to discuss it a little

00:40:08 --> 00:40:10

bit more throughout this surah, okay?

00:40:11 --> 00:40:12

Qadr is found in every single surah of

00:40:12 --> 00:40:13

the Qur'an.

00:40:14 --> 00:40:18

Ask them, O Prophet, who can put you

00:40:18 --> 00:40:20

out of Allah's reach if he intends to

00:40:20 --> 00:40:22

harm you or show you mercy?

00:40:22 --> 00:40:26

So either Allah will destroy you or Allah

00:40:26 --> 00:40:29

will save you and protect you.

00:40:30 --> 00:40:33

They can never find any protector or helper

00:40:33 --> 00:40:34

besides Allah.

00:40:35 --> 00:40:38

وَلَا يَجِدُونَ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ وَلِيًّا وَلَا

00:40:38 --> 00:40:40

نَصِيرًا Everybody knows what wali is?

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

Protector, a guardian, right?

00:40:45 --> 00:40:50

Wali, specifically, is referring to the one who

00:40:50 --> 00:40:51

protects your decisions.

00:40:51 --> 00:40:54

That's why the father is the wali for

00:40:54 --> 00:40:56

his daughter before she gets married because he

00:40:56 --> 00:40:58

tries to protect the decision that she made.

00:40:59 --> 00:41:01

Dad, I want to marry this person or

00:41:01 --> 00:41:03

dad, I don't want to marry them.

00:41:03 --> 00:41:06

So he tries to preserve and protect that

00:41:06 --> 00:41:08

the message is loud and clear.

00:41:09 --> 00:41:10

Nobody's going to twist it or turn it

00:41:10 --> 00:41:11

or reword it.

00:41:12 --> 00:41:14

So wali is focused on decision-making.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:19

نَصِيرًا نَصُرٌ إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَالْفَتْحِ What

00:41:19 --> 00:41:20

does nasr mean?

00:41:20 --> 00:41:21

Help.

00:41:22 --> 00:41:24

But there are lots of words in Arabic

00:41:24 --> 00:41:24

for help.

00:41:24 --> 00:41:26

What's specific about nasr?

00:41:26 --> 00:41:27

Make sure you remember this.

00:41:28 --> 00:41:29

Nasr is found throughout Qur'an.

00:41:30 --> 00:41:31

One of the famous surahs we all know,

00:41:31 --> 00:41:36

إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَالْفَتْحِ نَصْرٌ is aid

00:41:36 --> 00:41:41

or help that comes from Allah in the

00:41:41 --> 00:41:43

most difficult and impossible moments of your life.

00:41:44 --> 00:41:47

So it's aid and it's help that comes

00:41:47 --> 00:41:51

directly from Allah and usually it comes down

00:41:51 --> 00:41:54

for believers when they're going through the most

00:41:54 --> 00:41:56

difficult and painful moments of their life.

00:41:58 --> 00:42:01

So like war, battle, cancer, sickness, death and

00:42:01 --> 00:42:02

things like that.

00:42:03 --> 00:42:07

Another way, another definition of nasr is that

00:42:07 --> 00:42:09

it refers to quantity.

00:42:10 --> 00:42:13

So when Allah sends His help, meaning He

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

will send His help in abundance.

00:42:16 --> 00:42:18

So the battle of Badr is a good

00:42:18 --> 00:42:19

example of that.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:22

Allah sent an army of angels to help

00:42:22 --> 00:42:23

the Muslims.

00:42:23 --> 00:42:24

That's nasr.

00:42:25 --> 00:42:28

That's a major, major help and aid from

00:42:28 --> 00:42:30

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that resulted in

00:42:30 --> 00:42:32

victory for the believers, right?

00:42:33 --> 00:42:36

So just remember that nasr is the highest

00:42:36 --> 00:42:40

form of description in the Qur'an when

00:42:40 --> 00:42:42

it comes to aid and help from Allah.

00:42:42 --> 00:42:44

You're not going to get a word stronger

00:42:44 --> 00:42:44

than nasr.

00:42:46 --> 00:42:50

قَدْ يَعْلَمُ اللَّهُ الْمُعَوِّقِينَ مِنْكُمْ وَالْقَائِلِينَ Allah knows

00:42:50 --> 00:42:55

very well those among you who discourage others

00:42:55 --> 00:42:56

from fighting.

00:42:58 --> 00:43:00

Saying secretly.

00:43:03 --> 00:43:07

وَالْقَائِلِينَ لِإِخْوَانِهِمْ Look at the word that's used

00:43:07 --> 00:43:07

for secretly.

00:43:08 --> 00:43:08

This here.

00:43:09 --> 00:43:14

هَلُوم The most common word for secret in

00:43:14 --> 00:43:19

Arabic is سِرٌ This uses a different verb.

00:43:20 --> 00:43:22

هَلُوم We'll just talk about that in a

00:43:22 --> 00:43:22

minute.

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But they say secretly to their brothers, stay

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with us.

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هَلُومَّ إِلَيْنَا وَلَا يَأْتُونَ الْبَأْسَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And

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who themselves hardly take part in fighting.

00:43:40 --> 00:43:43

Internally internally in the battle.

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Internally in Medina within the Ummah amongst the

00:43:47 --> 00:43:48

believers.

00:43:49 --> 00:43:51

I just wrote this down for sort of

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reference in my head.

00:43:52 --> 00:43:55

Like there's just so much going on right

00:43:55 --> 00:43:58

now for the Prophet ﷺ.

00:43:58 --> 00:44:01

We haven't even gotten to the rumor that

00:44:01 --> 00:44:02

gets spread about him.

00:44:02 --> 00:44:04

Like we briefly touched on him, but we

00:44:04 --> 00:44:05

haven't gotten to the effects of that yet.

00:44:05 --> 00:44:07

We're just talking about this battle.

00:44:08 --> 00:44:12

Now Ghasatul Ahzab is over and still there's

00:44:12 --> 00:44:13

so much cleaning up to do.

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هَلُومَّ إِلَيْنَا is when you try to do

00:44:18 --> 00:44:22

something in secret but it's not kept in

00:44:22 --> 00:44:23

secret.

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So you talk about it secretly and quietly

00:44:27 --> 00:44:31

but you act as if nothing happened, there

00:44:31 --> 00:44:31

was no secret.

00:44:32 --> 00:44:32

Got it?

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هَلُومَّ إِلَيْنَا هَلُومَّ إِلَيْنَا meaning whatever we say

00:44:37 --> 00:44:39

or agree on that's going to stay with

00:44:39 --> 00:44:41

us but in front of anybody, just go

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as usual pretend, do what you have to

00:44:43 --> 00:44:44

do.

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Whereas سِرٌ you know something private and then

00:44:49 --> 00:44:51

when you're sitting in front of the people

00:44:51 --> 00:44:52

that you know something private about, it's just

00:44:52 --> 00:44:53

kind of awkward.

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God, I don't want to be here.

00:44:57 --> 00:44:58

That kind of response.

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That's called سِرٌ.

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سِرٌ, you can still see the effects of

00:45:02 --> 00:45:05

it in behavior, in moods, and things like

00:45:05 --> 00:45:05

that.

00:45:05 --> 00:45:07

هَلُوم, oh man, this is like privacy at

00:45:07 --> 00:45:08

its best.

00:45:09 --> 00:45:09

Okay?

00:45:11 --> 00:45:12

Any questions?

00:45:12 --> 00:45:15

Now a major turning point in the seerah

00:45:15 --> 00:45:16

of the Prophet ﷺ.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:19

A major sign of a hypocrite.

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أَشِحَّةً عَلَيْكُمْ They are totally unwilling to assist

00:45:26 --> 00:45:26

you.

00:45:26 --> 00:45:27

See this word?

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

أَشِحَّةً, it comes from this شُح.

00:45:32 --> 00:45:32

Okay?

00:45:32 --> 00:45:41

شُحٌ شُحٌ miserliness and it's a combination.

00:45:41 --> 00:45:44

So شُحٌ is one thing, miserliness, stinginess.

00:45:45 --> 00:45:48

This word in Arabic is بَخِيلٌ That's the

00:45:48 --> 00:45:49

word I was looking for.

00:45:50 --> 00:45:52

Two things you have to have in order

00:45:52 --> 00:45:53

to have this.

00:45:53 --> 00:45:55

شُحٌ needs two things.

00:45:56 --> 00:46:00

Stinginess and extreme greediness.

00:46:01 --> 00:46:05

When these two things are combined, a person

00:46:05 --> 00:46:07

is stingy and extremely greedy.

00:46:08 --> 00:46:10

So they won't share and spend, but they

00:46:10 --> 00:46:11

want, want, want, give me more, give me

00:46:11 --> 00:46:12

more.

00:46:12 --> 00:46:14

Oh man, we all know people like that.

00:46:15 --> 00:46:18

They're just always in the collecting, collector's lane.

00:46:18 --> 00:46:20

But never in the giving, alright?

00:46:21 --> 00:46:23

They just live in just give me, give

00:46:23 --> 00:46:24

me, give me, thank you.

00:46:24 --> 00:46:24

No hesitation.

00:46:25 --> 00:46:26

But when it's their turn to pay for

00:46:26 --> 00:46:30

the coffee, pay for dinner, you know, they

00:46:30 --> 00:46:32

sort of run away or they remain very

00:46:33 --> 00:46:33

stingy.

00:46:33 --> 00:46:35

Oh man, expenses are real high.

00:46:35 --> 00:46:38

I can't believe this coffee is now 25

00:46:38 --> 00:46:39

cents more.

00:46:39 --> 00:46:41

I wouldn't be able to pay my rent

00:46:41 --> 00:46:41

this month.

00:46:42 --> 00:46:43

Craziness like that.

00:46:44 --> 00:46:45

So what did the منافقون do?

00:46:45 --> 00:46:48

They're totally unwilling to assist you because of

00:46:48 --> 00:46:49

this problem.

00:46:49 --> 00:46:53

They're so stingy, they're بخير, they want to

00:46:53 --> 00:46:56

remain with themselves, share just for amongst themselves.

00:46:57 --> 00:47:02

Allah says that in Surah Al-Ali Imran,

00:47:02 --> 00:47:07

Allah says that every form of stinginess will

00:47:07 --> 00:47:09

be brought forth and accounted for on the

00:47:09 --> 00:47:10

Day of Judgment.

00:47:10 --> 00:47:12

Believers, are we allowed to be stingy?

00:47:14 --> 00:47:16

Are we allowed to just be like, you

00:47:16 --> 00:47:17

know, I'm not spending nothing today?

00:47:18 --> 00:47:20

You're allowed to be cruel though.

00:47:22 --> 00:47:23

Okay.

00:47:25 --> 00:47:27

You're allowed to be stingy but we're not

00:47:27 --> 00:47:27

going to use that word.

00:47:28 --> 00:47:29

Call it something else.

00:47:31 --> 00:47:36

So if you are responsible, like if you

00:47:36 --> 00:47:39

want to be responsible or careful, let's just

00:47:39 --> 00:47:41

use money for example, with your finances, right?

00:47:42 --> 00:47:45

What is the difference between being responsible and

00:47:45 --> 00:47:46

being stingy?

00:47:46 --> 00:47:48

Because there's a, it appears like there's a

00:47:48 --> 00:47:50

fine line between the two.

00:47:50 --> 00:47:53

Because both of them involve you holding back

00:47:53 --> 00:47:55

what you're able to give or spend.

00:47:57 --> 00:48:01

So the stingy person, okay so the one

00:48:01 --> 00:48:05

who is responsible and careful with themselves, that

00:48:05 --> 00:48:10

person always has a heart and willingness to

00:48:10 --> 00:48:13

spend and give if they really needed to.

00:48:14 --> 00:48:14

Got it?

00:48:15 --> 00:48:19

The stingy one, whether it's times of crisis

00:48:19 --> 00:48:21

or not, you ain't getting a dime from

00:48:21 --> 00:48:22

me.

00:48:23 --> 00:48:27

Stinginess, so the person responsible goes to the

00:48:27 --> 00:48:29

grocery store and they look for the eggs

00:48:29 --> 00:48:30

that are on sale.

00:48:31 --> 00:48:32

Okay, they get a tray of eggs that

00:48:32 --> 00:48:32

are on sale.

00:48:33 --> 00:48:35

The stingy person is like, do we need

00:48:35 --> 00:48:36

all 12 eggs?

00:48:38 --> 00:48:42

There's only three of us, so yeah, that's

00:48:42 --> 00:48:43

the stingy person, okay?

00:48:44 --> 00:48:47

So they are totally unwilling to assist you.

00:48:47 --> 00:48:50

When danger comes, you see them staring at

00:48:50 --> 00:48:51

you with their eyes rolling like someone's going

00:48:51 --> 00:48:52

through death.

00:48:55 --> 00:49:02

No, no, no, no.

00:49:03 --> 00:49:05

Yeah, not in the literal sense.

00:49:06 --> 00:49:10

I'm talking about somebody who is a penny

00:49:10 --> 00:49:10

pincher.

00:49:11 --> 00:49:14

That is not allowed for a believer to

00:49:14 --> 00:49:15

be a penny pincher.

00:49:16 --> 00:49:17

Watch every single cent.

00:49:18 --> 00:49:20

That's a really bad habit to have.

00:49:21 --> 00:49:23

Because what that does is that it doesn't

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

just filter in your spending habits.

00:49:25 --> 00:49:28

It also filters in your attitude with people.

00:49:29 --> 00:49:30

In what you're willing to say and do

00:49:30 --> 00:49:31

for others.

00:49:32 --> 00:49:34

Extend, you know, some time and help.

00:49:34 --> 00:49:35

It affects everything.

00:49:36 --> 00:49:39

That's why there's a very clear ayah in

00:49:39 --> 00:49:43

the Qur'an that Allah dislikes and hates

00:49:43 --> 00:49:44

the one who is bakhil.

00:49:46 --> 00:49:46

Right?

00:49:46 --> 00:49:49

And Allah says that they will be accountable

00:49:49 --> 00:49:49

on the Day of Judgment.

00:49:50 --> 00:49:52

The believer ...

00:49:56 --> 00:49:56

...

00:50:01 --> 00:50:03

When the believer, when they spend, they don't

00:50:03 --> 00:50:06

overspend, but they're not stingy, but they find

00:50:06 --> 00:50:07

a balance between the two.

00:50:07 --> 00:50:08

That's the point, right?

00:50:09 --> 00:50:09

...

00:50:09 --> 00:50:12

When they saw danger coming, Allah says they

00:50:12 --> 00:50:14

started staring at you.

00:50:14 --> 00:50:16

And they started rolling their eyes.

00:50:16 --> 00:50:18

Oh my God, look what you put us

00:50:18 --> 00:50:18

through now.

00:50:19 --> 00:50:21

As if they're already going through death.

00:50:21 --> 00:50:21

You know what they were doing?

00:50:22 --> 00:50:25

They started screaming for their life.

00:50:25 --> 00:50:27

They started pulling on their garments in front

00:50:27 --> 00:50:31

of the Prophet and all, especially all the

00:50:31 --> 00:50:31

companions.

00:50:33 --> 00:50:33

...

00:50:33 --> 00:50:37

are also really good at putting on a

00:50:37 --> 00:50:37

show.

00:50:38 --> 00:50:38

Okay?

00:50:38 --> 00:50:42

So putting on and being an exaggerate their

00:50:42 --> 00:50:44

fear or their behavior in anything.

00:50:44 --> 00:50:47

That's also another trait of munafiq.

00:50:47 --> 00:50:49

Like if you sat beside somebody like a

00:50:49 --> 00:50:50

munafiq, right?

00:50:50 --> 00:50:52

And your elbow just kind of touched their

00:50:52 --> 00:50:54

armrest, they're like, oh my God!

00:50:55 --> 00:50:56

Are you trying to abuse me?

00:50:58 --> 00:50:58

God!

00:50:59 --> 00:51:01

Now, yeah, now I need to go to

00:51:01 --> 00:51:01

the doctor.

00:51:02 --> 00:51:02

Oh my God!

00:51:02 --> 00:51:04

My lawyer will be seeing you soon.

00:51:04 --> 00:51:05

Like that sort of thing.

00:51:06 --> 00:51:09

That's one of the qualities that's highlighted here.

00:51:09 --> 00:51:12

Just because these mushrikun were coming from all

00:51:12 --> 00:51:15

directions, or at least the two directions, look

00:51:15 --> 00:51:16

what they did.

00:51:16 --> 00:51:19

They immediately started acting like they were going

00:51:19 --> 00:51:20

to die, like right away.

00:51:20 --> 00:51:20

That's it.

00:51:20 --> 00:51:21

It's over.

00:51:21 --> 00:51:24

But once the danger is over, so once

00:51:24 --> 00:51:30

everything settles down, battle is over, they slash

00:51:30 --> 00:51:32

you with razor sharp tongues.

00:51:33 --> 00:51:37

إليك تدور أعيون كالذي يخشى عليهم فإذا ذهب

00:51:37 --> 00:51:42

الخوف سَلَقُوكُم See this sentence here?

00:51:43 --> 00:51:49

سَلَقُوكُم بِأَلسِنَةٍ حِدَادٍ سَلَقُوكُم comes from this word.

00:51:49 --> 00:51:53

سَلَقَ To speak inappropriately.

00:51:53 --> 00:51:55

In other words, they're trash talking.

00:51:56 --> 00:51:57

Metal tongues.

00:51:57 --> 00:51:59

You know when we say to somebody, man,

00:51:59 --> 00:52:01

your tongue is real sharp.

00:52:01 --> 00:52:03

You're always ready.

00:52:03 --> 00:52:05

You got an answer for anything and everything.

00:52:06 --> 00:52:11

That's سَلَقُوكُم بِأَلسِنَةٍ They have a metal tongue.

00:52:12 --> 00:52:15

Also another way of looking at it is

00:52:15 --> 00:52:18

that when they do speak, they're very harsh

00:52:18 --> 00:52:19

and insensitive.

00:52:19 --> 00:52:21

Like, I don't care how you feel, I'm

00:52:21 --> 00:52:22

just a straight shooter, man.

00:52:23 --> 00:52:24

I just talk what I feel.

00:52:25 --> 00:52:26

You know, lots of people are very proud

00:52:26 --> 00:52:26

of that.

00:52:27 --> 00:52:29

That's a shameful quality in a human being

00:52:29 --> 00:52:30

in the Quran.

00:52:31 --> 00:52:33

Allah calls out people who behave like that.

00:52:34 --> 00:52:36

Because you don't have, you and I don't

00:52:36 --> 00:52:39

have the right to speak to a person

00:52:39 --> 00:52:40

any way we feel.

00:52:41 --> 00:52:43

There are guidelines of how we talk, the

00:52:43 --> 00:52:45

tone of our voices, the words we choose,

00:52:45 --> 00:52:46

and so on.

00:52:46 --> 00:52:49

All of that is paid attention but culture

00:52:49 --> 00:52:52

and life tells us, no, you should be

00:52:52 --> 00:52:55

able to express yourself however you feel.

00:52:55 --> 00:52:55

However you want.

00:52:56 --> 00:52:59

And that is not the methodology of a

00:52:59 --> 00:52:59

believer.

00:53:00 --> 00:53:05

So, the munafiqoon started insulting the Prophet ﷺ.

00:53:06 --> 00:53:10

So they started cursing at him, they started

00:53:10 --> 00:53:13

putting him down, calling him every name in

00:53:13 --> 00:53:15

the book, and they did this in front

00:53:15 --> 00:53:16

of everyone else.

00:53:17 --> 00:53:22

And then when the ayah continues it's ashuhatan

00:53:22 --> 00:53:26

alal khayr They are just ravenous for worldly

00:53:26 --> 00:53:26

gain.

00:53:26 --> 00:53:29

So all they care about and what their

00:53:29 --> 00:53:33

desire is just to gain some of the

00:53:33 --> 00:53:37

weapons and other things that are left behind

00:53:37 --> 00:53:38

from the Quraysh.

00:53:38 --> 00:53:43

So if any tools, if any shields and

00:53:43 --> 00:53:44

swords and things like that are left behind

00:53:44 --> 00:53:47

then that's what they're concerned about.

00:53:47 --> 00:53:49

So you see where it comes together they're

00:53:49 --> 00:53:53

stingy in participating but when it's freebies are

00:53:53 --> 00:53:55

being given out, they're first in line.

00:53:56 --> 00:53:58

Another quality of a munafiq, by the way.

00:53:59 --> 00:54:03

First in line to receive, not in line,

00:54:03 --> 00:54:05

nowhere to be found time to give.

00:54:10 --> 00:54:12

Here's the punishment.

00:54:13 --> 00:54:17

Allah says they don't have iman.

00:54:18 --> 00:54:19

So people have not truly believed.

00:54:19 --> 00:54:21

In other words, they are not Muslims.

00:54:26 --> 00:54:30

And Allah has caused that all of their

00:54:30 --> 00:54:31

deeds are done in vain.

00:54:32 --> 00:54:34

They have been rejected from Allah.

00:54:36 --> 00:54:38

Somebody tell me the time real quick?

00:54:39 --> 00:54:47

My watch is saying it's 5.30. Okay.

00:54:49 --> 00:54:52

I do want to just mention this to

00:54:52 --> 00:54:52

you.

00:54:52 --> 00:54:53

See this word khawf?

00:54:53 --> 00:54:56

It's the most common word that we use

00:54:56 --> 00:54:57

in Arabic, right?

00:54:57 --> 00:54:58

To describe when you're scared.

00:54:59 --> 00:54:59

Khawf.

00:55:00 --> 00:55:05

There are exactly 11 words to describe fear

00:55:05 --> 00:55:07

and being afraid in Qur'an.

00:55:08 --> 00:55:10

Khawf is the kind of fear where you

00:55:10 --> 00:55:13

don't say anything your body does all the

00:55:13 --> 00:55:13

talking.

00:55:13 --> 00:55:17

So khawf could be you stand still.

00:55:18 --> 00:55:20

You can't move, you're so scared.

00:55:20 --> 00:55:23

Khawf can also be like you're trying to

00:55:23 --> 00:55:25

hide, you jump under a table, you run

00:55:25 --> 00:55:26

behind a wall.

00:55:27 --> 00:55:28

You don't say anything.

00:55:29 --> 00:55:32

Khawf, it's written all over your actions.

00:55:33 --> 00:55:35

And part of khawf is also expressing it

00:55:35 --> 00:55:36

as well.

00:55:36 --> 00:55:39

But it's very apparent and clear in action.

00:55:44 --> 00:55:46

وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرًا And that is

00:55:46 --> 00:55:49

so easy for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:55:50 --> 00:55:57

يَحْسَبُونَ الْأَحْزَابَ لَمْ يَذْهَبُونَ They still think that

00:55:57 --> 00:56:02

the enemy the enemy has not yet withdrawn.

00:56:04 --> 00:56:05

What does this mean?

00:56:08 --> 00:56:09

Who are they referring to?

00:56:09 --> 00:56:10

The mushrikun.

00:56:11 --> 00:56:12

They're already left.

00:56:13 --> 00:56:14

No, they could be hiding in your home

00:56:14 --> 00:56:15

somewhere.

00:56:15 --> 00:56:18

They could be behind that mountain over there.

00:56:18 --> 00:56:19

So what do you call this?

00:56:20 --> 00:56:21

They're still paranoid.

00:56:22 --> 00:56:26

Another thing you learn about munafiqun.

00:56:26 --> 00:56:31

When we say drama queens, this is part

00:56:31 --> 00:56:31

of that.

00:56:31 --> 00:56:36

It's not just intentionally exaggerating, but the paranoia

00:56:36 --> 00:56:39

that is just really extreme above words.

00:56:40 --> 00:56:43

So like, you know, they would walk into

00:56:43 --> 00:56:45

like an empty parking lot or a parking

00:56:45 --> 00:56:46

lot with no lights.

00:56:46 --> 00:56:47

Oh my god.

00:56:47 --> 00:56:49

What if there's like a kidnapper over there?

00:56:50 --> 00:56:51

What if there's a wolf behind that tree?

00:56:51 --> 00:56:53

Can you walk me to my car?

00:56:53 --> 00:56:54

It's right in front of the door.

00:56:55 --> 00:56:57

It's just things like that.

00:56:57 --> 00:56:57

Right?

00:56:58 --> 00:57:03

No matter what level of security and reassurance

00:57:03 --> 00:57:05

is given, it doesn't make any difference.

00:57:06 --> 00:57:09

So they still have this thing in them

00:57:09 --> 00:57:11

that they're going to come again.

00:57:11 --> 00:57:12

So they haven't left.

00:57:15 --> 00:57:18

Then if the allies were to come back,

00:57:18 --> 00:57:21

again, the hypocrites would wish to be away

00:57:21 --> 00:57:24

in the desert amongst the Bedouins, the nomadic

00:57:24 --> 00:57:24

Arabs.

00:57:27 --> 00:57:30

This is the word for Bedouins.

00:57:30 --> 00:57:33

I'm sorry, here, from Badi, Bedouin.

00:57:33 --> 00:57:35

In Arabic, Bedouin.

00:57:35 --> 00:57:37

English, Bedouins.

00:57:37 --> 00:57:39

You see, they almost sound the same.

00:57:40 --> 00:57:43

So, Bedouins, everybody knows what Bedouins are?

00:57:43 --> 00:57:45

Just the people who live away from the

00:57:45 --> 00:57:46

city.

00:57:46 --> 00:57:48

In any country, in any culture, wherever.

00:57:49 --> 00:57:53

People that live away from congestion, but specifically

00:57:53 --> 00:57:54

live away from the city.

00:57:55 --> 00:58:00

Whatever city that is populated, businesses, buildings, just

00:58:00 --> 00:58:03

really busy in general, that's usually where Bedouins

00:58:03 --> 00:58:05

try to stay away from.

00:58:06 --> 00:58:08

And they live a much more simplistic life.

00:58:08 --> 00:58:10

Does that sound attractive to you?

00:58:13 --> 00:58:16

Because, you know why I ask you?

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Who is the only group of believers that

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would come to the Prophet ﷺ, ask him

00:58:26 --> 00:58:30

things, genuinely ask him a question about something,

00:58:30 --> 00:58:35

but they would be very insensitive and rude

00:58:35 --> 00:58:38

in their method of asking.

00:58:39 --> 00:58:41

Hey, Rasulullah, what do you think about, what's

00:58:41 --> 00:58:42

the ruling on this?

00:58:42 --> 00:58:46

As opposed to, Ya Rasulullah, can I ask

00:58:46 --> 00:58:47

you a question?

00:58:48 --> 00:58:49

And then this is the question, can you

00:58:49 --> 00:58:51

explain to me the ruling, what will happen

00:58:51 --> 00:58:52

in this case and that?

00:58:53 --> 00:58:53

Bedouins don't do that.

00:58:54 --> 00:58:57

They would call the Prophet ﷺ Ya Muhammad,

00:58:57 --> 00:58:58

call him by his name.

00:58:59 --> 00:59:02

Never ever does Aisha, his own wife, radiAllahu

00:59:02 --> 00:59:04

a'lam, call the Prophet ﷺ by his

00:59:04 --> 00:59:04

name.

00:59:06 --> 00:59:09

There isn't a single hadith of her calling

00:59:09 --> 00:59:10

her husband by his name.

00:59:12 --> 00:59:14

She always refers to him as the Prophet

00:59:14 --> 00:59:16

of Allah, Rasulullah, or Nabiullah.

00:59:17 --> 00:59:20

So, this comes with its own consequence.

00:59:20 --> 00:59:22

On the one hand, it's a very simplistic

00:59:22 --> 00:59:26

life, but on the other, that interaction with

00:59:26 --> 00:59:30

people, different cultures, mannerisms, backgrounds, etc, etc, all

00:59:30 --> 00:59:30

of that's lost.

00:59:31 --> 00:59:34

So then you have a really really big

00:59:34 --> 00:59:36

problem with respect to etiquette and things like

00:59:36 --> 00:59:37

that.

00:59:37 --> 00:59:41

So, again, another example, the believer has to

00:59:41 --> 00:59:42

have balance in this.

00:59:42 --> 00:59:44

There's no problem if you want to go

00:59:44 --> 00:59:45

live in the jungle somewhere.

00:59:46 --> 00:59:48

Once in a while, come to the grocery

00:59:48 --> 00:59:48

store in the city.

00:59:49 --> 00:59:52

Come and be amongst people, because that's part

00:59:52 --> 00:59:53

of the Sunnah.

00:59:53 --> 00:59:56

Prophet ﷺ used to herd sheep, he was

00:59:56 --> 00:59:57

a shepherd.

00:59:57 --> 01:00:00

You do that in the Bedouin lifestyle.

01:00:01 --> 01:00:04

And then, obviously, you know, he lived and

01:00:04 --> 01:00:07

he was very busy and interact with everyone

01:00:07 --> 01:00:09

in Medina and Mecca.

01:00:11 --> 01:00:15

يَسْأَلُونَ عَنْ أَنْبَاءِكُمْ Only asking for news about

01:00:15 --> 01:00:17

you believers.

01:00:17 --> 01:00:18

Who's asking?

01:00:19 --> 01:00:20

The same hypocrites.

01:00:20 --> 01:00:23

So if another battle was to come by

01:00:23 --> 01:00:26

and their Mushrikun came a second time, all

01:00:26 --> 01:00:28

they care about is, what are you going

01:00:28 --> 01:00:28

to do?

01:00:29 --> 01:00:30

What are you going to do?

01:00:30 --> 01:00:32

Remember what happened the last time?

01:00:32 --> 01:00:33

You're going to do that again?

01:00:34 --> 01:00:38

That very common trait.

01:00:39 --> 01:00:41

So even if there's nothing to be afraid

01:00:41 --> 01:00:45

of, nothing to worry about, the Munafiqun always

01:00:45 --> 01:00:50

have a door open to continue to persist

01:00:50 --> 01:00:51

their Fitnah.

01:00:52 --> 01:00:53

If there is no door open, you know

01:00:53 --> 01:00:54

what they do?

01:00:54 --> 01:00:56

They build their own door.

01:00:57 --> 01:01:02

They'll create something and go from there.

01:01:03 --> 01:01:08

وَلَوْ كَانُوا فِيكُمْ مَا قَاتَلُوا إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And

01:01:08 --> 01:01:10

if the hypocrites were in your midst, they

01:01:10 --> 01:01:12

would hardly take part in the fight, which

01:01:12 --> 01:01:13

we've already discussed.

01:01:14 --> 01:01:17

فَقَدِ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنًا

01:01:18 --> 01:01:21

This ayah is really, really important, okay?

01:01:21 --> 01:01:23

Because now it's going to switch to the

01:01:23 --> 01:01:24

Prophet ﷺ.

01:01:25 --> 01:01:27

We're going to step out of Ahzab for

01:01:27 --> 01:01:27

a moment.

01:01:28 --> 01:01:30

We're not done with the conversation of Ahzab,

01:01:30 --> 01:01:31

but we're going to step out of it.

01:01:32 --> 01:01:35

Why, first and foremost, does Allah do this?

01:01:36 --> 01:01:40

We're talking about مُنَافِق مُنَافِق مُنَافِق مُنَافِق Listen

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to the لَقَدِ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ

01:01:43 --> 01:01:48

Indeed, in the messenger of Allah, أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنًا

01:01:48 --> 01:01:53

You have an excellent example for whoever has

01:01:53 --> 01:01:54

hope in Allah and last day.

01:01:56 --> 01:01:59

Why this ayah here?

01:01:59 --> 01:02:01

Sounds like it was misplaced.

01:02:02 --> 01:02:03

Why does Allah...

01:02:03 --> 01:02:05

Almost every surah has this.

01:02:06 --> 01:02:08

Allah will talk about one subject, He will

01:02:08 --> 01:02:11

interrupt it with a completely different ayah and

01:02:11 --> 01:02:12

then come back to that subject.

01:02:12 --> 01:02:13

Why does this happen?

01:02:14 --> 01:02:16

If you've ever studied like storytelling, you should

01:02:16 --> 01:02:18

have an idea why this happens.

01:02:19 --> 01:02:20

You were going to say something?

01:02:20 --> 01:02:23

Because they were trash-talking Rasulullah ﷺ so

01:02:23 --> 01:02:31

Allah wants to reaffirm his The honor and

01:02:31 --> 01:02:32

sort of protect him.

01:02:32 --> 01:02:32

Yeah.

01:02:34 --> 01:02:37

Why can't that happen after the commentary and

01:02:37 --> 01:02:39

the ayat about the مُنَافِق.

01:02:39 --> 01:02:42

Why in the middle this has to happen?

01:02:43 --> 01:02:47

Listen, if I came to you every single

01:02:47 --> 01:02:49

class and I just kept talking to you

01:02:49 --> 01:02:53

about all the terrible things that Muslims do.

01:02:53 --> 01:02:55

We Muslims can't never get things true.

01:02:55 --> 01:02:56

We always mess up.

01:02:57 --> 01:02:57

We lie.

01:02:57 --> 01:02:58

We cheat.

01:02:58 --> 01:02:59

We're so far from Allah.

01:02:59 --> 01:03:03

And I just do this fourth week, fifth

01:03:03 --> 01:03:03

week.

01:03:03 --> 01:03:05

As a matter of fact, every khutbah you

01:03:05 --> 01:03:09

heard from Musleh Khan in 2024 was always

01:03:09 --> 01:03:10

problems and complaints.

01:03:11 --> 01:03:12

He makes me feel miserable.

01:03:12 --> 01:03:14

I don't want to listen to him no

01:03:14 --> 01:03:14

more.

01:03:15 --> 01:03:17

If I did that, do you see what

01:03:17 --> 01:03:18

the result is?

01:03:18 --> 01:03:21

Yeah, and it makes the audience feel what?

01:03:22 --> 01:03:24

They get miserable.

01:03:25 --> 01:03:28

They become bored, less interested.

01:03:30 --> 01:03:32

I don't want to listen to this talk

01:03:32 --> 01:03:32

so much.

01:03:33 --> 01:03:35

Let's just skip these ayat.

01:03:35 --> 01:03:36

Go to the next one.

01:03:37 --> 01:03:40

So when this happens, this is Allah subhanahu

01:03:40 --> 01:03:43

wa ta'ala just sort of picking us

01:03:43 --> 01:03:44

out of that subject for a moment.

01:03:45 --> 01:03:49

Being some nice, comfortable area or a setting.

01:03:49 --> 01:03:52

And in this case, the person that they

01:03:52 --> 01:03:56

keep insulting and backbiting and saying awful things

01:03:56 --> 01:04:00

to and betraying, you need to remind yourself

01:04:00 --> 01:04:01

who this man is.

01:04:02 --> 01:04:03

Now put this into context.

01:04:04 --> 01:04:09

If you followed every single ayah, it seems

01:04:09 --> 01:04:13

like the munafiqun are sort of like in

01:04:13 --> 01:04:13

front.

01:04:13 --> 01:04:16

They're the center of attention.

01:04:16 --> 01:04:20

And the Muslims and Islam, they're just a

01:04:20 --> 01:04:23

bunch of old-fashioned, archaic, out-of-tune

01:04:23 --> 01:04:24

group of people.

01:04:25 --> 01:04:25

Forget about them.

01:04:26 --> 01:04:29

When you talk and over-talk one subject,

01:04:29 --> 01:04:32

the consequence of that is you forget everything

01:04:32 --> 01:04:32

else.

01:04:32 --> 01:04:34

You're focused on this one thing.

01:04:35 --> 01:04:37

So for us to break out of that

01:04:37 --> 01:04:39

and not just think about all of these

01:04:39 --> 01:04:42

negative awful things about the Prophet, so that

01:04:42 --> 01:04:46

we don't develop the same thinking and perspective

01:04:46 --> 01:04:47

about him, Allah interrupts.

01:04:48 --> 01:04:49

What does He tell us?

01:04:49 --> 01:04:51

The 100% complete opposite of what's being

01:04:51 --> 01:04:52

said about him.

01:04:52 --> 01:04:55

The messenger of Allah, he's Uswatun Hasra.

01:04:55 --> 01:04:59

Take a look at what this word means.

01:05:00 --> 01:05:03

The messenger cares deeply for you.

01:05:04 --> 01:05:09

Uswa from Muasat, he has compassion and feeling

01:05:09 --> 01:05:09

for one another.

01:05:10 --> 01:05:12

The hypocrites were saying, oh, you don't even

01:05:12 --> 01:05:13

care about what we're saying.

01:05:13 --> 01:05:14

You don't care about how we feel.

01:05:15 --> 01:05:17

You're still going to make this battle go

01:05:17 --> 01:05:17

on.

01:05:17 --> 01:05:18

We still have to dig the trench?

01:05:19 --> 01:05:21

Can't we just move from Medina?

01:05:21 --> 01:05:22

Go somewhere else?

01:05:23 --> 01:05:25

Can you get the stronger ones, let the

01:05:25 --> 01:05:27

youngsters start digging?

01:05:28 --> 01:05:29

Why does it have to be us?

01:05:30 --> 01:05:35

So Muasat is when you describe somebody, and

01:05:35 --> 01:05:38

these are the qualities that are highlighted.

01:05:38 --> 01:05:42

These are the qualities about him, that stand

01:05:42 --> 01:05:43

out the most.

01:05:43 --> 01:05:45

The first is the compassion.

01:05:46 --> 01:05:47

You know an ayah that highlights this.

01:05:48 --> 01:05:52

وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ We never sent

01:05:52 --> 01:05:53

you except that you were a mercy to

01:05:53 --> 01:05:53

mankind.

01:05:54 --> 01:05:56

One of the meanings of mercy is being

01:05:56 --> 01:05:58

compassionate, soft, gentle, kind.

01:05:59 --> 01:06:02

And you genuinely act that way because you

01:06:02 --> 01:06:03

really care.

01:06:03 --> 01:06:06

Everybody, we all know people that pretend to

01:06:06 --> 01:06:08

be nice, that pretend to have compassion.

01:06:08 --> 01:06:10

Oh yes, our hearts are with them.

01:06:11 --> 01:06:15

It's the weirdest thing that people say when

01:06:15 --> 01:06:17

somebody passes away or when there's some kind

01:06:17 --> 01:06:17

of devastation.

01:06:18 --> 01:06:19

Our hearts are with you.

01:06:19 --> 01:06:20

My condolences.

01:06:20 --> 01:06:22

I get what you're trying to say, but

01:06:22 --> 01:06:25

for the believer, we don't stop with condolences.

01:06:25 --> 01:06:26

What do we do instead?

01:06:27 --> 01:06:29

What does condolence even mean?

01:06:30 --> 01:06:32

When I say my condolences, what am I

01:06:32 --> 01:06:33

saying?

01:06:33 --> 01:06:38

No, surely one of you must know this.

01:06:42 --> 01:06:46

When you're sending your condolences, your thoughts, your

01:06:46 --> 01:06:47

support.

01:06:47 --> 01:06:50

Hey, I'm thinking about you in this difficult

01:06:50 --> 01:06:53

time that you're alone in your house going

01:06:53 --> 01:06:56

through depression and wanting to just do awful

01:06:56 --> 01:06:56

things to you.

01:06:56 --> 01:06:57

I just want you to know I'm thinking

01:06:57 --> 01:06:58

about you, okay?

01:06:59 --> 01:07:01

Tweet or X, whatever it is, right?

01:07:02 --> 01:07:07

So مُؤَسَّة There's no condolences here.

01:07:08 --> 01:07:10

The best thing and the most important thing

01:07:10 --> 01:07:13

you should say instead of condolences, just say

01:07:13 --> 01:07:15

we pray and I want to make it.

01:07:15 --> 01:07:17

Say the actual thing you feel.

01:07:18 --> 01:07:20

So when we say your condolences, we're saying

01:07:20 --> 01:07:23

to that person we're thinking about you and

01:07:23 --> 01:07:24

we're hoping the best for you.

01:07:25 --> 01:07:28

The believer expresses that through dua.

01:07:29 --> 01:07:31

Oh, I pray that Allah gives you the

01:07:31 --> 01:07:31

best.

01:07:31 --> 01:07:34

I pray that Allah keeps you strong.

01:07:34 --> 01:07:37

So when you use those generic terms, the

01:07:37 --> 01:07:41

believer to convince the other that you're genuine

01:07:41 --> 01:07:43

and you're not just following along with the

01:07:43 --> 01:07:46

words of others, that's what the Prophet Ali

01:07:46 --> 01:07:46

said.

01:07:46 --> 01:07:47

That's مُؤَسَّة.

01:07:47 --> 01:07:50

He doesn't just like have this routine of

01:07:50 --> 01:07:51

caring about people.

01:07:52 --> 01:07:54

Every single one of them, he cares about

01:07:54 --> 01:07:56

them on a very personal level.

01:07:57 --> 01:07:59

You know, there's a famous young companion.

01:07:59 --> 01:08:06

His name was Thabit Ibn Abdurrahman رضي الله

01:08:06 --> 01:08:07

عنه.

01:08:08 --> 01:08:11

Thabit was a young boy in his early

01:08:11 --> 01:08:14

teens and he was a messenger for the

01:08:14 --> 01:08:14

messenger Ali.

01:08:15 --> 01:08:17

So when the Prophet needed to write a

01:08:17 --> 01:08:19

note and he needed to be mailed to

01:08:19 --> 01:08:23

another home, Thabit was the delivery boy.

01:08:24 --> 01:08:25

So you'll give him and he would just

01:08:25 --> 01:08:28

run around and go and find whoever and

01:08:28 --> 01:08:29

deliver that message to them.

01:08:30 --> 01:08:33

So my point here is this when Thabit

01:08:33 --> 01:08:37

died, he died on the lap of the

01:08:37 --> 01:08:37

Prophet Ali.

01:08:39 --> 01:08:44

And his story is incredibly profound but the

01:08:44 --> 01:08:46

point is on the day of his janazah

01:08:47 --> 01:08:51

the Prophet Ali was seen by Umar.

01:08:51 --> 01:08:53

He was walking on his tiptoes.

01:08:53 --> 01:08:57

He was tiptoeing around the cemetery.

01:08:58 --> 01:09:00

So Umar رضي الله عنه asked him Ya

01:09:00 --> 01:09:03

Rasool Allah, there is so much space.

01:09:03 --> 01:09:05

وَالنَّاسُ قَدْ أَوْسَعُوا لَكَ.

01:09:05 --> 01:09:07

Like we've made so much space for you

01:09:07 --> 01:09:08

to move around.

01:09:08 --> 01:09:10

Why are you walking like as if there's

01:09:10 --> 01:09:11

no space at all?

01:09:12 --> 01:09:14

And he tells Umar رضي الله عنه that

01:09:14 --> 01:09:17

I'm doing this because there are so many

01:09:17 --> 01:09:21

angels here present at the janazah of Thabit

01:09:22 --> 01:09:24

that I don't want to overstep any of

01:09:24 --> 01:09:24

them.

01:09:25 --> 01:09:28

So my point here is that somebody a

01:09:28 --> 01:09:30

young boy, the Prophet Ali رضي الله عنه

01:09:30 --> 01:09:34

keeps that close to him and cares and

01:09:34 --> 01:09:38

loves and supports very deeply for all of

01:09:38 --> 01:09:39

all of his followers.

01:09:39 --> 01:09:40

That's Muasad.

01:09:41 --> 01:09:43

Does the Prophet Ali رضي الله عنه remember

01:09:43 --> 01:09:44

us as well me and you?

01:09:47 --> 01:09:47

How?

01:09:50 --> 01:09:52

Everything I've told you so far, our companions

01:09:52 --> 01:09:52

have passed away.

01:09:52 --> 01:09:53

So what about me and you?

01:09:54 --> 01:09:56

It's like ah, too bad you weren't there.

01:09:57 --> 01:10:01

There are several, several hadith of the Prophet

01:10:01 --> 01:10:06

رضي الله عنه making dua that Allah gives

01:10:06 --> 01:10:14

success to the ummah and specifically those that

01:10:14 --> 01:10:17

believe in me who come after me.

01:10:17 --> 01:10:19

So the Prophet رضي الله عنه makes dua

01:10:19 --> 01:10:19

for all of us.

01:10:20 --> 01:10:21

He's already done that.

01:10:22 --> 01:10:23

And as a matter of fact he once

01:10:23 --> 01:10:26

told Aisha رضي الله عنها, I make this

01:10:26 --> 01:10:32

dua for Allah to forgive and to forgive

01:10:32 --> 01:10:35

and enter into Jannah all those who follow

01:10:35 --> 01:10:37

me those who have met me and those

01:10:37 --> 01:10:40

who haven't I do this every single salah.

01:10:42 --> 01:10:44

So it's amazing to know that the Prophet

01:10:44 --> 01:10:46

Ali صلى الله عليه وسلم prayed for me

01:10:46 --> 01:10:47

and he prayed for you.

01:10:48 --> 01:10:50

Like it's just, that's all Muasad.

01:10:51 --> 01:10:54

So he's told أسوة حسنة When you think

01:10:54 --> 01:10:57

Muasad is great another word to describe.

01:10:58 --> 01:10:59

حسنة We all know what حسنة is.

01:11:00 --> 01:11:00

What's حسنة?

01:11:01 --> 01:11:02

You get one حسنة.

01:11:02 --> 01:11:02

What do you get?

01:11:04 --> 01:11:07

Okay, so what is like أجر?

01:11:07 --> 01:11:08

You get one أجر.

01:11:09 --> 01:11:09

What is that?

01:11:12 --> 01:11:14

They're both blessings but what are the what's

01:11:14 --> 01:11:15

the difference?

01:11:15 --> 01:11:17

ثواب That's also a blessing.

01:11:17 --> 01:11:18

What is the difference between all of these

01:11:18 --> 01:11:19

words?

01:11:19 --> 01:11:21

You see these are words we use all

01:11:21 --> 01:11:24

the time but they highlight very specific things.

01:11:25 --> 01:11:33

حسنة is the purest and highest and greatest

01:11:34 --> 01:11:35

level of return.

01:11:36 --> 01:11:39

So a hundred percent I give you, Allah

01:11:39 --> 01:11:42

says you get one حسنة meaning you'll get

01:11:42 --> 01:11:43

one hundred and more.

01:11:45 --> 01:11:47

أجر you get the portion.

01:11:47 --> 01:11:50

So like if you recite one ayah what's

01:11:50 --> 01:11:53

the reward for reciting one letter of the

01:11:53 --> 01:11:53

Quran?

01:11:54 --> 01:11:57

You get ten ten rewards or ten حسنات

01:11:57 --> 01:12:02

but أجر if I just like open the

01:12:02 --> 01:12:04

door, I get a reward for opening that

01:12:04 --> 01:12:04

door.

01:12:05 --> 01:12:07

If my intention was to open the door

01:12:07 --> 01:12:09

and keep it open and let everybody come

01:12:09 --> 01:12:11

through and so on, that refers to as

01:12:11 --> 01:12:12

a حسن.

01:12:12 --> 01:12:14

So أجر is like a portion.

01:12:14 --> 01:12:16

حسنة is the complete thing and more.

01:12:17 --> 01:12:22

So أسوة حسنة now put this together describing

01:12:22 --> 01:12:27

the Prophet ﷺ he's not just kind sometimes

01:12:27 --> 01:12:29

when he's in a good mood, when you've

01:12:29 --> 01:12:31

done something for him.

01:12:32 --> 01:12:37

He's kind and compassionate all the time.

01:12:37 --> 01:12:38

It never stops.

01:12:40 --> 01:12:44

لمن كان يرجو الله واليوم الآخر وذكر الله

01:12:44 --> 01:12:49

كثيرا You wanna be somebody like the Prophet

01:12:49 --> 01:12:51

ﷺ I mean no one will ever be

01:12:51 --> 01:12:54

like him but if you wanna follow some

01:12:54 --> 01:12:58

of the things that he was this ayah

01:12:58 --> 01:13:01

here, you need these three things.

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Number one you need to have and never

01:13:04 --> 01:13:05

lose hope in Allah.

01:13:05 --> 01:13:09

Number two, you need to be firm in

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your belief and seriousness of the Day of

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Judgment and everything that it represents.

01:13:15 --> 01:13:20

And number three وذكر الله كثيرا We're gonna

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talk a lot about dhikr of Allah in

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this surah.

01:13:22 --> 01:13:24

Because it comes up quite a bit.

01:13:26 --> 01:13:28

So we're gonna have a whole session of

01:13:28 --> 01:13:31

everything about dhikr.

01:13:31 --> 01:13:37

أسوة care, love and courtesy أسوة, also these

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are all three different forms of the same

01:13:40 --> 01:13:40

word.

01:13:40 --> 01:13:42

These are all أسوة but then you have

01:13:42 --> 01:13:46

مؤسات, you have أسي, you have أسوة so

01:13:46 --> 01:13:48

all of these are different forms, same word

01:13:48 --> 01:13:49

but they're highlighting different things.

01:13:50 --> 01:13:53

So if you say أسي, like أسية, somebody

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who takes care of you.

01:13:56 --> 01:13:57

Okay?

01:13:57 --> 01:13:59

That's what so everybody knows what the name

01:13:59 --> 01:14:00

أسية is, right?

01:14:00 --> 01:14:01

Somebody who takes care of you.

01:14:02 --> 01:14:03

Why does she have that title?

01:14:07 --> 01:14:10

And you know, she also at one point

01:14:10 --> 01:14:11

took care of Firaun, right?

01:14:11 --> 01:14:12

She did a lot for him as well

01:14:12 --> 01:14:16

but specifically because of the nurture that she

01:14:16 --> 01:14:18

gave to Musa Alayhissalam.

01:14:18 --> 01:14:19

I feel like you want to ask me

01:14:19 --> 01:14:20

something, so go ahead.

01:14:25 --> 01:14:25

Yeah.

01:14:29 --> 01:14:33

So, in some cultures yeah, it carries a

01:14:33 --> 01:14:34

very different meaning.

01:14:36 --> 01:14:37

So what do you do?

01:14:38 --> 01:14:41

أسية for us is not the same for

01:14:41 --> 01:14:42

other religions.

01:14:43 --> 01:14:46

So that's why the علماء they still discourage

01:14:46 --> 01:14:46

it.

01:14:47 --> 01:14:49

They still discourage it but you can't say

01:14:49 --> 01:14:51

that somebody with that name okay, this is

01:14:51 --> 01:14:52

haram.

01:14:52 --> 01:14:53

You need to change your name.

01:14:53 --> 01:14:53

No.

01:14:55 --> 01:14:55

Right?

01:14:56 --> 01:14:57

Yeah.

01:14:58 --> 01:15:00

And that's why you can't, you wouldn't that's

01:15:00 --> 01:15:03

why I would never teach anybody or say

01:15:03 --> 01:15:06

to anybody that this is across the board,

01:15:06 --> 01:15:08

that this is not a pleasant name to

01:15:08 --> 01:15:08

have.

01:15:09 --> 01:15:11

You have to remember when it comes to

01:15:11 --> 01:15:14

Arabic names they never carry just one meaning.

01:15:16 --> 01:15:16

Okay?

01:15:16 --> 01:15:18

They're always look at my name, my name

01:15:18 --> 01:15:19

is Khan.

01:15:19 --> 01:15:20

I told you guys what my last name

01:15:20 --> 01:15:21

meant right?

01:15:22 --> 01:15:24

Like I feel ashamed of myself when I

01:15:24 --> 01:15:25

have to say to like an Arab, you

01:15:25 --> 01:15:26

know, my name is Khan.

01:15:27 --> 01:15:29

But in other cultures and in other languages

01:15:30 --> 01:15:31

it's the complete opposite.

01:15:34 --> 01:15:36

Let's see here let's finish up with this

01:15:36 --> 01:15:38

last point and then we're done.

01:15:38 --> 01:15:40

The hardest thing a father says to his

01:15:40 --> 01:15:45

children take a look Fatima radiyallahu anha once

01:15:45 --> 01:15:47

showed him her hands and it was all

01:15:47 --> 01:15:50

blistered from trying to make some bread.

01:15:51 --> 01:15:54

She came to her father because she ran

01:15:54 --> 01:15:59

out of ingredients and so she asked if

01:15:59 --> 01:16:00

he had anything that she could take what

01:16:00 --> 01:16:01

was happening here?

01:16:02 --> 01:16:04

Sometimes the Prophet ﷺ would come and visit

01:16:04 --> 01:16:08

Fatima radiyallahu anha and just keep in mind

01:16:08 --> 01:16:12

out of all of his children Fatima is

01:16:12 --> 01:16:16

different like she's a different person to him

01:16:16 --> 01:16:17

and to all of us.

01:16:17 --> 01:16:20

She carries a different status and honor and

01:16:20 --> 01:16:23

love and connection like no other.

01:16:23 --> 01:16:27

So when Fatima knows the Prophet ﷺ is

01:16:27 --> 01:16:29

coming to visit her the first thing she

01:16:29 --> 01:16:31

does is she goes and she tries to

01:16:31 --> 01:16:35

prepare him something but Subhanallah she didn't have

01:16:35 --> 01:16:38

enough ingredients to prepare enough for her father

01:16:38 --> 01:16:43

she only had enough for herself so she

01:16:43 --> 01:16:46

went over to him and asked him if

01:16:46 --> 01:16:49

he had some extra so that she can

01:16:49 --> 01:16:51

have for herself when he comes by that

01:16:51 --> 01:16:53

she can offer she didn't want to be

01:16:53 --> 01:16:56

in a position not to be able to

01:16:56 --> 01:17:00

offer her father enough like that's that's a

01:17:00 --> 01:17:03

different kind of relationship so she just came

01:17:03 --> 01:17:06

you know dad, ya Rasulullah do you have

01:17:06 --> 01:17:09

like some extra bread you have parsley or

01:17:09 --> 01:17:14

something that I can have Prophet ﷺ most

01:17:14 --> 01:17:17

of the time never had anything this ayah

01:17:17 --> 01:17:19

is mentioned in the middle of the toughest

01:17:19 --> 01:17:23

times the toughest test the Prophet ﷺ even

01:17:23 --> 01:17:26

the most darkest times of his prophethood is

01:17:26 --> 01:17:28

still the best example that's the prime message

01:17:28 --> 01:17:35

of this ayah now after this inshallah we

01:17:35 --> 01:17:39

come to the end we come to the

01:17:39 --> 01:17:43

end of the conversation of Al-Ahzab there

01:17:43 --> 01:17:46

might be about one or two verses that

01:17:46 --> 01:17:49

might make reference to him but this is

01:17:49 --> 01:17:51

going to slowly transition to the next subject

01:17:52 --> 01:17:55

and every single ayah we will be pausing

01:17:55 --> 01:17:58

and trying to extrapolate as much as possible

01:17:58 --> 01:18:03

just because these ayahs here are very practical

01:18:03 --> 01:18:05

and relevant to our day to day life

01:18:05 --> 01:18:08

we want to try to absorb as much

01:18:08 --> 01:18:11

of the lessons in these ayahs as possible

01:18:12 --> 01:18:15

so you can have a glimpse of next

01:18:15 --> 01:18:20

week's ayah just a glimpse that's all you

01:18:20 --> 01:18:27

get you see this quote that I put

01:18:27 --> 01:18:30

here for those of you who don't want

01:18:30 --> 01:18:33

to capture you can do that a believer

01:18:33 --> 01:18:36

sees the prediction of Islam good or bad

01:18:36 --> 01:18:39

as a miracle from Allah in contrast to

01:18:39 --> 01:18:42

the disbeliever that sees the bad as bad

01:18:42 --> 01:18:46

as just trouble the point here, I guess

01:18:46 --> 01:18:59

we can conclude with this one we

01:18:59 --> 01:19:02

will start this but basically the believers now

01:19:02 --> 01:19:05

when they saw the battle of Ahzab beginning

01:19:05 --> 01:19:07

and they saw the Mushrikoon coming, you know

01:19:07 --> 01:19:12

what they started doing they said Alhamdulillah the

01:19:12 --> 01:19:15

Prophet Isa's prediction was right look, they're all

01:19:15 --> 01:19:17

coming with their swords and they're marching towards

01:19:17 --> 01:19:23

us Alhamdulillah who does that in the face

01:19:23 --> 01:19:27

of trouble Alhamdulillah oh my god I'm so

01:19:27 --> 01:19:30

glad this is a miracle from Allah what

01:19:30 --> 01:19:34

did they say this is what Allah and

01:19:34 --> 01:19:36

His Messenger had promised us the promise of

01:19:36 --> 01:19:40

Allah and His Messenger came through and what

01:19:40 --> 01:19:42

is the result look what happened to them,

01:19:42 --> 01:19:46

the companions this only increased their Iman and

01:19:46 --> 01:19:50

their obedience Taslimah is the word for obedience

01:19:50 --> 01:19:53

here, you know Taslim from Salam when you

01:19:53 --> 01:19:56

say Salam what do you mean when you

01:19:56 --> 01:19:57

say Salam to somebody what does that mean

01:19:58 --> 01:20:04

peace their Iman got stronger and they felt

01:20:04 --> 01:20:08

more peace in their heart when they saw

01:20:08 --> 01:20:11

the war is about to begin who thinks

01:20:11 --> 01:20:18

like that only companions do that they saw

01:20:18 --> 01:20:22

the prediction of the Prophet as a miracle

01:20:22 --> 01:20:26

even when the Prophet explained to them this

01:20:26 --> 01:20:29

was going to happen they were overjoyed we

01:20:29 --> 01:20:33

have to talk about why this happened, where

01:20:33 --> 01:20:35

it comes from and is this something that

01:20:35 --> 01:20:38

you and I can practice or should practice

01:20:38 --> 01:20:42

today that in the face of trouble can

01:20:42 --> 01:20:45

you respond in the way the companions did

01:20:45 --> 01:20:48

or was this exclusive for just them or

01:20:48 --> 01:20:50

this situation we have to talk about this

01:20:50 --> 01:20:53

because this is important for us to see

01:20:53 --> 01:20:58

perhaps another degree of Iman that maybe many

01:20:58 --> 01:21:02

of us have never thought of or even

01:21:02 --> 01:21:06

experienced ok, so we will leave that conversation

01:21:06 --> 01:21:08

Insha Allah for next week Subhanaka Allahumma wa

01:21:08 --> 01:21:11

bihamdika ashara wa la ilaha ila anta astaghfiruka

01:21:11 --> 01:21:13

wa atubu ilayh and that is where you

01:21:13 --> 01:21:15

see the quote in blue that is why

01:21:15 --> 01:21:19

it is there ok, Assalamu Alaikum does anybody

01:21:19 --> 01:21:20

have any questions?

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