Musleh Khan – Appreciating the Prophets Legacy – Al-Ahzaab Unveiled – Class 10
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The importance of consistency and protecting one's mental health and disability is emphasized in Islam, as it is crucial for everyone to have healthy relationships with their partner and avoid confusion and misunderstandings. The segment also touches on the importance of fulfilling a woman's desire for a hoop and not giving back at the beginning of marriage. Additionally, Speaker emphasizes the importance of not fulfilling the Prophet's stance on marriage, as it is common among believers.
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So scholars, remember we went through several things.
Scholars, one opinion states that it's Fajr time
and then Asr all the way till the
end of the night.
Another interpretation is Sabihu, Bukratan is referring to
the morning period before Fajr, so the Tahajjud
time, and Asila, the rest of your day.
So after Fajr, you start your day.
Basically, the end of the day, the ayah
is calling all of us to remember Allah
as much as possible.
Ibn Abbas said that this is one of
the few areas in our deen that Allah
did not put any limitation to.
He did not restrict how much adhkar one
should do on a daily basis.
It's really up to you.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Yeah, so you know sisters mentioning here, so
we you know how we have duas for
everything?
We have duas to waking up, when we
go to sleep, go in the bathroom, come
out of the bathroom, get dressed, go to
the mall, go to the store, buy something,
eat something, before and after.
We have a dua for literally every single
thing.
Do you know one reason why we're put
through that regimen every single day of our
lives, where we're constantly repeating duas?
Do you know the deeper wisdom what that's
supposed to achieve?
It keeps you connected absolutely 100%, but there's
a deeper wisdom.
It attacks something that is often very difficult
for the believer to do, and that is
it constantly constantly purifies the heart.
Okay, so when you have a dua for
everything, what you're doing is you're cleansing your
heart, you're cleansing your mind from useless information
and garbage that we hear or we see
on a daily basis.
That's what those duas do.
So it's a great litmus test for you,
that if you're struggling with the dhikr of
Allah, just ask yourself how consistent are you
with these duas that we're encouraged to say
throughout our day?
Yes, yes, absolutely.
Surah An-Nur, Surah Al-Baqarah has some
verses about that, and Surah Ali Imran, Allah
calls these people, this group of people that
are constantly cleansing their heart, they're called the
people of Al-Baab.
Okay, Inna fee khalqis samawati wal ardi wa
akhtilafi allayli wal nahari la ayati li uli
al albaab.
Al-Baab are people that are constantly working
on themselves, purifying their heart, their soul, their
minds, their life, so that they maintain a
strong connection with their Creator.
Every single one of us should try and
strive to be and remain amongst the people
of Al-Baab.
Okay, huwa allathee yusalli alaykum wa malaikatuhu li
yukhrijakum min al-dhulumati wa ila al-nur
wa kaana lilmu'umeena raheema.
Okay, this ayah, I believe we touched on
this, didn't we?
It's fairly straightforward.
He is the one who showers his blessings
upon you.
huwa allathee yusalli alaykum.
So Allah is the one that showers his
blessings on us.
It sounds pretty straightforward.
Why are we being reminded of something that
is standard that we've heard throughout the Qur
'an?
Blessings come from Allah.
Why are we being reminded about this now?
And the reason I'm asking this, often students
of the Qur'an, when they come across
verses that are saying certain things that they've
read several times or they've always known, they
tend to sort of gloss over it and
just recite and move on to something else.
So why does Allah do that?
Tell us sometimes the most basic, basic, gives
us the most basic knowledge, things that we've
known since the very beginning of the Qur
'an.
What's the wisdom behind doing this?
And this happens throughout the Qur'an.
You'll see as you read, you'll come across
a verse that says, ittaqullah.
You heard to have taqwa of Allah since
the beginning of the Qur'an.
Then you will hear, alhamdulillah, sabaha lillah.
You'll hear these terms that we've been listening
to all this time.
What's the wisdom behind that?
Usually when people...
So here's another reason that when your dhikr
is interrupted or it's paused, is also an
indication that you need to go back and
master the basics.
So you have to go back and reassess
and look at what your knowledge is about
this deen, especially the fundamentals.
How many pillars of Islam do we have?
How many pillars of Iman do we have?
Six.
You start with these two.
And to perfect them means to understand what
they are, the implications, what the ulama, the
Prophet ﷺ, all the knowledge that we have
with this.
When you do that, then you start to
reignite, but you do it in such a
way that it starts on a strong foundation.
So when you see verses like this, this
is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's way of
teaching us, don't forget your basic fundamentals.
Don't forget that stuff.
Don't think that if you reach a certain
level, then all of this knowledge when you
were five and ten years old have expired
now.
No, it's part of your journey.
It's part of your life.
So Allah reminds us that He's the one,
He's the one that is going to reign
blessings and honor on all of us.
And His angels will pray for you.
That's the bonus, by the way.
Now we have angels that also pray that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blesses us.
There's a very long hadith in Bukhari.
The Prophet ﷺ described to us that when
we remember Him, and we make dhikr of
Allah, Allah celebrates by informing His angels, so
-and-so of my servant has remembered me.
And He orders the angels to pass the
word around amongst themselves that so-and-so,
your name is mentioned, my name is mentioned,
that so-and-so has praised and remembered
Allah.
So now the angels are celebrating.
Then Allah will order the angels to go
and honor and bless the person to be
around people who are also doing the same
thing.
So you'll find that when you start remembering
Allah more, Allah puts you with the people
of dhikr.
You don't have to go and search for
them anymore.
That's one of the blessings that come along
with you, developing that consistent relationship.
Allah puts the right people around you.
So the angels here, that's amazing that Allah
would do that.
We don't even ask for that, but that's
the bonus.
لِيُخُرِجَكُم مِنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ This is the
number one most important reason why you must
have dhikr in your life.
لِيُخُرِجَكُم مِنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ So that you
are constantly being extracted from darkness.
الظُّلُمَاتِ comes from the word dhulm, which means
a shadow.
When you're in a dark room, can you
see anything?
That's called dhulm.
Linguistically, dhulm means that...
Do you guys remember what the word wisdom,
what it meant?
How does the sharia define wisdom?
Wisdom is that you put things in the
right place at the right time.
That's called wisdom.
You put things where they belong, and you
put them there at the right place and
at the right time.
You know what to say, when to say
it, and the right time to say it.
Dhulm is the opposite.
You're putting things and saying things at the
wrong place and at the wrong time.
So Allah says, I'm going to get you
out of there.
إِلَى النُّورِ And I'm going to give you
this nur.
What's the nur that Allah is referring to
here?
Is this the nur of like the sun?
Is this the nur of...
What is it?
The nur of guidance.
Okay, anything else?
Sahabahs, they understood this word nur as a
brilliance and a light that is illuminated from
you, the person, your face.
Listen, all of us here, and you probably
are one of them.
Somebody may look at you, and they just
see like, wow, there's something different about you.
And all of us here, when you meet
somebody, you know somebody that just by looking
at them, the way they smile, there's this
like brilliance that comes from them, their face
is beautiful.
And you can't explain why, but there's a
sense of warmth, and it's very welcoming.
And when they smile, like it's a beautiful
thing.
And all of this is part of the
light that Allah blesses you with when you're
constantly in dhikr.
So one interpretation of nur here is not
the blessing itself, but the after effects that's
physically on your body.
By the way, we should add, everybody know
about the sajdah mark?
Why is that there?
Just say, tell me what you've always known
about the sujood mark.
Friction, okay.
Anything else?
None of you have ever thought that, yeah?
Say again?
Okay, nur will shine out of there.
Have you heard this?
Man, you've got a beautiful sujood mark.
That's nur, Allah has blessed you.
And sometimes we'll refer to him, yeah, you
tell your daughter, yeah, I want you to
marry him.
And see the size of his sujood mark?
That covers his entire forehead.
This guy is amazing.
Yeah, all of that is completely false.
There is no such thing as a sajdah
mark.
Okay, there is no such thing.
You want to know the evidence for it?
Prophet ﷺ, how big was his sujood mark?
He didn't have any.
Zero.
That's it, case closed.
This sajdah or the darkness that develops there
is exactly what sister mentioned.
When you put your head on the floor,
on the carpet, on rocks, it's natural because
the skin on your face is so sensitive.
Like if you touch your face with dirty
hands, what ends up happening?
You'll start to see the world's biggest mashallah,
tabarakallah the next day, right?
So imagine now you put your forehead and
you're doing this several times every single day
for years.
It's natural that, you know, a layer of
skin would start to rub or the irritation
will begin.
But unfortunately, man, like everything else, time and
people just sort of translate things to what
they think it means and not what it
actually is.
وَكَانَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَحِيمًۭا And Allah ﷻ, we've talked
about mercy, so He is always merciful to
the believers.
تَحِيَّتُهُمْ يَوْمَ يَلْقَوْنَهُ سَلَامًۭ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُمْ أَجْرًا كَرِيمًۭا
Their greeting on the day they meet Him
ﷻ will be peace.
سَلَامٌ You know what's amazing?
Imagine, you know, we say salam to each
other.
Imagine when Allah gives us salam.
We're going to be greeted from as-salam
with the salam in daar salam, in the
place of salam.
Allah is, one of His names is as
-salam.
And we get salam from as-salam.
One of the names of Jannah is daar
salam.
So everything about the akhirah is all peaceful,
it's all salam.
So the first thing that happens is Allah
greets us this way.
That's actually the first of many virtues and
honor the believer experiences when the resurrection takes
place.
So Allah says, تَحِيَّتُهُمْ يَوْمَ يَلْقَوْنَهُ Pay attention
to this word here.
يَلْقَوْنَ It comes from the word لِقَاء لِقَاء
means to meet.
Here's the thing.
Ibn Qayyim said that this word, for it
to carry its full and complete definition, this
is a full meeting in person.
This is not like over the phone.
There's no barrier between you and the one
that you're meeting.
You actually see that person or you see
what is in front of you and you're
communicating with them.
So if Allah will give salam to us,
and the word that's used is that we
will meet him, put it together.
Is there a possibility this salam is given
to us and we will be meeting and
seeing Allah with our own very eyes?
It's a possibility.
So يَلْقَوْنَهُ It kind of hints to the
idea that we may actually be privileged to
see Allah in his true form, which is
a reminder for all of us, especially young
people these days, when the eyes are used
for things that are inappropriate or haram or
the person is careless with the eyes in
general, to take a moment and pause and
subhanAllah remind yourself that these are the same
eyes that I would possibly be able to
see Allah in his true form.
So take care of them and protect them.
وَأَعَدَّ لَهُمْ أَجْرًا كَرِيمًا And he has prepared
for them an honorable reward.
أَجْرًا كَرِيمًا A noble reward, a reward that
elevates you and raises you degrees upon degrees.
Allah will send salam to the people of
Jannah.
Who says salam first?
Like in general here in the sunnah, who
is required to say salam?
The child to the adult or the adult
to the child?
The youngsters or the child.
The sunnah is for the child to greet
the older or the elder.
The Prophet, does he initiate the salam to
his followers or they initiate the salam to
him?
General rule of thumb, yes, the Prophet ﷺ
would do that and prophets in general, right?
Because for them it's also a call of
da'wah and it's also a teaching.
It's an opportunity to teach and remind.
Elders in general, we said that the hadith
mentions very clearly that when you see elders,
you should always greet them.
Even if you don't know them.
Especially those who have like a disability.
The sunnah is when you see somebody in
a wheelchair or on crutches or they're blind
or something like that.
Prophet ﷺ would stop what he was doing,
right?
This Friday will be, there's going to be,
tomorrow there'll be a campaign talking about, yeah,
this is the month of mental health and
disability.
So there's going to be awareness about this
subject in the khutbas all over the country
tomorrow.
So just remember that the sunnah of our
Prophet ﷺ is he always prioritized the people
with disabilities over everyone else.
There's several, dozens, dozens of scenarios.
Like one time, a woman, she was known
to be, let's just say, out of control.
Right, she would be like shouting at the
Prophet ﷺ, Ya Rasulullah, where are you and
you have a question?
And she would do this in front of
the other companions she was really loud and
everybody in Medina knew her.
So some would see her and they're like,
okay, let's go the other way.
Yeah, they were treated like that.
Prophet ﷺ is standing with Umar, Abu Bakr,
all these great companions and he's having a
conversation with them.
This woman came in between all of them
and screamed, Ya Rasulullah, I have a question.
You know what the Prophet ﷺ did?
Imagine if we do this now.
Just imagine this happened now.
The Prophet ﷺ didn't reprimand or be like,
listen, that's inappropriate, don't interrupt, I'm busy with
something, I'll get to you after, have some
akhlaq, nothing.
You know what he does?
Tells everybody be quiet and he listens to
her.
And he asks her, she asks him to
make dua for her.
The Prophet ﷺ makes dua for her.
Another instance, a blind man, he used to
walk from a very far distance to pray
behind him ﷺ.
But his condition became so unbearable, so difficult,
he was restricted in his house.
He couldn't go to the haram, couldn't go
to the masjid anymore.
One day, he met the Prophet ﷺ.
He said, Ya Rasulullah, could you come to
my house and offer two raka'ats, any
spot that you want, so that I can
pray on the spot that you prayed in,
so I can feel connected to you.
You know the Prophet ﷺ does?
He says, okay.
Leaves all of his priorities for the entire
ummah, him and the rest of the companions,
so Abu Bakr and Umar, all three went
and found this man's home.
He walks into the man's house, he says,
where would you like for me to offer
these two raka'ats?
See the akhlaq?
He doesn't say, okay, that looks like a
good spot, so I'm gonna go there and
do it for you, okay?
No, he lets the man choose.
He lets him to decide.
So the man says, right over there in
the corner, Ya Rasulullah, offers two raka'ats,
and he leaves.
Always prioritize.
There are dozens, I can give you dozens
of examples.
People with disabilities in general, they were always
shown the greatest honor, attention, and respect, and
that's an important part of our deen.
So, let's continue.
Appreciating his legacy, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Does anybody remember this ayah, Siraj and Munira,
from, I don't know, a khutbah somewhere?
Somebody gave a khutbah about Siraj and Munira,
and that khateeb saw some of you there.
Yeah.
So, to explain, repeat my khutbah now.
I'm joking.
Okay, this ayah, I honestly believe these two
words, Siraj and Munira, are one of the
most beautiful, beautiful terms in the Qur'an
to describe and appreciate the legacy of the
Prophet ﷺ.
This word, Siraj.
Siraj is the same word that is used
to describe the brightness of the sun.
Okay?
The brightness of the sun is referred to
as Siraj.
Siraj, does the sun ever like go away
or disappear or have to rise again, or
is it always forever just illuminating?
Its brilliance and its shine will never extinguish.
If it does, the day of judgment begins.
So it'll always be there.
Allah says that the Prophet ﷺ, his da
'wah is called Siraj.
He himself is a Siraj.
So if he is a Siraj, and his
da'wah is Siraj, that means that when
the sun is at its peak, can anyone
escape it?
No.
It's gonna touch every inch, anywhere you are
on the planet.
The sun will always be there.
That's called Munira.
What is also a light, but it's not
just any light.
It is a light that appears as a
consequence of Siraj.
Otherwise, if Siraj was not there, there is
no Munira.
Everybody understand?
Siraj is the Prophet ﷺ.
Everything it touches, it turns it into a
light.
So who is Munira?
Us, the followers, because we follow his legacy.
We study him.
So put this together.
Allah sends the Prophet ﷺ with his teachings,
because all of us without it, we are
in darkness, spiritual darkness.
You know what the Qur'an calls that?
When the believer does not have any connection
with the Prophet ﷺ, doesn't prioritize his teachings
and so on.
You know what the Qur'an calls that?
That kind of person, he calls them the
deceased.
They're like dead.
أَوَمَنْ كَانَ مَيْتَ فَأَحْيَيْنَا In Surah Al-An
'am, Allah says, once upon a time you
were literally dead.
So we gave you life.
What's the life?
It's Siraj.
So don't underestimate this.
And when you are Munir, take a look.
Munira is also the same term to describe
the moon.
And it's also another name for the moon.
Moon in Arabic is Qamar.
The light that shines from the moon is
called Munira.
Moon is also called Munira in and of
itself.
The moon is easy to look at, right?
But the intensity of the sun is always
brilliant.
And as a result, it's impossible to look
at it.
I find that truly remarkable because for you
to be able to look and appreciate the
moon is a beautiful subtle way that when
you see somebody practicing the sunnah that you
appreciate it and you admire that and you
encourage it just like you look at a
full moon.
You know all those movies and shows and
so on when they want to create the
perfect scene always at the sky, what is
there?
This beautiful...
And everybody is like, Oh my God, such
a beautiful night.
Look at this full moon.
It's so beautiful.
Like it's just always attributed to something of
peace and beauty.
That's us.
When you have the legacy of the Prophet
ﷺ with you, you are supposed to be,
we are all supposed to be a source
of guidance and light for the rest of
mankind.
Have we fulfilled that?
I mean, I don't have the right to
make that kind of judgment.
But one thing I could say, perhaps maybe
some of you would agree is that we
certainly have to work on that.
Okay?
Moon has phases.
The sun is always the same.
Sometimes your iman is to the floor.
Then tomorrow your iman kind of climbs and
the following day it's back to the floor.
So your iman fluctuates.
Just like the sun.
Sometimes it's a full moon.
Excuse me.
The moon.
Sometimes it's a full moon.
Sometimes it's half a moon.
Sometimes it's just a crescent.
That's a reflection of us.
But the point is the moon never disappears.
So even if you can't see iman in
you, you still have it.
But you just need to work on making
it brighter.
Moon follows the sun, not the other way
around.
Now science has taught us this.
The moon goes through a path and the
sun is always stationary.
And all of the surrounding planets all have
their own individual rotation that captures energy and
all of that and the sunlight of the
sun itself.
Without it, all these planets will disappear.
Nobody would survive on Earth without the sun.
If you don't believe me, watch that cartoon
called Wall-E.
Remember that?
You know, sometimes it's really interesting when you
watch some of these kids' cartoons.
There's so much fiqh involved.
It's remarkable.
That whole show is all about trying to
find if the world can become a place
that we can live again.
And what was the one sign it was
looking for?
A plant that could grow and nourish itself,
right?
So it's a sign.
And the only way that happened is the
sun had to be there present.
And so that entire movie is like capturing
a lot of what we're talking about.
Okay?
So there you have it with respect to
Siraj al-Munira.
Yes.
And that comes from another surah.
Surah Yusuf.
Yeah.
Surah Yusuf looks at the sun and the
moon but it also gives us that perspective
because it gives us the sun and the
moon and it compares it to the relationship
between the husband and wife.
Who is the sun and who is the
moon by the way?
I'm not even going to give you what
the answer is, right?
You just decide and stick with that, okay?
Compensation at its peak.
وَبَشِّرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بِأَنَّ لَهُم مِّنَ اللَّهِ فَضْلًا كَبِيرًا
Give good news to the believers.
What good news?
Give good news to the believers.
بِأَنَّ لَهُم مِّنَ اللَّهِ That they will have
a great bounty and honor from Allah.
Is there any mention of Jannah here?
Is there any mention of forgiveness and mercy?
Anything?
The only word that Allah gave us what
is happening in this ayah is this word
here.
فَضْلُ So take a look.
These are some of the terms in the
Quran that all mean some form of reward
or some form of blessing.
You know these words.
The first is أَجَر أَجَر You get a
return or you are blessed and that is
Allah's response of something you did.
So for every act that you do you
always get a certain amount of أَجَر for
that one single act.
But then you have ثواب ثواب is equal.
You do one good, you get one ثواب.
If that's the intention, that's also there for
you.
And why this happens is because everybody is
at different levels.
Some people can perform at a very high
level and others can just do the basic.
So there's always a category for them.
You do one good, no problem.
You will get that one good in return.
But for Allah, the bare minimum is 10.
You always would get at least 10 أَجَر
10 ثواب 10 حسنات and so on.
جَزَا جُزْعُ You do one act, Allah gives
you the full reward.
What does that mean?
You do one act, let's say you donate
to the masjid.
Allah gives you the complete reward of every
step you took to get to that donation
box.
The time that you took, when you got
dressed, when you got into your car, when
you drove, all the traffic, every inch of
it, everything you got rewarded for.
That's called جَزَا But فَضْل This is Qur
'an's way of saying none of جَزَا, ثَوَاب
or أَجَر don't even compare to what the
فَضْل that Allah has prepared for the believers.
We don't know what this is.
We don't know what فَضْل is.
But Allah says and Allah even describes it
like this virtue, this bounty, it's huge.
كَبِيرا This word here.
It's so massive.
It's so huge.
So, Insha'Allah Ta'ala one day, we
will all see what that is Insha'Allah.
وَلَا تُطْعِ الْكَافِرِينَ وَالْمُنَافِقِينَ وَدَعْ أَذَاهُمْ وَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى
اللَّهِ وَكَفَى بِاللَّهِ وَكِيلًا Do not yield to
the disbelievers.
Don't obey or follow the disbelievers or the
hypocrites.
وَدَعْ أَذَاهُمْ Overlook their annoyances.
أَذَاهُمْ أَذَى is like pain.
When they're just like annoying you, they're bugging
you, they're talking about you, inflicting all sorts
of emotional, spiritual, psychological and even sometimes physical
pain.
Always doing that.
You know what Allah...
So this is one way for all of
us.
This ayah belongs to all of us because
we are all exposed to these groups on
a daily basis.
They're everywhere.
And one of the prime goals of those
who are part of these two groups, one
of their prime goals is to make life
extremely difficult or impossible for the believers.
That's why Islam is filled with so much
hardship.
You know some Muslims that are not grounded
well, they use that and it becomes like
a deterrent for them.
They get discouraged.
It's like, how can this be the most
blessed religion?
And look, I can't eat whatever I want,
I can't work for any money that I
want.
And look at how the ummah is.
Look at the image.
Look at the reputation that we have.
So a lot of them get turned off.
But not realizing that is Islam.
Since day one, Islam has always been difficult.
As a matter of fact, every prophet and
messenger, do you ever read their biographies?
It's all just problems.
It's all just pain upon pain, problem upon
problem, and the Prophet ﷺ is no exception.
So Allah says, one of the ways I
want you to deal with this is literally,
wada' also means to like push away and
ignore.
So overlook, ignore, don't respond.
All of these things, to sort of push
and put behind whatever pain or whatever hateful
comments and things like that, you're hearing and
experiencing, just try to put it behind you.
Watawakkal ala Allah.
And once you do that, then this is
born, or it's reignited.
Almost 100% of the time, the believer
that tries their very best to refrain and
protect themselves from any form of confrontation, their
tawakkul is increased.
And it's actually their tawakkul in Allah that
drives them, that gives them the courage to
be able to ignore.
Man, subhanAllah, ignoring is not easy.
Like you ever drive and see some of
the drivers on the road?
Ignoring is not easy, man.
I mean, I've had my fair share of
people that I wanted to run them into
a cliff.
But, wada'athahum.
What are you going to do?
You just have to continue, be safe.
Watawakkal ala Allah.
And just keep your trust with Allah.
Wakafaa billahi wakila.
If you do that, Allah says that's it,
that's sufficient.
You don't need anything else in your life.
Who else got the same advice?
Think about marriage and what happens if a
marriage doesn't work out.
What is that called?
When a marriage doesn't work out and there's
a separation, what is it called?
Divorce, right?
Allah speaks to the couple who are divorced.
One of the first pieces of advice that
they get is to have tawakkul in Allah.
It is the verse in Surah Talaq.
Waman yatawakkal ala Allah fahuwa hasbuh.
Whoever has complete trust in Allah, that's sufficient.
You don't need anything else.
In that surah, you know who the audience
is?
Everybody who's gone through a divorce.
Especially the woman.
Those verses are especially for her.
You know why?
It's not because she's just taking like the
most of it in terms of the hate
and all of the problems and the pressure
that comes after a divorce.
It's because now she's stuck with 6 children
and she never had a job for 25
years because the husband was the provider.
So she never needed to go and update
her resume and refresh her skills in anything.
But now she's 50 years old.
She's single.
She's got 5 children.
She doesn't know where her husband is.
It's all over.
And she literally has to think where am
I gonna live?
How am I gonna make money?
How am I gonna do all of this?
So Allah tells her, if you just trust
me, I'll take care of you.
I'll take care of you.
So same advice is given to all of
us as believers.
When you go through the battle out there
of just being Muslim, Allah says, if you
just try your best to like push all
of that away, I'll take care of you.
And that will be sufficient that you have
tawakkul in Allah.
They're not going to hurt you.
It's just words.
Okay, khayr.
As for the rest of you, يَا أَيُّهَا
الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا Now this discussion will take us
into the rest of the class because there's
a lot to discuss here.
Okay.
So, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذَا نَكَحْتُمُوا الْمُؤْمِنَاتَ
Allah Azawajal tells us, O people of Iman,
if you marry believing women and then you
divorce them, pause.
Who is Allah talking to here?
Not the Prophet ﷺ.
All believers in general.
Okay.
When you get married and you marry a
believer, مُؤْمِنَات.
ثُمَّ طَلَّقْتُمُوهُن Then you divorce them.
مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ تَمَسُّوهُنَّ فَمَا لَكُمْ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِنْ
عِدَّةٍ تَأْتَدُّونَهَا Then here's the ruling.
Before you have any intimacy, meaning before you
consummate that marriage.
So literally the Nikah was yesterday.
Today or the next day, something happened, it
turned into a divorce.
They did not get to consummate the marriage
at all.
There was never any intimacy.
If that's the case, then Allah says, فَمَا
لَكُمْ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِنْ عِدَّةٍ Then there's no عِدَّة,
there's no waiting period.
مِنْ عِدَّةٍ تَأْتَدُّونَهَا That you need to count
or keep track.
In other words, the way this looks is
that now you can, if that divorce happens
before consummation, you can literally just divorce and
move on.
No waiting, you don't have to wait three
months, you don't have to wait one month,
you don't have to do nothing.
But what's interesting is that in Surah Al
-Baqarah, there's a conversation about three months, عِدَّة
So this is the separator.
Just remember it like this.
The separator is that intimacy is the one
that's going to decide whether it'll be three
months or one month.
This here is a brand new legislation to
the companions.
This has never happened before.
So that's why this ayah is being given
to them now because marriage problems have started
to increase amongst the companions.
Divorces, arguments, drama, all of it started to
increase.
Not because the companions were losing something in
them.
It's just because the ummah continued to expand.
So it attracted all kinds of backgrounds and
people who had a different level or different
culture and understanding certain things.
And we see that till this day.
What might be okay in one culture is
looked down upon in another.
What is looked down upon on one culture
is appreciated in another.
And then there are times where there's a
clash.
Nobody really knows how to treat that issue.
One culture says bad, the other says bad.
So how do we get out of it?
All of these factors.
That's why this ayah is here.
Now verse number 49 it is.
So there's a couple of things that I'll
share with you.
فَمَتِّعُهُنَّ Allah then continues here.
فَمَتِّعُهُنَّ وَسَرِّحُهُنَّ صَرَاحًا جَمِيلًا See the translation?
So give them a suitable compensation and let
them go graciously.
Whoa!
What is Allah telling us to do here?
Give them compensation?
Give who compensation?
A divorce just happened.
Who are you paying?
Who are you gifting?
Which spouse?
Be more specific.
You're right.
You're giving her, your ex-wife, a goodbye
farewell gift.
Have you ever heard anything like that before?
Like actually happening in this day and age?
No, no, no.
Not support.
I'm saying this ayah is telling that if
this kind of divorce happens, you literally buy
a gift, a farewell gift and present it
to her.
Why?
All those emails that went back and forth
that they just wanted, you know, I'll see
you in Jahannam.
All of that.
Throw that all.
And now I got to buy a gift
for her?
Why?
Why are we supposed to do that?
Take a moment and tell me what your
thoughts are.
Why does he have to do that?
Why do the husband or in this case,
the ex-husbands are required to purchase or
give some money or a gift of some
sort to his ex-wife after the divorce
has happened?
Like it's already done.
Yeah, it could be.
You see, it's not specified.
So, because it's going to be different for
everyone.
But what do you do?
Do you buy her like a KitKat and
say, okay, this is your farewell gift?
Is it about the mahr?
Do you see anything about the mahr here?
So, the mahr is coming.
The mahr is coming in a couple of
verses.
So, even if he gives her like a
watch, what is that going to do for
her?
She can't use that to start her life
in anything, right?
Listen, some of you touched on this, okay?
Some of you touched on this.
Just bury the hatchet in peace.
Even if she takes it, oh, you're gifting
me a gold watch?
You see, there's Lake Ontario, watch me.
Doesn't matter, gift it to her.
And it's not specified.
It can literally be anything.
My question to you is, have you ever
seen or heard when a divorce happens that
the husband, the ex-husband buys and offers
a gift and it's a farewell gift?
Have you ever seen or heard this before?
Like, I'm genuinely asking.
Unless he's what?
Unless he's at fault.
Yeah, yeah.
So, listen to this, okay?
Some of the scholars, they said this ayah
was abrogated.
Meaning, this was once upon a time Allah.
This is one opinion.
I'm not saying this is what happened.
The tafsir, I'm going to read you the
exact words, okay?
Some of the ulama said that this ayah
is mansukha, which means that it's been cancelled
or abrogated.
And the ayah that cancelled this one out
is the ayah that is found in Surah
Al-Baqarah, verse number 237.
And this is the verse that some of
you mentioned about the half mahr or a
portion of it.
Allah then says, وَإِن طَلَّقْتُمُهُنَّ مِن قَبْلِ أَن
تَمَسُوهُنَّ وَقَدَ فَرَضْتُمْ لَهُنَّ فَرِيضَةً فَنِفْسُهُمَا فَرَضْتُمْ The
point is that if you divorce them before
you had intimacy or consummated the marriage, then
it becomes obligatory on you that you give
and provide at least bare minimum half of
the mahr.
You give that back to her.
Or excuse me, she gives this half back
to him.
He bought it for her, right?
So she will still keep some portion of
it.
But this ayah, some of the ulema believe
that this rule here has been done with.
And there is no like correct opinion.
They're both valid.
But some of the scholars, they interpreted this
ayah that this was just talking to companions.
Perhaps this is only for the companions.
And then this ayah came later.
But the ulema, they continue.
And there is no, it even says here
in the tafsir that I was looking at
that there is no exact opinion of which
one is right.
So what the ulema say here, choose either
option and stick with it.
So if you choose not to, she chooses
not to return all of her mahr or
at least a portion of it, fine.
Gift her a small gift and go move
on with your life.
Or if she decides that, you know, I'll
give you back at least half or even
if she says I'll give you back all,
that's really her choice.
They are both correct.
Now one last thing I'll mention to you.
Here in this part of the world, most
of the people living here, the shafi'i
fiqh is one of the most prominent madhab
or method that people use here in the
west to practice just the general things about
the deen, from salat to fast, when to
get married, how to get married, and all
the rules with marriage.
A lot of it links back to the
opinion of the imam al-shafi'i.
And imam al-shafi'i, his opinion on
this, when a divorce happens before intimacy, is
that she should return at least half of
the mahr.
She has the mahr, right?
We're coming to it.
Yeah, we're coming to it.
We're just going to stick with talaq, because
what you're bringing up is a different type
of divorce.
A lot of you have heard khul'a.
Have you heard khul'a before?
So the khul'a has a very specific
ruling with respect to the mahr.
But that's not our conversation.
All I want you to do is when
you look at this, right?
Just to appreciate the phases that this goes
through.
Which ayah do you think came first?
Was it this ayah or the one in
Baqarah?
Is this surah in Makki or Madani surah?
It's a Madani surah.
Has to be, right?
Because of what?
Al-Ahzab.
Okay.
So most of you said the first is
this surah or surah al-Baqarah?
Which came first?
This or Baqarah?
Baqarah came...
Can anybody tell me approximately when was Baqarah
revealed?
It was revealed in Medina, you're absolutely right.
More towards the beginning?
Closer towards the middle?
Don't even give me an exact time frame.
Just tell me more towards the beginning or
what is it?
Okay, so more towards the beginning of Medina.
When was this revealed?
Surah al-Ahzab.
Think about when Ahzab happened.
Ahzab happened after which battle?
Uhud.
Uhud happened when?
Oh, I'm really going to grill you guys
today.
Uhud happened what year?
Um, October.
When did it happen?
Uhud happened on the third year after the
hijrah, okay?
When did Ahzab happen?
Hmm?
So Ahzab happened more than likely as we
mentioned, between the fifth and the sixth year.
So it came after.
So this ruling, do you see why?
When this ruling came, we already had a
ruling that was given to us.
So that's why the ulama say that because
that ruling had already been here, this was
changing the entire process and now it's focused
on is mu'minat here just for the companions?
Who is it referring to?
Because of these uncertainties, the ulama left it
at it.
You can't just ignore the ayah.
So that's why one great opinion, very popular
opinion is that either or is completely fine.
Allah knows best but the opinion of giving
back at least half is the majority.
And Allah knows best.
That's marriage.
You know why marriage is this thick in
fiqh books?
Salah is maybe this.
Tahara is maybe this.
Buying and selling is maybe this.
Inheritance is this.
Nikah and divorce is this.
Right?
It's almost like an entire volume by itself.
Because why?
Almost every single scenario of marriage has a
half a dozen opinions on it.
That's why there are some scholars that never
give fatwa on marriage.
They don't do it at all.
They'll just say like go see your local,
go see a judge, go find another scholar.
I'm not doing it.
So this abrogating the ayah of Surah Al
-Baqarah.
Yeah, no, no, no.
The ayah of Surah Al-Baqarah Yes, it
abrogated this one.
Yes, you're absolutely right.
Yes, yes.
So one of the things that Quran does
and I believe we had discussed this but
I don't think in this class.
We've done it in the past.
Especially those of you that studied with me
the Quranic sciences.
We've gone through all of how abrogation happens.
Even though this ayah, let's just assume it
abrogated, this was abrogated from the Baqarah ayah.
Why would Allah still tell us this?
What is one wisdom?
This happens quite often in Quran that despite
a new ayah will come and it will
share a particular scenario or ruling.
Still ayah that came before it would be
the ayah you practice and this will be
abrogated but Allah still tells it to us.
Why does that happen?
Just think for a moment.
Why would Allah tell us something and although
we can't really practice it.
What is the purpose or lesson behind having
ayah like this?
Perhaps so the possible, what was once upon
a time is no longer.
So you appreciate the present but what it
could have been.
Some scenarios are interpreted that way.
Other scenarios is for us to have a
deeper appreciation of the ruling.
So Ramadan is a great example of this.
Everybody understands how Ramadan or how fasting used
to look before Ramadan.
Nobody could do it.
If we stuck to how fasting was before
Ramadan was legislated, most people could never survive
fasting the way that people used to do
it and we talked about that.
I don't want to really get into the
abrogation and how it is because it's an
area that is very limited.
There's not a lot of information.
There's several ayahs.
We just don't know what you're actually supposed
to do.
So you just sort of learn from it
reflect on it, understand a bit of its
history and khair inshallah you stick with the
majority.
So this is perhaps one of those ayahs
but it was interesting.
This part of the ayah, see this here
sarahan jameela and let them go graciously.
What does that mean?
sarahan jameela.
Everybody knows what jameela is.
Beautiful.
sarahan is what sarahan here is that this
beauty has to be smooth and comforting.
Has to be as the least amount of
pressure and stress that he can maintain as
he goes through this process.
I'll leave that to you how that happens
and if it does happen in this day
and age.
One of the things I wanted to highlight
with this ayah is that this is how
Islam these are the etiquettes that Islam teaches
us of how we can disagree but still
separate on peace.
But unfortunately what the reality is on the
ground is nothing near what it should be.
If the
prophet peace be upon him yes there
was intimacy between yeah no there was but
for whatever reason it stopped.
Yeah this is more.
That's why I titled it as for the
rest of you.
Prophet peace be upon him with his wives
you're going to see in this ayah here
all the rules are so specific just for
him.
Now you're going to see some of those
rules when it comes to marriage and the
mahr and so on.
How different it is for him peace be
upon him and everyone else.
We are not allowed to practice the rules
that the prophet peace be upon him was
given with his marriage to his wives including
the mahr including the waiting period and so
on.
It's all completely different.
Now you're going to see how this works.
Oh prophet we have made lawful for you
your wives to whom you have paid their
full dowries or mahr.
So the first thing is إِنَّ أَحْلَلْنَا لَكَ
أَزْوَاجَكَ So what you learn from this the
first point those of you that are writing
the first point the mahr is one of
the pillars of marriage and it's also one
of the things that contributes to making the
relationship halal i.e. to complete the process
of the nikah.
The nikah can never be complete and it
can never be acceptable unless there was a
mahr.
Let me ask you something.
What is the point of the mahr?
So if she comes from like a rich
family and she grew up with everything why
still give her a mahr?
So he basically kind of purchased bribes her
with some gifts.
Listen one of my jobs up here is
to play the devil's advocate so I'm just
gonna be the worst worst person in this
scenario.
So yeah he basically buys her love and
he just remember
who decides on the mahr?
Him or her?
She does.
Okay.
So he has no say.
So he can't decide what works for him
or nothing.
So what's the purpose of this mahr?
To make her valuable.
Listen I don't want to be on CP
24 anymore.
Okay.
So I won't repeat that.
Listen guys the mahr one of the names
of the mahr is called Sadaq from Sadaq
which means the truth.
The mahr is legislated on him that he
must fulfill it otherwise he cannot marry her
to show and illustrate that he's dead serious
about his commitment to her.
Right.
This is a sign of his truth and
honesty because why?
It's really easy to just be on the
phone and text and be like I'm gonna
give you the whole world.
I'm gonna just I'll be caring.
You don't even have to walk anymore.
I'll buy you a new car or a
new house and before you know it after
the marriage then they're living like in a
half room basement in some stranger's house riding
a bike.
He's like I'm sorry you know life's tough.
Sadaq it's called.
It's an expression of his honesty of committing
himself that he's gonna take care of her.
Think of it this way it's his job
to look after her, correct?
It's the man's job to take care of
and provide for her, correct?
So the next wisdom behind it is this
is kind of his way to show her
that I can take care of you.
You decide what this mahr is and I
fulfill it.
I can do this.
Now let's say the poor miskeen brother is
working at Walmart and she asks for you
know a 2025 Bentley fully loaded and you
know she wants the celebrity edition that comes
with like a diamond hood and it should
be you know 24 carat gold plated body
and he says that's my mahr.
Remember she has no limit.
A wife, a woman can ask for anything
she wants of a mahr.
She can say I want a $100,000
right now today in gold.
Yeah.
There's no limit.
She can ask for anything she wants.
The problem is what's gonna determine if she
receives it is this miskeen person that's working
the night shift at Walmart.
He's gonna have to save up for the
next 47 years to fulfill this.
So his response to whatever she asks for
is if he's able to fulfill it or
not.
She's not sinful at all.
There is this notion that when women ask
for high expensive mahrs that they're looked down
upon or they're frowned upon because why do
you do that?
That's a form of like financial abuse in
some way.
No, it's not.
Allah says in Surah An-Nisa وَآتُ النِّسَاءَ
الصَّدِقَاتِ هِنَّ نِحْلًۭا Give them their mahr صَدِقَات
نِحْلًۭا Do you know what نِحْلًۭا is?
نِحْلًۭا is that you give it without making
her feel guilty.
You know like, so if he says like
okay I'll give you a set of bangles
gold bangles.
She says I want that right?
I want some jewelry.
So he's like would bangles be okay?
She says yes, that's perfect.
He buys her one bangle.
He promised her five.
They go out for dinner one day and
he's like he pulls out his wallet and
he tries to play this like trick.
He's like man, I had a hundred dollars
here but we're now down to our last
quarter.
Times are really getting tough.
It's not that it's getting tough.
What is he trying to do?
He's trying to like get some guilt out
of her so that she can have sympathy
for him and say like well you know
what?
Just forget about the rest of the bangles.
That's called Nihla where you make her feel,
you don't want to make her feel guilty
for what she's asked for.
And this happens all the time.
All the time.
All the time.
Oh my goodness.
It's unbelievable how often that happens.
More so you'll be shocked if you look
at the percentage of marriages that happen where
the mahr is not fulfilled.
10, 25 years he still has to give
her mahr but it got it was like
forgotten.
They moved on.
Right?
That is haram.
Right?
He's sinful for doing that.
Even if she doesn't want it.
Even if she says I don't want nothing
from you.
She can't do that anyways.
Allah orders her to ask for something.
She cannot say you know what?
I don't need a mahr.
I came from a rich family.
I have everything that I need so I
don't need a mahr.
Can't do that.
This is what's gonna, now you're going to
see the exception to this mahr in this
ayah.
When it comes to the Prophet ﷺ, look
what happens.
You have paid their full mahr or dowry
as well as those so the servants and
people that used to be in his service
also this category here is in your possession
meaning if you're already taking care of them
then you know this is a possibility that
you can marry that person.
Right?
So Allah is just laying out the rules.
It doesn't mean the Prophet ﷺ did it
but he's laying out all the things that
he's allowed to do or not allowed to
do.
Whom Allah has granted you and look and
you are allowed to marry the daughters of
your paternal uncles and aunts and the daughters
of your maternal uncles and aunts who have
immigrated like you.
So these are all people who have accepted
Islam.
Also allowed yes also allowed for marriage is
a believing woman who offers herself to the
Prophet ﷺ without a dowry.
See there's only one person who has an
exception where he can marry her and she
says Ya Rasulullah I don't want a mahr
from you.
You are my mahr.
Like I'm married to you.
There's nothing in this world that will equal
or come close to the honor and privilege
that I have to be your wife.
So she is allowed only the wives of
the Prophet ﷺ are allowed to exempt themselves
from the mahr.
That's it.
Nobody else is allowed to.
No companion.
No one.
Which is unfortunate because like I told you
it's a very very common practice that the
mahr very often is not fulfilled.
It's forgotten about or some of the things
that I told you.
Right?
If he is interested but here's the thing.
Believing women who offers herself to the Prophet.
See this part of the ayah.
Who is doing the asking for marriage here?
Is he ﷺ asking her?
Or is it her asking him?
So you're saying to me so let's just
extract this for a moment.
A woman can ask for marriage and propose
to him?
Now again your experience.
Does that happen often or is it usually
the other way around?
It does happen.
So the thing I wanted to highlight here
is for those sisters who are interested in
someone but have gotten I guess you could
say caught up with the culture of well
if he really likes me or really wants
me he's going to propose so I'm just
going to wait.
He has to do it first.
He has to drive to my house and
he has to do none of that.
Throw all of that out the window.
There is no shame, there is no belittlement,
there is no embarrassment for you to also
initiate an interest in marriage.
And this is something that happened with several
companions and now you're seeing that it even
happened to the Prophet ﷺ.
One time a woman came to him Ya
Rasulullah what is it that I can do
for you?
That's how they proposed to him.
That's all they asked.
Meaning how can I serve you?
Like what can I do to make your
mission of preaching this deen a little bit
easier?
That's how a proposal was made to him
ﷺ.
It wasn't Ya Rasulullah I think you're cute
and you know I'd love to be your
wife I saw those miracles you did they're
pretty awesome.
I just want to be part of that.
None of that.
All they cared about was the honor of
being his wife.
And you're going to see exactly what their
reaction is in the next ayah.
Allah is going to tell us exactly how
these wives felt after they were married to
him ﷺ.
So if he is interested in marrying her
this is exclusively for you not for the
rest of the believers.
So again we're still talking about a marriage
with no mahr.
We know we know well what rulings we
have ordained for the believers in relation to
their wives and those bondwomen in their possession.
So in other words Allah is saying here
that the rules that are for everyone else
about the mahr has already been legislated.
Now that's clear.
This is an exception to him ﷺ.
Then it concludes لكي لا يكون عليك حرج
in relation to their wives and possessions as
such there would be no blame on you.
Everybody see this part of the ayah?
There would be no blame on you.
What is that talking about?
The word that's used here is haraj.
You know what haraj means?
Haraj means like a burden, pressure.
So what what's the wisdom why Allah exempted
the mahr for him ﷺ?
Yeah.
Because why?
He has you know like we say bigger
fish to fry.
He has an entire ummah to lead.
He has so many other things.
He's receiving wahi and revelation so Allah relieves
him.
This is one thing that he doesn't have
to think about.
There's a few more that's coming as well
but inshallah next week we'll get to it
where we're going to talk about this was
the ayah that you're going to get an
insight of how these wives felt.
But be ready because there's some things that
might make the classroom atmosphere feel a little
weird.
But we have to talk about it.
These are matters of our routine.
These are we have to talk about.
I'm not going to shy away from it.
We're going to do it in a civilized
way.
But we will definitely raise some eyebrows I
believe next week.
And alhamdulilah rabbil alameen.
Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.