Musleh Khan – Quranic Reflections #02 Verses to Shape your Spiritual Path
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The Surah emphasizes the importance of developing and sustaining a pure heart, understanding the context of words, reciting the Quran for better health, and keeping money and staying strong in one's life. The importance of not losing a bill, believing in the holy grail, and not missing a bill is emphasized, as well as the need to have a belief in the holy grail and not missing it.AI: Transcript ©
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Okay.
So we are here, we're gonna conclude
the verse in which we began with last
week. The first verse of
perhaps 6 to 10 verses I will share
with you, that shape our lives.
And the first one that we look at
last week was the famous verse in Surat
Al Hadid verse number 16.
We went through the first
section of the Surah. Oh, excuse me, the
ayah. We've talked about has the time not
yet come for the believers. So we've discussed
that.
The Allah
steers our attention to the heart. So this
is all about putting life
into the heart, spiritual life
or guidance.
We talked about the a, we gave a
bit of background information of what the a
is, where why it came down, some of
the things that Abdullah
mentioned about this aya.
We looked at some of the, important
terms mentioned in the from
the word.
Is not this a is not a question,
but rather it is a statement from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Is also used here. So this is just
for us to appreciate a bit of the
linguistic,
and the language of the the Aya.
The time has already passed, you're already late.
So I believe this is where we paused.
So this word right here,
alam,
lam and mim.
This particular word, lam and mim,
it signifies
this point.
It's as if Allah is speaking in past
tense, and he's saying
like the time has already arrived and it's
passing by and you still haven't gotten
your act together.
So that's why lem is used. And again,
it's a very
important
and powerful
style of the Quran and of this particular
area.
Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala doesn't do this
all the time throughout the Quran. Very specific
places throughout the Quran.
Allah will use this term Alem Alem Alem.
And just so that you know whenever you
see an ayah start off with Alem,
it means that the subject in that is
of
extreme
importance
to Allah. Like it's a real
desperate or crisis situation for the believer. Whenever
you see an aid that begins with Alem,
just know that that aid or that Surah
is going to deal with a crisis
situation
for us, the believers
that Allah wants to bring our attention to.
Now what is the issue that Allah wants
us to think about? The time has already
come as a matter of fact, it's already
passing.
To do what?
We've already talked about what was.
Can somebody remind me what was?
Your hearts are humbled and, so so what
does that translate? How does that look? Eliminate
distractions Yeah.
Very good. Right? So you eliminate as much
distraction as possible,
and you do your very best to focus.
That is also a physical thing. When we
say eliminate distractions even on yourself, you try
to stay as still and as firm as
possible,
and you focus on concentrate at the task
at hand.
That's also part of eliminating distractions,
and that is why the same word is
used to describe
concentration in salah.
Allah says in another Surah so
What's the next?
So Allah has given success to the believers,
the ones in their salah they have. So
just remember that. Next time you're praying,
the more you move
and you're distracted fixing things or fixing your
hair or hijab, whatever the case is. Right?
The more you do that,
that is a sign you're losing for sure
in the in the salah. And when you're
losing in the
salah, you're losing the and the reward of
salah. And when you're using the and reward
of salah,
then the chances of the salah being accepted
is next to none.
You're you're literally putting the entire salah at
at risk.
That is why there's a famous hadith not
just in the sun and of Abu Dawood,
but other places as well. The Prophet alaihis
salatu wasallam told us that when somebody is
praying,
and you guys see this all the time,
I I I like it it boggles my
mind especially when I see mature adults doing
this. I see them all the time, both
brothers and sisters. They do it all the
time,
and they get easily distracted
and they just
it's as if like the prayer
was it it means nothing.
It was just gazing around, looking, who just
walked through the door? What's this person wearing?
Who's behind me?
Prophet Alaihi Wasallam says that when you move
your attention, your head from one direction to
another,
Allah also turns his attention away from you.
So when you turn your face away from
the salah and you distracted and get caught
up in other things, just know that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is also
steering his attention or turning his attention away
from you. All of this is leading to
one thing that the there is a good
chance that either the will lose most of
its reward or it's not gonna be accepted.
K. So is critical. It's everything with the
prayer. We can do an entire course just
on
alone, perhaps one day
inshallah. Everybody knows that word. Right?
Is?
The heart. Heart.
It's the most common word in the Quran
to describe or the most common name of
of heart in the Arabic language,
There are other words in the Quran
to describe or that refers to a heart.
Is
one of those words.
Allah says,
this is how we made firm
is heart. So what's the difference between and?
Is when the heart
feels a sense of fear, and as a
result of the fear,
you try to do the right thing because
you're scared. So for example,
you're tempted to let's say,
steal,
and you want to steal, there's nothing stopping
you from stealing,
but in your heart you're scared because there's
a camera right there,
there's people around, somebody may call the cops,
and you start thinking to yourself, man, if
I get caught,
like, I'm gonna ruin my chances to get
into school to get this job.
So this fear starts to develop in your
heart and you
translate that fear into doing the right thing.
Okay? So Fouad,
the heart that is filled with fear, but
that fear leads you to do something good.
That's called,
but the most generic word for the heart
is.
Allah says,
By the way, does anybody know why is
called
from
the letters.
Is something that's constantly moving.
Okay. So if I just if your hand
is doing this, this is also called,
and obviously, the heart is given this title
because it's constantly beating. Right? So it's constantly
beating, and it's given this name. So it's
the organ that is constantly moving back and
forth.
So Allah says to bring some sense of
focus
and humility and concentration to the heart,
here is the number one
thing that causes all of us,
that helps all of us,
develop and sustain
a pure heart, a heart that is filled
with.
This is the secret.
Look,
if you're having trouble
in life focusing on the things that you
do for Allah, So whether it be prayer,
Quran, Sadaqah, anything.
When you're when you're having trouble just focusing
for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
the first
or cure to that is
the of Allah. It's a sign you're not
doing enough.
Most Muslims are guilty of that.
Most.
Very few Muslims
even know
and understand the concept of consistent
zikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Okay. So
I'll I'll give you a couple of ways
of how you can manage a zikr of
Allah.
Allah says in Surat Al Aghaab,
People of human with He
he says, make
of Allah
Lots and plenty plenty of.
So the first tool first point is this,
does not have a limit,
and it does not have a minimum.
Whatever it is that you're able to do,
that's what you do and you do as
much of it as possible.
So whether it means that you verbalize certain
phrases or you say certain words,
that's one type of
or your other type of is that you're
constantly thinking and reflecting of how you can
improve yourself and improve your life. That's
is also an action.
Is the most comprehensive subject in the sense
that you can literally
apply the remembrance
of Allah to anything and everything. Even the
most useless things, you can turn them into
the of Allah. One of the examples that
I use all the time is, like,
imagine you're,
you you take your car and you go
to the car wash.
Okay. So you just wash your car. How
can how can you turn a car wash
as a zikr of Allah?
How can you do that? You just go
into the car wash or you're doing in
your driveway,
How can you turn that
that action, that that
routine of washing the car into a remembrance
of Allah?
Is cleanliness a part of our iman?
It's a huge part of our iman.
Is cleanse cleanliness
only restricted to you, your body and yourself,
or is cleanliness
also extended in your home,
clothing,
items you own, car, whatever it is, furniture,
appliances,
like you can't say, you know, I I'm
real I'm a really clean person but then
you have amount or hood of dishes sitting
in your sink for 2 weeks.
You're like, I don't care about that as
long as I'm clean and pure. That's all
that matters. No. That's just one part of
zikr. Zikr is it applies to everything and
anything in your life. So go back to
the car wash. If you're washing your car
because
cleanliness
is a part of your faith,
so you want to also make sure that
the things you own are also well kept
and well groomed and they're clean.
That's part of the you're now blessed and
rewarded for washing your car.
Like, it's amazing. If you vacuum your house,
same idea. You're vacuuming your house not because
the place is just dirty and I'm gonna
vacuum it. But in your heart, it's like
this is where angels come and protect me.
I pray in this place. This is my
Masjid away from the Masjid.
So if you're vacuuming now mopping and cleaning
with that kind of
presence in mind,
everything you do in your life now becomes
what?
Comes a remembrance of all everything. That's why
the Ulema say that when you wake up
in the morning and you start your day
whether you go to work or school, there
is no difference of saying I'm going to
work or school or I'm going for Ibadah.
Same thing.
Imagine that you're going to work and say,
okay. I'm gonna go for. I'll see you
guys
this afternoon.
So
so the first thing is when we mentioned,
there's no minimum and there's no maximum. And
it's extremely comprehensive and you can apply to
everything and anything. Here's number 2 about the
zikr of Allah. Scholars, they say that you
always start off with
the simple,
the simplest things that you know, the things
that are easy for you, and it should
come from the Quran.
So the first place you start off with
the zikr of Allah is you go to
the Quran.
So what do you go to the Quran
for? Do you just go and you start
looking for all the duas?
Like, have you guys ever seen that little
booklet that has all
the?
Yeah.
Yeah. It's really unfortunate. I mean,
you know, the author of that had good
intentions and so on, but
it's really hard to find any purpose behind
the book,
because
all of these duas
is connected to an ayah that's connected to
a subject, that's connected to a whole bunch
of other things.
So to
just select one part of the sentence
and gather it into one book can be
very confusing, and it can definitely be taken
out of context.
See, if you understand the context of these
Duas, you can appreciate them more and you'll
know how to apply them where they need
to be.
What a lot of Muslims who get a
hold of books like that, they'll just pair
it they'll just pair it the the Duans.
You you there's no benefit in that. The
benefit is when you read a Dua like,
Everybody know that Dua. What's the Dua for
by the way?
Parents. Parents.
Because of uh-huh. You and I was young.
How they looked after me when I was
young?
What if
your parents
let's say they were bad parents.
They didn't look after you. They just gave
birth to you, and they abandoned you your
whole life.
How do you find meaning in this store?
How do you connect to it?
You see what I'm saying? If you take
those Dua books and you just pair it
them
and you don't,
connect it to something what the is talking
about or you don't put context to it,
the dua becomes very dry. It it loses
its its meaning. It's
loses the beauty of that of the of
that Dua.
This particular Dua,
is not talking about just any parent. It's
talking about parents when they reach an old
age.
So the Aya is referring specifically to parents
who have attained an old age that they
can't do anything for you. Now you have
to serve them, you have to feed them,
you have to take care of them, give
them their medicine, and do all of that
stuff. That's what Abir Hamhuma
because now, the tables have turned.
They used to change your diapers, now you
have to change theirs.
They used to feed you, now you have
to feed them.
They used to clothe you, now you have
to clothe them. That's what come out of.
So even though they might have been like
terrible parents growing up, the fact that they've
reached an old age and they can't do
anything for themselves, that's what
Allah is telling you,
fine. Whatever you went through, you went through,
but that's not an excuse that you shouldn't
take care of and at least,
look after your parents when they attain an
old age. Yeah. Can't that do I leave
for, like, for example, I'm making it dark
for my mom. Mhmm.
She's not, like, Mhmm.
She's not, like, old. You know? But I
still mean that Allah wants to give her.
Mhmm. And she did raise me while I
was young. So in in the literal sense
of,
it's still kind of
Yeah. So so you can still connect like,
you can still use it as a generic
Dua,
but don't restrict it to just a generic
Dua. That's the key. Okay? But absolutely. I
mean, I use the I use the dua
for my parents all the time.
Right? So you can still use it, but
because we're in a classroom, we can talk
about these subtleties
that
specifically why this area is where it is
and what came before.
So
and one last point about the zikr of
Allah. Let's see if I wrote it here.
There's so you know you understand what the
lamb is, right?
The lamb is here. It's attached to the
dhikr of Allah.
What is this lamb for?
This lamb here
it means like when you take ownership of
something.
So your hearts become humbled
and the only way they can become humbled
is they have to and must link to
some kind of remembrance of Allah. So this
lamb
is there because without it,
you can never have a humble or a
heart of. So
is just basically telling us
this is a must. You must have the
zikr of Allah in order to achieve a
heart of.
That's the that's what the lamb is there
for.
So that's again, it's just a sort of
a, you know, a little insight to the
language.
How would I find those in the Quran?
I know how we're to stop, we're to
start.
No. No. No. Listen.
When we say they'll become useless and they'll
just pair it pair it, these duas
require you to do some to have some
insight and understanding them and putting context.
So if you don't know where these duas
come from,
what should you be doing? But this has
the meaning. So when you're reading it, you
know what I don't read that 40 what
I'm just
saying. So keep in mind, when I say
useless, it won't benefit you.
Because
if you read these duas, the all of
those duas come from the Quran. Right?
So
you
reading these duas,
what should reading them even if you when
you don't know what source they come from,
what's the next step?
After reading them and using them the way
you need to use them, what's the next
step? Do you just put away the book
or is there something else?
It should lead you now.
Oh, this,
this,
Dua.
I believe the same book has the reference
to the Dua and with Surah. Is that
it? It should lead you
to go into the Quran
and look at that dua
and then connect you to the verses before
and the verses after.
Most of those duas are in a middle
of an ayah,
so it's been picked out of 1 aya.
So what about everything around it? That's the
point. So that way you get a complete,
understanding and interaction with the with the with
the dua. You know exactly what it's used
for, why it was revealed,
And so my point is that if you
want to make that a book like that
useful,
you have to go above and beyond just
reading it.
Okay? You must do that. How about the
duas from the Hadith?
The duas, the same same ruling as applied.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right? So the Duas of the prophet alaihis
salatu wasalam, yeah, the same thing.
Guys, you know, when I take a group
for Umrah,
the first thing I tell them
is that if you have a book,
leave it at home.
Don't bring it.
That's the first thing I tell them.
Does anybody know why I would say such
a thing?
Listen. Like, kinda just free from
Exactly.
Where where is the where is the real
dua book? Where is it?
You know yourself better than any book. You
know what your mistakes are. You know what
you want from Allah. A book is not
gonna pull that out.
And when I take,
you know, people to for Umrah and they
do this, they just they just sort of
put their book in their purse or in
their pocket,
they say, like, this is like that's the
first time in my life where I've actually
poured out how I felt
in any language. You know your history. You
know what you did, what you said. You
know exactly what you want from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
So you open this dua book first.
Once you understand how to do that, then
you now go back to that same,
duas, and you start selecting the ones that
are connected to a particular need.
So now you take the dua and you
connect it to something personal in your life,
now you know how to use the dua.
Is that if you can use that. Right?
Yeah. I'm not saying don't ever use it.
I'm just saying that there is a methodology
that give how to use those books.
This is why I have a problem with
books like this. It's because of these kind
of questions that are coming.
This is why I have a problem with
it.
Yeah.
I am lost. Yeah. Then I went to
when when I start reading the so I
I'm not I believe This is where Yeah.
I'm not worried about you, honestly, because I
know that students like you will do that.
Yeah. But just think about the people who
get a hold of the book and they
just repeat it over and over and pack
it away and have no idea what they
said. They can't connect it to anything in
their life.
So the dua loses all of that meaning,
all of that personal connection is lost. I'm
hoping that they will have the same as
me. Yeah.
Me too. Yeah. Me too. Actually But like
I said, it's not something I would discourage
anybody from you. No.
I have the book at home. I have
lots of them at home, actually. Yeah.
You said the work comes from your apartment.
Right? Mhmm.
Yeah. I feel like we need a Dora
course here.
Yeah.
Yeah. We we there is a method. Are
are you asking about
how
what is the what is the proper way
of making Dora?
Okay. Yep.
Okay. So very quickly, right? Because it's not
part of our discussion but it's a great
question. Right? So very quickly,
here's how you make dua to Allah. Okay?
The the way of doing this.
Number
1, you start off by praising Allah.
So you thank Allah, you say all praises
due to you, oh, Allah. I praise you
and I thank you and keep me close
to you praise and you make this be
and you honor the status of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. That's number 1.
Number 2, you send the salah and salaam
to the prophet alaihis salaam. That's why almost
every dua you hear, myself and Adri Manswudu,
Muhammad. Alright? That is the next, criteria.
After you do that, number 3
is that you ask Allah to forgive you
at least bare minimum 3 times. Whatever
words you wanna choose, and it does not
have to be in Arabic.
You can talk to Allah in any language
you want. Okay? So Allah forgive me, forgive
me. And it doesn't have to be just
one word or 2 words. You can say,
oh, Allah, you know what is in my
heart and I ask for your forgiveness, word
it however you want. That's number 3.
Then the 4th thing you do
is that's where you start to ask Allah
or you praise Allah for anything and everything.
And when you do that, this part of
the Dua, the 4th part, it can be
as long as you want. You can sit
there for 5 hours and just praise Allah
and ask for what you want.
Keep in mind, always do 2 things
when you're now at the point where you're
asking Allah for things, make sure you do
2 things in there. So after you start
by praising him, after you send peace and
blessings to the prophet, after you seek forgiveness
three times,
now you're going to start to pour your
heart out to Allah. When you're pouring your
heart out to Allah, do 2 things.
Number 1, ask for what you want, and
number 2, praise Allah and show gratitude.
Thank him for what you all already have.
Do those two things when you're talking to
Allah.
Right? So don't just be like, oh, Allah,
give me give me give me give me
give me. But also, you Rabbi, I thank
you for good health. I thank you for
the ability
to see. Oh, Allah, I thank you for
giving me the strength to pray and make
dua to you. K? I I thank you
for all of that.
Then the next number 5
is that you try your best to
take a name or attribute of Allah and
attach it to the dua you're making.
So if you're saying, oh, Allah forgive me,
what's what's Allah's name in terms of forgiveness?
He is what?
Alhafar,
Alhafar, Al Mahfoor. Right? So choose one of
the names
that is linked to the Dua that you're
making.
And when you do that,
it increases the chances of your duas to
be accepted. When you use one of Allah's
names and you attach it appropriately to the
subject of your dua, it increases the chances
of your dua to be accepted.
And finally, you conclude the dua by sending
a salawasalam to the prophet alaihis salawasalam. Right?
That's why you'll you'll you'll hear us we
will say,
right? Allahum or you can leave Allahum Masaliya
Muhammad Wa Alaihi Muhammad
Subhanu wa Baraka however you wanna conclude it,
right?
So those are the 6 things at least
bear let me give a few other details
but that's generally the 6 things you want
to make sure you have every single time
you make a dua. It doesn't matter where,
it doesn't matter what, every single time try
to do those things. You know, Imam Ahmed
Rahimahullah
said that your dua is not accepted unless
you follow these criterias.
Okay. So some some of the scholars
were extremely firm and very strict with respect
to these, criterias. Okay?
Attached to the overall. Okay. So now you
know why. Truth. Okay. Let's finish up this
aya.
Everybody see that? And what has been revealed
of the truth?
The audience
of this
particular
area
were people
who
denied
the truth of the Quran and the prophet
alaihis salatu washan. They denied it.
You know, they they they were saying things
to him like,
how could you be a prophet? That's not
possible. We grew up with
you. You're part of our tribe. You're part
of our family. You're part of the community.
You're just a regular person. All of a
sudden now you're a prophet? Where'd you get
this quote? From Allah? Let me talk to
him. Let me just ask him, oh, Allah,
did you actually write this? Like these are
the things he had to listen and endure.
So the fact that they denied the truth,
listen to how Allah refers to the Quran,
he calls it
Just to kind of like reemphasize
and remind
the
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala really revealed this
Quran and one of its descriptions as Allah
calls it the truth itself.
And and not to be like those given
the scriptures before.
What happened to the people who were given
scriptures before?
What did they do?
Okay. They disobeyed it.
So, Bani Israel
disregarded or ignored the spiritual
side of
their scripture.
So the spiritual side of the scripture
calling for them to pray,
to make dua, and to worship,
they disregarded this part of it. And instead
they came and they
latched on, they held on
to the intellectual,
the knowledge, and the theory of their book.
That's why it's happening till this day. So
their they say like, when it comes to
Ahl Kitab, and this is why you'll see
it like if you watch,
Jewish
rabbis and and guests that will debate each
other, They'll get very deep and very,
they'll have the these high intensive
intellectual
conversations
about different philosophies of life,
but the spiritual side of it is lost.
Alright? Or it's just a small group
of, you know, very devoted,
members of that community or members of that
religion that would uphold the spiritual side of
it. When it came to the Christians, it
was the opposite,
Right? They held on to the spiritual side
and they ignored the theory.
They or they change the the scripture itself,
and they altered the knowledge,
But every Sunday,
you know, they'll do their thing,
you know, submit some time for Allah and
then walk away.
So what this aya is telling us when
it refers, don't be like those who came
before you. Those who came before us, they
took one and they excluded the other.
Unfortunately,
you tell me,
have Muslim started doing that?
Or they just stuck to one side. Remember
that whole conversation last week we had about
the intellectual side versus the spiritual side of
the Quran?
Yeah.
Like, lots of Muslims do that now.
They I either they are deeply engrossed in
the spiritual
and they ignore the knowledge, or it's the
other way around. So it's the same track
that's been laid out from nations before us
is is continuing to happen till this day.
Right? So it's a warning.
This is a warning from Allah so that
you don't become like that. Because what happened
to those people? Allah destroyed them. Right?
A long period passed over these people. So
years upon years upon years, they had
the opportunity to come to this realization
and fully devote themselves to the book,
fully devote themselves to the Quran. This a
is talking to all of us, Like you
were still alive, how many years you've become
Muslim, how many years you've known this book.
If
after all this time
has gone by
and still no change, this is the result.
You know, what this is telling us is
that
it's inevitable if you don't
take this religion
seriously,
and you don't open your heart to Allah's
remembrance,
the result is your heart will become
It
will become
stoned and hardened,
which is a tragedy.
If the heart is hardened,
there's no hope for that person.
The doors of iman are closed.
The doors of sincerity is closed. Everything is
done.
So
now,
this word here is the most common word
to describe,
a heart that is hardened,
Hasat. Okay?
This word
is only used to describe
a heart that is hard,
So it's not used for anything else except
hearts.
Okay?
The hearts of the Muslims will become hard
like the people of the book.
How and why? We've talked about
that. How and why?
Well, we'll we'll come to why in a
second, but now you know how.
How did you become hard and like the
people of the book?
Because they went and they did they they
they approach the Quran the exact same way
that they did. They took one side and
excluded the other. So now you understand how.
Why did this happen students?
So let's like understand that. Why does that
happen? Why do some Muslims only
stick to one side or one part of
the the knowledge of the Quran and
lifestyle.
Okay. So it caters to their lifestyle, their
needs?
Yeah.
Okay. Yeah.
100%.
Anything else? I think it's like hubris. I
think it's like thinking that
that the Quran is like archaic. But, like,
at least for my generation, the things that
I've heard is like, oh, like, that this
doesn't apply anymore or, like, this was for
this time. And I'm just kind of, like,
coming up with this whole logical solution
instead Yeah. A lot of our faith is
to submit.
That's usually the those who
commit to the intellectual side. K. The to
just the knowledge of the Quran.
They will come up with,
you know, they will they will come up
with thoughts like that. They will come up
with theories like that that, you know, this
Quran needs to be updated.
It's just too old fashioned.
You know, it doesn't deal with the today
and and the problems of the world today.
And that the, you know, it's really I
I meet a lot of Muslims like this.
Right? They they sit me down and they
just wanna start talking about, you know,
what exactly is the hand of Allah?
But the guy, like, I don't think he
he ever prayed Fajr
ever.
Doesn't understand
a or doesn't know how to recite a
single Surah.
Right? But can get and just have read
volumes of knowledge.
So, this has happened because of convenience.
Second thing is is trivializing
one over the other.
So it's like, yeah, I'm praying 5 times
a day. That's good enough. It kinda trivialize
going further and doing more.
So they take this core and lightly from
one side or the other, from the intellectual
or or the spiritual. Okay?
The environment,
people you associate with, they have a lot
to do with that as well. If you're
a lot round people that always like to
talk about these these different subjects and just
have conversation and debate them over and over,
then that's what you will become. But if
you're around people that that keep the spiritual
side are always reading, reading, reading, reading, but
they're never in a classroom,
then that's what you will become. Right? This
is a real tragedy
in our communities today
of leaning to one side or the other.
And by the way, that's also one of
the ways that they're gonna say. That's how
extremism is born.
Right? When you focus all your attention on
one thing and one thing only,
the result of that is you become very
extreme in that area.
Right?
And many of them
are inherently corrupt.
Everybody see this word?
Fassip.
Fassip,
somebody who's corrupt.
They're corrupt in their thoughts. They're corrupt in
their words, their choices, their outlook, their behavior,
everything.
Everything is just nasty,
and and and when we say corrupt, it
doesn't just affect them,
but the people around them that see that
or experience
that, they also are affected by this individual.
A very
classic example that I use all the time
to understand this word. So if you're writing
is just imagine
you put out a fruit
and you leave it on the table for
2 weeks, mango,
a peach, an apple, whatever. You just leave
it sitting there for 2 weeks or 2
months. What happens to
Yeah. That So that process of it becoming
rotten and decayed
is called FISP.
It's gradually
starting to become decay. Remember,
this we're talking about the heart. So Allah
is saying when you don't have the remembrance
of Allah or you only lean to one
side of the Quran over the other,
the natural result is you yourself
will slowly but gradually your heart will become
spiritually decayed and rotten.
Does anybody
know what a heart like that looks like?
How how can you test yourself
to see
if a heart like that exist in me
or you?
How do how can we do that?
Yes. It could be the hardened heart is
the fasted heart. So how do you know
you have that? So as
a result of it, it becomes spiritually hard.
How do you know this heart exist?
Are there signs?
I saw it. Yeah. Lots. Tell me some
of them.
Your eyes don't hear in the fear of
Allah.
Okay. So
your ears are listening,
your eyes are seeing,
but your heart is
deaf and blind, like, it's it doesn't care.
You know
how
there's a lot of students and especially in
I see it all the time, you know.
You'll see somebody,
they'll be sitting and watching watching me as
I do hope and they'll just their eyes
would be fixated on me,
but you can tell
that they're
not really there
at the same time. Just
just fixate it on you. Once it's done
or some of them when they do that,
they can't keep it up anymore and just
Oh, like zombies.
Yeah.
Lost.
So they're just kind of their attention span
is just gone elsewhere.
So but they can keep the eyes and
appear as though it's paying attention in the
ears as though they're listening, but the heart
is completely blind.
Right? And Allah talks about our heart like
that, and that is the heart of the
people of Jahannam.
That they will have hearts that won't comprehend
or understand anything.
So the first sign of a hardened heart
that is corrupt
is that the heart refuses to listen to
good advice
or knowledge that is beneficial. It it gets
bored, it gets tired, it's not interested,
it doesn't have the desire to want more.
How do you fix
that? How do you fix a heart like
that? It's all in this area, by the
way.
Number one way to soften a heart
after it's hardened, to open up that heart
to guidance,
Quran, Quran, Quran.
Quran is the spiritual vacuum from all
the spiritual filth of the heart. It will
clean it all out,
But you can't just vacuum your heart once
and be like, okay, I'm a brand new
person.
You know, sometimes when there's a stain in
the carpet and it's a bad stain,
you may have to clean it several times
before
stain is gone, and maybe you might have
to get a professional to come and clean
the stain, but the point is you have
to constantly work at it till you can
restore it to the way it should be.
It's the same approach with the heart. 1
or 2 times is just not gonna do
it. You have to develop
consistency.
The scholars they say the heart loves consistency.
It's that's how the heart continues to breathe
and guidance
Is that if you connect it to something
and you do it on a consistent basis,
then the heart begins to heal. It softens
up.
Now the next time you're praying behind it,
imam, you don't even know what surah they're
reading, but you start feeling emotional.
It it moves you. You've no idea what
they're saying.
That's that's a good heart. That's that's that's
the kind of heart you want.
And, you know, it's exceptionally hard for us
in this part of the world because everything
out there is designed and geared
to
put your heart into the state of
to harden the heart. Everything out there
is to create this hardened
heart. So you're in constant battle when you're
out there to to protect this. Okay? And
the best way to do that, Quran.
Every single day of your life.
Okay? Any questions before we go on to
the next a?
Okay. What are some of the examples that
happens to heart outside the system?
What are, some of the other things that
harden the heart? Social media?
Yeah. I mean, wasting time in general. So
whether it be in social media or anything
else when you're simply when when you're not
making use of your time. You know,
social media watching movies, going out with friends,
and doing that sort of thing is not
haram,
but it'll destroy your heart if that's all
you do.
You know, you just sit there and you
just scroll even if you're like, I'm just
scrolling on one area to another. I just
wanna I listen to my favorite reciter.
You know, at some point, it becomes such
a routine that you have to disrupt that
by shutting it off, and now start reciting
yourself.
It's great you're listening to other reciters,
but you also have to recite as well.
Right? You can't just engross yourself into one
thing. So when even a halal,
if you take too much of it, it
can also become haram, and that's one of
the examples.
Right? So you feed yourself one thing too
much to the point where
it loses its flavor. It loses it loses
its effect. So social media is definitely one
of those things.
Yeah.
How much possible?
As much as possible.
There's none as much as possible.
How much Quran should you recite today? As
much as possible.
There is no limit. And I cannot tell
you a max either
because
no nobody knows what a max of the
Quran could be. The Quran is just it's
a real miracle, man. It's like a true
miracle of Allah. Only the people who recite
it on a consistent basis can tell you
I am dead without this Quran. Like my
day, I'm worst than a zombie if I
don't get to recite something.
Those are the people who are connected with
Allah's book, and let me tell you every
single day of your life, any time you
recite something of the Quran, you're going to
see the effect of it the same day.
Some and I'll give you an example.
If you recite for 10 minutes
anything, right,
and you just close the Quran, you're gone
throughout your day, you know, go on with
your day.
I promise you,
you will see the benefits of that 10
minutes
at some point throughout the day.
100%
100%
it's from Allah.
That's what recitation does. So the people, if
if you don't if you don't have this
routine,
you are spiritually dead.
Nobody can claim to have
strong iman if they're not reciting the Quran
consistently
each and every day. You will never have
strong.
You will never preserve your, you will never
increase your.
That's how important it is.
There is no excuse for it because poor
Anne is the one thing that has no
age limit attached to it. You could be
80, 90. I mean, I just read an
article of a, woman. I believe she was
in Indonesia.
She was like a 102,
and she became a Hafid of the Quran.
There's no age limit. Like, all of that
is just from shaitan.
Sure. It might be a little more difficult,
you know, the older you get, you'll feel
it. It might be a little more difficult.
It's never impossible.
When you put your heart to the Quran,
Allah will open its guidance to you. Nobody
will be rejected if they sincerely want to
connect with the Quran. Allah will not reject
such a person, which you've gotta be you've
gotta have that thirst and desire
with a sincere intention that you want this
book to be a part of your life.
Okay?
This is the next verse number 177
in Surat Al Baqarah.
177
in Surat Al Baqarah.
Everybody knows Surat Al Baqarah?
Tell me one thing special about Surat Al
Baqarah.
What's special about her?
If you don't recite it, your houses will
turn into graveyard.
No. No.
It's
slightly changed the wording.
If you recite Surat Al Baqarah. So prophet
says, when you recite Surat Al Baqarah,
once everyday for 3 days, The entire Surah
for 3 days,
no jinn or shaytan or anything will affect
your home.
When you recite all of Surat Al Baqarah
for 3 days,
no jinn, no shaitan, nothing will affect your
home for those 3 days.
And if there's something happened to be If
you have company but you don't know they're
there,
but they might be in your house, Surah
Al Baqarah will kick them out swiftly.
It is an incredibly powerful Surah.
The scholars they say the one who memorizes
Surah Al Baqarah
is an imam. They are a leader,
which means that they are given the honor
to lead, not a salam talk, just lead
in general.
Yeah. That's excellent. Practice
every day. Yeah. That's excellent.
Liz and obviously we all know that Surat
Al Baqarah is the longest
sword of the Quran. Right? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
But like I told you before,
it's as easy as if
not, maybe easier.
Don't be fooled, man. Don't be fooled. Allah
tells
us
like we made this Quran easy for you
to remember.
Don't fool yourself.
Don't just look at the Surah and be
like, oh my god. 280
plus. Yeah. Yeah. How?
No.
Allah will never turn you away if you
are sincere and you wanna connect with this
book. Allah will give you a you had
a question?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Go
ahead.
I think, Surah Bahera is really, like, important
because
it kinda just, like, teaches you about history
and all these stories of the prophets
to kind of, like,
as as a role Okay. Cultivate,
like, a sense of, like, loyalty Okay. To
the mind. So let's put it this way.
Let's Surat Al Baqarah has a little bit
of everything.
And at the end of the day, almost
every single verse
will keep you
connected to Allah in a way that you
will always honor and praise his authority and
his Qadr.
You will always be at peace and satisfied
with Allah's judgment with Allah's.
You'll be the kind of person that in
life everything that happened, you'll be.
This is what the
doesn't matter how terrible was what you went
through. This is from Allah.
You start talking like that. That's what does
to you. There's one more thing.
What it we what is the most powerful
a
end of the Quran?
What Sur is it in?
Yeah. Ayatul Kursi. What Sur is it in?
Okay. It's in Baqarah.
The first aya
ever revealed
or excuse me, the first command
ever given to mankind.
Does anybody know what aid is?
The first command
in the entire Quran. What what is it?
Yeah.
It's in Surat Al Baqarah.
The first area is in Surat Al Baqarah.
Excuse me. The first command is in Surat
Al Baqarah. The most powerful areas in Surat
Al Baqarah.
The longest
area of the Quran.
What Surah is it in?
Even if you don't know the answer, there's
you'll be okay if you just say Yeah.
So
yeah.
Mhmm.
It's the a you know what's amazing to
you?
The longest
sentence Allah put in the Quran is about
what subject?
It's about money.
And it's not just about any any type
of It's about when you owe money. It's
about debt.
The longest aya of the entire Quran, 6
1,000 plus verses Allah chose.
The longest area
which is 1 page long is not gonna
be about
it's not gonna be about marriage, it's not
gonna be about, you know, Ramadan, it's gonna
be about when you owe someone money or
when you
want to give or lend somebody money to
create a contract and make sure everything is
crystal clear. I find that truly
unbelievable
out of all the millions of things you
can make the longest a about. Maybe about
the day of judgement, maybe about Jannah, Allah
said, no. It's gonna be about money, and
when you owe people money,
which shows the severity
of
those who take that subject of debt lightly.
It's serious Allah's longest sentence is all about
it. So now it's in Surat Al Baqarah.
The last section of Surat Al Baqarah,
is in a the this this set of
ayat from
all the way to the end of the
Surah. These
it is also from the sunnah to recite
constantly. So in the before you go to
sleep,
the point is that these a hit carry
a certain level of blessing and honor and
merit to them, and you should recite them
often.
It's found in what Surah? Surah Al Baqarah.
Are you starting to see a theme or
a pattern here?
All of the amazing
special a yet
of the Quran,
most of them are in.
Is an incredible area.
This is a life changing area. I really
want you to have this area.
I mean, if you miss out on all
the other verses I bring to you, but
this is the only one you take, I'll
be very happy. I'll be grateful for that.
Righteousness. Righteousness. Righteousness
This area
is Allah
list of qualities that make a good person
in Islam.
What is a good person in Islam? Take
a look on the screen. What is a
good person in Islam?
This is the list.
Now, there's a couple of things you need
to know about this area so make sure
you write this down. Okay?
This area was revealed
after
after the battle of Badr
to place, so that was late Meccan period.
Surat Al Baqarah is one of the early
Suras in Medina that were revealed. K. It's
one of the early Suras. Some of the
it's even the first Surah revealed in Medina
after the Hijra.
This Surah was given after the battle of
Badr.
For Sahaba's
felt
like they reach the top of the mountain.
Like, we
we are here, we
victorious in the battle of Badr, nobody can
touch us. Now, we can just cruise on
in life and pray, just do everything we
need to do. So the Sahabas, they felt
liberated.
They felt a sense of independence.
This I sent to them
where
it pretty much puts that thought process, it
gives it a full breaks.
If you think that you've reached the top,
listen to the take a look at how
the the ayah begins.
Allah says righteousness is not that you're turning
your faces towards the east and west. What
is Allah talking about here by the way?
Turning your face to east or west. What
is Allah talking about? From Quds, Qidda.
Okay. So both yeah. So either facing
Mesi Al Aqsa or the Kaaba.
Doing what?
Facing Mesi Al Aqsa doing what?
Praying
Or the Kaaba praying. So the beginning of
this area
is tackling what?
Prayer.
What Allah is saying, don't think you're righteous
just because you pray.
What's the first thing you and I do
when we wanna talk about somebody who is
a good person? What's what's the first thing
we describe about them?
When you wanna tell somebody this this Muslim
brother or sister, such a good person. We
say things like this, mashallah, they pray,
they're always in the masjid,
they're really proud, they're excellent people.
Allah says, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
That's not the thing that's gonna determine that
somebody's a good person.
Now for 2000 years, the believers were facing
towards mister Al Aqsa,
And after 2000 years,
and then the ayah came, now they were
given their own Qibla.
When they got their own Qibla,
that's when the Sahaba say, like, Alhamdulillah, now
we are by ourselves.
We don't need nobody.
Now we can move on in life, And
the legend says, relax.
Can I ask you something? What is the
lesson for you and I
in the introduction of this ea?
What is the takeaway from the beginning of
this ea?
Don't get the headaches.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't jump the gun. Don't get ahead of
yourself.
And here's the point,
you and I, we don't decide
that because somebody does a, b, or c
that they're a good person.
We don't decide who's good or who isn't.
Allah decides that.
What we have to do, Allah tells us
to do is a concept called
to think well and assume well of one
another.
That's it.
You know,
this Ramadan that went by,
I, I went to a masjid,
and somebody led prayer,
and
it was not good at all.
Right? It was it was not good. Like,
the a yet, the pronunciation,
and all of that,
the person really needed to take some time
and review and and perfect their recitation.
So after
I finished from that Masjid, later on that
night, I went online
and I did a live,
and I talked about who should lead the
prayer, what they need to have, and the
attitude of an imam, what you should have.
Right? It's not something to take lightly at
all. This is an accountability. You're gonna be
asked about every heart behind you. You're gonna
be asked about why you led the prayer
and then in so many things. So I
highlighted all of that.
I kid you not,
the amount of hate
that came back
was absolutely
insane.
The yeah. I mean, I'm used to it,
but it's highly, you know, it's part of
the job. But I'm saying, like,
it was absolutely
shocking to see the assumption,
the accusation,
the lies,
and it just kept going on and on.
You know what the irony is behind all
of this? I knew
who was doing it.
It's not easy to It's not difficult to
figure out
who is commenting on what online because they
all All your comments come with an IP
address. Right? It's very easy to know at
least where it's coming from. Not the actual
person, but you know, like, a location or
city. It's very easy. I won't tell you
how though.
You need to know.
Fiqh of choosing an imam. Yeah. So I'm
discussing the guidelines that a masjid should follow
to choose an imam. Everybody has this idea
that as long as you memorize the most
Quran, you're qualified.
Not even close.
Because the prophet says the one who is
most who knows the most Quran should
lead.
We gotta remember
the Sahabas
when they memorized Quran, they didn't memorize it
like how we do it today.
Just read, memorize, salaam alaykum I can read.
Memorizing for them
was that they
mastered
all the rules of recitation.
They had some knowledge about the Quran. They
learned a little bit about, they studied it.
Memorizing for them was the whole package.
Memorizing for us, let's just
plug it in our heads and then walk
away. It's not. I I like
those
that kind of approach, no one should lead
prayer.
It's always given to the person who memorized,
but who has clear explicit
recitation.
They're not butchering any of the rules or
the words,
and they also have fit. They have a
little bit of understanding of what they're saying.
You know why that's so important when you're
leading salah? Because some of the young guys
when they lead prayer,
they start off their choice of a yet
in the middle of a last sentence. That's
bad etiquettes with the Quran.
Right? Because they they don't know the meaning.
Right? So they'll just start off in a
middle of an ayah,
but it's in the middle of a conversation
or a sentence that Allah started for a
yet before that.
So it's it's bad manners.
Now, you don't just jump into Allah's the
middle of his sentence and that's it.
No. So you see what I'm saying? Like,
there's a whole package behind it.
So the point is is that,
righteousness is not that you're able to just
pray.
You can lead.
You can read. That's it. Okay. Halas, now
you're worthy of righteousness.
Snow. What is the word that Allah uses
for righteousness students? It's this.
Have you heard of?
What's Birul Walidang?
See this word here?
It comes from the word, barun. Oops.
Oops.
Like safety on land and sin like an
ocean.
You are drowning in loss.
So
what is Barun?
Barun is like stability
in the land.
Peace and calmness.
When there's peace and calmness and stability,
but the person is still
falling into sin.
They're still falling into some kind of sin,
right?
So
Barun is that,
okay, even though I'm living in a pretty
safe environment,
I can still potentially do the wrong thing,
and I need to address that. That process
is called barun.
So you're in a place that is a
good place,
so put it think of it this way,
you come to a masjid.
That doesn't mean now you're a righteous person
because you walked into the Masjid door. You
could have a whole baggage of problems and
sins and wrong that you've done.
So you come into the Masjid
and you start to repair and work on
yourself, that process is called Barun. It's to
keep that stability
consistent all across the land.
So,
Allah is so agile uses that word to
describe
the process of maintaining righteousness.
Okay. Let me give it to you in
another way, because I can see it on
some of your faces. It's kinda there but
not. You're really do you guys remember when
there was a blackout here in Toronto about
10, 15 years ago?
The famous blackout? In 19.
Okay.
Well, I thought some of you will say
I wasn't even born. I'll be like, okay.
Get out of my class. You're making me
feel ancient now.
But, yeah. I think it was about 15
years ago. Remember that major blackout?
Yeah. It was in about 10, 15 whatever.
Right? So the point is,
it was chaotic. I remember going on the
roof of my house and I just sat
there.
All I could see were just the sirens
of cops and fire trucks because people are
stuck in elevators,
they're stuck in their homes, they're stuck in
different places because nothing would work,
and it was absolute chaos that lasted for
a couple of hours.
Is
when you go to that place, and in
this case, there's a blackout.
You go and figure out what's the source
of the blackout and you address it and
bring back stability in the land. That's Barun.
So you are a good person in general,
but you have one problem.
You got some serious
serious anger issues
Like,
you will be good with everybody and everything
until somebody gets you upset, then the comes
out. Then you become a monster.
Is you go to that problem and you
address it and you fix it. K?
So, Barun, it's a safe place. You're in
a good place, but you got 1 or
2 problems that need to be addressed, you
gotta go and address it.
Oh my god. I we all know people
like that.
All of us know
people like that. Okay?
So
However, righteousness is the one who believes in
Allah. Okay. I'm gonna talk about this and
this would probably
take us to the other, okay, in a
couple of minutes.
A comprehensive view of what is needed to
be a good Muslim.
Number 1
and number 2.
To be a good person, you have to
have good etiquettes, good akhlaq.
To be a good Muslim, you have to
be consistent in your worship.
So you gotta make sure that you pray
and you pray on time.
You do it properly. You gotta make sure
that you're reciting, that you're dressed well, that
you do your thick and and and and
stay away from Haram.
Follow the head out as best as possible,
all of these things.
These both of these areas
are addressed in this one area.
I put these 2 categories
because generally speaking, when Muslims practice Islam,
they usually fall under one of these categories.
Rarely, you will find that they fall under
both.
As Muslims,
we have to have both.
You can't just be a good person, but
you're like,
I pray sometimes.
Or you can't just be like, I pray,
I go for Hajin,
but, you know,
you cheat people, you take a riba,
dishonest, you lie once in a while, and
and and so on. You can't do that.
You have to have both.
That's that's a hard thing to do.
It's not easy to do that.
Right? To have both of these category but
this area in
helps us to achieve that.
The number one reason you should be driven
to do good is for Allah.
Make sure you write this down because
the first quality Allah gives us that makes
a good person is in Islam. So you
wanna just in the side of your book
or somewhere, just put notes.
Quality number 1
is that you have
true iman in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You
have true iman in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
That's the first quality Allah says that makes
you a good person.
Here's my question to you.
Where was this
Surah revealed?
Medina.
Medina. How many years of Islam has already
passed?
At least how much?
13. At least 13 or so. Right?
Including a couple years in midi, so 14,
15 years.
Don't the Sahabas already have iman?
So why is Allah telling them you need
to have iman?
Okay.
The reason why I'm bringing this up, lots
of non Muslims will
pick out these kind of patterns in the
Quran and say
the Quran is redundant. It's repeating itself unnecessarily.
Or Allah tells you to do something you're
already doing. What's the point of that? It's
wasted space, it's a wasted sentence. Right?
But that's not what the a the a
is actually not focused on just believing in
Allah. There's something deeper.
Does anybody know what that is?
They already have iman. They already believe in
Allah. So what is Allah telling them to
believe here when he says I want you
to have iman in Allah? What is Allah
focused on here?
Iman
also is reflected in our akhlaq.
So when Allah says, I want you to
believe in Allah, believe in me, he's not
talking about your heart.
He's talking, I want your actions and your
akhlaq to also reflect you have iman in
me.
Want an example?
Here's an example.
You're standing in line.
I mean, we just came out of Ramadan,
so you're standing in line for iftar.
Lines going pretty slow.
So you decide, like, okay, let me just
make conversation
and get in front of 10 others, then
maybe 5 others, then 6 others.
You have iman
in Allah here,
but you don't have it in your actions
because you're not Now you're cheating the system.
You're supposed to be in line and you're
cheating now.
That's the iman Allah is calling. It's the
iman in your actions.
So
your iman
will tell you
although I'm starving and there's 500 people in
front of me, it'll be wrong to butt
anybody. I'm gonna stay right here and go
with the line.
That's your e man talking.
Keeping you to do the right thing, physically
do the right thing.
You know,
couple I guess it was probably a couple
years ago, 2 or 3 years ago, there
was a $100 bill I saw
as I was walking in the mall. So
me and my wife are just walking by,
and then we see a $100 bill on
the floor.
Does anybody know what to do when you
find money like that sitting on the floor?
What do you do?
Just pick it up and give it away?
So the first thing you should do is
you should pick it up
and then you should try to look around
and see
make an attempt. Maybe there's could be somebody,
like, checking their pockets and they're looking around
opening their purse.
So you kind of have an idea, okay,
maybe this person, hi, did you lose something?
Or take it to the lost and found
or to the security whatever the case is.
But point is you don't keep it.
If you happen to be somewhere where there's
no security, I think like you find it
in the middle of a park somewhere,
what do you do then?
I I just put it for 7.
So this
the sunnah
the sunnah is that you should keep it
for at least a year.
You should hold on to it because you
never know, but it's still quite far fetched
for where we are because usually
there's a good chance, there's a really good
chance that whoever owns this
cash may never find it again
and only then you keep
it. No. It's yours.
Just consider that the Allah
provided for you there.
Keeping a $5 bill for, like, a year
is kinda tricky.
Like, who's gonna look for a $5 bill
away?
You know you know who's you know who
does that?
You know who would keep $5 for 1
year?
The people of Eman
will do that.
Okay?
Your Eman will your Eman will will monitor
every penny
that isn't yours or your your iman will
monitor it all.
So don't don't think this is like a
weird impossible scenario. No, it's actually not. Let
me tell you.
When I became a student at Medina University,
I was there nine and a half years.
My first year,
I had this thobe on,
I hung it up in my room.
I had
some rial, so I bought 3 or 400
rial, which is about just over a $100
Canadian of Saudi money in my pocket.
Hung it
up, went to the bathroom, washed down my
window, came back, all of it's gone.
All of it gone.
Oh, hold on.
I don't know who took it. I was
real like, I wasn't angry. I was real
scared because it's my first time living alone.
I'm like, oh my God, I'm gonna just
I'm gonna be homeless now. What am I
gonna do? Things like
that. When
just before my 8th year of being in
the universe, 8 years later,
my roommate came back and gave me the
money. Oh, okay. And he and he apologized.
Oh, no. 2 years.
8 years later.
So
the point is is that he came perhaps,
this was something common in his country or
something he used to do.
Maybe he was, you know, a kleptomania.
Like, he was just addicted to doing this
sort of thing. And then as time went
on, he learned,
studied his deen, understood the consequences,
part of his repentance to Allah. He literally
came back and handed me all the cash.
I didn't take it though. I told him,
this is now my gift to you. Just
keep it. So what about Yeah.
Money now?
So much to keep it
for 10 years. No. Somebody keeps size keep
it for 10 years. Well, that money would
have been 1600 That I mean, you you
don't have to keep it for that long.
So that will be up to your discretion.
Right? You can look at the market at
that time and see what
that'll be at your discretion. That's correct.
But but you see what my point is?
Yeah.
When you have Eman, you're able to do
things,
others will look and be like, that's impossible.
No. No. No. You don't know what iman
make You don't know where iman takes you.
It can put you in a place where
nobody
can get to. It'll put you at a
place of focus and fear of Allah.
If I took a nickel 5¢
wrongfully,
a person of Eman will lose sleep every
night because of this 5¢. Because you know
what? You're gonna be asked about it. You
stole it. You're gonna be countable in front
of Allah.
It's 5¢. It's trivial in this worldly life.
It's a massive weight that will lower your
scale of good deed or it will lower
your scale of bad deeds in the sight
of Allah, so
that's the believer.
So my point here is this that you
don't
At the end of the day, you don't
trivialize anything
and the believer
always their iman tells them, my iman tells
me, this is not mine, and I need
to figure out how to get rid of
it. And if you try every avenue to
return the money or item and you don't,
it's impossible.
Consider it yours, and that's it. That's the
end of it. Yep.
Yeah.
You say yeah. Take it. I mean, even
if their their religion has nothing to do
with that. So if they came back to
you and you're and you're saying, like, you
lost something and they came in return it,
is that what you're asking? Yeah. That's fine.
Yeah.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. That's fine.
That's a good he'll he'll be rewarded for
that. Alright?
So religion has nothing to do with that.
What's not yours is not yours, and if
somebody returns it whoever they are, doesn't matter.
You know, it's a for them
and you leave it at that. So the
so now but my point here is that
now you understand why
Allah repeats
to believe in him to people who already
believe in him. He's not talking about the
in
their hearts.
I want to see
in Allah even outside of your heart in
your actions. Okay?
You want jannah? Well, you're also working for
the day of judgment.
So the point here is that part of
your iman is that you also believe in
all of the angels,
all of the sacred books that Allah,
revealed intact as they originally were, and, also,
of course, to all of the respected prophets
and messengers,
your e man should extend to all of
this. So when we talk about iman with
prophets, how does that iman look like? When
I say you need to have iman, your
iman is complete when you believe in the
prophets. Believe in what?
What is it about the prophets that you
believe in?
They also but they also called
to to to the oneness of Allah to
Tawhid. Right? So you also believe in those
messages as well. New You believe in him,
meaning you believe in the message that he
called to Ibrahim Alaihi Salam and so on.
Right?
Then the ayah starts getting
juicy now. Okay?
So the angels book with okay. So you
give chat this is where we're at now.
So at Alman, that's this.
Who give charity out of their cherished
wealth to relatives,
who is the first category
of people
that deserve your sadaqah?
That word.
So we'll pause there Insha'Allah. Next week, we'll
continue from this word. Okay?
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