Mustafa Abu Rayyan – 23 Tafseer Surah alBaqarah Verses 125129
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This is a continuation of our, weekly Tafsir
class. It's going to be after Isha. Just
like all the other classes in the Masjid
and all the other lectures in the Masjid,
they'll be occurring now
after Isha because Isha
has come a bit closer. So just keep
that in mind
Any talk lecture
is going to be after the Isha prayer.
We started talking about
Ibrahim alayhi salam. And
last week
we started the verses that speak about this
great prophet, this great messenger.
And,
the Alama they say that after
Rasulullah
after prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
that the greatest messenger after him is Ibrahim.
And there's a lot of evidence to point
to that.
Among that, being, for example
how,
the type of praise Allah gives
Ibrahim
is very different than any other prophet in
the Quran.
He is the only, prophet in the Quran
whom our messenger is told to specifically follow.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
Ibrahim.
And, oh, Muhammad, we have revealed upon you
to follow the way of Ibrahim specifically.
Also, he is the prophet that we mentioned
the most after prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa
sallam. In the adhan, we we mentioned our
beloved prophet.
In our shahada, we mentioned our beloved prophet.
But there is a prophet that we also
mention everyday in our prayer and that is
during the salat.
When you are doing your atahiyat or the
shahood, what do you say? Allahum Sallalla Muhammad
wa'alali Muhammad kamasalayta'ala
Ibrahim.
So he is someone we are mentioning everyday
many many times.
And there are some duas that we have
been taught by the prophet
to say every morning and among it
is
And we woke up this morning
upon the way of our father Abraham or
Ibrahim alaihis salam.
So he is a very central figure in
our in our in our faith. You will
find that
on the day of judgement no one is
clothed. No one is clothed.
And
you might be thinking, well, people might be
looking at each other and the answer is
no because everyone is busy with,
their trial
and, Allah holding them accountable
so they're not worried and they're not don't
care and they will not be looking at
each other like
prophet when she found out that people will
not be wearing any clothes on day of
judgement. She said, will people not look at
each other? And he said, al emruh ashadamindalik.
Indeed the affair is greater than that. May
Allah protect us on that day and make
us among those that will have an easy
account.
The first person to be clothed on the
day of judgment is who? Prophet Ibrahim alayhis
salam.
The first person to wear clothes is prophet
Ibrahim alayhis salam. And he has many many
virtues. We mentioned last week the first to
ever circumcise himself was prophet Ibrahim.
The first to host guests,
in the way we do in Islam was
prophet Ibrahim alaihi salam. And many many sunnahs
that we do, he started it. And today
we're going to read the verse that he
is the one that built the Kaaba.
We spoke how Allah
mentions that he tested Ibrahim.
We know our life is a test.
We do not know if we will,
pass the test, if we will fulfill the
commandments, if we will complete the trials.
But Allah is saying here,
and mention of Muhammad, and we mentioned these
verses last week. And mention of Muhammad Ibrahim
When Allah tested his, when Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala tested Ibrahim.
When Ibrahim was tested by his lord, rather.
With some commandments
and he completed them.
So
Ibrahim completed
his commandment. Nothing
was asked of him except he did it.
And even the most difficult task,
he would do it. Whether that was leaving
his baby boy, Ishmael
and Hajjar
in the valley of Makkah
with nothing to eat or to drink, trusting
Allah.
Or the trial of slaughtering his son and
sacrificing.
Or the trial of standing up against people
and then being thrown into the fire.
Every single one of them he would pass
with flying colors.
And here, in the following verses, you're going
to learn a little bit little bit about
Ibrahim alayhi salam.
So we start in verse 126.
And mention of Muhammad
Ibrahim
when Ibrahim said.
Mention and remember when Ibrahim said,
My lord make this city,
Mecca,
a place of security.
Oh Allah make Mecca safe.
And when he is making this dua, there's
nothing in Makayat.
Right? But he's asking Allah to make it
a safe place, a sanctuary.
And provide its people with fruits,
provision.
And then he said,
Who, oh Allah, do I want you to
provide with provision and fruits,
those among them that believe in Allah? Wilyomil
akhir in the last day.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will then answer Ibrahim's
call. But let's analyze what Ibrahim is saying
here. He's asking Allah what? Oh Allah, make
Mecca what?
Safe.
Provide for his people what?
Something to eat. Provision.
Peoples,
everyone in this world,
this is what they seek.
Everything that we do in this world can
be boiled down to do things.
What do we want? We want safety.
And we want something to eat and drink.
This is all we want.
And everything that you go to work, why
is to to get provision?
Right? We have all these laws in place.
Why? For safety and security.
And the moment we lose 1,
life
will go sideways.
The 2 essential things that anyone needs, any
functioning society needs is
provision
and peace.
And that's what Ibrahim alaihi salam is asking.
And there's a lesson to be learned here.
Those two things
need to be protected.
We need to protect the peace, and we
need to ensure there's provision available for everyone.
And this is how you keep a society
secure and safe. It's a beautiful hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, where he
said
The prophet
said, whoever
wakes up
Someone that is safe in his home.
No one is chasing you, no one is
attacking you, there's no war, there are no
criminals,
you feel
safe enough to leave your home, come back.
You have that Ni'mah.
Can we all attest to that Ni'mah right
now?
Yes.
Even if sometimes certain neighborhoods
are somewhat unsafe, generally speaking,
we have safety.
Is safe in his body. He's healthy.
So if you have health
and you have
safety,
and he has something to eat that day.
If you have those three things, it is
as if the whole world has been given
to you.
This is what we want. Now you could
want the most lavish lifestyle
or the most simple lifestyle.
You could be the richest person
but if people are after you
and you're worried and you're scared,
none of that lifestyle is gonna help you
if you don't have security.
And if you are in the most secure
place but you have nothing to eat or
drink then same same thing. So
we have that.
Remember to always thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
for the niyamas that you have.
So he's asking, oh Allah
provide Makkah,
provide this city, this town
with safety
and provide provision and fruits for the people.
Those among them those among them that believe
in Allah and the last day. Who did
he exclude?
Who did he exclude from this dua? Those
that what?
Don't believe in Allah in the last day.
If you look at the earlier verse,
Ibrahim made a dua. We mentioned this last
week, but some of you were not here.
You look at the earlier verse, Ibrahim made
a dua. He said,
oh Allah.
Allah said to him, Allah gave Ibrahim a
a gift, a promise. Allah said, I will
make you an imam. I will make you
someone that is followed by everyone. And we
spoke about how all the major faiths, all
the major religions,
they respect Ibrahim
to the point where they're called what? The
Abrahamic
religions.
Allah truly made him someone that everyone
respects. Right? Allah says,
I will make you to all of mankind
an imam. Isn't that the case? That is
the case. But then Ibrahim
said,
O Allah, what about my offspring?
What about my children and my descendants? Will
they also be imams?
So Allah then taught him, my lesson, Allah
said,
My covenant and my promise
to make your children
or to make them imams and leaders and
people that are followed
will not apply to the wrong doers among
your offspring.
So here you'll understand
that not everyone that is from the descendants
of Ibrahim will be someone deserving
of this title of being an imam, someone
that is followed. Does that make sense? So
do you see how Allah is teaching him
not everyone that comes from your lineage will
be what? Deserving of being leaders and being
followed.
And we know this. Are literally every person
from Benu Israel good? No. Musa is dealing
with a lot of Benu Israel that were
bad. Isn't that the case?
Ayb.
So now when when when
Ibrahim heard that from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
now he's saying he's making a dua. Oh
Allah,
provide safety and security.
And he's saying, oh Allah give safety, security
and provision to those that believe.
To those who believe in Allah and the
last day.
Now Allah is now teaching Ibrahim another lesson.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
ask for those who disbelieve
also for umati rahuqaleelan.
Allah subhanahu wa'ala is saying, also those who
disbelieve
I shall leave, I shall give them some
of this worthy life as well. They will
also get provision.
They will also get safety and security. It's
not
exclusive to the believers.
So Allah is saying as for benefiting from
this world, eating and drinking and living,
then that is not exclusive to those who
believe in Allah and the messenger
messengers.
What is exclusive to them? Becoming imams. Did
you guys understand that? Allah is saying,
ask for those who disbelieve.
I shall leave
them in contentment for a while. They will
enjoy this world. But because they deny the
messengers,
but because they denied the hereafter, because they
rejected the truth,
yes, they will enjoy this world,
but
then they will be compelled to the atonement
of the fire,
and worst indeed is that destination. May Allah
protect us from it. So Ibrahim, in this
verse what did you learn? Ibrahim made a
du'a. O Allah, make Makkah a sanctuary.
Make Makkah safe. Make Makkah peaceful.
And wasn't that the case? That was absolutely
the case.
In Mecca, Mecca is a haram.
It is a sanctuary
where
others were not allowed to harm each other
and are not allowed to harm each other.
In fact, animals are not allowed to be
hunted there. In fact, the trees should be
left alone there. That's how special it is.
And even the polytheists
of Mecca,
we're talking about the Abu Jahalis and the
Abu Lahabs of the worlds, they respected that.
And if someone would come across a man
who killed his own father in the Haram
of Makkah,
he wouldn't say anything to them Because they
knew they were in a sanctuary.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave this place
sanctity,
Bayib.
Now,
Allah teaches us how this place became sanctified
and how it was built.
And remember and mention.
When Ibrahim was raising the foundations
of the house,
Or Ismailu and Ismail as well.
Here Allah is telling us who raised the
foundations the qawait of the Kaaba.
Which 2 prophets are mentioned? Ibrahim and his
son Ishmael.
The
building of the Kaaba,
this sacred place
by Ibrahim alaihi salam,
according to many scholars
was a rebuilding.
He wasn't the first to build it.
Rather,
it was built by the angels
and they did tawaf around it.
And it was, and some say the first
to build it was Adam himself.
When he came, he established the first place
of worship and it was in Makkah and
it was the And it was a place
where many prophets would come and make tawaf
and worship Allah in, but Ibrahim alaihi salam
had the honor to raise its foundations. Even
from the verse, Allah doesn't say Ibrahim.
When Ibrahim built the Kaaba, Allah said
When Ibrahim was raising the foundations. Meaning what?
The foundations were already
already there. What is he doing? He is
stacking the stones on top of it. And
remember when Ibrahim was raising the foundations of
the Beit, the house.
Of course this is the house of worship,
the Kaaba, a sharifa
wa Ismailu
and Ismail.
And while they're doing it,
they were saying,
oh our Lord.
Oh our Lord.
Accept from us. Oh, our lord accept from
us.
Indeed, verily you are the all hearer and
the all knower. What's interesting is, they are
asking Allah to accept from them while they
are engaged in worshiping Allah.
They are asked, oh Allah accept from us.
2 prophets
doing something Allah told them to do
and they are saying, oh Allah accept it
from us.
Why?
Because here you learn a very important lesson.
The believer,
with regards to the worship that he does,
your prayer,
your charity,
anything that you do that is a Ibadah,
you shouldn't be sure
that it got accepted by Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. You shouldn't be like, okay. I prayed.
That's done. Take it off. This is not
the mentality of the believer.
You do not know
whether Allah accepted this from you or not.
And there is a verse in the Quran
that teaches us
whose acts of worship are accepted.
Allah says in Surat Al Maida,
Allah only except from the pious.
So can we all guarantee that we are
pious?
Do we have a guarantee that we are
from the muttaqeen? No.
So what should our attitude be when we
worship? When we pray? When we give charity?
When we do when we fast? What should
our attitude be like?
Allah mentioned it in the Quran as well.
Allah mentioned those who give,
what they have,
been given, those who do acts of worship,
and service
and
and charity.
While their hearts are trembling.
Aisha
our mother.
You'll find many hadith of Aisha asking the
prophet something.
And that shows you her
inquisitive
and intelligent mind.
We always benefit from her questions.
Right?
She was the one that asked earlier when
we said the people will not be wearing
any clothes. Who said, You Rasool Allah, will
they not be looking at each other? And
then the prophet said, no. Things are worse
than that. Aisha. And now here, Aisha heard
this verse
of
those who, when they are doing good, are
worried.
She's like, are those the sinners? Why are
they worried?
Are they those that sin and have shortcomings?
And he said, no. They are not. Rather,
they are the worshipers of Allah
And they are worried because they do not
know whether Allah accepted it from them or
not. So the believer
should when you do an act of worship
you should be between fear and hope. What
does that mean?
Be thankful
that you've done this act of worship, many
haven't.
You've came to the Masjid and prayed, many
haven't. So what do you need to be?
Thankful.
Be hopeful. Yes. You've done a great act
of worship. Be hopeful that Allah has an
accident from you, but also be fearful.
And that will make you rethink your intention.
The next time you pray, you're gonna work
on your intention even more. Right? Did I
come to the masjid just because my friend
was coming? Or did I really come to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Was I really focused
on my or not? Was I you know,
you're going to start working on yourself more,
and it doesn't mean that you lose hope
or you disregard the goods that you've done.
No. No. No. No. No. By all means,
we'll accept it from you. But what we
don't want is this relaxed attitude. Alhamdulillah. I
prayed. It's done. Take it off. Take it
off. Alhamdulillah. I got 3 hijras, 2 umras,
this many salaat. This is not how you
should be thinking. Does that make sense? You
do not know what has been accepted and
what has not and that should cause you
to try more, but also always constantly worry
about your attention. Does that mean you should
disregard the good act good things that you've
done? Don't disregard them but don't also over
rely on them.
Does that balance make sense everyone? Right?
Ibrahim alaihis salam, Ismail alaihis salam,
prophets of Allah
building the Kaaba, say, oh Allah, accept from
us. Oh Allah, accept from us. Or should
we say when we pray? Oh Allah,
access from us. Indeed you are the, all
hearer and the all knowing. And then they
make this beautiful dua.
Oh our lord.
Oh, Allah. Make us
people that submit to you. Make us Muslims.
Look at this,
Is Ibrahim already not a Muslim?
Is he not a Muslim already? Is he
not a great prophet already? Is he not
engaged in an act of worship already? Yeti
what is he saying? Oh Allah, make me
someone that truly submits to you. The true
believer always knows that there's more that
they
can
do.
Oh Allah, glory is to you. We have
not worship you the way you deserve. And
you can always improve. You can always ask,
oh Allah, make help me in your salah,
in my prayer. Oh Allah, make me a
better Muslim.
These 2 prophets are saying,
Oh Allah, make us 2 that submit to
you.
Not just us,
and make our children also those that submit
to you. What did we learn here? The
importance of making dua for your children and
their children and their offspring and your lineage.
This is what they're doing. They're saying, oh,
Allah, make us Muslims,
but also our offspring.
How often do we yes. Even if you
don't have children,
one day you might start making dua for
them. Oh
Allah, make me a good person and those
that come after me and those that come
after them. Does that make sense everyone?
Now look, you'll see now how important it
is to make dua for the future and
plant seeds.
Oh Allah, make us 2
Muslims to you, submitters,
submissive to you.
And also our offspring.
Make them a ummah, a nation.
That submits to you, oh Allah.
Oh Allah, make our offspring a nation that
submits to who? To Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So what did you learn here? What does
being a Muslim mean? To be with someone
that submits to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. A
common misconception
I have seen is,
Islam
means peace.
Islam
means
peace.
Islam means submission.
Through that submission, you attain peace. Does that
make sense? So there is peace in it
which is why they sound the same. Salam,
Islam. Right? This don't they sound the same?
Salam.
This person is someone that is safe, someone
that has peace.
Someone that submitted to Allah. And through your
submission, you will attain peace, inner peace, outer
peace. You will establish peace in this world
and gain peace in the hereafter.
But what does Islam mean? Submit.
Allah tells you to do something, you do
it. Allah tells you do not do something,
stay away from it. This is Islam. Does
that make sense if you want?
So, oh Allah, make our offspring a nation
that is also in submission to you.
And then they said,
O Allah,
show us our What
is our?
The word
is usually used for Hajj.
Acts of
Hajj are called.
Manasics also use generally acts of worship.
But since they're building the Kaaba,
the place people go to when they're doing
what?
When they're doing hajj.
They're saying, oh Allah,
show us
how we're going to do Hajj,
how the people will do Hajj. And
show us
our our
acts of worship,
the ceremonies of the pilgrimage.
And oh Allah,
forgive,
accept our repentance.
SubhanAllah.
If Isma'il Ibrahim are asking Allah to accept
the repentance, how often should we be asking
Allah to accept our repentance?
I want you to imagine this scene.
They are literally engaged in worship.
They are fulfilling the commands of Allah.
They are building the Kaaba that many thousands
and thousands and millions and millions will go
to worship.
And they are asking Allah while they're doing
that, oh Allah accept our good deeds.
Oh Allah make us Muslims.
Oh Allah make our children Muslims and their
offspring a nation of Muslims. Oh Allah, show
us how we're going to worship you
in in in Hajj.
Oh Allah, accept our repentance.
Indeed you are you are the tawab and
you are the Rahim. The tawab is the
acceptor of repentance.
The word Tawab,
something that's quite interesting,
it means the one that accepts your repentance.
So how does that go?
Person a sins,
feels bad about the sin,
asks Allah to forgive them, repents from their
sin and Allah does what? Accept their repentance
because Allah is the tawab.
Right? Did you know that tawab also means
that Allah is the one that initiates
the need to repent in the servant to
begin with. So it actually goes like this,
person a sins,
Allah has so much mercy on that person,
Allah starts putting the seeds
of wanting to repent in that person to
begin with.
And that person asks Allah forgiveness,
then they repent, and Allah takes the repentance.
Who initiated the repentance to begin with?
Allah. Who accepted it? Allah.
If you ever want to understand that Allah
has the most merciful, just look at that
concept.
We sin.
And then Allah has so much mercy on
us, he helps us repent, and then he
accepts our repentance.
Then Allah initiated the need to repent in
their hearts and then he accepts their repentance.
Oh, you are the acceptor of repentance.
You are the most merciful.
Oh, oh, Lord. They're still making dua. Yes.
We're still going through the dua. Rabbanah, o
our lord.
Craig, who's making the dua? Who can tell
me? Who's making the dua?
Prophet Ibrahim and
Prophet Ishmael.
Brilliant. Rabbanah, oh our Lord.
Send amongst them. Who's them here? The people
that live will live in Makkah.
Oh, send amongst them or their offspring. Oh,
Allah send amongst them
Rasulan a messenger.
From them. From amongst them.
This messenger
will recite upon them
your ayaat and your signs and your verses.
And he will teach them Al Kitabah the
book, and wal Hikmata the sunnah and the
wisdom. Oh, he's a khim and he will
purify them through tarbia.
Oh, Allah
You are indeed Al Azizu
and Al Hakim. Oh, Oh Allah you are
the one who is Aziz the mighty
and you're Al Hakim the all the all
wise.
So what kind of dua did they do
now? What did they ask Allah now? Send
amongst them what? A messenger. Who can tell
who the messenger
is?
The messenger is prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
The prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam hadith
Ibrahim.
I am
the prayer of Ibrahim
and the glad tiding
of Isa.
So Ibrahim is making the dua while he's
building the Kaaba. He's saying, oh Allah, the
people that will live in Makkah sent amongst
them a messenger
from them.
1000 of years later Allah sent among the
gil of Makkah a messenger from them. This
messenger
is also a direct descendant
of prophet Ibrahim alaihi salam. So prophet Muhammad
is a direct descendant
of prophet Ismael
who's the son of Ibrahim.
What do they say? Make our offspring
believers
Muslims.
And the greatest believer and the greatest Muslim
is from their offspring.
Allah promised
Ibrahim that he will make him an imam
and then he said what about my offspring?
And Allah said not all of them but
some of them definitely. Among them of course
is prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. But
not just prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
prophet Musa was from Banu Israel.
Israel is prophet Yaqub, the son of prophet
Ishaq, the son of prophet Ibrahim. So
Musa,
Dawood,
Suleiman,
Zakaria,
Yahia,
so many prophets of Israel,
all are the descendants of Ibrahim alaihi salam.
So when Ibrahim said when Allah said I
will make you an imam,
I will make you a leader, I will
make you someone that is followed, someone that
is loved, respected,
a person that is a role model to
all, and he said, oh Allah, and from
my offspring did Allah subdue his dua?
Yes.
And from his offspring you have the greatest
men and women.
And by For example, among the women, Mariam
alaihi salam.
Mariam Bintu Imran, married the mother of Isa
alaihi salam, is from Bal Israel,
they said,
Oh Allah send from amongst them a messenger.
Who will
recite upon them your verses.
And will instruct them from the book.
And from the wisdom. The hikma, the scholars
say hikmah here is referring to the sunnah.
And all and you have some people
that will say
we don't need to follow the sunnah, we
need only the Quran.
And what they don't understand is a very
simple concept. When they separate the Quran from
the sunnah,
you cannot separate the Quran from the sunnah.
For example, when we are praying
and we say
and we put our hands on our chest,
and when we go for ruku,
how many raka'at we pray,
how much charity we give, How often we
need to go to hajj? The acts of
hajj themselves,
are they all in the Quran or are
they in the sunnah? In the sunnah.
If you remove the sunnah from our religion,
most of our religion is gone
because the sunnah is to there to explain
the Quran.
The prophet is the living embodiment of the
Quran. Like Aisha when she was
asked can you tell us about the khalth
of the prophet? She said he was
Quran. And the prophet would teach us the
Quran.
He would act upon the Quran and we
understand what it means to act upon the
Quran. Allah says establish the prayer. Who do
we then look to to establish the prayer?
The prophet.
Which is why there was this qurani.
He was asked, do you pray 5 times
a day? And he said no. Said why
it's not in the Quran? Alright then, how
do you pray? Oh, I just make dua.
So Khalas. That person doesn't pray. How do
you do the Hajj? Oh, I just go
there and
just be spiritual.
Khalasya and this person has completely gotten rid
of the whole Islam.
But then we ask those people a question.
Here, prophet Ibrahim, it's in the Quran, it's
saying,
Oh Allah sent amongst the messengers is going
to teach them the kitab.
The kitab and the hikmah.
What's the hikmah?
What's the hikmah? That's the sunnah.
That's the sunnah.
The hikmah here means
the sunnah.
And when Allah says in the Quran,
I mean we send we reveal upon you
the Quran so that you may explain to
them what's in it.
Where is this explanation written?
Yeah.
Like when this is when Where is this
explanation written? It's in the sunnah.
Right? So this is one of the most
ridiculous claims. And to be honest, most of
those people,
the reason they become like that
is because salah becomes difficult for them. They
don't wanna wake up for fajar. They don't
wanna pay charity. They don't wanna pay pay
fardans upon to go to Hajj. They're like,
you know what? Yeah. I'm just gonna follow
the Quran. It's a lot easier. It's Shawwa.
It's desires.
No there's not an intellectual argument there or
an Islamic argument there whatsoever. And on top
of that,
when they reject the sunnah,
how did the Quran come to them? The
same people that transited us the Quran have
transited us the sunnah. Right? The same way
we know that the prophet said because
the prophet Umar related that and Umar related
to Al Qama and go on to go
on. The Quran has been related to us
as well. So if you deny the the
sunnah, you must deny the Quran. They they
cannot be separated
whatsoever.
They cannot be separated whatsoever.
And we know our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and this is something that people
should know as well.
The sunnah comes from Allah.
The Sunnah
comes from Allah.
Just like the Quran. All of it is
revelation.
The prophet said, I have been given the
Quran
and something like it
with it.
I have been given the Quran
and something like it, with it. What is
a something like it? It's the sunnah. Who
gave it to him? Allah.
The prophet wasn't making it out to making
it up as he goes along.
He's being divinely
inspired by Allah.
He's being divinely
inspired
by Allah.
Who taught the prophet how to pray? Angel
Jibril.
Angel Jibril was sent to Allah, he taught
them how to pray. This is a hadith
in Abu Dawood where the where the timings
of the salah.
How do you know when to pray? Angel
Jibril came, led the prophet in prayer. The
prophet saw how to pray. One day he
prayed every single salah in his beginning time.
The second time he 2nd day he came
and he prayed every single salah at his
end time. And said,
The prayer is between these two times.
This is not in the Quran. This is
the sunnah. But where is this information coming
from?
It's coming from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
When he's told,
your ummah has to pray 5 times but
the reward is 50. The hadith of Islam
wal miraaj. Is that in the Quran?
It's mentioned in the Quran.
Glory be to the one who did the
israel with his slave and, you know, the
night journey. But the details of the night
journey and the commandments, where will you find
them? In the sunnah.
So
the hikmah here is referring to the sunnah.
We use a qihim and to purify them.
So the dua of prophet Ibrahim here is,
oh Allah send them a messenger and now
you learn the function of a messenger.
Number 1,
To recite upon them the verses that come
from Allah. So prophet Muhammad would recite them
so that others can read,
memorize and act upon. And the act upon
it comes with and
he would teach them Al Kitab at the
Quran.
So
one of the things that sometimes we get
wrong
is that we
read the Quran
more than we study the Quran.
We read the Quran more than we study
the Quran. Most people can read the Quran.
On Jum'ah, they are reciting Surat Al Kahf.
Would you say most Muslims they come to
Jum'ah and recite Surat Al Kahf? How many
among them know what Surah Kahf is talking
about?
Think about that for a second.
Jummah al Masjid is full. Everyone
How many of them know what Surah Al
Kahf is talking about in detail?
Not many.
Because they have been taught to read the
Quran
but they haven't
studied the Quran. And this is what the
ummah is lacking. And if you look at
the Sahaba,
they were the the the opposite.
1 of the Sahaba said, Jundub, he said
we learned Iman before we learned the Quran.
Quran.
We learn iman first. We learn what to
believe.
We were taught what to believe.
Then we were taught to read the Quran
and through our recitation then we increased in
our iman.
In another narration the Sahaba said we would
only recite 10 verses,
learn what they mean, try to apply them
and then move
on. So it's this system is missing
in our madaris.
It is missing in our masajid. It is
missing in our homes.
Now does that mean that we should not
recite the Quran? Absolutely. We should recite the
Quran even more so. But we should emphasize
on understanding
the message.
What is Allah telling us?
Babe, I'm quickly going to go over the
ayahs that we read today inshallah ta'ala and
conclude.
Ibrahim When Ibrahim said, oh my lord, make
this a safe city,
a safe and secure city.
And provide its people from it fruits and
provision.
Those among them that believed in Allah and
the hereafter,
Allah said,
And also those who disbelieve and reject, they
will also be given from his provision for
a while. Meaning, the disbelievers will also benefit
from the dunya.
But then Allah will compel them to a
a a torment
of the and
what they worst indeed is that as a
destination.
Then Allah said and mention and remember,
Ibrahim
when Ibrahim was raised in the foundations,
min al baytih from of the house,
the Kaaba in Makkah, where Ismail, where Ismail
was doing the same. And they were saying
while building, Rabbanah, O our Lord
accept from us our worship, our building.
Indeed
you are the all here and the all
knower.
Oh Allah make us 2 Muslims who are
submitting to you. Lekka to you.
And, oh Allah, from our offspring, make an
ummah, a nation,
Muslim that
is also submitting to you and our Muslims.
And oh Allah show us the ceremonies of
Hajj and how to worship you in Hajj.
And
oh Allah accept our repentance.
Indeed you are the Tawab, the acceptor of
repentance, Ar Raheem and the merciful.
Rabbanah, oh, oh lord.
Send among them
Rasul and a messenger. And this messenger is
who? Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
That will recite upon them your verses and
your ayaat
and will teach them the kitab, and hikmat,
and the sunnah, and the wisdom
and purify them by teaching them all of
that.
Indeed all, you are the almighty,
the all wise. We
stop at verse 129. We continue next week.