Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Special Quran Gems 9
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We spoke about,
paying attention to the Quran in the month
of Ramadan, which is the month of the
Quran.
And we said that reading it is good,
memorizing it is excellent,
and reflect on it, on it is great.
And also
applying it to your life. This is the
purpose of the revelation.
So today inshaAllah we will focus a little
bit on something that if you read the
Quran you will come across all the time,
and that is, the order from Allah
to walk on the earth and reflect and
look around.
Afalam yaseeru fil adifaaamburu
koseru fil adifum manburu So you will read
this command in the Quran over and over
again. Allah
says,
Walk through the land and look around and
reflect.
So what do we get from reflecting
on the creation of Allah
It's very simple.
By looking around, and looking at the marvels
of the creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
you will know how great Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala is, how powerful Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is, and you will also,
understand the purpose of your life in this
world. By just looking at the creation.
Sometimes when we look at birds, and fish,
and animals,
these are just, you know, animals and fish,
there's nothing we can learn from them. Actually,
there are so many things you can learn
from them.
Wallahi, they teach you a lot.
So
I'm telling you,
I should make an oath that by just
watching National Geographic wallahi, you can learn more
about yourself,
the purpose of your life, than watching a
lot of news channels, like Fox News.
Because the truth is there is nothing truthful
about most of the news that you watch
on Fox News for example. I studied them
for 5 years for PhD,
and what you get from watching them 2
things, you'll get from watching,
you know, Fox News, CNN, CBC, most of
these channels, heart attacks, and blood pressure. That's
all you get from them. But by watching
National Geographic, you will
learn learn a lot of things.
You will learn about the fact that all
these animals,
they submit themselves to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You will never find an animal
making sajdah to another animal, or to another
human being, but you will find human beings
making sajdah to another human being, or to
other enemies.
There are 2,500,000,000
people in this world, out of the 7,000,000,000.
2,500,000,000,
they worship
Buddha, and so on and so forth.
Right? So we worship each other. We worship
animals. I'm not gonna give you examples, examples
of so many. If you come from India,
if you come from other places, you know
what I'm talking about. China,
you read about ancient Egypt, ancient Greece,
ancient Rome, they worship thousands of animal gods,
and so on and so forth.
So you'll never see an animal worshiping another
animal, but we do it all the time.
So,
I'm gonna share with you
this ayah from Surah Hajj, and it always
breaks my heart to read this ayah. So
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in this ayah:
Alamtahuhan
Allah
Have you not seen that everything in the
heavens and everything in the earth
submits to Allah
including the sun, the moon, the stars, the
trees,
everything,
and even animals.
All living beings, the fish, the birds, the
animals, but when He talks about human beings,
it says, and some humans do,
and some humans don't.
So everything submits to Allah, but when it
comes to human beings some of us do,
and some of us don't. So Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is basically saying that everything submits
to His will, except us. Some of us
choose to obey, some of us don't.
When you read for example in the Quran
the story of Nuh alaihis salam, he was
building the ark, you read in Surah Hud,
his people were making fun of him, when
the order came
to,
go up the
the ship,
the animals, they just went up.
The human beings, Oh, what's wrong with you?
You're building a ship in the desert, what's
wrong with you? And some of them were
saying, and even their kids,
They used to teach their kids, Nuh alaihis
salam failed as a prophet, maybe he will
succeed as a carpenter. This is what they
were teaching their kids.
So when he told them go up the
ship, so the animals
didn't ask questions, why are you building the
ark in the desert? They went up. Human
beings, oh, what's wrong with you? They didn't
go up and they drowned and died. Most
of them.
You look for example, at the example
of Saba, the people of Saba in Yemen.
Why did they accept Islam with Surah Alaihi
Salaam? Because of what?
Because of the bird, the hoopu. If you
read the story of Surah Anam, they all
became Muslim because of a bird
that made down onto them. You know this
story better than me. And most of us
are even ashamed to tell other people about
Islam. They're afraid, what are they going to
say about me?
You read for example in the Quran in
Surah Mayra, the way we learn how to
bury each other after death, from what?
From a bird, from Alhurrah, from the crow.
The story of the children of Adam, when
one of them killed the other. He didn't
know how to bury his brother? No, he
learned it from the other person, right?
And at the end of the story,
this person became regretful. He started to cry,
and he was sorry, not because he killed
his brother, but because he didn't know how
to bury his brother like the crow.
So, his his his regretfulness was not Tawba
because he was not sorry, actually.
He was sorry because he felt like the
crow was bitter than him.
This reminds me of the story of a
bunch of guys,
they robbed the bank, a lot of money.
Because in Islam, when you feel sorry about
what you have done, this is Tawba. But
if if you do it for another reason,
this is not Tawba, like in the case
of the children of Adam. So after they
robbed the bank, they drove the car like
7 hours in the desert, and they went
inside the cave, and one of them started
to cry.
So the ringleader,
the big thief, the big Chor, Hirsas,
Tugh in Somali.
They said, okay, why are you crying? Are
you crying? Do you feel sorry for robbing
the bank? He said, no, I feel sorry
because it's gonna take us a week to
know how much money we stole.
It's not Taobah. So the hit of the
thieves said, okay, what's wrong with you? He
gave he just watched and used for just
10 minutes. They're gonna say on CBC
that, $5,000,000
have just been stolen from the bank. We
don't have to count anything, right?
So by just watching the example of these
animals and birds we'll learn a lot of
things in the story of the field Abraha
Habashi.
The elephant
didn't want to destroy the Kaaba, but a
human being
mobilized a huge army to destroy the Kaaba,
the house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So
there is a lot we can learn from
animals inshaAllah after Ramadan if Allah gives me
the life, we're going to give 2 or
3 khutbas about all the things we can
learn from animals and birds and even fish
in the Quran.
So why do we need to do these
things and reflect?
Wallahi, it seems to me that over the
last few 1000 years since we came on
Earth,
we have done a lot of damage, and
all these animals and the these birds, they
are doing their job. They are just being
animals and birds.
We have learned to fly like birds, we
have learned to dive and swim like fish.
I think it's about time to learn how
to live like human beings. Because this is
our job. Flying and swimming in oceans, all
these, this is not our job. Our job
is
remaratul, are to take care of this world,
as was the intention of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala from the very beginning. And this is
why, I'm gonna conclude with this, don't shoot.
This is
why there's a lot of medicine now in
the world, more than 500 years ago, but
subhanAllah we have more illnesses,
more sickness in this world. We have more
entertainment.
All these channels, and all these different things,
and entertainment, and movies, and video games, and
stuff.
Tend to we I don't know all the
names,
but people are more miserable now than they
were 200 years ago.
The proof there are more people killing themselves
now, than the people who used to kill
themselves a 100 years ago.
So people are miserable, people are sick, and
you just imagine after the establishment of the
United Nations, there are more wars now, people
dying now, than before the United Nations was
established. Things don't even make any sense anymore.
So my advice don't watch the news channels,
Fox News, BBC, all these things. Watch,
National Geographic,
read the Quran, reflect on the creation of
Allah, this will give you the meaning and
the purpose of our existence in this world.
Wa Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, ala'ala.
So the question for last night was,
was about Moz, banana.
Right?
Banana. This is the meaning of the word
maws in, in English, and Subhanahu Wa Salam
Alaikum Where is the word banana in the
Quran? And almost all the answers I got
were,
banaqaadireenaalaal
Musaweeh banana.
What are you talking about?
I'm talking about the Arabic, right? Not the
English banana, right? Okay.
So,
the answer is in Surah Waqa, Waqah, Waqalhimmandud.
The Talh is most, Ayat 25. Talh is
most, Mandud is clustered, one above the other.
So this is the meaning, Waqalhimmandud,
and the winner is brother Muhammad Kaki.
The Quran.
But not everyone knows the last ayah revealed.
Why is the last ayah revealed to the
prophet
before his death? If you know the answer,
email me,
inshaAllah by tomorrow at imamustafah@anatoyacenterjazda
natoyacenter.c
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Correct.