Nadim Bashir – Conversations In The Quran #5 Musa – As & Bani Israel
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Are against Allah, says Paula Fain, Arba ina Sanatan, for 40
years there was wandering around in a valley, not knowing where to
go, and they were in this valley for 40 years now. What happens
after those 40 years? Many ornaments say that within these 40
years, there were many other stories. The story of Musa
alaihissam taking people to Allah subhana wa taala, and because of
their arrogance, Allah subhanaw taala made all of them die, and
then again, Allah resurrected them. This happened within these
40 years. The story of the calf, when they came to Musa alaihissam,
and they said, A man has been murdered in our community. We
don't know who it is. It happened within these 40 years? Within
these 40 years also Harun ala ISAM dies within these 40 years. Musa
alaihissam also dies within these 40 years. And what happens after
that? Then comes a story of falut, okay, then comes the story of
Talu. But all these other conversations that take place
between Musa alaihi salam and Bani, Israel, and all these
different stories inshallah. I will cover them in the upcoming
weeks, but this is the end of the story where Allah subhana wa Taala
said, Enough is enough. These people need to be taught a lesson,
and ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala trapped them in a valley. Can you imagine
the vast that land of ALLAH SubhanA wa taala, the earth of
Allah, is very vast, but to be trapped in a valley, not knowing
where to go for 40 years. 40 years is a significant amount of time.
This is the adab and the punishment of Allah subhana wa
taala. Now, this is the conversation that took place
between Musa alaihissam and Bani Issa in now, one of the things
that we can learn quickly, I'm going to run through them. The
very first thing that we can learn from all this is when it comes to
remembering your blessings. Is not necessarily true that Allah will
give you something, and then you remember your blessings. Sometimes
you can remember your hardships, and now your life is a little more
easier compared to before. That in itself, is also considered as a
blessing, because these people were under thee the rule of Fira
own. They were slaves. Now we're talking about a time where now
they are the ones who are in charge. They're the ones who have
the families. They are the ones who have the slaves. The slaves
and the servants are working for them. Now, Allah saying that Musa
is reminding them that remember the time when you were the slaves.
Now you are the slave owners. Remember that ALLAH SubhanA wa
Taala has given you many blessings. Do not forget about the
challenges you went through and how ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala saved
you all. So it's not one of the best ways that we can always thank
Allah subhana wa Taala is by remembering the difficult times
and remembering now we are in a much better situation. I'm going
to give you this what best this random example here, many of us
sitting over here, you came here to the United States, and probably
in the 60s, in the 70s, okay, when you had nothing, when you had
absolutely nothing, you know, the stories, you know I used to hear
over and over again when I came to the United States with only $5
with only $1 $1 became $5 $5 became $100 and so forth. This is
also a way to show our gratitude to Allah, Subhanahu wa taala,
where we were as a Muslim community, and now where we are
today, as a Muslim community, where there were no masajid,
Alhamdulillah, there, Asami masajid, there were no Muslim
grocery stores now, there are Muslim grocery stores everywhere.
There was not a single Muslim restaurant at that time. Now,
there's restaurants everywhere. All these blessings, even if I
don't have anything tangible in my own possession, just looking
around our situation. This is also a moment to be grateful to Allah,
subhana wa taala. Also we see in this ayah Musa Islam. Before he
mentioned about the dunya blessings, he mentioned the
spiritual blessings. What did he say? Before he mentioned that
Allah give you power, he said, Allah gave you ambiya.
Allah gave you ambiya, spirituality over dunya. This is
the key thing about our life. In our life, also, there's always
going to be dunya, but spirituality comes before our
dunya and all situation also, we learn that in this, in the same
situation that Allah, subhana wa taala, he shows the cowardness of
Bani, Israel. And this is something we see throughout the
generation, even right now, the fact that Wallahi, this nation,
May Allah destroy them from in, from within their core, going
after children and justifying it. Wallahi, there's no bigger coward
nation on the faces earth than this om, and this is something
that's been going on from before their cowardness and just the way
they are. This is something that we have seen throughout history.
Also, we learned that these two people, you Shabi nun and you
Caliban, you cannot what they're teaching these people. When the
people benisa said, we're not going to go and fight, we're not
going to go, these people have to leave first. What did they What
did they say? They said that first Your job is to go and fight and do
your.
Thing do, do what's required of you, then Allah will give you
victory. And then, what did they say at the end of the verse, WA
Allah, He Fatah, what Kalu in kuntumminin, what these two people
are teaching is the definition of tawakul. What is tawakul? Tawakkul
is you first tie your camel, then you put your reliance on Allah,
subhana wa taala, they're teaching these. They're teaching everyone.
Ima is Saeed. You cannot expect Allah to help you without you
getting up, you getting ready, you going to that land and fighting,
and then Allah will give you victory. But you cannot expect
ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala to do something for you without you
doing your due diligence, and Wallahi, even right now, as we
talk about the ummah of Rasulullah, the situation, what's
happening in Palestine and anywhere else, so many people,
they come and they ask me, which I don't have the answer to, but so
many people will come and ask me that, what can we do right now,
besides the boycott, Besides making dua. Besides awareness,
what more can we do? We feel helpless. And here's all I have to
tell you, do what is within your capacity, because there's only
very limited that we can do at this point. This is part of
tawakkul that we do what we can do, and then we make dua to Allah
subhana wa Taala and we leave the rest in the hands of Allah subhana
wa taala. Yes, our job is that we can wake up for tahajjud. Our job
is that Wallahi today, I see Muslims right now. There was a
time when this first started in October, and there was so much
boycott taking place. But now slowly and gradually, we're
getting back to the use of we're getting back to life, and we're
just getting back to all of our normal, or, you know, our previous
behaviors and habits. Now I see Muslims again, going back to the
same old things. No, we got to keep on doing what we had to do
before. Imagine as if October 7 happened just yesterday, and then
this in the massacre against our brothers and sisters is happening
right now as it is. But imagine, as if, as if it has just started
right now, what was the spirituality of the Muslim
community when it came to the boycotts, how we were treating the
boycotts and so forth. We got to keep this going. Allah is One.
Allah wants to see what we can do on our behalf. We do what we can
we leave the rest in the hands of Allah subhanahu wa This is what
Allah subhana wa Taala has taught us. And finally, the price of
arrogance, as I said, Allah, protect them. This is the final
point. Their price of arrogance, Allah, Allah kept them in a
valley, not knowing where they're going to go. This is the price of
arrogance and Wallahi right now, when you see these people in their
arrogance, justifying the killing of children and women and men, you
know, and whatever crimes are committing, justifying it.
Wallahi, when you see in the White House and these people may Allah,
destroy them, Wallahi, when they can stand there and justify it
over and over again and say that, yeah, we're just looking into it.
Children are being killed. Yeah, we're just looking into it. If
Russia did it, then they will sit there and cry on the podium when,
when Israel is doing it, against our children, our beautiful Muslim
children, we're looking into it, this arrogance. There's a history
in the Quran. There's a history throughout mankind. When people
are arrogant, ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala gives them a chance, just
like Finan was arrogant, and he was arrogant for so many years.
Then once the Wrath of Allah subhana wa Taala came, it came
upon fit on and all his people. But remember, the price of
arrogance is a price that you have to pay. These people are going to
pay the price of arrogance, Wallahi, even Bani is Saeed, when
they were arrogant towards Musa al Islam, they paid a hefty price.
These people, they are arrogant. They will pay a hefty price. When
is that going to happen? We just have to leave it to Allah subhana
wa taala. But the price of arrogance is something that will
be paid, and when the Wrath of Allah subhana wa Taala comes, it
does not spare anyone. I ask Allah subhana wa Taala to give us a
topic to learn from these ayat and to apply his teachings in our
life. Amir, what is akumala? Salaam Alaikum,
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