Nadim Bashir – Conversations In The Quran #6 Story Of The Cow

Learn is that there's never a point that where we should

question Allah's orders. You see the ayah that I shared with you

before AM turidu. This is why Allah mentioned this. Because

these people were so arrogant in their nature. Instead of saying

aman nawasa, takana, they kept on. They kept on having you know, they

would exhibit arrogant behaviors. So Allah subhanahu saying that

this is not your position. Your position is I'm telling you to do

something, and you do it. And this is why, for all of us in the ummah

of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi, wa sallam, we do not have to

question everything we're told to do. If Allah says to us, you pray

five times a day. I had a young man came to me. He said that, why

is it if Allah wants us to pray five times a day? Halas, I'll pray

five times a day. I'll wake up in the morning and I'll pray my fajr

in my heart, in my Assad, in my mother. Ibn Isha, khalas, in 10

minutes, or like in 1520 minutes, I'll finish all my five times, my

five daily prayers, because that's what Allah wants, right? And I

said, No, there is, as Allah says in the Salat Canada, meaning

there's a time fixed, a time that is specified for every single

prayer you have to pray, the Salawat in those times. Now, why

those times? We don't know. Now we may say that Allah subhanahu wa

told us to do such and such. Perhaps this is the Heckman behind

it, but to say that this is why Allah told us, this is not the

position of ours, we need to say that because Allah told us and

that is it. Why do you pray five times a day? Because Allah told us

to do so? I went to an interfaith gathering one time. They said, Why

does a woman have to wear hijab? Because Allah said, so simple as

that. Now some people say that, well, because Maryam Ali Islam

used to wear it, and all the nuns wear it, and this wear it. And if

you look in the past, all religious people, women would

always cover their hair and so forth. Yes, you can probably give

that explanation. But specifically, why do do we, I

mean, why do Muslim women have to cover because Allah said so simple

as that, because our deen tells us that it is not our place to apply

logic and say that. I think I know better you understand. And this is

why, you know, there's a very beautiful point here. I want to

share with you some many people have asked, why this surah, the

longest surah in the Quran. Think about it for a moment. The longest

surah in the Quran is called sutil Baqarah. Why? Because in this same

Surah, there is stories about there is a story, or there is

mention about the qibla, right, the change of the qibla in Sudan,

Baqarah. There is mention about Siam instead of Baqarah. There is

mention about Hajj instead of Bakra. There is mention about

marriage and divorce in Sud Bakra, there is mention about spending

money, what is considered as riba when you take a loan. What are the

adab? What are the etiquettes? It makes you wonder why this entire

surah was named after one story.

And the Ulama, they gave a very beautiful explanation. And they

say, when a person reads sulfatiha And a person and in suratiha, we

recite and we read a surat al mustaqim Ya Allah guide us to the

right path. In the next Surah, Allah, subhana wa taala, he says,

Dali Kalki, Tabu la Roy, bafi, Huda, Lim takin, this is a book

you're asking for guidance. I'm giving you this book. This book

has all the guidance that you need in your life. HUD Lil muttaqin,

but the very first criteria when it comes to Iman is that you

cannot question ALLAH SubhanA wa taala. And perhaps this entire

Surah has been named sudra Baqarah, because the most

important lesson to be learned from Surat Baqarah is that you can

never question ALLAH SubhanA wa taala. This is why Allah says

Allah minoona bin LA, you have to believe in the unseen. The world

is telling us to believe in the scene, to believe in what's in

front of you. Do not believe in something that is beyond us, but

our deen has taught us that no our deen is that we we believe in

Allah. We don't ever question ALLAH SubhanA wa taala. We can ask

a question, but we cannot question ALLAH SubhanA wa taala. This is

perhaps the very first thing that Allah wants us to learn from sudar

Baqarah. Hence the story this whole Surah has been mentioned, or

has been named, Surat Al Baqarah, because the most important lesson

to be learned from Musa in the cow is never to question ALLAH SubhanA

wa taala. So now Allah subhana wa Taala says they kept on engaging,

engaging Musa Ali Islam. What kind of a cow is it? And what kind of a

color is it? Fati or lonu hat? A certain Ali in Allah, subhana wa

Taala says it has to be yellow. Not not the type of yellow that

you look at it and you grim, but a type of yellow that you look at it

and it's appealing. And then Allah, and then they kept on

asking. Now, interestingly, here.

Part of what I just said earlier about when Allah tells us to do

something, we don't ask why, but we do. You see this story, by the

way, if you look at this entire story of Sud Baqarah, I mean the

story of Baqarah in sudd Baqarah, Allah mentioned the huqam first.

Pay attention. If you want to go back home, you can go back and

read the ayat. It starts off from it starts off from ayah number 67

and it goes further ahead for, I'm probably for another 10 verses. If

you read the entire Surah, Allah did not mention the story first

and say, This is why I'm telling you to do this. Allah is telling

us what to do first. Our job is not to know what the story behind

is. Allah is telling us to do something. We do it. Allah is

telling anybody is sail that you do what you have to do. Worry

about the story later on. But see, this is what submission is. This

is exactly what submission and Iman is at the end of the story,

at the end of all these ayat, then Allah, subhana wa Taala mentions

what is Qatal to nothing fat daratum, fiha, faulad, rebuhdi ha

Allah is telling them at the end, you take a cow, slaughter the cow,

and take a portion of that cow, and you strike it on the dead

person, and the person will reveal the name. And this is exactly what

they did. But you see, they made their life difficult when they

transgressed. Allah made their life difficult. Now, a second

lesson to be learned from all this. When these people were

looking for this cow, they came across across. They came across a

young child and a mother, and this, they came to the mother, and

they said that, what is the price of this cow? Because this is the

cow they've been looking for. And that time the mother, she said,

there is no price on this cow. I don't want to sell this cow. The

child said that, you know, I don't want to sell this cow right now

and so forth. When they insisted, they pushed the mother very hard.

The mother said, Okay, fine. I'll give it for three gold coins. I'll

give it for three gold coins. They gave they they were about to,

actually, the child, probably, the child said, three gold coins. The

mother said, no, no, this, this cow is, you know, once again, the

demand is very high, the supply is very low, so that what happens to

their price, it goes really high. So you want this cow so bad. And

this is, this is a one of a kind cow that you're looking for the

price is more than three gold coins. So they went back and

forth. And the child just said that even if you give us a skin

worth a skin filled meaning that as big as this cow is, you take

this entire the skin of the cow and you fill it up with gold

coins, probably, then I'll think about it. And the mother said

that, you know what? Actually, I agree with my son. I agree with my

son. If you give us a skin filled of gold coins, then we'll sell you

this cow. They had to pull in all the resources just to get this

lady a skin filled of gold coins. But the question is, what's the

story behind this? The story behind this is that their father

was a very religious man. He was a God fearing man, and he made dua

to Allah subhana wa taala. Before this is mentioned in some books of

tafa, that he made dua to Allah subhana wa taala, that Ya Allah, I

have served you my entire life, and all I have, all I have is this

one son I leave behind, this one wife, and the only wealth I have,

the only asset I have, is this one cow and Ya Allah, I'm putting all

this in your hands. I'm dying. Ya Allah, you take care of them. Now,

how did Allah subhana, take care of them, brought them so much gold

to them as a result of this man's dua, which, what we learn from

this, from this, is that a parent who is righteous, a person who is

righteous, and they leave behind, is not like this. Now let me say

this. It is. It doesn't mean that a person cannot leave behind

assets for their children. That's not what I'm saying. But this man,

that's all that he had, that's all that he could afford, that's all

that Allah gave him. So he's leaving that behind and saying,

Ya, Allah, you take care of my family. And subhanAllah, lo and

behold, Allah did take care of his family by bringing in so much gold

to this family. And the lesson learned from this is when a man is

truly when, when a mother and a father are truly righteous towards

Allah, subhana wa taala, Allah will help, help take care of them.

Allah will look after them. Allah is, once again, Al wakin. He is Al

Hafid. He is the one who's going to look after the family. And

there's a lesson to be learned in this, for all of us, even in the

story of Musa and Khadr, when, when Khadr, he was making sure

that the wall will remain straight. What did he say? He says

that because underneath this wall, Wakan at a Huma Wakan Abu Huma

saliha, their father was righteous, and that is why I want

to make sure that if this wealth is.

Is exposed to the people of the city, they will take it away. I

want to make sure that this wealth is preserved for their children.

So the second lesson to be learned from this story is, just like the

first lesson is, we don't ever question Allah. The second lesson

to be learned is, if we are righteous towards Allah, Subhanahu

wa something that we all are always worried about that, what's

going to happen to our children afterwards, if I, God forbid, die,

what's going to happen to my children? If you, if you are

righteous, then inshaAllah, ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala will take care of

your children. I ask Allah subhana wa Taala to make us amongst those

who will learn from the Quran and apply the Quran in Our life. Amir,

Rabil, Alameen, What is akumala? Salaam, Alaikum,

Furu