Nadim Bashir – Kaleemullah #17 – Musa and Khidr Part 1 of 2

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Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi Germain, a MOBA. Welcome
to another segment of Kali Mala. Inshallah, today, as I mentioned last week that we will be breaking
off from the story, the actual story of Musa alayhis salaam, because we had got to the point from
the beginning of the story of Musa all the way to the point where you have this man who is
concealing his Iman who is trying to talk to fit on, and he's trying to sway him away from killing
Musa alayhis salam. And then not only that, but we talked about also that there were so many, so
		

			many calamities that came upon the people of Egypt and Finn Owen from Allah subhanho wa taala. Yet
Finn own never took a lesson from it, he never learned from his from his mistakes. And he was very
stubborn and persistent upon his kuffaar and his ungratefulness to Allah subhanho wa taala. And that
is when Allah Subhan, Allah decided that is time now to destroy our own, and the story goes on, we
all know what happens. But as I said last week that inshallah going forward for the next few
segments, we will just be focusing on some in some certain stories that happened in the time of
Mussolini, Islam, after the people but he is so ill, they were able to escape from from Pharaoh own
		

			and so forth. And after that, there were many stories, you know, small, small stories that took
place, Inshallah, we'll be going through some of those stories and learning and taking lessons from
those today, the story I want to quickly go through, is, in shall we this week, and next week is the
story of Musa and Heather. And what happened between them too, and this journey of knowledge that
Musala you some He took upon himself, first of all, is that, you know, subhanAllah growing up here
in the United States, and I remember for those of us who have been here for so many years, you know,
there was a time of ignorance. And slowly and gradually massages began to, you know, pop up here in
		

			the United States. And slowly and gradually, you know, Quran became, you know, teaching Quran
learning, Quran became a priority for many Muslim communities. And then eventually, slowly and
gradually, we see that in the last decade, and Hamdulillah, or I will say, a decade and a half,
there has been a steady
		

			progress in terms of the peoples and their zeal in when it comes to acquiring knowledge, meaning
that people have been wanting to learn more and more about Arabic, they're trying to come more
closer to the Quran. And there has been a quite big focus on knowledge Subhanallah today, we find
that as we get through this pandemic, that there are so many online seminaries today, and each of
them mashallah they're all good. They all have something offered too good to offer. And people are
based on their liking and their, their preference. They are learning so much about their Deen today,
this was not the case, I will say 20 years ago, but in the last decade and a half Alhamdulillah
		

			things have turned around. But one thing that we have to also understand is that knowledge when it
comes to knowledge, a comes with a certain responsibility. And subhanAllah one thing that you know
many of our orlimar when they would study knowledge, before they will actually get to the knowledge
part of learning and acquiring knowledge, they would have to go through a process of spirituality
got to be and just making sure that your heart is in the right place before you acquire knowledge
because, you know, subhanAllah, my teacher says that if you look at the Islamic world today and
people who are in the name of Islam, they claim to have knowledge but they are misguiding people and
		

			then we find that there are people all over the world who are doing these kinds of things.
		

			Subhanallah it always start off with knowledge, they did have a certain type of knowledge. But what
happens is that when when we acquire knowledge and our heart is not in the right place, there is a
devoid of spirituality in our hearts and our mind is not in the right place, then the knowledge
we're going to acquire is not going to bring us closer to Allah subhanho wa Taala is going to make
us arrogant is going to make us feel that I need to create a following I need to create an entourage
or I can create my fans, my followers and so forth. And eventually what happens is that you know
people sometimes in some cases, not always, but in some cases people go so far away from being that
		

			they create their own ideology and they create their own, you know, their own groups and this is how
		

			We see what the situation of the Muslim ummah is today. So this is why it's so important that
knowledge is something that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada he will ask us about on the Day of Judgment This
is why, if you say so Toluca have silica have is a very interesting Surah to be honest. And in sutra
cover, you find the story of Musa hidden. One thing that we find about silica is that sort of God
tells us about the different trials of life, trials of life that you and I are always going to be
tested about. You look at sort of golf quickly, I want to run through this, there are four stories
mentioned. So the golf, the first one is about the trial of faith. And we have those youngsters
		

			going and seeking refuge in a cave in order to protect their Iman, that is what the trial of faith,
then you have the man of two guardians and that teaches us that when it comes to wealth, Allah
subhanaw taala, he will test us sometimes Allah He gives a lot to a person and he tests them.
Sometimes Allah does not give a test as a person in Allah. So when it comes to wealth, Allah
subhanaw taala will test there is a trial of wealth. Then this third story is a story of Musa
whether that is a trial of knowledge, that here we find that using your knowledge in the correct
way, making sure that you are using your knowledge to benefit other people do not use your knowledge
		

			to misguide others, or for the wrong intent, or do not use knowledge for other ill intent purposes.
So this is something that we find also in this story. And then we find the story of the Lakota
Nation, which is the trial of authority, each one of us we have a position of authority in some
capacity in some part of our life. And how do we use that authority in the story of the opponent, he
used that power, he used those resources to benefit people. On the other hand, we find today that
there are many people who have authority, there are people who have resources, but they use that for
wrong purposes. So So once again, coming back to the subject of Musa Hilda our deen has taught us
		

			that or in knowledge comes with a certain responsibility. And you know, subhanAllah as they say, you
know, we always hear in schools and so forth, teachers telling us knowledge is power. And indeed it
is power. I mean, it is power to a certain extent, and you know, subhanAllah this power and this
responsibility, this power comes with a great responsibility also, I know it sounds like you know,
subhanAllah growing up as a kid I you know, in America used to watch Spider Man, you know, these
always in Spider Man, he's always here with great power comes great responsibility. But in essence,
subhanAllah knowledge is exactly that, the more than knowledge that you have, the more you're
		

			supposed to come closer to Allah subhanho wa taala. So let's quickly go into the story the story of
Musa alayhis salam. Musa alayhis salam he is simply asked this question by bunnies saw in that
alumnus who is the most who is the most knowledgeable person now Musa alayhis salam did not have ill
intent here this is the story in the Quran is not being mentioned. Because Allah subhanho wa Taala
necessarily Musa gave the wrong answer and Musa Allah Subhanallah wanted to like you know in the
wrong way teach Musa lesson. The only thing that Allah subhanaw wants to teach Musala Islam is that
yes, you are a prophet. There's no doubt in that fact. But at the same time, there are other people
		

			who are more knowledgeable than YouTube in some certain aspects. And subhanAllah first of all,
Mousavi Islam is just no on a prophet he is from the hola Azzam and we know that there are five oral
Assam prophets five most prestigious of all the prophets and Musala Assam is one of them. One of the
most mentioned prophets in the Quran we find is Musa alayhis salam, Yet Allah subhana wa Tada is
sending a very strong message to Musa his thumb is that yes, amongst the people beneath saw Eid, you
being a prophet, you are the most knowledgeable, however, there are people that you have never ever
met in your life, that they are more knowledgeable than you in some certain areas. And this is
		

			actually the truth. And one thing that we learned the lesson that we learn from this is that no
matter how righteous you feel you are, no matter how much knowledgeable you feel that you are, that
you know, knowledge has to always be a priority. There is no such thing called I have enough
knowledge there is there's nothing like that. Yes, a person can say that I have enough knowledge for
what I need to do. But if a person says I have all the knowledge no only Allah subhanaw taala has
all the knowledge and and not only that, but we also learned from this is that
		

			we also learned from this is that there's always going to be someone who has more knowledge than
you.
		

			And Allah subhanho wa Taala and story of use of it. He said we find will folk who live here in Mina
Ali, we always know and we learn from the Quran that every person who knows there's always someone
else who's going to know more. And so always try to be in a situation that you're always trying to
acquire knowledge, you know, subhanAllah I always even tell the youth, even you know, instead of
just sitting there wasting time, even if it's something
		

			In regarding dunya always try to enhance your knowledge always try to learn something new. Because
it's always a very eye opening and Subhanallah we see that the people who the more the knowledge
knowledgeable that people are, then the more educated they are, the more tolerant they become.
Subhanallah today in the world that we see today, in so many parts, even like for example, in
America, we find so many people who are so ignorant, like Subhan Allah when you hear them, you're
like Subhanallah like, how are they talking? How can they say these kinds of things and so forth.
But Subhan Allah, this is a sign from Allah subhanho wa Taala when Allah says in the Quran, call
		

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			a person who knows in a person who does not know they're not equal, and you can see in the way they
talk and the way they act and the way they react, the way they they, you know, the way they they
conduct their affairs in life, you can tell between the person who's educated a person who is not
educated. So always remember that knowledge has to be a priority in our life. Also we learn from the
story is that a no matter how much a person is learned, you can be a teacher, you can be a preacher.
But that doesn't mean that you cannot learn from anyone else. A lot of times today Subhanallah, we
find that people feel like that it is beneath them, their arrogance, or is so high, their ego is so
		

			big, that they feel like that if I go in and learn from someone else, if I take someone else's
advice, that it is, I am belittling myself, and that is not the case, the problems are Sanlam
himself. He was educated by Jubilee Italia, his Salam, the prophets of Salaam, himself, he would go
and he would consult with the Sahaba Viola there, I know. So taking advices from others learning
from others is not going to belittle you. It only shows first of all your humbleness because the
more we learn about the Quran, and the Sunnah, it should humble us more than anything else. And at
the same time, it goes to show us that we can learn from others.
		

			Subhanallah one thing that also we learn from the story in this response of Musala Islam, when he's
asked Who is the most knowledgeable person that we learned from this is that is, it is absolutely
fine to say, I don't know, you know, one thing today that we see within many people is that, because
they feel like that, saying, I don't know, is a sign that I am not knowledgeable enough. Or people
may lose confidence in me, I don't want to look bad, I want to have an answer to every single thing.
And subhanAllah what we don't realize is that if we ever give a wrong answer to an Islamic question,
the responsibility is on us, the responsibility is on us. This is why any person, especially when it
		

			comes to even students of knowledge, you're not in a position to give fatawa you're not in a
position like any other scholar, when matters of Islam come to you, you know, you should just defer
it to the oil Ummah, and to the scholars, they are the ones that that you know, you should just
defer the matters to, and just simply say, I don't know, even for, you know, subhanAllah one thing
that we were always taught from our teachers when we were in their Sahaba is that especially when
before we were graduating, because they knew that we will be you know, once we graduate, that we
will be asked questions. Our teachers always taught us that don't ever feel compelled that you need
		

			to give an answer to everything, defer to someone else, if you feel like you're not in a position to
answer it. And that's absolutely fine. Imam Malik Rahmatullahi Lee, we all know how much not how
knowledgeable he was, but yet there was so many situations where he said I didn't I don't know. In
fact, we find in his life that there was a group of people that were come they were living far from
Medina. So and because they never had a scholar within them. Throughout the year, they would collect
all the questions and once a year, a group of from that tribe in that city, they would come to Imam
Malik, and they would have a list of questions. And they were asking about Malik, and one time
		

			they're sitting in front of Malik, and they're saying, oh, Imam Malik. This is the question that we
have. What is the verdict regarding this? And there were many cases or many questions to which Imam
Malik said I don't know. And the people were saying like, What do you mean, you don't know? Like
when we go back to the people when we go back to our city, our city people or you know, our, the
city members, and we tell them that? What do you mean, what do you want? What do you want us to tell
them that Malik did not know? And Imam Malik said yes, tell them that Imam Malik did not know. And
if you know any other scholar that you come across as STEM, of course they have to be legit. They
		

			have to be a genuine scholar they have learned from orlimar not just sitting online. This is also
something very important. When I say scholarship, it doesn't mean that you sitting online and you
become a scholar, no going sitting in the sofa of someone, of course because of COVID situation. I
mean, we have to of course, learn online and so forth, but making sure you learn from someone who's
truly legit someone who has gone through the process of scholarship and so forth.
		

			That's so important. So this is why it is so and so another thing that we learned from this is, is
absolutely fine to say, I don't know. And another thing we also learn from this is that if you I
mean always defer the matters to the scholars and to the Alama this is something that we learn from
these from this, you know, from the story of Musa alayhis salam. Another thing that we also learned
from this is that as I said earlier, the more than knowledge that we acquire, it should make us
humble. And there are so many doors honestly that we can learn from the Quran from the Sunnah of the
Prophet SAW send them about our alien, like something that you know our my teachers used to always
		

			teach us is that before you give a lecture before you give a talk, always Say Subhan Nicola Ellen
Milena Illa antenna, this is a subtle Bacara where Allah were the the,
		

			the angels the melodica, they said to Allah subhana wa to Allah subhana wa alemana Ilana Alam Tina,
this is something very beautiful dua that we learned from the Quran also we learn Rob busy the near
Ilma this is you know, this is the prophet Islam he even taught the Sahaba some of the Sahaba to
make this do our busy Dyneema we also find two others such as Allahumma aluminum and fauna one fan
I'm I limped in I was in our element Yarrabah aalameen That Oh Allah, you benefit us from what you
taught us and teach us that which benefits us and increases in our knowledge older, but I mean, so
these are many ways that we can memorize and learn. But always remember knowledge has to be make you
		

			more humble. If knowledge is making you more arrogant, If knowledge is making you feel that you know
what I have this knowledge I'm gonna go and put down this person and that person, that you having
this mentality or anyone having this mentality, that's a sign of Kibera, knowledge has to make you
more humble more than anything else. Now, let's quickly let's actually this continued to the story.
So most of the time, he said, he set out on this journey to go in find this man. And once again,
Allah subhanaw taala is telling Musa alayhis salam, go and look for this man, you will find this man
at a certain place where two, two seeds come together, and Mussolini, some he inquires more about
		

			that place and he says, Take a fish with you. And wherever you find that this fish has been lost,
that is where you will find this person. So Mussolini, some he is on this journey. And what we
learned from this also is that Subhanallah we learned from this is that, you know, traveling for the
sake of acquiring knowledge, this is something that many of our older mother always did even
Subhanallah if you look at even today, our Imams and show you who are like I would say like in their
30s in their 40s and so forth, even like in their 20s Right now, too, they always for the most part
of the always went either abroad or you know, they went somewhere overseas. And but they went and
		

			they learned and they traveled for knowledge. And subhanAllah I've always been a big advocate of
this of going and you know, traveling does not mean that you have to go overseas, it means that you
have to go out of your own comfort zone, and go to the share and go to the scholar and sit with them
and sit, learn from them sitting in their Sahaba this is something that's very important. So even in
the case of Musa leaks, and we see that he just did not sit at home, but rather he went out on this
on this journey to to seek knowledge, we also learn from this is that, you know, Musa alayhis salam,
he is enthusiastic to learn. See here, Allah Subhan is telling him you will find this person and
		

			Allah subhanaw taala. And then he Musa is asking himself, give me more details, this shows you're
enthusiastic to learn. So when will we learn from this also is that a person who's acquiring
knowledge, they have to be enthusiastic, they have to have a passion to learn. If you don't have a
passion to learn, you're just simply going to learn it. And you're not going to have the right knee
in place. And eventually, it's just going to be wasted knowledge or knowledge that is not benefiting
you, nor benefiting anyone else. So this is why it's very important to understand and have the right
idea and have the right idea and have that passion to acquire knowledge. Another thing that we learn
		

			also when it comes to knowledge and when it comes to traveling is that in any journey, there's
always going to be difficulty so even when it comes to the the journey of knowledge, there's always
going to be ups and downs and that's fine. And this is part of the journey of knowledge, the journey
of knowledge is never always going to be a very smooth road. Because once again, she thought knows
that you are acquiring this knowledge because you are planning to come closer to Allah and you're
planning to bring other people closer to Allah. Why would shaytaan make that journey a simple one
for you? She thought obviously he will make that journey, a very tough one. And we also find you
		

			know in the in the IATA sutra Lika Allah subhanho wa Taala he talks about wave called the Musa the
Fatah hula abre Hatha Abdullah Majumdar, Bahraini um the hook have we learned from this idea? This
is number 16. So look, I have that you know, here Musa took upon himself a companion. He took a
companion with him you shot him in unknown. And one thing that we learned so much
		

			Allah so much from our lemma in our scholars is that they will always take the companion with them
they will never travel alone. In the case of the Prophet SAW sundown whenever he would journey
travel you always have a companion with him. Our on the map even when they would travel from one
city to another city a lot of times they will not travel alone, they will always have one or two
people. But see there's something very important I must say about this is that once again is not
about you just you know trying to get like three or four people to always go with you because your
NIA has to be clear at the end of the day if you're doing this because you want to create a fan base
		

			or you're doing this because you want to create an entourage and so forth. That's not the MCSE of
this the MCSA is that when you are in companionship with someone else, they remind you of Allah
subhanho wa Taala you're able to be with someone so we find the story of Musa ism he was with
someone so always when it comes to these kinds of good things always try to have a companion there
to to be along with you. Then the Quran also tells us that when they had you know they the Quran
tells us that one time Musala Islam says for them magia was a call in Fatah who attina vada Anna La
Casa Latina means suffering I had an ASA he says the let's sit down let's take it Let's eat this you
		

			know, this journey has made us really tired once again I said earlier, the knowledge the journey of
knowledge is always going to be difficult is going to be filled with filled with ups and downs, and
is going to be a very tiring also. Now you know Subhanallah when I say tiring, I don't always it
doesn't necessarily mean physically tiring. Here. In the case of Musa it was physically tiring. But
sometimes when it comes to even knowledge, it will require you to really go beyond your mental
capacity. You know, there are certain topics in certain certain subjects within our deen such as,
for example, give me one which is Arcada. Now sometimes actually, that can be very confusing. The
		

			topics can be really confusing, it can be very draining. But see that's what knowledge does is that
it's sometimes it's going to be difficult, it's going to require you to really pay attention and be
focused and so forth. Do not feel like oh, this is boring. Let me just move on to the next thing.
No, I mean, even during those kind of times, you have to give your full concentration. This is part
of knowledge. This is part of the journey of knowledge, there's gonna be ups and downs and there's
going to be difficulties. And we see exactly that from the story of Musa alayhis salam. And finally,
the last thing I do want to say is that
		

			and the PERT and the one who is going to create those difficulties as we see in the story of Musa
alayhis salam is that he when you shall renew said that oh, the place where you know we were resting
at another place or we were at another place and there the fish may have jumped out of the basket
and gone into the water and so forth.
		

			At that time was out at some never got upset with him. Mousavi some never yelled at him never
scolded him and so forth. So always remember that when we learn when we learn from knowledge is that
you know, always trying to be humble always trying to be calm, there's something that we learn when
it comes to knowledge is you know, you have to be respectful, you have to be calm. And inshallah
next week we will see between this conversation between Musa and Heather, that how they were you
know, they were firm. Heather was very firm with Masayoshi Son. He never like you know, he was very
firm teacher and went away. But he was never rude. He was never disrespectful. He never scolded
		

			Musashi he has some he has he got upset a few times, and that's fine, but he never was rude and
disrespectful. And so we learn many things from there too. Inshallah. We'll go to stop right here. I
ask Allah subhana wa Tada to give all of us ability to understand these stories. May Allah subhana
wa Tada increase us in our knowledge, may Allah give us the ability. Or may Allah grant us the zeal
and the courage and this drive in this fire within us to learn more and more more about his deen and
may Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us a class every single moment in any journey of knowledge. I
mean, no, but I mean, does that Kamala had a salam Wa alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
		

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