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of the Quran, which is one of the longest mucky surah in the Quran, mentions towards the latter half
of the sutra that he himself explains the ayat. You know a lot oftentimes says that he reveals the
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ayat but sometimes he also says things like what Cavalli can do fasudil is, that is, that is how we
ourselves, explain the signs. I art is not just a reference to Revelation, it's also a reference to
reality. Allah explains everything around you. And every time he explained something, there's a
purpose. And so the purpose mentioned in this particular ayah is peculiar. He says, There is
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no history involved. In order for us to understand the full picture. It's very different from any
book of history. As a matter of fact, the language here is so general it could apply to anybody. And
yet Allah azza wa jal makes it very specific at the same time and says, What do I lay him never,
unless he Athena who I Athena
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read on to them, recite on to them, the news or the event of the one to whom we had given our
miracles. Now, Who in the world is this person to whom Allah gave his miracles? The first thing to
note here is the word what you Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sent to the unlettered
people, the mccanns. And he himself is an Ambien. omy, the messenger that is unlettered and so
earlimart comment? How is he reading on to them the idea was this story and Other Stories like it
when Allah mentions the word what's new, he's actually telling the people of Makkah, and by
extension, all of us, that he's going to educate us with something that we had no idea of before,
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and something that must be repeated over and over again, because its relevance will be renewed. It's
not just a story of old times, it's something that applies to you and me, now, it's a living text.
It's a living account. And that's why keeping it general is important. I told you, that doesn't
mention the specific names of the characters involved in this account, this person that allege is
going to talk about why because it's an archetype. What that means is, it could be any one of you,
it could be me, it could be two, it could be our own story, pay attention to it and see if it
applies to you. I pay attention to it. And I see if it applies to me. I love the art I know who it
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does those to whom we had given our art, our revelations. In other words, this is a person who was
given by Allah access to his guidance. Some scholar who has been studying the Quran and the sayings
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the history of our Deen and the divine law, the
Sharia for 50 years has been given the author of a love, but also someone who was sitting in a
public library and opened up a translation of the Quran and read a couple of pages and became a
Muslim. He's also been given the IOD. So Allah does not qualify here that he's talking about someone
at a very high caliber of scholarship, as opposed to someone who just knows a little bit about
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Islam. It's everybody and everybody because Allah has given some to every one of us.
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As a matter of fact, especially the people sitting here listening to the Juma prayer you have all
including myself been given I have a lot to at one level or another. It applies to all of us out
there you know who I atina because even if you know just a little bit about the Quran, a little bit
about Allah's guidance even if you just know like the first words of the Fatiha are also in Salah
Birmingham, and in Silla. ferruccio Jacksonville Hi, Juan Juan minjin de Mexico heya. They say in
Arabic that the word and silica is used for when an animal sheds a skin, like a popular example
would be a snake snakes shed their skin. And so only the fourth skin is left behind like especially
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larger snakes, they do that a lot and you have just a fourth skin left. Now, even though that's the
image of a of a snake, Allah wasn't talking about a snake Allah was talking about a person who will
lead toward religion to Allah taught them something about his Deen he gave him some IR. So what does
that have to do with a snake leaving its skin, I was actually painting the picture of a person who
kept the religion on the outside but slithered out of it from the inside. He removed it from the
inside. So the religion was only something they wore, almost like a disguise. Right, it didn't
really impact them on the inside, even if they were doing the practices of the religion like prayer,
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or eating healthy, or saying salon or dressing a certain way that was all on the outside. But the
inside had already left there was no soul left in this person that is attached to the faith. It's
just this artificial expression of the religion. It's like the shell without the egg, that kind of
thing. You know. So Allah says, I want you to hear the news about someone who we gave access to our
religion, they learned about our faith, and yet they just kept it on the outside and they slithered
out of it, they slipped out of it, you know, so it gives the impression that they're there in Islam,
that they're sincere, they're practicing, they're learning etc, etc. but on the inside, there's
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nothing left but a terrifying image from Salah Caminha. Now, let's talk about that at multiple
levels. This could happen like I told you, in the beginning, it could happen to somebody who just
knows this little about Islam. And this could also apply to someone who spent their entire life
studying their religion, people that are very minimally knowledgeable of the faith and people that
are even scholars of the faith. It could happen that at one point or another, they and by the way,
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a distance oneself, they lose touch with what Allah had given them. If a person loses touch with
what Allah has given you, with the revelation that Allah has given you, no matter how much knowledge
you and I acquired in our life, no matter how much you've read, or studied or worshipped, the nature
of this religion, the nature of this revelation is that you cannot just have it and hold on to it
without any effort. You can't say I read the entire Quran two years ago. And now I know what it says
it's good enough, you can't unless has to the Israelites kuruma. It now can be cool within was Kuru
Murphy in another place. westmalle hold on to what we've given you with with great strength, you
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gotta hold on tight to this book, and keep remembering what's in it. And in another phase, he says,
keep listening, keep on listening, you have to put yourself in an environment where you're not just
giving advice, but also taking advice. You're not just I already know this stuff, you have to review
this stuff, you have to reconnect yourself with the religion over and over again. Otherwise, from
the from the outside, you're still knowledgeable from the outside, you can still quote the IR from
the outside, you still seem like you're practicing, but from the inside your heart has been
separated from the word of Allah from the IR that you were given. And so he says from Salah, homina
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he basically internally emotionally, spiritually, he distanced himself from the revelation. So the
outside is different now from the inside. And when that happens for us, who shavon shavon
immediately got behind him and started pursuing him wholeheartedly. Now the idea of tabea in Arabic
tavia means to follow someone, but when you see it actually becomes a kind of Madonna. He followed
him 100% like there was not a second that shake on would leave him alone. We're learning something
very interesting about shaitan now, we're learning that the people who come towards Allah, who Allah
gives guidance to when they start slipping. shaitan seizes the opportunity. And he gets on your case
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like he you become his main project. You become he drops every other distraction. He's on you for
fun, you know, and associaton will constantly poke at him. And now of course, chiffon is going to
give him suggestion
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That conflict with that are the exact opposite of the IRS that Allah had given him. A law had taught
this person, a man or a woman, the difference between right and wrong, the difference between being
courteous and caring and honest and generous, and between being selfish and self righteous and
diluted, all of these things which I thought will come and take what he wants you to follow, and
he'll start making the revelation something distant from this person. And the disobedience to Allah
starts becoming beautified was a and Allahumma shavon. shavon beautified their deeds to them. And so
as he starts doing that, what is the less safe Academy no Halloween,
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then he became from those who've gone off course of Allah in Arabic is when someone was going on the
right course. And they took a turn and they just went off the wrong course. Or when you took the
wrong exit on the highway, and you can't even get back on the highway. That's logging. Allah is
describing a very scary phenomenon here. shaitaan is not his his project in this this story, in this
account is not people that have forgotten about Allah that don't believe in Allah isn't he's not
talking about those people. He's talking about good people who have the heart of Allah. And somehow
they started slipping away, distancing themselves, and then shaitaan got them good. And when shun is
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completely on your case, he will make you do things even other people that are not even religious.
They don't even do such things. And here's this person is a person of faith. He's a person of
religion, and he can stoop down to those levels. He can do things that weren't even expected of a
non Muslim, he can fall to those levels. Yeah, and he is philosophically the lowest of the low. And
so as as the, as the story goes on of this person, who slipped out of the IOP and shame on God on
his case, Allah mentions the tragedy. He says, while I was shaking a lot of fat now who Bihar had we
wanted, we would have raised him because of the knowledge we had given him because of the fact that
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we had given him Bihar. Yeah, I need to be suburbia.
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So my is saying that the IR Corolla gave you the point of them was to lift you up. The idea of
lifting up is actually part of Crohns imagery. Other places in the Quran like surah Noor, Allah will
describe three kinds of creatures on the earth. You know, there are those like human beings like the
human being stands up straight, he stands up straight. And then there is young Sheila Alba, those
who walk on four legs, animals that walk on four legs, young Sheila Brooklyn, inhuman young Sheila
Berkeley, those who walk on their on their belly like a snake. Now here you see already there's
already an image of a snake mentioned. And the snake is closest to the ground. And a human being as
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far as his face his eyes, you know, his his body is furthest from the ground, the only thing
touching the ground for us is our feet.
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Other animals were the ones that walk on their floors, they're constantly looking down, you notice
because of the way their bodies are designed, they're constantly focused towards the Earth. So the
lowest of the animals is the snake and ally is now describing Have you wanted he could have been a
human being standing up straight. Now we have Mike Allah created the human being and by the way,
when we when human beings look up, they look up at the sky. They have higher goals. We have we
aspire to things that come from the heavens, as opposed to like animals whose only pursuits are on
the earth they only look down
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looking how they don't they don't you know, they don't look forward from AMC. McKibben, Allah watch
he, ammonium she's happy and Allah ferrata Mr. Team like him, so
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how can someone who just has his face buried into the ground be compared to someone who stands up
straight, this is the imagery of the Quran and these high art. So he says had we wanted we could
have elevated him. In other words, we could have made him even better and better and better, you
know, a little bit. You don't know much about the dean, you know, just a little bit but because of
that little, you know, Allah could have raised you to the next level, and then from there to the
next level, and then from there to the next level. It's okay if you didn't compare to the Imam, or
you didn't compare to the greatest scholars or the greatest worshipers, you yourself are on a
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trajectory to become better and better and better because of what little Allah had started you off
with what guidance Allah had given you what I can do.
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However, he became completely inclined towards the earth after that, that comes from the word
hulu's. Actually, here interestingly, it's the word Islam which is to make something permanent, not
to be something permanent, but to make something permanent. Yeah, and they are fluid enough sahoo
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a holida, how long
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he made his entire all that he wanted. Everything he ever wanted now became something having to do
with this world. This is
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A person who knows about agenda. He knows about meeting with a law. He knows about judgment a and
yet as they distance themselves, the only thing they think about the only thing they love, the only
thing that becomes their priority are things they can get in this world. Whatever desires they have
of money of wealth, fame of lust, that's all they can think about. They can't think about anything
else or control. There's no concern about when they're going to stand in front of a law, what a
tragedy that a person who would have revelation who would know that they should have better
priorities in life, all they can think about is this no US law.
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And so the fire as Allah concludes this parable, he says from Allah, who then how can this person be
described, this person that first of all is acting like a snake and now let is going to give you
even a worse example. You know, he says, For masala who come FLL cannon.
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His example is something like a dog, like a dog. That's already offensive as it is. Because a dog is
one of the creatures that can on the one hand, have loyalty, but Ally's gonna describe he's talking
actually about a rabid dog or like a stray dog. We're gonna see that from the language itself. Now
is this dog that Allah describes? And you know, in the Quran, you get other examples of people and
they're compared to animals. Like the Israelites who didn't do right by their book they were
compared to mules can my fellow humanity I mean, as far as they were compared to meals, but this
person even worse, they're being compared to the dog.
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And what does he say about this dog? He says in Tamil IE
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if you were to put something on this dog, if you were to burden this dog with something tied his dog
to a load and he has to drag the load, he has the dog is made to do work of some kind carry
something yellow has he's gonna start paintings to empty data, listen, Masha, Terra force, they say
it means breathing heavy and sticking your tongue out literally panting. That's what the dog does.
When there's when someone's stick when an animal sticks its tongue out, and it's panting heavy, it
actually means that it's exhausted.
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So Allah says, very specific language, he says, if you put a load on it, it start it's gonna start
panting.
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What into truco Roku, and if you were to leave it alone, yellow, it will start painting. It'll keep
painting anyway. it'll stick its tongue out and draw anyway. What in the world does that mean? What
does that have to do with you and me and a person who had guidance that Allah gives this strange,
strange image of a dog that is being made to do a lot of work and it's painting or if it's left
alone, it's still painting. The idea of of love of painting is actually a kind of disturbance, a
creature a human being any animal doesn't paint until they're disturbed, overwhelmed, bothered,
unsatisfied, thirsty, this this is the image of someone that's unsafe created unfulfilled. And so
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Alomar commented exactly exhaustively on this the use of the word human to load onto it to put a
responsibility on it is using the Quran for revelation. This person becomes like a dog, when they
hear about the religion now they started getting bothered.
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Like, this is a religious person. This is a person who knows about the deen. But since they've shied
away from it now, even when they hear a reminder about what's what's, you know what's right and
wrong in their faith. Internally, they don't like it anymore. They're bothered by it. They're
disturbed. They can't even find peace in prayer and the gatherings of Muslims and learning. They
can't. And so they want to get away from this company and they want to slither away to some dark
company, some bad environment. But when they go there, of course, they're still disturbed. They were
hoping they can leave this place and find peace somewhere else they don't find peace. Others have
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said this has to do with their
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satiated, thirst like when they become worldly. Then Allah azza wa jal makes their thirst for the
world. unending shavon. God behind them, they allow shaitan to get behind them. And now basically
shaitan makes them want to consume and consume and consume, even if there's no more to consume.
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What in the world does that mean? It actually means a person who's, for example, they get they get
obsessed with money. They get obsessed with desire with lust, they get obsessed with food. They're
gonna obsessed with stuff. They're they're thinking about food when they're hungry. They're thinking
about food when they're not hungry. That's all they can think about. They're, they're throwing up
from lunch, and they're worried about where am I gonna have dinner? You know, they have they and
they get, they get obsessed with stuff. They're buried under debt, and they're thinking about what
can I put on like, what can I do?
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From my credit card now, what more can I get? People become indulged in unhealthy things and they
can't stop themselves, like a dog can stop itself from painting. Whether there's a reason to or not,
whether there's a need or not, whether it's justified or not. And so as as this hideous image is
brought to a close a lot, so it just says Danica masamune home and Latina cats wb IR Tina, that is
the example of people who called or who considered our miracles ally, the phrase and Latina camdeboo
Biya Tina in the Quran is used for disbelievers. It's not used for believers. And here in this ayah,
it's actually started off talking about someone who actually believed and then says, These people at
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this point, they are no different as far as allies concerned, than disbelievers. What's the point
you were given this revelation? So you could live like a human being not like an animal? Not like
you have an impulse and you follow it? If you couldn't do that, if you couldn't live up to that,
then what's the point? How are you any different than anybody else, just pretending to abide by
revelation to have reverence for the book of along the outside and not abiding by any of its
teaching on the inside and then the NACA boo, Tina, and so I'm just baffled by how Allah azza wa jal
concludes this ayah foxhill same causes that Allah homeopathic guru tell multiple stories, so they
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can think that's how the eye ends tell multiple causes the plural In other words, this phenomenon is
not one phenomenon it's gonna happen over and over and over again. There are going to be people
around you that used to be religious and then just disappeared from from a you know, just secretly
not abiding by their religion to outright just not even abiding by it at all. There are going to be
you know, stories like this that are going to happen all around you think about them land the
homeopathic Quran so they can think deeply, think deeply. Am I heading down this path? Why does the
person have to think deeply? When every time in Quran Allah asks you to think deeply, it's actually
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about yourself, look up the word difficult in the Quran. Every time it's actually about yourself,
somehow it comes back to you. When this higher ends, instead of us thinking about some other horror
story of somebody else ally saying tell them those stories. So they're not the next horror story. So
they're not the next ones to fall down these traps. You know, in this among those who cited, how
this ayah applies, I'll leave you with this thought.
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There are people who Allah has made the study of the religion easy.
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Like this, this is even a stories of people at the time of Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wasallam
people who learn the Bible, learn Arabs who learned Hebrew studied religion became more convinced of
the idea of one God, they were okay with all of that, but they weren't so sure about Muhammad
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And they came and they said, you know, Islam to Bill hanifa,
I'm okay with this one god concept. I like this concept. I don't like Shaq either, but I'm not so
sure about you. I'm not so sure if you're a messenger, they would say to the Prophet sallahu wa
salam. And also Salam would challenge them and show them guidance and, and give them the proofs. And
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those people it would become clear later on that their study and their infatuation and their
interest in the concept of religion was something else. And their personal insights were something
else. And also, the loss of a loved one had had the foresight, the insight, actually, to catch it
and say, what you have on your tongue is not what you have in your heart. There are two different
things and they became some of the worst enemies of Islam.
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There are people to this day who slither out of the teachings. Like I when I was doing some Islamic
Studies at a university. We had professors non Muslim professors that are like they they said
they've studied the Quran for decades. I mean, they're very, very knowledgeable in Quran. And
they're even as willing to go as far as to say, it can only be divine, it can only be from God. It's
not even human.
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You went that far, that's practically saying you're Muslim. So I would just come out and say so,
What's keeping you?
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Well, it's remarkable, really, but it's a
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it's something to consider, isn't it?
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That's it.
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You can't take the next step. You can't do it because you have you've been given so many, that you
just don't want to make the commitment because it requires change. Oh, if you because if you change
if you if you accept this, then you're gonna have to make changes. You know, you know, Allah says,
Well, you need to live
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Sally, if you're a mama, who that's the real reason, people just want to keep doing whatever they
feel like doing. That's the real reason. They just have some stuff in front of them. And they want
to be impulsive and do it and not think about the consequences. When you accept this religion. Every
time you say something, every time you do something every time, every time you're about to take an
action, every time you're about to make a transaction, you're going to think about the consequences.
You're going to stop yourself. You know, when I had enough Sand Hill Hauer, he stopped himself from
following whatever thought came in his mind. That's what one of the things that this religion does,
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they don't want to do that. They can find the religion interesting. They can study it, they can
learn it, they can quote a lot about it. You know, they can be fascinated by its learning. But
that's it. And unfortunately, that becomes the case of some people, even the regular Muslims there.
They love recitation of Quran and love it.
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They love listening to talks. Have you heard this one speeches? Have you heard that one speeches
man, I downloaded all of them. You love listening to stuff you love quoting stuff? You love
collecting books, but living by that stuff? And you know, let's let's just do that. Let's just shut
out of that and keep our priorities no different than the priorities who don't have human milazzo
which will make us of those who aren't just artificially committed to our faith, but from the
outside and the inside. We are wholly giving ourselves up before Allah. May Allah azza wa jal Oh,
you know, overlook our shortcomings and not make us of those who shaitan has gotten behind them.
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We're not able to seek protection from Him. May Allah protect us from the West was out of shape on
and I asked a lot of agendas, especially our young, our old our men or women or children, that they
are all given a genuine, a genuine love of the deen of Allah, the Book of Allah and a sense of
appreciation for the revelation that has been gifted to every single one of us that we hold on to it
for dear life. barakallahu li walakum Fillmore Anil Hakeem. When a fire anywhere er can be it with
the kill Hakeem