Nouman Ali Khan – Guidance from Surah Hashr

			In today's clip, I'd like to share with you some brief lessons from really at the end of the day one
single ayah that belongs to Sultan hasher. This is the 59th surah of the Quran, it's not a long
surah. So inshallah after the hobo, when you get time this weekend, you can go and read through the
entire surah yourself. The larger context of the sutra is actually some incidents in the life of the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam. I'll give you a brief account, because that is not the subject
today. But at least some background is important. When Medina was almost completely surrounded by
forces that were gathered by their enemies, the Munchkins, the Quraysh, who were tired of Islam, and
		

			they said, we've had the Battle of whether we've had the Battle of what we need to finish this
problem once and for all. So they tried to get all the different tribes that weren't even at war
with the Muslims to agree that look, if this Islam spreads in the region, you're all going to have
trouble later. So might as well get together and end this problem. Now let's go into Medina all at
once altogether, a united force and destroy the Muslims kill every man, you know, woman and child,
it doesn't matter. And we'll just have this problem solved. And that wasn't enough to convince all
these different tribes. So they gave them added incentive. And the added incentive was, well, if we
		

			kill this entire city, all the spoils all the property, all the homes, all the money will just
distributed among ourselves, this is going to be a big money making venture. Right? So the on the
outside, they made it look like we're doing this for you can call it national security. But on the
inside, there was just economic interests. That's all it was, which is not new. It's it's not old,
it still happens today. It's the same reasons why people go to war today, they make it look like
it's for national interest or for the security or the better of a nation, when on the inside is
nothing more than economic interests. So anyway, they're able to gather all of these tribes. And
		

			they go to you know, they're coming as a conglomerate to attack the city of Medina. And last minute,
one of the companions who's not even from the Arab lands is someone in Farsi it will be Allahu
taala. And who gives the suggestion that you know, when we're facing a bigger force, in back in
Persia, our military strategy is to actually dig a trench, so they can't come through. And even if
they do come through, they come through little at a time, they can't use all of their forces and
come in, you know, and because if they're much larger, we have to squeeze or dwindle their forces
somehow. So this suggestion was taken. And there were so few people ready to, you know, the military
		

			is very small, even the size of the Muslim population was very small.
		

			So the suicide Salaam literally had drafted the entire population, everybody's digging the trench,
because the armies are already advancing, you don't have time. And so they dig this trench across
the front, you know, border of the city of Medina. And this is actually the only reason that the
coloration, the all the Azov, all the groups that were coming together us as the only reason that
held them back, and they were stuck on the other side. This is in detail talked about in the 33rd
suicide so to La Casa Bella will give his own commentary on what happened in this battle. But in any
case, there was another an additional problem. The additional problem was the Muslims who lived in
		

			Medina, they had treaties or peace treaties, and cooperation treaties with the Jewish communities
that already lived inside Medina. So we have contracts with them, that if Medina is attacked, we are
going to defend the city of Medina together, this is your home and our home. We coexist in this
home. So as a matter of our city safety, if an enemy comes, we are going to defend the city together
that was agreed upon, everybody shook hands on it. This was something that was understood. But when
this attack happened, the Quraysh were actually able to convince certain tribes of the Jews to
actually open up a backdoor, so they can attack from the other side. And the even made the agreement
		

			that if the attack does come, we'll help you out on the inside. Well, so the Muslims now have to
worry not just about the enemy that's on the outside, but they also have to deal with a problem
that's starting on the inside. On top of that within the Muslim community. There were those who the
Koran declares Illuminati upon the hypocrites, who on the face were Muslims, but on the inside hated
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam hated the Muslims and wanted this thing to be over. So you've
got lots of layers of problems. Now, the background of this, this surah sootel hash the idea that I
wanted to share with you. I wanted to give you all of this background because what happens is, Allah
		

			in His own miraculous way defends the believers and the Quraysh return and the scheming of the
Jewish tribes that backtracked and violated their own treaty. It failed and they retreated. They
went into their forts outside of Medina. And the prophets lie Selim basically commanded that since
they violated the treaty, and they committed espionage, we're gonna go after them. And so the
Muslims go after them, and one after the other, their forts start falling. And it's not much of a
fight really. It's literally the Muslims just trample over them destroying one foot after the other.
Now when that happens, more wealth
		

			comes to Muslims that has ever come before, you know, after but then there's some shields and swords
on the ground, some horses are left behind, and we captured those and those are distributed. But
once haven was taken over, and once these Jewish, you know, forts were taken over, there was more
wealth, more produce more or less than Muslims had ever seen before. So all of a sudden, we went
from, you know, our GDP, you can say, went from 1000s to the millions, maybe even the hundreds of
millions overnight. And when this much wealth comes in, people start asking questions, where should
it go? How should it be distributed, you know, and soul revelation came in this surah, telling the
		

			messenger Salallahu alaihe salam, how it should be distributed. So Allah azza wa jal says ma
Suleyman, kura, vanilla, whatever the messenger acquired that is to be distributed from those people
of the towns, the towns that were taken over, it is to be distributed belongs to Allah done.
		

			So if anybody starts thinking, Wow, that's a lot of land, I wonder when the distribution is going to
happen? I wonder when we get our tax returns, you know, when they start thinking, first answers that
set you straight, it belongs to Allah.
		

			And then by extension, while your soul and it belongs to the messengers of Allah harness him, but
what about the brave soldiers who fought who went up into battle etc. The next line, the next item
is really the Lakota will Yama will Misaki inwardness, Sabine, and it's for close relatives, meaning
charity should be given to those in need within your own family. And it shouldn't be given to the
orphans. And it should be given to those who can't help themselves then McKeen, those who are stuck
in a difficult financial situation or a health situation. And then on top of that, those who are
traveling, a legend says, basically, the purpose of this money is charity.
		

			The purpose of this money is charity is not to make anybody wealthy. It's gonna get distributed. And
then he says Kayla, Hakuna dula tambien does Nia even come? I Allah says, I did this, he did this,
so that you don't get a little bit of wealth, you know, or most of the wealth, hoarded by some
wealthy people among you, like just a handful of people will get all the wealth. Allah wants the
wealth to be distributed. You know, this idea? It seems like a very basic idea. But if you apply it
to the world's economy today, you'll get a different picture. A handful of corporations go from
being millionaire corporations, to hundreds of billionaire corporations, because of wars, at the
		

			expense of huge taxpaying populations. across the world. This is the scene, this is the scenario
kainai akuna, do let him buy in Albania.
		

			And so this is the this is the distribution of wealth, but then a lot what he did is he described
three groups of people. And this is really what the whole bio is about the third group of people,
but I want you to walk through all three. He then went in a separate IRA after this ayah to talk
particularly about recipients that should be among the soldiers among the Muslim army, who should be
the number one recipient of this in this wealth. It should be legal for Korra and Mahajan.
		

			Those that are completely bankrupt fucker in Arabic is for the back to break. Those who are so
broken financially. It's like their back is broken. They're buried, and those that have and then the
next word describes Why is their back broken? Why are they bankrupt because they migrated because
they believed in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam they decided despite having a home, despite
having businesses despite having jobs, despite having family, they left all of it behind. Because
the Prophet was dearer to them that was more beloved to them than everything that they own the
entire life that they knew they walked away from all of it, literally not knowing when the next meal
		

			is going to come from, where it's going to come from, where they're going to put their head down to
sleep. They willingly became homeless, out of out of loyalty to the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
alayhi Salaam, these are called the muhajir on the migrants, the people who joined him from Mecca.
So less has been for Carl Mahajan. And then he goes on some how to love and love, you know through
German dare him, calling him those who are taken out of their homes. Those who were taken away from
all of their wealth. Meanwhile, he him you have tahuna fuggle Amina Allah, he wanted water The only
thing they were running after everybody else runs after a house. Everybody runs after money. These
		

			people were only running after something else. They're running away from the house and away from the
money. What are they running towards a favor from Allah, they want a lot to look at them with a
special favor. problem in Allah. Literally fabul if you wanted to take in a modern English
translation of the word father, it would literally be a bonus. A bonus from Allah. And the fact that
Allah will be happy with them. That was enough for them problem in a law what is one? And then he
says Williams Haruna la hora Sula, who, and these people continue to aid Allah and His Messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So now ally is saying that the most helpful people are bankrupt
		

			and they're homeless
		

			to Allah.
		

			most appreciated or sometimes the people that have no resources, they have nothing. They are so
appreciated by Allah, that Allah will dedicate a separate Ayah just to them just to highlight what
they have done for Allah, especially in a state of war, you would think you should look towards
those that have the biggest budget, who can afford to buy the biggest weapons, those that have the
most military experience, etc, etc. A lot puts all of that aside and says, who's made the most
sacrifices for me? These are number one to me. The Mahajan owner number one Timmy a savvy hula savvy
hula mokaba. The first and the foremost those are the ones that have been brought close to Allah.
		

			Now, Allah describes them when I go homosassa. Those in fact are truthful people true as true
believers. These are the Mahajan of maka fine. When this ayah comes down, the answers start feeling
a little bad.
		

			Well, they got a whole IRA to themselves, alone out of his way to describe how amazing they are. And
they are truthful. Does that mean we're not truthful? Does that mean our faith isn't good enough?
Yes, we came along afterwards. And we supported we didn't make nearly as many sacrifices as the
muhajir wounded. But what about us? And so the next ayah acknowledges the answer. When levena tomo
work with Darwin, EMA, and
		

			those that had settled the perfect place to settle as a home, and they had settled their faith
inside of their hearts for much before meaning less talking about the unsolved and he's saying
something so beautiful about them, even though they became Muslims later. Allah says the seed of the
man was always there. These people, as soon as they heard about Islam, they were ready to accept
imagine, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is preaching in Mecca for more than a decade, two
thirds of the Quran to the same group of people, many of them who are families with the prophet or
the Santos alum, and they don't listen. They just don't listen. And yet at the same time, you have a
		

			group of people, delegates coming from Medina for HUD, they have no interest in being preached to,
they just listened to the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi Salaam one time to go back 70 come
back, 70 go back, the entire city becomes Muslim. These people had the seed ready to go. Allah is
describing it through the, through the seed of the prophets as well, to different kinds of people.
There are people around us that have the seed of the man in them, even if they're not Muslim, even
if they're not Muslim, and ally acknowledges that there are those around us that are going to be
like the people of Makkah, no matter what you say, nothing's gonna change. But then there are those
		

			who, you know, they're not the enemy. They just don't know any better yet. They just don't know any
better. And I would argue that people around us in our neighborhoods, in this country, most of them,
they just don't know any better. They just don't, and we have to give the benefit of the doubt. But
if they knew the seed of human is already there, the goodness that Allah created, every human being
with is already there. So like knowledge is that about them not only since after coming to Islam,
from even before Islam, and then he says, Well, you Runa you have Buddha Madhava la him, what is the
great quality of these Medina and people, they love those who migrated towards them. Listen to this
		

			carefully. They love those who migrated towards them. You know, in virtually every country that has
an economic problem. They say the first problem is the immigrants.
		

			first problem is the immigrants. These people are taking our jobs. These people are a security
threat. We don't even know if they're a good cook, you know, good thing for our nation, we should
put them in special neighborhoods. We should have registrations for them. They're making their way
into our neighborhoods in our schools. They're, they're you know, contaminating our language.
They're do all this kind of stuff. And yet Allah describes these have taken a bunch of homeless
people. They literally what they are, and they have love for them. You have bounnam and hijo de la
him when you when you do not feed him hayata Mima Otto and they don't find ever any constriction in
		

			their chest because of what they've been given the responsibility to take care of these mohandro
they never find it a problem. There's never a bulge on their forehead. Will you see Luna Allah and
fusi him and they give them preference even over themselves. There's time to eat and they make sure
that the muhajir that's living in the house with them as eaten first. Will not Allah unfussy him and
then Allah as well. Oh, can I beat him kasasa kasasa is actually far more than you are a Jew, it
means hunger. kasasa hasa is actually for hunger that is so bad that you might die. starvation. They
say the law says they will give the other food before themselves even when they're starving. Even
		

			when they're starving. This is the quality of the answer. So you notice in the first ayah Allah
talked about how amazing the Mahajan onar and the next ayah Allah talks about how incredible the
answer and by the way you should all know even though Medina is not a million
		

			in your city, they're still doing economically a lot better than the people that came homeless. And
when you're doing better than people, you start thinking that you're better than them.
		

			When you're doing better, you have more money, and somebody needs your money, you something inside
you says, This person is less than I am, I need to help them. And you get a sense of superiority.
Even if you're charitable, even if you give charity, that idea that somehow you are superior to the
one you are helping. The one who came and asked you for help is somehow inferior to you. That
thought can be there, even if you never said it. Allah says woman You see, he felt like a home of
your own. That's how he ends this ayah whoever can guard themselves from that self righteous and
that self indulgence, self importance that they have deep inside themselves. Those are the
		

			ultimately successful. So now the second group of people is also successful, because they don't even
have that inside themselves. They're helping the unsolved, they're helping the Mahajan. But they
don't think of themselves as better when you and I helped someone. Don't think of yourselves as
better. As a matter of fact, the ones being helped were mentioned by a lot first. And Allah gave
them a higher rank. Then he mentioned second those who were ready to help.
		

			But then the question arises, what about the rest of us? I mean, this could bias about how amazing
the muhajir? Or how amazing the answer or the people of Makkah who accepted Islam, the people of
Medina who accepted Islam and everything they did. But what about the rest of this? oma, what about
you and me? Where's the inspiration for us? Yes, we can try and be in that category to be something
like those who were Alpha Chi Mahajan. But we're not being asked to leave our homes. We're not asked
to be homeless. We don't necessarily have a situation where we have refugees coming and staying
inside inside of our homes. And if there are refugees, we should be the first to welcome them into
		

			our homes, by the way, you know, but then there's the third group, and ally in his mercy and the
surah mentioned the third group. And that third group is the language of that is so beautiful. It
includes every single one of us until the day of judgment when levena, Jacqueline badly him and
those who came much after them.
		

			So these two groups and those who came much after them, that includes all of us. Now you notice I
want to compare here, in the first group, they sacrificed by migraineur. They left everything
behind. The second group showed love and support despite being hungry themselves. They did amazing
things. They made huge sacrifices. Both groups made huge sacrifices. What sacrifice is the third
group going to make? Let's see. He says yaku Luna Ravana Elena. This third group is amazing because
the first thing they do is they say Oh Allah forgive us.
		

			They asked us forgiveness, when he Juana and forgive our brothers and Latina sobre una bella Eman
who came before us with faith and those who are ahead of us in their mind. You know what this means?
The first loving but the quality that Allah loves about these people, the Muslims that will come
after that Allah makes them so important that he will talk about them in his Koran is he's gonna say
these are people who first of all want a lot of forgive them. But when they ask a lot of forgive
them, they also ask a lot of forgive their brothers.
		

			And they also assume about their brothers that their brothers have more faith than they do. And
levena sub acuna will Eman not just a Latina macho man
		

			you know those who came in the past and they were believers. but also those who are around us that
have more demand than we do Yala. All the other Muslims are better than I am. Yeah, love forgive
them, too. They don't think of themselves as better. They think of others as they assume others are
better. They just work with that assumption. And levena Saba Kula will Mr. Weil elfi kulu Vina Hill
and Latina Amano and don't put in our hearts. Now there's an Arabic word I won't translate it at
first. Don't put inside of our hearts and don't allow the placement inside of our hearts of a hill.
For those who believe for any who have believed. Now what in the world is in
		

			the world gala and Arabic ship?
		

			While Hara they say in the Arabic language the word Hill is extreme thirst and heat. And from it the
figurative meaning comes up and has said and leash. And you know I'll have to another. They say in
the Arabic language that this word actually means cheating. Yala. Don't make us those who feel like
it's okay to cheat other Muslims. Yala. Don't make us of those who feel like it's okay to hate
another Muslim, to look at another Muslim with jealousy to look down on another Muslim to have
intense aggravation towards another believer. Yala. Don't make my heart dirty with that
		

			Allah mentions this the
		

			group of people and their amazing accomplishment is that they don't hate each other. That's their
amazing accomplishment. They can think of the other as better than themselves. And they don't
develop, they don't let their heart be filled with hate towards another Muslim. They don't think you
know what happens. What shavon does, is when you have a dispute with somebody, he'll first tell you
that that person is a bad Muslim.
		

			That he is violating the Quran or the Sunnah of the Prophet salallahu alaihe salam, that this person
is a hypocrite and they're corrupt, and they're evil, etc. Now that they're evil, backbiting against
them, talking bad about them, criticizing them even cheating them in business is okay because
they're the devil to begin with.
		

			I'm do I'm fighting somebody evil first you demonize a person and you make them look like the devil
and then you can do whatever you want thereafter. Allah is we are begging a lot in this ayah Don't
make us of the kind of people who develop these sentiments and let them fester inside of us to the
point where we are it's it becomes okay for us to do horrible things to fellow believers. To feel
those things that touch and feel kulu when as a Latina Amina by the will heal in the Arabic language
is something that is done, not something that necessarily is felt well Makana, you need to be in
Ania Hola, Rahman. yaku. TV masala yo malkia man, Susana and Ron Villa is also used for cheating or
		

			wanting more for yourselves. But he has yet another meaning that I want to share with you, girl Some
say shit that we'll do a Dawa and shuttle hub.
		

			They say it's extreme animosity, like you hear somebody's name and it just your meter just spikes,
fumes started coming to start coming out of your ears, you become unreasonably aggressive towards
somebody, that's okay.
		

			But there's another thing. And the other Hill is when you become unreasonably defensive of another
Muslim unreasonably, you know, good towards another Muslim. Now, what does that mean? It means when
you decide that you are following someone, you look up to someone and you turn them into an angel.
		

			They can't do anything wrong. They can't be a human being. You don't want to hear anything about
them. You don't want to see any flaw in them. We are the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would
tell us a Muslim or non Muslim. Muslim is the mirror of another Muslim, you know what that means?
You and I Our relationship is like a mirror. When you stand in the mirror, if I'm wearing dirty
clothes, I'm going to see a spot.
		

			And if I see something good, I'm going to see it. If I see something bad, I'll see it. If I see
something good. If something good is there, I'll see it. It's not like my closer Ireland, and I'm
gonna see them wrinkled. And it's not like if my hair is combed, I'm gonna see it on calm, I'm gonna
see exactly what I am. believers to each other, are not delusional. They're not delusional, that
they only see bad in someone.
		

			And they're also not delusional, that they only see good and someone, but they don't assume see the
previous is well how this comes together, you don't assume that someone's bad on the inside. But if
you see something wrong, if you see something wrong is being done, something wrong is being said,
then it's part of your love for your brother that you go and tell them this is wrong. I am your
mayor, this is wrong. It shouldn't be like this, but you don't do it out of hate. You don't do it
out of a sense of superiority. And you're just as easy to just as easy as it is for most of us, if
not all of us to criticize, to point out what somebody else is doing wrong. It's not easy to hear
		

			it. It's not easy. When somebody else comes and tells you the way you did this, what you said, how
you prayed the way you parked your car outside. That was wrong. The way you you know, the way you
conducted yourself what you wrote in that email that was wrong. We don't want to hear that. We're
not very good at taking criticism, we're extremely good at giving criticism if we're truly going to
become a mirror. And we're going to have to learn that this is a two way street. That's part of
language and FICO, Lumina Hill and Lin Latina Armani. And so this, this incredible idea then ends up
in Nicaragua for him. Our Master You are the one that is incredibly compassionate, or fun in Arabic
		

			is to actually understand what the other is going through a lot. When we call a lot of truth. It
actually means Allah knows all of my emotions. He knows all of my frustrations. He knows what wrong
somebody did to me. He knows what situations I went through. He understands it. You know, sometimes
you try to tell someone you're going through a hard time. But you notice that they don't really
they're not really sensitive. They don't really see it. Oh, what's the big deal? They might just
say, oh, what's the big deal? Get over it. How are you saying it over? Do you even realize what I
went through? Yeah, it doesn't sound like much of a problem.
		

			It's hard to for someone just because you went through an experience to get them to feel what you
felt. It's hard.
		

			But a lot as origin describes himself as Oh, he knows what you feel. He knows what you felt.
		

			He knows the pain, you went through the stress, you went through the fear you went through the
anxiety you went through, he knows all of it. And that name of Allah, these are smart Allah that
come at the end of you know the philosophy, the ends of IR, they are there for a purpose. When we
call a lot of Oof, we are actually asking a lot to empower us with that name. In other words, make
us more, give us more. Give us more compassion towards each other. Yeah, Allah you are Rahim to us
make us Rahim to each other, make us loving and caring towards each other. That's when we call it a
lot of names. We're actually hoping that Allah blesses us with those names. Not just that he gives
		

			us compassion, but he empowers us with compassion towards others. He makes us sensitive towards
others. So, as I conclude, just the thing I'd like you to remember, a lot in this incredible,
incredible sequence of ions, has mentioned the Mojave rune.
		

			Then he is mentioned the unsolved, amazing people. And then third, he's mentioned you and me if we
can learn to be good to each other.
		

			That's the summary here. We can be in a high rank with a love mentioned in his Koran. If we can just
learn to fix the way we deal with each other. If we can just not keep things in our heart towards
our fellow believer, may Allah azza wa jal make us of those who he has spoken so highly of in his
book. May Allah azza wa jal reward those who came before us with Iman, and not make us of those who
have any ill feeling and hate and animosity and extreme extreme attitudes towards the fellow
believer may electorally make us of those who can be mirrors to one another barakallahu li walakum
filco Anil Hakeem whenever any way he can be it was excellent Hakeem
		

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