Surah Al Jumuah #26 Times You Should Never Do Business
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The importance of fasting during the holy month is discussed, including dressing up and small pieces of flesh and blood. The expense of selling their business is high, and salespeople are difficult to deal with. The speaker encourages the listener to sign up for be sequential v reg and help others create a community of students studying the Quran. The importance of the use of the "has been there" concept is emphasized, and the speaker emphasizes the need to show the importance of actions to others and avoid wasting time. The concept of the F sucking of Islam is also discussed, with the speaker emphasizing the importance of pursuing opportunities and sharing material gain.AI Generated Transcript ©
Had they lived by the Torah,
had they lived by the Gospel, the Injeem,
and had they lived by what was sent
down to them
from their master,
if they lived by it?
Now listen to these words.
They would have eaten from above and from
beneath their feet.
Everybody. We're gonna try to finish up our
discussion on ayah number 9 now. The portion
we're at is
rush to the remembrance of Allah
that and leave the sail, that is better
for you if in fact you do know.
The word which I translated as rush,
comes from sala, which is a candle or
wax that's quickly running out when you light
a candle.
And from it also,
strange derivation, it was also used for leadership
among the Jewish and Christian communities.
So
or Sa'il or Su'atul YAHUD and Su'a'atul Nasara
where their religious leadership
were called that too. But that's just a
side note. Verbal Idioms is an important book.
Alhamdulillah,
we've we've done some transcribing of it at
Bayinah, but, the original work was written by
Professor Mustans Amir.
There's few English resources that are really, really
valuable in Quran studies. This is one of
them. It's a dictionary of the of certain
expressions in the Quran. So So I'm gonna
read this to you directly from it on
this verb. The verse the the verb combines
the literal and metaphorical meanings of Sarah to
move and to endeavor.
What that means
is not only should you rush to remember
Allah, try really hard to remember Allah,
like make an effort to remember Anwali.
It is saying upon hearing the call of
the Friday prayer, start preparing for the prayer
in earnest,
then proceed to the mosque. Meaning
the
you know like when you're invited to a
wedding or you're invited to some ceremony,
you dress up, you get ready, there's
a time allotted for you to be your
best
and to take the time to get there
early and things like that because you want
to get the best seats or whatever. That's
the kind of mentality one should have for
the Friday prayer. It's not just catch it
in the last second and run.
Actually, traditionally, the kateeb would be the last
one to show up.
Everybody was already there waiting for him. Okay.
In accounting, they have this term called
LIFO,
which is last in first out,
which is now the normal
standard for chubba.
People come in, make sure they're the last
one in
and that's then they're the first one out,
right? LIFO set up. Also because when you're
the last one in, you're the closest to
the exit.
So you, you can, you're staring at your
shoes the whole time during Jamaa and then
you can just be the first one to
get out of here. Okay. So, but anyway,
so the idea is that one should actually
make efforts
to this grand remembrance of Allah,
because Allah has gone out of his way
to describe the institution of this prayer.
And putting this at the climax of the
Surah also highlights how valuable this prayer is
to Allah. There are some things in the
Quran that Allah does not mention over and
over again. He mentions them just once,
and those one place, that one place becomes
pivotal. The Jumu'ah prayer is not mentioned any
other time in the Quran, this is it.
The fasting of Ramadan is not mentioned any
other time in the Quran, it's just in
Baqarah, that's it. Just once the fasting is
mentioned, that's it. That's that's the comprehensive place
for fasting. You may have some side references
to people who fast, but it's not talking
about fasting itself, you know. So
anyway,
so
therefore means that Friday your schedule should be
cleared,
you should make extra precautions, you should dress
better because Allah says
take your most beautiful, take hold on to
your beauty at every house of worship
and since the house of worship, the place
of mad sajdah, there's no better time to
be dressed up and to be nice,
in every way than the Friday prayer. We
should actually treat it as such, you know.
And then we get to the next part,
leave the sail.
I'll just talk a little bit about leaving.
A small boneless piece of meat, a naat
from within a vein, a vein, or a
cut, actually a cut.
Small pieces of flesh,
small cuts
are actually called.
It's also used for you know when a
butcher is just cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting, and
there are some small pieces that just fly
off that he has to clean up later
on? Those pieces are called waver.
The the the things that are left behind
that are of little to no value, that
get trashed,
right? Those pieces are called
Now taraka in Arabic is to leave something.
Is
to leave something that wasn't worth it.
Okay, so leave something that's not worth it.
The seal is being described as unworthy
with the use of use of the word
as opposed to if you say
leave the sale,
then
can be of something of value.
And by contrast, we're going to see
in the final Haya.
So there's actually a fundamental difference between that
leaving and this leaving. So this leaving has
to do with leaving something insignificant.
So it's as if what you're being called
towards
is now making the sale insignificant.
Let's talk a little bit about Baye.
Even though it has several side meanings like
buying, selling,
the agreement, Mubaya,
bi'atun nasara is actually the the pledge, the
oath
that the, you know, the church, the the
the priest makes an oath, a vow, the
vow actually, that's what it's called. That's called
the bia of the Christian, of the Catholic
church. But anyway, the word
in the most general sense actually means to
sell.
And
I first want you to understand the importance
of this word in this ayah.
If you're in business,
a business has many components.
A business has investment,
because you can't start a business without making
an investment.
A business has many expenses
like hiring somebody, stocking the items,
you know, building the store, building the shack,
whatever it is, right? All the resources.
Like back in the day, the ancient business,
the farm is also a business,
right? It's a huge investment to buy the
land. It's a huge investment to buy the
seed. It's a huge investment
to buy the stock, you know, or the
animal stock, the sheep, the cows, the horses,
etcetera,
then feeding them is a huge expense,
then hiring the people that are gonna take
care of that is a huge expense. All
of this is expense, expense, expense, expense, and
expense, right?
But there's
one aspect of the business
that makes all the other pains of business
worth it. Actually,
most things you do in business are pain,
and only one thing makes it worth it.
What's that one thing?
The sale.
The sale.
If you're not able to sell,
all the work
is useless.
You could have the factory, you could have
the employees, you could have the product, you
could
produce a 1,000 items, 10,000 items, but you're
not able to sell them, the whole business
is collapsed,
right? So at the end,
the height, the goal
of the entire business transaction
is actually the sale.
A salesperson
has a really difficult life like a car
salesman
or used to, back in the day, they
used to be travelling salesman.
They used to go around in America selling
knives
and selling kitchen items and stuff door to
door. Ring the bell. Hey, can I interest
you?
And people slap the door in your face.
I I used to be in sales when
I was in college. I used to be
I used to
call for I worked for a company
that sold laptops wholesale
to offices.
So like, if a company wants to upgrade
all of their laptops, they'll just buy our
laptops for, like, 50% off or something.
And there's something called cold calling
where you have to call,
different companies
and say, hi. I'm
and they'll say, I hope you die today.
And, like, they're like, they're, you know, like,
they'll just say the meanest things and just
slam the phone on you or hold on,
hold on, hold on, you know? So it
was an average of 300, 400
like calls a day, which means about 350
insults a day and then one person says,
maybe send me some, send me a, this
is how old I am, send me a
fax.
Alright.
Right? So that would be that but you
know what makes that all of that pain
worth it? If you make one sale and
you're like, yeah,
then you're high fiving everybody and this and
that. Now imagine, let's just take my scenario,
I'm making all these calls, all these customers
are slamming their phone on me, cussing me
out, insulting me, and this one customer after
a 1,000 phone calls says, really? How many
do you have? How many total do you
have?
50.
Only 50?
Can you see if you can get more?
And then I look at the clock,
and the clock says it's Friday
and it's 12:30
and the chutba is gonna start at 1:15.
And it takes just 15 minutes to get
to the Jummah prayer, and I'm like, yeah,
hold on. And I'm like, I can still
make it. I can still make it. And
now it's 1 o'clock. I'm still working on
the sail. I can still make it, I
guess, 1:0:5, okay, I'll catch the, I'll miss
the first part of the Sabah but I'll
still catch it and I'm trying not to
make the sale go away
because
I don't know if I'm gonna get this
chance again.
Right? But if this was, I hate you,
never call here again, I'm gonna call the
police, I'm gonna find out where you live,
etcetera, etcetera, if those are the calls I'm
getting, I'm gonna go to Jummah early.
You understand?
But if I'm getting the sale, then I'm
gonna be like, hold on, let me just
you know, I had an old friend who
was in the wholesale business
and he told me that he had one
customer
that would call him at 1 o'clock because
he knows he leaves at 1:0:5 for Jamal.
He called him 1 o'clock
every Friday to make a big sale
and he'd say it's Friday I gotta go,
oh yeah yeah yeah sorry,
And then then he'd come back and then
next week 1 o'clock I've got a really
big deal. It's got, we only have, you
know, the next 30 minutes I'm gonna need
you. No, you're not gonna need me. I'm
gonna leave in 5 minutes because it's Friday
every week.
His customer's name was Shaipan.
Dave the devil.
Anyway,
Allah mentioned
the most lucrative part of work,
the sale.
The sale represents when you make the money.
The sale represents when you make the profit.
The sale represents
when all of your hard work finally
bears fruit.
The thing that you've been working for all
along.
And even if that is happening at the
time of the Friday prayer, walk away from
it.
All the other things,
walking away from that is easy. The hardest
thing to walk away from is
the sale.
That's the hardest thing to walk away. And
the sale is not just if you're in
business, if you have a if you applied
for a job and nobody calls you back,
and the one call you got back for
an interview is right as you're walking into
the masjid
for the Jumu'ah prayer.
Right? And now you hey, we'd like to
talk to you about this opportunity. We have
30 other candidates, but we think you're a
good fit.
Sorry, I gotta go pray.
And you hang up.
That's not easy, is it?
That's not easy
because this is, this is the, this was
the sale.
This was the sale. Allah mentioned the sale
for a reason because human beings are tempted
by the prospect of making money, making profit,
and Allah says that's what I want you
to leave for these few hours, and then
he says, but you say
these few, if I leave that, then how
am I gonna make my money? Allah says,
That is in fact better for you.
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I'm telling you that's better for you. You
will have to trust me.
Allah is now asking us to sacrifice benefits
of this life,
you know, money, profit,
business deals, he's asking us to sacrifice them
because he's promising us trust me, I'm gonna
give you something that's better than that
If in fact you know that for a
fact, if you really do believe
in what Allah is telling you, if you
really know then you'll realize that what Allah
is calling you to is much better.
Leave the sail,
let it go.
Now it's unfortunately like this is the highest
temptation, right? Now we when a nation becomes
weak, you don't even need the highest temptation,
you know. You just need, hey man, I
am not at my save point in my
game yet.
Hold on, let me get to the next
save point and then I don't want to
hit pause right now.
Oh, there's only one more episode left in
the season. Let me finish the episode so
that I can properly do dhikr.
So I'm not doing dhikr of what happened
with the villain.
Right?
Like stupid things to not go and pray
Jamar.
You know, Oh, I don't understand what's happening
in the Khubba. I don't understand the language.
Oh, the Khubba is boring.
I don't really get it. I don't really
get anything out of it. Who cares about
your feelings?
Allah said when it's called go, when it's
called for go,
that's where you're going.
The flip side of that is a conversation
not with the attendees of the Friday prayer,
but the deliverers of the khuddah.
The khuddah is supposed to be something that
inspires. The khuddha is supposed to be something
that brings hearts closer to Allah, the khuddha
is supposed to be something that lives up
to the spirit of I have to have
in my mind as a something
that is there that is dirtying the hearts
or dirtying society or dirtying the minds,
somehow I have to share something that will
clean a little bit of that up from
the word of Allah.
And I can't do that if I don't
know what the pollution is.
So I have to now have conversations with
my congregants, people,
and say hey, what's happening?
What are you suffering from? What's going on?
What's happening in the family? What's happening in
the community? What's happening in the businesses? What's
happening among our youth? What's happening among our
seniors? And then now I can find something
in Allah's book and say, you know what,
here, Allah is helping you clean this problem,
right?
So the
is you say how do you give a
that's relevant? When you give a
that's relevant,
Allah's book is a set of solutions,
is a set of purifying reminders,
but you don't know who you're if you
don't know who you're giving the reminder to,
if you don't have an appreciation of who
you're talking to, when you guys come up
to me and you ask me questions,
right? I spend an hour
trying to teach you something, then those 10,
15 minutes,
you're teaching me something.
I'm learning from you, what's going on with
you? What confusions do you have? What questions
do you have? What plagues you?
What's hurting? And many of the things you
ask me, I don't have an answer.
I just don't have an answer. But at
least I know the questions now that I
must seek out the answers in the last
book. It's like you're giving me homework assignments,
you understand?
So what is the job of the the
mimba, the the hudba is actually supposed to
be that so people can see how the
Quran cleanses what is going on in society.
It cleanses what's happening in the lives of
people. So
Now
a couple of places in the Quran that
I really want you to see in connection
with this idea of leaving the sale.
One is
of course when you're leaving the sale, you're
leaving profit, right?
But Allah says in another place in the
Quran, he
says,
Among people there's someone who sells himself
to please Allah.
You left the seal
but actually you're selling
yourself to Allah.
Allah is the purchaser now.
Allah becomes the customer, you become the product
that's being sold.
Allah has purchased from believers their money and
their wealth, their lives in exchange for Jannah.
Then of course we have Friday, but the
Israelites before us, which day did they have?
They have Saturday
and we shouldn't mess up Friday
the way they messed up with
Saturday, so maybe we should know how did
they mess up with Saturday
because that will help us learn how to
not mess
up Friday.
This is the day of the Sabbath,
the day of Saturday,
they were supposed to not fish
and they used to be
the Quran says they were right on the
edge of us, there was a sea town,
it was a beach town or it was
a port town, so their primary income was
fishing.
So they would fish every day of the
week and there would be no fish,
and then the day of Saturday,
the fish would come near the shore and
they would do flipping somersaults
and jump up in the air
and go back down, they
would come and jump up and down in
front of them, and they're like
but one day it's haram, it jumps up
and down, and every other day
they're gone.
You can't find them, right?
So what they decided to do according to
some of us because the Quran doesn't spell
it out but the idea, what they decided
to do was leave a net
on Friday night
and pick it up on Sunday morning,
right? And then when the fish come,
caught in it or dig a hole
and when the shore
the waves come and the fish reach the
shore, when they're about to go back, they
fall into the hole.
So they're like, I mean, we did do
the work
technically,
we weren't thinking about that. We were just,
you know, and what are we learning?
They tried to find technical loopholes.
Now if you want to save money on
taxes,
people look for technical loopholes, right? Lawyers find
technical loopholes
because that's what the law says. I didn't
technically do anything wrong.
But Allah
then says when you play games like that
with the lust law, because there's the letter
of the law and there's also what?
So even if they weren't violating the letter,
they were definitely violating
the spirit.
Because even as you hear this, you're like,
well technically they didn't do anything wrong.
No, not technically,
but spiritually they did, didn't they?
And so Allah said there were people among
them who said don't do this,
don't violate the Sabbath, it's a sacred day,
Allah has told us not to do this.
And they said
so they were divided into 3 groups, 1
group that was violating the Saturday,
1 group that was trying to say, Come
on, don't do this.
And a third group that says
hey why are you giving them advice?
Allah is gonna destroy these people, look at
them, they don't even obey the word of
Allah, Allah will annihilate them.
Allah will destroy them, kill them.
Or He will punish them in some terrible
way, you should get away from these sinful
Muslims,
just get away from them, they're lost, they're
a lost cause.
They said there's 2 reasons we could try
to advise them. 1, at least we will
have an excuse before Yorub,
meaning Muslims should not abandon other Muslims,
we should still try to lovingly counsel each
other. Lovingly.
This ayah has so many lessons man, so
here you have people that are openly doing
haram,
and another group is trying to advise them
and the word used is Wah, Wahid in
Arabic means soft advice that reaches the heart,
So apparently, they're not making tweets about these
Muslims.
Apparently, they're not making YouTube videos refuting these
Muslims
that are that are violating the Sabbath.
Apparently, they're not declaring them kuffar.
They're gently, lovingly what?
Advising them. Because when you attack them and
when you critique them and when you say,
Yeeullah will destroy you, you Kuffar, you Headens,
you this and you that, then you are
only building more hatred in their hearts towards
you and your hearts towards them.
And Allah Fabeinah Khulu Biqum Allah put love
between your hearts goes away.
Those people that are, even the people that
are doing the worst haram things,
somewhere in there they say,
somewhere there is some glimmer of light that
you might be able to reach. If Allah
told Musa to talk to Firaun
nicely
And Allah says,
We have to be humble before other believers.
And here in this ayah, one group said,
Don't worry about these people, Allah is gonna
destroy them. These were the people on Twitter.
Right? And the other group said no no
no, we should talk to them in a
dignified way, maybe they'll come back.
Why are you
saying
you're
hopeless?
And when they forgot what they were reminded
of, Allah says, We rescued those who used
to stop from doing wrong.
Allah only rescued 1 group, the group that
was concerned,
they got rescued. Then He says,
And those who did wrong, We grabbed them
with a terrible punishment. Now the question became,
who was the one who did wrong? There
were two opinions among the Sahaba because Allah
didn't say openly who did wrong.
There could be 2 wrong parties here, the
people who were fishing
on Saturday
and the people who didn't care about them
because apparently that's also
wrong. So some Sahaba said it doesn't include
both, some Sahaba said it does include both,
I'm more inclined to believe it includes both,
because Allah Allah mentioned 3 groups but then
reduced them to 2.
So it's not like He is silent on
the third one, like you figure it out,
but actually it seems like. And previously they
said,
at least we will have an excuse, which
is to say they won't have an excuse,
you know.
So this is the Jum'ah violation
talked about, like you know people that don't
go to Jum'ah
for example,
they * and they don't go.
Maybe you should be gently reminding them, just
come this one time, just come and see
how you feel. I don't understand anything. Don't
come because you wanna understand.
Just come because it'll be good for you.
I'm just telling you,
something's a little soft, some problem in your
life, something will happen, just convince them somehow,
gently, softly,
just come back, come back. And then if
Allah can put a feeling in a non
Muslim's heart who's sitting there listening to an
Arabic Khuba,
Wait, you never know how taqwa might come
into somebody.
So on the other side, Allah said leave
the sale, right?
Which means if you leave the sail you're
going to take a loss,
clearly
for the sake of Allah, you're taking a
loss. Allah says about the people that came
before us,
Had they lived by the Torah,
had they lived by the Gospel, the Injeen,
and had they lived by what was sent
down to them from their master
if they lived by it?
Now listen to these words,
They would have eaten from above and from
beneath their feet.
Allah would have opened up the doors of
rizq for them from the sky and from
the earth.
Among them are still fair people, and a
good number of them what horrible things they
are up to.
What is Allah saying? When you leave
greed for Allah's sake, what does he do?
He gives you more than you could ever
have imagined, he puts barakah in your list,
he opens up more opportunities,
your one store turns into 10 stores,
your promotion turns into 3 times the promotion,
doors open that you never thought would open,
all because somebody showed taqwa of Allah.
Allah mentions this kind of phenomenon in Suratul
Talakw also, which is a really interesting place
to mention this concept.
Whoever has taqwa of Allah, Allah will find
a way out for them and He will
provide them from some place they couldn't even
imagine.
And whoever would rely on Allah, Allah is
enough for them.
But you have to show taqwa of Allah
first.
It's interesting that that was mentioned in the
Surah of Talaq because Talaq, you know marriage
sometimes was also financial
liability,
right? People depended, like the wife depended on
the husband for finances
and if she gets divorced, where's she gonna,
how's she gonna
provide for herself? Her parents are old or
some other situation, right? So talaq is happening
and it might come with a lot of
financial losses
or the husband has to pay
for, you know, for the talaq to happen,
for the alimony to be paid or for
the child support to be paid and it's
too much for him. And Allah says, yeah,
but whoever has taqwa of Allah, Allah will
make a way out for them and He'll
provide them from where they couldn't even imagine.
There's also a human component to this. We
think of our spouse as it is,
right? If I'm not with this person and
if they don't love me then nobody will
ever love me, nobody will like me, No,
I'm a loser, you know, and you know,
without you, I will die.
And they say, actually with you, I'm dying.
Sometimes people in that situation, one person says
I'll die without you and the other says
I'm dying because of you.
So
So Allah says that dependency that you have,
replace that with the tafuah of Allah, Allah
will give you a risk from where you
couldn't imagine, you know.
Anyway, yeah, I'm gonna have fun teaching Suratul
Talaq one day, that's gonna get me in
trouble. Anyway,
so so now from Amtakas, this is an
interesting point that Mirakash al Salahi makes in
his in his tafsir, I'll simplify this for
you.
You know if if someone in this
group
said something bad or did something mean,
I have two choices,
I could say
this one, Yaqub
and then I could point at Yaqub and
I could just expose him and what he
did and what he said and all of
it.
Or I could say it would be nicer,
it would be kind if all of us
could be a little more patient with each
other and we could just, you know, sit
respectfully and etcetera and not speak during the
jumuah, etcetera. In other words, I didn't point
it out directly.
I kept it general so the person who
was being talked to can take the hint.
Other people can benefit too, but nobody got
embarrassed. Do you understand?
When Allah said, there were some people, this
is, this, these ayat came in the incident
of an event where people actually didn't show
up to Jummah the way they were supposed
to, and some people walked away from Jummah.
That's the context.
And in that context, Allah could have pointed
out those people and said, you shouldn't have
done this, you shouldn't have done this, and
you shouldn't have done
But Allah has just opened it up in
general. Those of you who have faith or
claim to have faith, when the call is
made,
rush to the remembrance of Allah, leave the
sail, that's better for you, it's positive reinforcement,
isn't it?
And then he says, and when the prayer
is done,
let's talk about
There's 2 words in Arabic that are really
cool
and
So
which actually means the same thing, I fulfilled
my duty,
I fulfilled my duty. But what happened in
Islamic culture and literature
is we say if you prayed your prayer
on time,
and if you prayed it later then it
becomes a kabbah, but actually originally they mean
the same thing. Adah and kabbah actually technically
mean the same thing, okay.
Now what does this word actually mean? It
means to give a decision,
means a deadly poison, to finish something, to
end something, to be done with something, like
if you finish a product or project then
you did Tada of the project, you completed
it and you no longer owe any obligations,
or sometimes your boss says if you finish
this task then you can leave before 5
o'clock,
right? Or your parents, to a child they
say, finish your homework, as soon as you
finish then you can play video games, but
not before. So the moment they're done, he's
like,
homework.
Okay. It's done. I don't owe this anymore.
I finished this obligation which means I am
set free.
Okay? The idea of Kaaba also it is
used in the payment of debts.
When you pay a debt, you're free.
So now Allah is using the term when
the prayer has been given its due,
when the payment has been made,
meaning you owe Allah this prayer,
you owe Allah this prayer, and when that
payment is made,
I love this ayah, spread out in the
land.
Go everywhere.
The Israelites were told to remain confined in
a home.
They couldn't spread out. Allah tells us finish
the Friday prayer and
spread out. Go everywhere.
Spread out everywhere.
What does that mean spread out everywhere? You
just got inspired by the word of Allah,
then you went to the university,
then some of you went back to the
office, some of you went to the store,
some of you went and continued to drive
your Uber, some of you whatever you do,
you went back to the restaurant to work,
you went to hang out with your friends,
some of you went back home.
Wherever you went back, what did you take
with you?
You took a little bit of light
with you.
Allah wants that light to spread everywhere. Allah
wants the impact
of what happened inside the Masjid to affect
society outside the Masjid.
So he says, Zibidi while this iron is
hot, when the heat is intense, when the
light
is intense,
gold spread it everywhere, spread out and you
will bring this light
to your office,
to your you know, it's not like you're
gonna go and say, okay, okay, I'm at
the office, time for me to give the
chubba now. No, no,
no. No, that's not the point. It isn't
you're gonna go give the sermon. But now
that you're you you heard the chukba about
honesty,
and you go back, and your manager wants
you to lie about a project, no, no,
we're not gonna lie about it, we can
do this in a way that has integrity,
And you stand up by what's right
because you carried some light back with you.
You are about to cheat on your exam
with some friends, you say, no. No. No.
Allah is watching. I just read a khutbah
about the taqwa of Allah. I'm not gonna
violate the taqwa 20 minutes later.
Not gonna do that. Guys, we're not gonna
cheat. I don't care what happens, we're not
cheating.
We're not using this cheat sheet, etcetera, etcetera.
K? No bribery, no cheating, no violation,
you know, or you are the khaba about
your family,
the khaba about the rights of the family.
If you could pardon, overlook.
You know, sometimes you have an argument with
your family, one argument that happened 6 months
ago but you bring it up over and
over again and beat it over the head.
Or Allah says if you can forgive and
overlook and move on
that Allah is forgiving
and you go home and you see the
person's face and you're like
I so want to do this right now.
The food won't taste as spicy if I
don't do this. This is some people need
ketchup with their food. Other people need comments
with their food.
How am I gonna make this food taste
good without the comments? And you just heard
the Khutba and you're like, food tastes good.
Food's good,
you, you took it with you,
fantashigufinam,
go spread out in the mind. Then He
says, wabtahu min famdiddah,
even more beautiful words, he says pursue
out of Allah's favor.
Allah's favor here actually means that is
go make money,
go make money,
go seek opportunity,
go travel to a new place,
go learn. This is all the Fadal of
Allah. How do we know this is the
Fadal of Allah? Allah uses this word Fadal
in the concept of Hajj, in the context
of Hajj.
He says, There's no harm if you pursue
from your Rabb when you're at Hajj, meaning
people come to Hajj from all over the
world, right? So they would bring this one
would bring their clothes from this place, and
this one would bring blankets, and this one
would bring rugs, and they're selling it to
each other in import export business, isn't it?
And they're making some money with their hajj
and that's called Fadun from Allah.
Allah now says, hey, you left the Bay
here,
you left the sail
and you came to me, now go and
I will give you extra. What's the word
for extra?
I will give you more than what you
expected.
Go look for that though. It won't come
to you, you have to go after it.
You can't say when is the 5th father
of Allah coming?
Pursue,
pursue
out of the fadl of Allah.
Pursue every opportunity you can, and the min
also means you might see a glimpse of
the fadl and you capture it. You see
a small opportunity and you take full advantage.
You know, in sports, for example, in strategic
sports, you're when you're when you're, you know,
facing an opponent, the when you're when the
offense, you look for a small opening.
When you look for that small opening, that
becomes your strategic,
you know, avenue to score the goal or
to hit the knockout punch or whatever. Right?
That small opportunity, you see it as a
big opportunity.
And this mentality
means Oh no no, the door is not
wide open, so there's nothing happening.
Hold on, the door is this much open,
it's half an inch open, you should see
that as
It's not even the full fathal of Allah,
it's
It's from
the opportunity given by Allah, from the favor
given to from Allah,
that's there and now you must pursue and
open that gap wire,
you must take full advantage of that opportunity.
So Allah says
Isn't it beautiful that the most spiritual lesson
is being
complimented with material gain?
And what was this surah used already, didn't
it? The Quran, the revelation, the cleansing, that
was the Fadl of Allah. And now this
is also
the fadhu of Allah, the best of
the internal and the best of the external,
you know. There's the
the internal,
the is being cleansed by the word of
Allah, that's the fadhl of Allah and the
external, now you can pursue halaal, you know,
income.
You can seek the fafal of Allah, and
by the way, after coming out of the
prayer, you're going to live by the law
of Allah which means you're gonna pursue halaal,
right? And that's really what's going to bring
out the blessings. And then look at that,
why did you go to Jawa prayer?
What was the goal?
Remembering Allah. The goal was Zikrullah,
Jum'ah is done, go, go back to work,
go back to university, go back home, go
back to whatever work you were doing, and
Allah says,
remember Allah a lot.
Wait,
I thought the remembrance part was done when
I went
to Jumuah, now it's party time, it's Friday
night, y'all.
But he says no, now remember Allah,
Allah, now we're learning 2 dimensions of Dhikr.
There's dhikr in Ibadah,
there's dhikr when you're praying, there's dhikr when
you're in Jumwah, there's dhikr when you're sitting
in a lecture, There's zikr when you're reciting
Quran. That's zikr.
There's another zikr.
There's a zikr when you're sitting in the
library.
Young man, and it was a dhikr when
you were sitting in the library studying, and
she walked by and you didn't look up.
That was dhikr of Allah.
It was dhikr when you could see the
next person's answer
and you know you're not ready for this
test and you didn't look, that was also
what?
That was the thicket of Allah.
That was the thicket of Allah.
You're selling
meat and you could put more bones in
it than the meat
because the customer can't see it
but you didn't, you put more meat
and you could give them good meat or
you could give them more of most of
the fat,
you could do that too but you didn't
because you did what?
Dhikr of Allah, That's Dhikr of Allah.
Students ask, I want to do something, I
want to remember Allah. Yeah, remember Allah, carry
yourself with integrity, that's remembering Allah.
Afu bi rakood is remembering Allah. Fulfill contract
agreements is remembering Allah. Fulfilling promises is remembering
Allah.
Being reliable is remembering Allah, being honest in
your dealings is remembering Allah,
somebody is insulting you, you could insult them
back but instead what do you do? You
hold back,
that's remembering Allah.
Remember Allah Allah, you've now been inspired, so
remember Allah Allah
so that you may succeed. I'll make a
few concluding comments about nashaf insha Allah and
fada,
after the salah.
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