00:00:00 -->
00:00:13
Our mission is to spread awareness of the message and divine beauty of Quran across the world
support our [email protected] that's ba y y i n H dot o RG
00:00:14 -->
00:00:54
as a whole. Also the last item described in one place the coalition salat wa salam, O, Allah in
Bukhara. Everything has a peak and the peak of the Quran is Baccarat. It seems like it has all
different kinds of subjects. But actually, if you look at it, look at it carefully. It's building a
very powerful argument. And one of the most powerful arguments that Soto dakara makes is the
argument of the identity of the Muslim. So when we talk seriously about the identity we have as a
not just as an individual, but as an Ummah, then this is the first and foremost surah that we have
to look at. And so I want to first illustrate that there are three main components as far as
00:00:54 -->
00:01:33
history. Before we get to these if and by the way, I'll tell you what these are about in a minute.
The first the earliest story mentioned in Bukhara is the is the story of other mothers set up. And
the battle between essentially there are two camps, there's the side of the angels, and there's the
side of the shell team, right. And other other his Salam is right in the middle. And the children of
Adam will have to choose whether they will choose the side of the angels, or the child, the side of
the shell team, that's what's going to have to happen, then the story moves forward. And Allah gives
us a very long history of the Jewish people who saw him. And as he mentioned that story, he
00:01:33 -->
00:02:15
basically describes how they were given revelation. And they were told how to choose the right side,
but ended up following the way of the shelter and also literally in the middle of the passage. What
about mitoku Shelton Adam Solomon, they literally ended up following the ways of shell team. And,
and they ended up not appreciating the guidance that Allah had given them. Now it's important to
note that Adam and his Salaam was chosen over all humanity. And actually over all of creation, the
magnificent choice is a choice over all other creation. And among his children, this family, the
children of Israel, were chosen among all other nations and all other people. So first and foremost,
00:02:15 -->
00:02:58
you have the highest choice, Adam, and from within his children, you have the highest choice for
him. And the choice of Adam was to demonstrate what it means to obey a law by choice. Angels don't
have a choice, shall teen have a choice, but they failed. Adam alayhis salam is supposed to have a
choice and succeed. He's supposed to demonstrate that to the to all two before allies origin. As a
nation of Israel, we're supposed to show all the other nations what it means to obey Allah and get
the best of this world and get the best of the next world. The role of the Israelites, the reason
Allah gave them prophet after prophet after Prophet, the reason a lot preferred them is not because
00:02:58 -->
00:03:37
they are racially superior. It's not because of their race, it's not because of their language. The
reason that I chose them is because they were supposed to demonstrate to all the other nations of
the world what it means to obey Allah. So all other nations of the world could see that model and be
impressed with that model and come to the way of Allah. So you know how we have Dawa as an
individual, one person talks to a Christian or Jewish friend or a new friend, or a Buddhist friend
and is telling them about Islam that's Dawa as an individual. But there's also such a thing as that
one as a nation, when a nation has the, you know, is built upon the model of Allah's teachings, that
00:03:37 -->
00:04:18
the existence of that nation itself is that one itself sends a message. And if one person can make
Dawa to 1000 people, can you imagine what the Tao of a nation looks like? It can affect the entire
world. If that model exists, it will affect the entire world. This was their job, but they failed.
And when they failed, Allah reminded them that this job of theirs is not just because they're
children of Israelite Eve. They're actually children that people are him. So the next story in the
surah is not the bonobo, it goes back to Ibrahim alayhis salam, because they were supposed to be
like their father, Ibrahim. And so here what I'd like to share with you is another continuation.
00:04:19 -->
00:04:27
It's very simple to remember I hope in shallow tally, you keep it in your mind for today's
discussion. The first story was which one you tell me.
00:04:28 -->
00:04:55
Adam and his son, Adam and his family son was tested Yes or no? He was tested. Blue is right in is
the second story right? Where they tested yes or no. They were tested. Ibrahim alayhis salaam is the
third story. Are they tested? Is he tested? Yes or no? Yes. three stories. And in all of them, the
main characters are tested. Yes. In the case of Adam and his Salaam did he pass the test or did he
fail the test?
00:04:56 -->
00:04:59
Hmm. It's okay. You can say I'm not gonna kick you out.
00:05:00 -->
00:05:27
He failed the test they ate from the tree. But he can make it up later by doing this too far. Right?
He apologized. Because that's that's the way of humanity will sometimes we will fail. And we'll ask
a lot to, you know, for an apology will make us the club and we can come back, right? That's the
first story of a failure, but then you can recover. The second story is the Israelites did they pass
the test or they failed the test? They fail the test, and we didn't apologize.
00:05:29 -->
00:05:45
There's a difference between other members, right, Adam failed, but apologize. The Israelites
failed, but they refuse to apologize. Actually, they became even more arrogant. Instead of becoming
humble after failing, they became even more arrogant after failing. What's the third story that I
mentioned?
00:05:47 -->
00:06:38
Abraham, did he did he pass the test or fail the test? He passed all of them. So you have three
scenarios, you can fail and make it up. You can fail and become worse, or you can pass three tests.
And then in the surah, the next story is the story of this oma from here on it's talking this surah
is talking about this oma us, the Muslims. And the question hasn't been answered, did we pass the
test? Did we fail the test? Are we going to recover from it? Well, the reason we're mentioned here
is because now three case studies are there before us. We hope to be like Ibrahim alayhis salam that
we pass the test. In case we fail the test we hope to be like who are demanding his Salah, because
00:06:38 -->
00:06:44
in case we fail any test, we should make a step up and fix ourselves. We hope that we never become
like who,
00:06:45 -->
00:07:27
who passed the test and become arrogant and keep failing or fail the testing, become arrogant and
keep failing. Now it's our turn to be tested and our first now that we are the chosen nation, by the
way, blue is far removed from this position. And now that we are supposed to be the children of
Ibrahim alayhis salam, we're supposed to carry that responsibility. We are now given that title. We
are now being transformed. And in these ayat, we're going to see the phrase, what karateka jalna
cometan. That is how we made we made you into an oma, you are now the nation. But before I get to
that, just these few elements, the first of them. We the Muslims see themselves as the continuation
00:07:27 -->
00:07:48
of the same battle that started with other molecules around the battle between the side of the
angels and the side of the shouting. We are actually the final soldiers in that battle. That's what
we are. That's the that's the thought of us. Then, we are supposed to be the people we recognize
that we are not the first ones to be chosen.
00:07:50 -->
00:08:40
There was a nation who was chosen before us and what happened with that nation. They were replaced,
replaced by who? us if Allah did that once he can do it again in tavano yesterday then Kamen Rider
con Malaya Kudo. ontonagon If you turn away if you fail, he will replace you with a nation other
than you and they won't be like you. He told that to us. So we don't say Oh, Bani Israel, their turn
is over. Now it's our turn. Yes. Ah. Because if you think you're special, and I'm special, and
that's it, we have the special label, then we are no different than who, when you assign that's part
of our identity, we realize that we are, we are replaceable. We are entirely replaceable. Allah will
00:08:40 -->
00:08:47
take nations today that are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, other nations, and they may become the Muslims
of tomorrow.
00:08:48 -->
00:09:19
They may do that. And Allah has no problem doing that. And he's done it before. You know, you have
to be calm and serene, he'll bring another nation in your place, will bring another people in your
place altogether. So the thinking of the Muslim is that we are not irreplaceable. We are not
permanent. We don't own Islam. Islam owns us. We don't own it. The third piece of our identity is
that we are actually this is very important. We see ourselves as the practices of the religion of
Ibrahim alayhis salaam.
00:09:21 -->
00:09:58
This is really important. The name of our religion Islam actually comes from Ibrahim alayhis salam
anonymously. maynila comienzo via Tina Amata Muslim metallic, if Kala hora boo Aslam Kala Islam to
the Robben Island mean who are some markable Muslim in america he has over and over again in the
Koran you learn that the idea of Islam of complete submission to Allah unconditional, I will obey
the law no matter how difficult the commandment that is the legacy of our father Ibrahim alayhis
salam. Our religion is actually one of the names of Islam in the Quran is meloetta abiko Ebrahim,
the religion of your father Ibrahim.
00:09:59 -->
00:10:00
This is
00:10:00 -->
00:10:01
Extremely important,
00:10:02 -->
00:10:28
actually, even Rasulullah sallallahu is and we say this is the religion of Muhammad Rasul Allah
says, and we say that, but even Mohammed has told me that I am rahima Hanif and you follow the
religion of Ibrahim, you must follow the religion of Ibrahim. This is not a lecture about that, but
in just a couple of minutes I want to give you a quick, quick quick picture of how much we are the
religion of Ibrahim, how many pillars in Islam?
00:10:30 -->
00:10:33
There's not a hard question guys, how many pillars in Islam
00:10:35 -->
00:10:42
Shahada goes back to Abraham, the law oneness of Allah. Everybody's clear why that goes back to
Abraham on Instagram, right?
00:10:43 -->
00:11:28
no confusion why hodzic goes back to Abraham Mondays and is anybody confused about that? How do we
do at the house built by Ibrahim? Every ritual is tied to Ibrahim alayhi salam, then we make Salah
what the * up macabre Hema masala safa and marwah goes back to Abraham the slaughtering of the
animal goes back to Abraham all of * goes back to who? Ibrahim alayhi salam, the Salah, who made
the Da Zhi Li mukhi masala tea woman, Daria t who made that da Abraham la salami, dada, you know,
make me the one who establishes the prayer then Okay, then what's left is zakat. We're also Ibrahim
alayhis salaam son is a smile in Canada. Salatu was the karate he used to tell his family to pray
00:11:28 -->
00:11:31
and to give Zakat Where did his smile learn his religion from
00:11:32 -->
00:11:38
from Ibrahim even Zakat goes back to Abraham Odessa only one thing left to start are you going to do
Ramadan and Ibrahim
00:11:39 -->
00:11:44
Ibrahim Alayhi Salam didn't have Ramadan Why do we celebrate Ramadan?
00:11:45 -->
00:11:49
Why? I know it's a hard question but I'll wait for you let it get awkward. It's okay.
00:11:52 -->
00:11:54
Because of Quran, Quran was given to
00:11:56 -->
00:12:03
masuleh so we celebrate Ramadan because Quran came right. Koran came because of the da ba ba
00:12:04 -->
00:12:37
ba ba ba ba see him Rasulullah minha Maya Attica Li Mo monkey who is a game master Send a messenger
among them who will recite your IR which is Koran. he'll teach them the book which book Koran. And
finally the Tao was answered when who came Rasulullah came and we celebrate the coming of the Quran
with what month Ramadan, in actually in Ramadan, we celebrate the answer of Abraham's dawn. That's
what we celebrate five of the pillars go back to Abraham on all five.
00:12:38 -->
00:12:57
It's this is the religion. And that's a very important thing to understand, extremely important to
understand. So now that I've given you that, let's take a step forward. Let's Let's not think about
this in terms of religion for a second, let's think of it in terms of a new nation, a new nation, a
new nation needs Independence Day
00:12:59 -->
00:13:09
and have a celebration of when the nation was formed. A new nation needs a capital, right? A new
nation needs a constitution. A new nation needs a name.
00:13:11 -->
00:13:12
What's the name?
00:13:13 -->
00:13:20
muslimeen from Islam comes from who? Ibrahim alayhis salam, what's the constitution?
00:13:21 -->
00:13:23
The Book of Allah the Quran.
00:13:24 -->
00:14:07
Now, this surah has given us the name Omar, Omar and Masada. We've been given a name and we've given
the name been given the name. Then later on in the surah. We're going to be given our independence
day or actually independence month. What is that? Ramadan, that's part of us becoming a new nation.
We used to fast on the same days as the Jews. But now we're gonna fast on our own days, which is the
days of Ramadan, then the capital of faith was considered Jerusalem. But now there's a new capital.
What's the new capital? It's mica. It's the Kaaba. And that's what we're going to learn about today.
Because a new nation needs a new capital. So in every sense, we are new nation is being formed, that
00:14:07 -->
00:14:36
is separated from the previous nation, which was the previous chosen nation, but aside, okay, now,
as this shift is happening, one last thing 1000s of years ago, Ibrahim alayhis salam in this sort of
UI article, he made a dog standing next to his son is smiling. He made a blonde woman into reality
now meten Muslim attend luck, out of our future generations, at least give us one Omar that is
Muslim.
00:14:38 -->
00:15:00
And that there are when he made it with his son 1000s of years later, a lot of told it on the tongue
of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam. He tells us in these charts, what Cagayan de caja nakumatt
moombahton was. That's how we made you Aloma as if to say Finally, I have answered the door of
Abraham you made He made you in
00:15:00 -->
00:15:26
Adama we sitting here are actually the answer of the draw of Ibrahim Alayhi Salam among my children
give an oma that is Muslim. And and you know omaka Muslim at Allah Subhana Allah. So this is just a
little bit of a history of why these items a change of the law are important. They begin with a very
strange phrase, Allah says, say akula sofa how many
00:15:28 -->
00:15:39
fools among the people are going to say, and this idea of fools let's dig into that a little bit.
This is the third time and Silikal Baccarat Allah mentions fools.
00:15:40 -->
00:15:45
The first time it was mentioned newcomer Amina Sophia How should we believe like the fools believe?
00:15:46 -->
00:15:57
And the second time, it was actually about Ibrahim Ali said I'm a military Ebrahim in them and
Sophia nafsa. Who, who would turn away from the religion of Ibrahim except somebody who fools
himself.
00:15:58 -->
00:16:40
And now Allah says, the fools among the people will say, fools among the people, well, who are the
people, the people around the prophets of Salaam, they're Muslims, there are hypocrites, there are
Jews, there are Christians, even by extension, you can say there are mushrikeen and Allah says among
all the people, the most foolish among them, the only ones Allah is willing to call fools, they are
going to say the following what? What in the world are they going to say? Now we're not home? I'm
equivalente allottee Kannada, what turned them away from their catalogue? What turned them away from
their direction. So let's understand this history briefly. There are lots of different
00:16:40 -->
00:16:55
interpretations. I'll share with you the one that I find the most compelling, easy to understand and
convincing, okay. Rasulullah saw them according to some narrations. When he originally it wasn't
explicitly stated, but his practice was to pray towards Jerusalem.
00:16:56 -->
00:17:35
Even when he lived in Makkah, he used to pray towards Jerusalem whenever possible. As a matter of
fact, when he would stand up the Kaaba, some narrations tell us, he would stand in a way that the
Kaaba is in front of him, and also Jerusalem is in front of him, he could line them together. And
that's how he would prayer. Okay. The problem was when he moved to Medina, Medina is almost you
could say, in a way in the middle, okay, without getting too technical about the map, it's in the
middle. So you cannot pray now, with Jerusalem in front of you and the camera in front of you also,
that's not possible. When you're going to face Jerusalem, your back will be to the Kaaba, now,
00:17:36 -->
00:17:46
that's what's going to happen. But the prophets I said, I'm still prayed towards Jerusalem. Even
when he moved to Medina, he prayed towards Jerusalem. Now who prays also towards Jerusalem?
00:17:48 -->
00:17:58
The Jews, they also pray towards Jerusalem. And it's very clear that it's in their public speeches.
They don't think Islam is the truth.
00:17:59 -->
00:18:11
publicly, they say Islam is made up, he's not a prophet, he's a liar, all of these things.
privately, it seems to be the case that they recognize more and more that he's the alleged prophet.
00:18:12 -->
00:18:15
And it became more and more clear to them that that he is it.
00:18:16 -->
00:18:54
And Quran keeps actually illustrating that they're hiding what they know. They hide the truth leg to
moon and help to go home. Yeah, and the moon. They hide the truth and they know so publicly, no, no,
no, no, no Islam privately. Oh my god. Like there's a famous incident I mentioned in the book or a
series of Omar bin Al Khattab of the Allahu taala on who he walked into a, you know, where they
study the Jews that he the the rabbis they study, in a synagogue, you can say he walked in to a
synagogue, and he just started talking to them. So why don't you like a song? What's your problem
with the Quran?
00:18:56 -->
00:19:00
He says the you know, they said, he keeps exposing all our secrets.
00:19:02 -->
00:19:11
Like things they've been hiding in their book, Quran keeps exposing over and over and over again.
But the thing is, at least publicly, they were telling the world this religion is false.
00:19:13 -->
00:19:39
If let's just I want you to understand this scenario. If you think if a Jewish friend of mine thinks
that I have the wrong religion, Islam is wrong. Whether I pray towards GABA, or I pray towards
Disneyworld, or I pray towards California, why does he doesn't care? It's not his problem. I could
pray upwards or downwards or backwards. I can pray on my head. He was no big deal. It's wrong
anyway. Why should he care?
00:19:41 -->
00:19:48
When the prophet SAW you sometimes decided and Allah revealed to him silently without telling him It
seems to start praying towards the Kaaba.
00:19:50 -->
00:19:53
When you start spraying towards the Kaaba, the Jewish community is very offended.
00:19:54 -->
00:20:00
Oui oui oui oui, wha? Why don't you pray to Jerusalem? Why are you changing?
00:20:00 -->
00:20:00
direction.
00:20:02 -->
00:20:04
If this is not your religion, why do you care?
00:20:05 -->
00:20:35
You're not supposed to care. Right? But the fact that they were offended and started making a joke
out of, hey, how can they just change their direction? That exposed something unexposed, that they
know that this is the right religion. And it also exposed that they know that so long as he's
praying towards Jerusalem, Allah is still not that angry. I mean, he's angry, but he's still I mean,
he's praying in the same direction. He's fasting on the same days, you know?
00:20:36 -->
00:20:42
So we're still kind of the same. It's okay, we can we've messed with profits before we can mess with
this. Well, no problem.
00:20:43 -->
00:21:23
But when the capital has changed, it's like a lysing. This is a new nation, you're not part of it.
And the only way you can be part of this nation, you have to change your direction too. And they got
upset and they what they were hiding all along, came out and they said Mama lahoma and Kamala t him
on the T Kannada. What turned him away from the direct direction it was their direction could let
him the buffer suggesting, Come on, guys, that's that's your direction do do it in Jerusalem, the
one that used to be committed to what turns them away from the direction, their direction that they
used to be committed to, when they said that it foolishly explained and made it public that they
00:21:23 -->
00:22:01
were hiding the truth. And thus they are the fools among the people. You understand why they're
foolish now, they couldn't hold it in St. Louis. And Allah says sanghoon, meaning they will say
Allah even called it they're going to come and say and he doesn't say who they are. He just says
fools. He doesn't say a Kunal Yahoo or say a coolness or or sepuluh Chico he doesn't he didn't say
that he was a fools will say this. And you could even argue that perhaps Sahaba when they first
received these IR there's no knowledge of who's going to come and say this man will love him and
accumulate him and then later on the rabbis show up and say, Hey, what's going on here? Oh, fools. I
00:22:01 -->
00:22:02
see.
00:22:03 -->
00:22:24
You know, Allah told us about you guys. You know, Mahalo to humanity. Canada. You know, for you from
Anna hula Sufi Hydra whom Allah, Allah. Allah is saying there's no bigger fool than them. That's
what it implies. But what unless hasn't responses so beautiful play pay attention to this part? What
should you say they're
00:22:25 -->
00:22:27
called call Linda and machico.
00:22:28 -->
00:22:44
Tell them Allah owns the east and the west. Tell them a lot owns the east and the west. You know why
that's important. It's important because in Ramallah Abra to limit Italia Omri he, the only
important thing is that you obey Allah.
00:22:45 -->
00:23:21
The direction is not important. What is important is that you obey Allah even before these iocked
what Allah said before is when Allah Hill Mashallah Kolmogorov, when he was talking about Ibrahim
Alayhi, salam, he said, when he learned how much Nicola Muslim, Allah owns the east and Allah owns
the West, for a number two, when lufa thermowood Hola. Wherever you may turn, wherever you may turn,
wherever you are in the world, that is where the face of Allah is. That wasn't even an ayah, about
the Qibla or the Haram or nothing. Allah said, you will find a lot wherever you are.
00:23:22 -->
00:23:28
Why for the Jews, if you're not praying towards Jerusalem, then it's, it's like,
00:23:30 -->
00:23:35
for now we turn towards the Qibla. And it's how can you avoid over there?
00:23:38 -->
00:24:06
And now lasing actually, Allah is not over there. Allah owns the east and the west. Wherever you
are, you'll find Allah, wherever you are, in the law. See, Allah his vast knowledge on all knowing,
you know, for children, sometimes our kids we talk about the Kaaba, we have pictures of the car
buyer at home, we have little toy, cute garba things, you know, or they have school projects where
they make the karma and we call it a law's house. Now for a child, what do they think?
00:24:07 -->
00:24:08
A lot lives in there.
00:24:09 -->
00:24:22
You know, I'll only need one bedroom. There's no extra rooms in the house. You know? Now a kid, a
three year old can think like that No problem. But you know, sometimes we don't realize even adult
Muslims,
00:24:23 -->
00:24:37
even adult Muslims. Muslims will go to the Kaaba, and they'll go take a scissor and tear out a piece
of the elaphe stick it in there from and and bring it home and put it in their house.
00:24:38 -->
00:24:57
You know, is that piece of cloth have any value? Is that not worthy of worship? Is it sacred? No.
You know what sacred the command of a lot of praying that direction. The most sacred part of the
Kaaba is hedgerows. What is the most valuable part of the Kaaba Angela Smith
00:24:59 -->
00:25:00
hakab looks at history.
00:25:00 -->
00:25:03
Last one. And he says, I know you're just a rock,
00:25:04 -->
00:25:05
Latin power that
00:25:06 -->
00:25:17
you don't benefit and you don't harm. And I'm only kissing you because the Prophet kissed you.
That's it. But you're just a rock. Like before he kissed the rock. He said, hey, you're just a
stone.
00:25:20 -->
00:25:28
Are we that clear about that? It doesn't look like it when you go to kharkom botany. It looks like
people are obsessed with stone.
00:25:29 -->
00:25:40
People are crazy about a stone. And the lesson of life teaching here is that your loyalty is not to
that stone. Your loyalty and your worship is to a lot they learn.
00:25:44 -->
00:25:58
A lot and Mr. Team you understand this point is very heavy point. It could be that somebody at this
is a controversial thing to say. But I have to say because it must be said it could be that somebody
is at the Kaaba and they still don't know what the heat is.
00:25:59 -->
00:26:02
It's they still don't know what it means to worship Allah.
00:26:03 -->
00:26:07
What it is what it means to worship Allah. We are not there to worship the karma.
00:26:08 -->
00:26:10
We are there to worship Allah.
00:26:11 -->
00:26:14
That's why Allah says Allah owns the eastern Allah owns the West.
00:26:15 -->
00:26:35
And so yeah, demon Yasha. This is one of my favorite phrases in the ayah. Yeah, demon, Yasha
Salatin, Mr. Team, he guides whoever he wants to a straight path. Very easy transition. He guides
whoever he wants to a straight path. But look at the deeper meanings inside here. First of all, what
is important is guidance.
00:26:36 -->
00:26:45
And guidance isn't just which way you pray guidance is, what are you going to do? What are you not
going to do? Wait, hold on. That's too. There's too interesting for some of you. So I'll stop.
00:26:51 -->
00:26:51
What
00:26:57 -->
00:26:58
you guys done.
00:26:59 -->
00:27:04
Okay. Because a lot of people got interested in that. So I thought maybe I'll let you guys get your
entertainment
00:27:05 -->
00:27:12
out of your way, and then we can continue. Okay. You're with me. Now again, we're back. We're good.
Okay. Okay.
00:27:13 -->
00:27:48
So yeah, give it a shot. So it must have been, you know, a lot guys, anybody who wants to a straight
path. Did you know about Jerusalem, I was doing some research with some of my colleagues into the
you know, we pray the use to pray towards Jerusalem. It started the practice allegedly starts with
the Temple of Solomon with Solomon and his Salaam and praying in that direction. But he never made
it mandatory on the Jewish people, nor is there any, any verses of the Bible or anywhere else, that
it mandates that they must pray in that direction. There's a lot of, for example, different
denominations of Christianity that no matter where they are in the world, they pray towards the
00:27:48 -->
00:28:17
east, different Christian groups, they pray just towards the east. That's just what they do. Okay?
But even for the Jewish people, there's no we call it Ma, right. There's no confusion. Whether
you're a Muslim from China, or you're Muslim from Australia or America, you're gonna play towards
the Kaaba. And the reason is very clear. Ibrahim alayhis salam built it. And Ibrahim Alayhi Salam
made it a center for all people, there's no confusion, it's made very, very straightforward. There
is no such straightforward instruction for Muslim.
00:28:18 -->
00:28:55
Even there's not a single Hadith of the Prophet Alayhi Salaam, pray in that direction. There's some
narrations that he used to pray in that direction without saying anything. He was just doing it and
we assume Allah revealed to him continue that practice for now. And then I will make it towards the
Kaaba. That's, that's all we assumed, but there is no explicit statements. There is nothing but now
Allah has guided to a straight path, which is built on a straight, very clear argument because the
previous passage of the sutra is clearly demonstrating Why is the Kaaba the right place to pray? Why
is the karma the right direction to pray because of Ibrahim alayhis salaam and how he built it, he
00:28:57 -->
00:29:00
was married. So that's one of the implications of serratos 13.
00:29:01 -->
00:29:09
The second implication of developments the theme that I'd like to highlight very, it's tough to
understand the Muslims were praying towards Jerusalem.
00:29:10 -->
00:29:12
There are two communities of Muslims Mahajan, and one
00:29:13 -->
00:29:42
module one and answer now module from Makkah. And when they were in Mecca, even before Islam, their
loyalty was to AXA or their loyalty was to the Kaaba is to the Kaaba, because there are people of
Mecca. Now, when they come to Medina, even they have to turn their back towards NACA, the home that
they love, the home that they love. On the other hand, the the you know the answer, some of them are
of Jewish background, Christian background, their loyalty is towards what?
00:29:44 -->
00:29:59
towards Jerusalem. And now what a lot of us are within has done is focused everybody's attention
back towards what maca. Everybody is now focused back towards Makkah. The Muslims have just escaped
Makkah. They were almost killed in Macau.
00:30:00 -->
00:30:03
They finally come to Medina and they can breathe,
00:30:04 -->
00:30:13
relief. But when a lot turns their direction in prayer towards Makkah, they realize something. We
have to go back to Makkah.
00:30:15 -->
00:30:23
We can't stay in Medina because we're praying towards what can you imagine praying towards the Kaaba
and they're still idols.
00:30:25 -->
00:30:28
The only choice you have is you have to go clean up the machine.
00:30:29 -->
00:30:32
You can't keep praying in that direction.
00:30:33 -->
00:31:15
And let it be the way it is. Just by changing the Qibla Allah gave the Muslims a mission. And the
mission was you will liberate the Kaaba. Is that clear to everybody? Because if this ayah didn't
come, the Muslims don't have to worry about Mark anymore. They can just live their life in Medina
and keep praying towards Jerusalem, no problem, let the people of Morocco do what they do, who
cares? But now that we have to pray in that direction, we have to purify a law's house. We have to
repeat what Allah told Ibrahim but Hera at purify my house, now we have to purify the house. And
that is a mission now that will have to go step by step by step. So if you understand that
00:31:15 -->
00:31:56
everything that the Prophet did, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, after this, after this came,
everything the Prophet had placed on him, was part of a mission to clean up the Kaaba again. The
agenda, the mission became that service, Mr. Team, straight path straight road back to Makkah.
That's what it became. And so the Muslims are clear that that is their mission now. Yes, demon,
Yasha, illustrata Muslim, there's one more minor thing that I want to share with you is about
minissha. The Jewish people believed that they are the special people of Allah, nobody can convert
to their religion, it's theirs. And there's only you have to be born into this religion, otherwise,
00:31:56 -->
00:32:30
you cannot be part of this religion. And Allah says now, no, this is the religion of Ibrahim. That's
why you face the house built by Ibrahim. And Ibrahim was worried about all the nations the open
invitation to whoever he wants may or SHA illustrata muster team, He will guide whoever he wants to
a straight path. He made this religion International. He made this religion beyond any ethnicity
when he said manga, because this was not the way of the Jewish people. The Jewish people were
exclusive. You see, but we are not exclusive. Islam is not a Malay thing.
00:32:32 -->
00:32:39
Islam as a South Indian thing to Islam is a Chinese thing to Islam is an Australian thing to Yeah,
it is.
00:32:40 -->
00:32:49
Islam as Islam is across ethnicities. Islam is also for the people who aren't even Muslim yet. It's
for them to
00:32:50 -->
00:33:03
it's equal access. We have to ingrain this in our head, because sometimes even for the Muslims,
there have been Muslim for a few generations, and they feel like this is our thing. That is their
religion. This is our religion, we're too different.
00:33:05 -->
00:33:36
Now, this religion is not inherited. This religion is given by a lion. He gives it to whoever
whoever wants and our job is to be the ambassador's of it. Okay. So now what can radica Jana Come on
mutton Masada and that is how we made you into a nation that is kundalika suggesting karateka
casilla Morocco to be had to be to MOBA just there's lots of meanings. I'll simplify them. One of
them is just like the Jews were made a nation before you now you've been made a nation.
00:33:37 -->
00:33:45
Another meaning is just because now the Kaaba is your direction. That is how you are made an oma
because that is your mission.
00:33:46 -->
00:34:26
When that mission is fulfilled and the Kaaba is cleaned up, then you will have fulfilled the mission
of Ibrahim alayhis salaam because Ibrahim built that house for the worship of Allah not for the
worship of idols. So you're gonna fulfill the mission of your father Ibrahim, that's what you're
gonna do. This is why I keep calling it the religion of Abraham, even the mission of Rasulullah
Islam is actually tied back to the house built by Ibrahim Mondays. Okay? Now vaniqa Gentlemen,
buddy, la comme la jolla. Aha and I mean, who this in this phenomenal way, this is one of the
meanings of the IRA in this amazing way we made you into a nation not in any lesser way. We the
00:34:26 -->
00:34:43
people of this oma, it's incredible. There are people you will meet at the harem up Muslims, you'll
meet around the world, you'll see somebody praying at an airport somewhere you don't even speak the
same language as them. You don't eat the same food as them, you know nothing about them. You'll join
them in salah and stand next to them.
00:34:44 -->
00:35:00
And you'll go and Riku at the same time and so do that the same time. You are now joined with people
just because of that in Ohio law, you have nothing else in common. Nothing, nothing else in common.
And that's enough. That's more than enough. So Panama This is an amazing
00:35:00 -->
00:35:43
Thing Allah has given us that he has never given any other people in the world. No other people have
it like we do. Nobody else. You know, when I go in America, when I lived in New York, there are lots
of different churches, of course in New York and in Texas, of course, there are lots of churches.
But especially in New York, there was a Korean church. There was a Chinese church. There was a
Filipino church. There was a Puerto Rican church, there was a Dominican church, there was a Mexican
church. There was a, you know, black church. It's not even Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church
and Unitarian Church and Catholic Church and Orthodox Church. I didn't mention different schools of
00:35:43 -->
00:35:57
thought I mentioned different ethnicities, or churches by ethnicities. But you're not supposed to
have a Bangladeshi and Pakistani and Indian I know you have an Indian mushroom kale, I know much in
India, I know.
00:35:59 -->
00:36:08
But it's not just for the Indians. It's just called mush in India, because the lots of Indians in
the neighborhood, not because they check out the door. Hey, hold on. Let me see your speak sometime.
I'll now go.
00:36:12 -->
00:36:17
It's open. And then you see the same same city in New York City, you go to a machine.
00:36:18 -->
00:36:46
You go to my Chautauqua in Brooklyn, you have the Senegalese and you have the Chinese and you have
the you know, people that used to be Jewish became Muslim, and Pakistanis and Indians and all of
that, just standing in one row. So hon Allah. This is, this is how you were made into an oma but the
thing I wanted to highlight for you in Sharma is the word that describes this Omar, Abraham's word
was on my 10 Muslim attack, or mutton, Muslim mutton, but Allah changed it.
00:36:47 -->
00:36:54
Allah said not just a matter Muslim man. Now he gave it a new quality. He said, Oh, mutton was a
00:36:55 -->
00:37:13
different word now. So you were expecting the same word again on modern Muslim Latin, because that's
what he asked for. But a lot added to omitted Muslim Latin and he added on button was at another
word was that is actually very important for us to understand. So I'll give you some things about
it.
00:37:15 -->
00:37:32
It's First of all, sadananda defassa when I first saw when I saw well here, Mila was me man. And was
that orphan four o'clock ohaneze here in the feast Can I attend? Let me just explain what that means
in Simple English. WhatsApp can mean the middle of something, Whatsapp is the middle of something.
00:37:33 -->
00:38:14
The thing is what is in the middle of the castle, the most valuable things, the wall on the outside
the security guards the gates, you know, and then all the way in the middle is the most valuable
thing. Even the way Allah created the human being right in the middle is the most valuable body
part. Right in the middle, you understand. Same way when you have jewelry, the most valuable
jewelers were in the middle you have a necklace the most valuable jewel goes right in the middle. So
in the Arabic language. And by the way, they would even give the example of a valley and the animals
graze greatest graze but they barely get to the middle. So the middle has the best fruits and best
00:38:14 -->
00:38:58
plants and you know best vegetation. So the middle of something became known in Arabic as the best
of something the nicest of something the most valuable of something. So in Arabic culture and in
Arabic language middle and the best and the climax and the most amazing are one in the same. When we
are told on button wasa it's one meaning is a metal nation. But it's also an amazing nation, the
most valuable nation an incredible nation, a beautiful nation. You know, the best of all nations.
It's all embedded inside the word Watson's. What fascinates me even more, this is hard to
understand, but I'll try to make it easy pay attention to this part in Sharla there was a time I
00:38:58 -->
00:39:06
might even give you a short break so you can refresh your minds after this. The word was up is
what's called an Arabic or Muslim.
00:39:07 -->
00:39:23
You know in English, there's adjectives and there's ideas and adjectives like blue or green or big
or small these are adjectives. But you know, small is an adjective but smallness. Small list is not
an adjective. It's an idea.
00:39:24 -->
00:39:59
Similarly, high is an adjective but Highness is an idea. Similarly, middle is an adjective. But
middle ness is an idea. The idea of middle was a time is actually not motivasi time. But there was a
certain word meant middle an adjective, but what certain is an idea and what that does is it changes
the meaning significantly. What it suggests is that these this oma Allah has made this oma when
people don't understand what middle means, what balance means.
00:40:00 -->
00:40:06
What beautiful means they don't understand that idea. When they look at this oma, they get the
definition of that idea.
00:40:08 -->
00:40:25
It's like that idea. Because ideas are abstract. They're not, they're not easy to quantify, we will
become the living example of what it means to be balanced, we will be that, or that is the expert.
That's the expectation of Allah Subhana. Allah, that is a huge expectation, and we're doing a
terrible job.
00:40:26 -->
00:40:27
We're not doing a good job at all.
00:40:29 -->
00:40:39
As I leave you with this first break, I'd like to share with you what what was the time could imply,
what does it mean that we're the most amazing, balanced middle people? What does that mean?
00:40:40 -->
00:40:46
There are nations before us, they were only interested with matters of knowledge. And their hearts
became hard.
00:40:48 -->
00:40:54
There were other nations who cared only about the matter of the heart. And they had no knowledge.
00:40:56 -->
00:41:06
The Jewish people, lots of knowledge, but hearts became hard. The Christian people, lots of hearts,
but no knowledge and the oma is what
00:41:07 -->
00:41:09
was that? It's in between the two.
00:41:10 -->
00:41:18
This book, it opens up our minds and it melts our hearts, doesn't it? This woman is supposed to be
spiritual and intellectual at the same time.
00:41:20 -->
00:41:22
And we're supposed to constantly balanced between these two.
00:41:23 -->
00:41:28
They were people before us who were very good in theory, but not good in practice.
00:41:30 -->
00:41:48
There was anyone but no ama, or there was Ahmed and no, we are supposed to be the people of an Amen.
Balance together. We're right in between, right in between those two extremes. We are people that
are there are people who only concern themselves with dunya.
00:41:49 -->
00:41:55
There are people who only concern themselves with Ashura. What about the soma?
00:41:56 -->
00:42:22
Do we only care about oscura? Do we only care about dunya robina atina afrik dunya Hazara of Alaska
Dotty Hashanah, we are right in between, or right in between. Allah wants us to have the best of
this dunya and the best of the era. right in between, in every sense of the word and by the way, I
would even argue this oma is supposed to be there are there are two kinds of knowledge. There is
knowledge of Deen and knowledge of dunya.
00:42:23 -->
00:42:58
I'll say that again, knowledge of Dena knowledge of dunya. You have engineers, you have physicians,
you have accountants, you have, you know, different professions. These are people that have
knowledge of dunya you have Mojave soon and fuqaha and Mufasa Ronin, you know, people of color and
these are knowledge of the we're supposed to be the people in between, meaning we don't just learn
our Deen. We also learn dunya and we don't just learn dunya we also learn our Deen. So this is
supposed to be the oma where the religious scholars know a lot about the world.
00:43:00 -->
00:43:08
And it's also supposed to be the oma where the scientists and the political scientists and the
thinkers and sociologists know a lot about their religion.
00:43:09 -->
00:43:14
They're both they work together, they're not two different worlds, what has happened, you have an
Islamic University.
00:43:15 -->
00:43:49
They just study Islam. And then you have a engineering school or a medical school. And that's all
they study. And there are two different worlds. And people come out of one of them. And they know a
lot about this world, but they know nothing about that world. And the people in this world know
everything here, but they know nothing about that side. We're supposed to be the people that are the
best of both. There's these are these two worlds are supposed to be in conversation. You see how far
we've come from that? When somebody today some young young people come to me and say, I don't want
to study science anymore. I want to study my Deen. I say Allah.
00:43:51 -->
00:43:53
When you're studying science, that's also your lien.
00:43:54 -->
00:43:59
That's also your the Why do you think that's like you're studying shaitan or something? What's wrong
with you?
00:44:00 -->
00:44:25
There's nothing wrong with studying science. There's nothing wrong with studying like accounting, or
finance. We are that balanced people in everything that we do. in everything that we do. It's
incredible. You know, I'll mention one or two more examples of the middle. There are nations, you
know, like, like, for example, communism, right ideologies, when they think about the society and
they don't think about the individual.
00:44:26 -->
00:45:00
Right? So the individual has been eliminated, and everything is about the greater good. The larger
society, then, of course, the opposite is something like consumerism, capitalism, where the only
thing that matters is the individual who cares about what society so long as I have what I want, who
cares about anybody else? Right. What is this Dean teachers, you have to care about yourself, and
you have to care about the world around you and you have to balance between both both of them. You
have to balance between both of them in every sense of
00:45:00 -->
00:45:01
The word Allah made us omitted was
00:45:03 -->
00:45:22
and where will you learn that balance? You will learn that balance when you understand the role of
Ibrahim alayhis salam in this religion. We keep going back to that one point. Turn back towards this
this garba will remind us of something. It will give us something. Look at Arnica Jana como matassa
barakallahu li walakum wa salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
00:45:23 -->
00:45:36
Our mission is to spread awareness of the message and divine beauty of Quran across the world.
Support our [email protected] that's ba y y i n H dot o RG.
