Safi Khan – Soul Food Tafsir of Surah AlQasas Chapter 28 for College Students
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Alright.
Welcome. We are here today for,
our follow
up week of Eid,
with soul food. Really, really happy to be
here with everybody.
I know that, you know, we we we
hope we had a really good, day of
last Friday, had a good time catching up
with our our family.
Yes.
I'm the last carrier. It's not getting back
to the clinic things. I know the primary
is learning and literally, like, can you so
yeah. It's like,
a purchase that I had made last year.
And I was like, oh, yeah. That was
5 months ago. And it's like, wait. Wait.
I did that in October of 2019, and
it's almost it's, like, 2 months away from
being October 2020. And so I don't know
how your year has been in terms of
its,
flight. But yeah.
I feel like this summer, like, this summer
was so weird because it was so slow,
but it went by so fast.
Yep. So when I was sitting down, it's
like, oh, man. Like, you know, I have
the rest someone emailed a question. They're like,
yeah. I need this for the summer, and
I'm like, yeah. I don't know why they're
emailing
so early. Like, we have so much time.
Yeah. And I was like, no. We're at
the end of summer. Like, school people are
from school.
So much that has happened. I'm like, wow.
This summer has went by so fast,
but the days are so
slow. It's so, Ajib. I it's like it's
like an episode of, like if anybody's watched
the the show called Black Mirror, like, it's
almost like an episode of where it's like
it's like really trippy. Right? You're like, oh,
wait. It's already it's already August, but why
don't the day seem like they're like 40
hours long? It's like it's it's really like
it's it's it's messing with people's minds, but
you know, life continues and moves on and,
you know,
the the the next year has has good
in store for everybody and their families and
their and their loved ones
And so, you know, we're we're we're back
and, you know, it was another crazy thing.
I remember we were I I was in
a meeting last night with some of our,
our our youth committee here at Roots, and,
we do this thing called a Friday weekly
check-in.
And,
one I was like, because now I don't
have any feedback for, you know, this coming
months of the check ins. And they said,
well, you know, is it possible for us
to move it to a later time in
the day on Friday? And I was like,
oh, that's that's weird. Why is that? And
they're like, well, school starts next week.
And I'm like, wait. Wait. What? I'll I'll
I'll I'll do the I I did the
double pick. I was like, school starts next
week. Oh my god. It's, like, mid August
next week. Like, it it really threw me
off in terms of how fast, like, you
know, that that time goes. But, honestly, man,
right, end up in 7th April, sir. It's
it's
it's crazy. Crazy. I was just talking to
my mom about it too.
And she was just like because I I
was telling her, you know, I got to
see my mom for the past
week. And, you
know, I was like, these past couple of
months have been hard.
I'm not seeing you. She was like, yeah.
It's been a year.
I was like, a year. She's like, yep.
The last time I was here was July
4th. I left July 4, 2019.
Oh my gosh.
August on July 31, 2020. So I was
like, wow. It's definitely been a year. That
is that is insane.
SubhanAllah. SubhanAllah. If anybody's, you know, y'all are
watching and
you're kind of feeling the same way that,
like, time is just
really, really just swinging away, you know, this
this past year. I think everyone is so
caught up with, like, the pandemic and coronavirus
and everything like that. But, you know, what's
crazy is that,
like, Allah
I I you know, but in the manor
story, you know, when Allah gives something, like,
he follows it up with something that's easy.
And, you know, I don't think anyone can
deny,
you know, those those of us who are,
you
so blessed to not be affected, you know,
too directly by the virus itself. We can
say that, you know, at least time is
going by and things are kind of, you
know, getting inshallah inshallah a little bit better
as as as the as the days continue
on. And so, you know, we're we're here
back at roots and inshallah, a lot of
cool things in store for this, you know,
coming semester here at roots. We have a
lot of plans coming up, you know, I
know for sure, you're
obviously continuing all with the woman study circle
and the and exploring the Quran queries that
you do on Wednesdays and, you know, we're
back with soul food and inshallah, we're gonna
be doing some cool college programs upcoming this
semester. And then I have a brand new
series starting for teams on Monday,
literally called the 5, which is, essentially gonna
be like a feeda 101,
for for for teens. It's gonna be something
that's really interesting. So we have a lot
of things in the works, though, hamdulillah, we're
glad that you guys are be able to
join the, the semester inshallah. So today,
we are basically wrapping up, kind of, like,
putting a high on the story of prophet
Noods alaihi salaam. Right?
Because next Thursday,
we're starting a that's in the same Surah,
we're gonna be finishing these Surah Qasas this
coming month of August, in this month of
August. But the last 15 to 20 verses
in is actually the I said the last
15 to 16 verses
is about a person by the name of
Farum. And so today, we're actually wrapping up
in verses 73 or 74 and 75. We're
wrapping up the the the lessons from the
story of prophet Musa Alaihi Salam.
And in the first aya, if you guys
have your virtual Quran's or your PDF's or
your apps on your phone, whatever you may
have with you. The first verse that we're
gonna be talking about today is verse 74.
Verse 74 in Surah Al Qasas, which is
the 28th chapter of the Quran. Allah
he talks about a date. Right? He says,
right? That that there will be a date
that will come.
That there will be a day that will
come when he will call out to people
saying, where are the partners that you associated
with me? Where are where are the things
that occupied your time
that you've spent rather than giving me my
rights and my and my my deal? What
what what where are those things now? And
so, you know, myself and myself, Fatima, we're
talking a little bit ago, and we're kind
of bringing up this idea that sometimes
this verse really really for a lot of
young
that, you know, there are times where
life gets very real. Right? For example, when
you're sitting down, you're getting ready to take
an exam, life becomes very real at that
moment. Right? Sometimes that week leading up to
the exam, we may be able to flee
from the reality of the exam or the
quiz or the or the test. But when
you sit down in that chair and your
teacher's like, alright, you got 1 hour, here
here it is, your final exam that's gonna
determine whether you go and you get your
credit for this course or not. And life
is super real. So, Sala Fatima,
how do you relate to this ayah? How
do you relate to this verse as a
young Muslim yourself, and also as a person
who's been in a community of young
people? I think that one of the biggest
ways that one of the biggest things that
I see when I when I listen to
this ayah is that a lot of times
we think, okay, like, this is talking about
the disbelievers and how they associated partners with
the Allah, and
now that is the day of judgment. Now
Allah is asking them, you know, where are
those people or those things that you're associated
with?
And when I think about these verses, I,
like, try to think about a little bit
about myself
or my friends or, like, whatever kind of
situation you're in. Like, especially when you're in
college. Right? You're in college, you say like
you live with your parents right now, things
are are very hard. You know, people are
a lot of people are still staying with
their parents and stuff, not going to dorms
and stuff like that. And, you know, your
parents are always telling you, like, you're, like,
I'm going to see so and so. I'm
going to hang out with so and so.
And your parents are kinda like, well, why
do you hang out with that person so
much? Like, why don't you spend time with
the family? Or why do you go there
so much? Why don't you spend time with
the family? And granted, like,
family's family, so they can be a little
extra sometimes.
And when you get in trouble or, like,
something crazy happens
and you end up feeling like you're all
alone, like, where are those friends? Where are
those people that, you know, you were you
were, you know, you were okay with arguing
with your family about just to see them.
You're okay with arguing and and making bad
blood between you and your family members just
to hang out with them. And now that
things are very difficult or things are very
hard and you need somebody to be there
or you need somebody that you can lean
on, you don't have anyone, that is a
very important thing. That is a very important
reason why it's so important for us to
be mindful of the people
that we are around.
And it's it's not saying don't have friends.
It's not saying don't depend on people. Don't
lean on people. But it's saying be wise
in the people that you choose. Be wise
in the things that you choose to do
in this world. Because
because
when you when you are not wise about
that, when you're not,
when you're not wise about it, when you
really don't don't actually put a lot of
thought into it, when things really get difficult
and things really hit the fan,
you will find yourself being alone. And that's
not the definition of friendship. That's not the
true definition
of having people being there for you. You
know? Mhmm. So for me, I learned that
a lot in college. I learned a lot
in college that especially my 1st semester of
college, I had so many friends
friends.
Mhmm.
Quotation marks. I had so many friends, so
many people that I would hang out with
and so on and so forth. But when
things got difficult,
you know, it there wasn't so many.
There's just 1 or 2 or whatever the
case may be. And I learned in that
moment the importance of,
you know, just being selective with who I
will sacrifice sacrifice students for and who I
wouldn't. And
what the why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells
us, you know, to be mindful of the
people that we're around. Waida, prophet tells us,
you know,
that so talks so much about companionship and
things of that nature.
And so we don't wanna end up and
I know these are examples about this world,
but we don't wanna end up in the
hereafter
where we're standing before Allah's content, and we
have sacrificed our salah to hang out with
so and so, or we should sacrifice our
fast because, you know, this person's taking this,
and I don't want them to think that
I'm super religious.
Or we sacrifice, you know, all kinds of
things for people who, on the day of
judgment, are not they don't have anything.
You know? They don't have anything
there to present to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
We don't wanna be in that situation where
Allah is asking us. You know? Allah is
asking us, and the shuraka,
We're the people you chose over me in
your life.
Where you decided, you know, hang out with
them, be with them, do all these things
for them, what was more important than your
worship to me. Where are those people now?
So that's that is something that I was
really thinking about when I heard this particular
verse.
Yeah. That's actually really powerful because it almost
kind of segues into
the next aya that, you know, Allah Khna
mentions in the Surah.
And in the next Ayah, it kind of
mentions, you know, something that you were kinda
lightly touching upon, which is the idea of
being held accountable
for for for for your actions. Because, you
know, one thing I think a lot of
people and I know I'm I myself struggle
with this as well,
is bringing a sense of reality to our
actions in this life. Right? Because, you know,
the the the the reality of this life
is that it almost presents to you this
facade
that
you can you can get away with things.
Right? But you can just brush certain things
under the rug because the nature of this
life itself is that one of, you know,
hiding. Right? You can you can hide whatever
you wanna hide. I mean, if I wanna
lie to somebody and I wanna kind of,
you know, brush it under the rug, I'm
able to do it. Or if I want
to sneak away and do something, or if
I want
to not do something that I'm supposed to
do, I can flee from my responsibilities and
somehow get away with it where nobody will
find out ever. But in this ayah, right,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala kinda makes it very,
very clear where he actually says,
right, that we will call a witness from
every ummah. Right? We'll call a witness from
every ummah. And so a lot of people
are like, oh, what's the witness here? Like,
who's the witness that's gonna be called from
every ummah? Is it gonna be me? Like,
am I gonna have to represent Dallas, Texas,
like, alone? This is really funny because Carr
is supposed to be just logged on, and
he is not the person in Dallas, Texas
to I gotta call him up. I gotta
call him up.
So so you see how it's not a
problem with faces change. It's
there's a lot.
We'll cover that at a at a later
session. We don't get too much attention. Don't
get too much fuel. Yeah. Yeah. So
so, you know, there's this idea that, you
know, oh, like, am I gonna have to
answer for other people? And that's the reality
is that, you know, we humbly love
or we have this ability or this, I
would say, blessing
where majority of our life are responsible for
ourselves. Right? Allah,
right, has given us this body, this soul,
this spirit to handle, and that's sometimes enough
for people. Right? Like, oh my god. Like,
I don't need anything more than what I
can already handle. Some people I was talking
to my sister the other day, and we
were talking about kids. Right? We're talking about,
like, oh my god. Like, you know, how
do parents do it? Like, they're they have
to handle their own lives, their own bills,
and this and that. All of a sudden,
they have to handle 2 little things that
run around their house at, like, 40 miles
per hour. Like, that's that's that's too much.
Right? Like, how do you sleep at night.
They don't sleep at night. Right? Like like,
ghost. Yeah. Exactly. But they but they insist
on living there. And so, you
know,
and so, you know, like, it's difficult. But
one thing that, you know, the the the
people the the the scholars of tafsir, they
commented on in this ayah is that the
shahid, right, the shuhada that actually be responsible
or they'll actually testify
are the prophets of Allah. The prophets of
Allah, the people that they were sent to,
they will be standing. Allah said,
right?
Actually in Arabic means that we will draw
from the community.
From every community, we will draw from every
community a witness.
And, you know, the the the the scholars
of Tashr, they actually mentioned that when Allah
draws from the communities a witness, it's said
that the prophets of Allah will be resurrected
on that day, and their people will be
able to see them, and they will be
able to see all their people. The people
that believed in their message, the people that
disbelieved in their message, and they will be
asked to testify on behalf of these people.
Did you believe in your prophets or did
you not? How did you treat your prophets?
And a lot of us are sitting here,
and we're like, oh, like, that's more relevant
towards, like, you know, the people that were
living during the Prophet's times. Right? Like, during
the times of Prophet Noah and Prophet, you
know, Idris and Prophet Salih and all these
different people. But we are the ummah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Right? Like, we're we're actually 1400 years away
from the prophet, and I know it seems
like a long ways away. But a way
that Allah has preserved us into the community
of the prophet is by giving us his
by giving us his traditions. And so we
will be asked on that day, right, What
you know, how did you treat how did
you treat your prophets? Right? And the prophets
of of Allah will be testifying
on on their behalf and will say, well,
these are the people that believed in me.
These are the people that didn't believe me.
And then life all of a sudden gets
very real.
Right? Because at that moment, Allah will present
to you your your deeds, your book of
deeds. This is what you did in your
life.
Did you follow what you were told to
follow? I mean, the Quran in and of
itself is a literal kind of you know,
it's an accountability booster for us. Right? It
holds us accountable because the Quran in and
of itself, it says, you know,
that you're supposed to pray. But some of
us, we read that, and we're like,
yeah, but sleep is, like, really, really awesome.
You know? Or, like, you know, some of
us read that, you know, we should abstain
from desires. Right? But we're like, I don't
know. Like, I I think I can do
just a little bit and, like, you know,
I'll I'll get better later on. Yeah. But
on that day, you're gonna be held extremely
accountable. And so, you know,
one of the biggest lessons here that I
kinda withdraw that I that I took away
from this idea in and itself is that
it gives us this idea of ownership over
your mistakes.
That there will be a time in which
you would be presented in front of Allah
and in front of the people who try
to guide you towards good things. And sometimes
I know I wanted to start up, but
I would actually kind of comment on this.
A lot of us sometimes we feel really,
really anxious when we
are in a position where we're supposed to
kind of, you know, be the voice of
reason with people. Like, you know, when you're
hanging out with your friends and you're like,
oh, yeah. You know, it's time to pray
about or should I say it or should
I not? I don't really know. Maybe, like,
if I make it taken so well. But
there's a really beautiful,
beautiful
trait, you know, that if a person is
able to be a voice of message
to their friends and and family or people
who are around them that, hey. Maybe we
should be doing this and taking a break
from that. Or if you're in a circle
of people who are talking about somebody else,
you know, it's it's very intimidating to hop
in there and be like, hey, guys. I
don't think we should be talking about this
person. This feels really uncomfortable for me. You
know, I think we should maybe just give
it a break for a second. And there's
it takes a huge
huge amount of bravery to do that. And
the prophets of Allah were masters at doing
this. Right? And so the Fatima, I wanted
to get your thoughts on this. Like, how
do you feel about this aya right here?
Like, when Allah says that there will be
witnesses
drawn from your communities that will testify on
your behalf, and these will end up being
the prophets. What do you what do you
have to say about this? I feel like,
you know, a lot of times when we
think about the way that when we think
about,
being responsible or being the one to say
something,
we kinda have it in our heads that
it has to be rude
or it has to be in a way
that brings someone else down or it has
to be, you know, in a way that
is obnoxious
or
and we may not use those words, but
that's the feelings that we get, so therefore,
we decide to stay away from, you know,
doing our responsibility.
But what we learned from the prophet is
that
the very first thing that we learned from
the prophet is that he's also a sunnah,
that he's our example, that he's our role
model, that we go to we go to,
you know, his tradition, his sunnah, his way,
and that is how we're able to implement
things in our life. And one thing about
him is that the prophet had things that
he was responsible for. He had a role.
He had a mission, and Allah details
that in the Quran in many places. And
so law of commande says that the first
thing that the prophet
was responsible for was was
to recite the verses. Okay? So that the
prophet's very first responsibility
in his job description
was to recite the verses upon the people.
And this was this was showing the people
that the prophet was the vessel in which
the which your Quran came through. And it
doesn't mean that he was, you know,
like, the hammering it in people's head. He
wasn't, like, going and, like, roughing people up
and, like, okay. Listen to these verses. It
was just more so he was just required
to recite the verses to the people and
get them familiar with it, to familiarize the
people with the verse of the lost one.
Then the second the second responsibility
or the second job description characteristic
that the Allah says about the prophet is
that we use zakihim
and that his his job was to purify
them. And that purification again, like the first
step is reading the Quran, that reading of
the Quran, that reminder of the Quran
leads to, you know, wanting to purify oneself,
wanting to purify one's heart, wanting to be
a better person. And so the thing about
that though is that the process I'm getting
go and, like, literally take people and throw
them in the wet river. It's like, it's
time for you to wash out the line,
get your life together. But it took, like,
sitting down and being, like, a very personable
person. It took the prophet's time, you know,
someone coming to the prophet's time saying, you
know, I wanna commit dinner and him taking
them to, you know, and then standing up
and making salah with them. And then them
still saying, I wanna commit and the prophet
giving them an analogy that made them understood
why this understand
why this is something that you shouldn't wanna
do or something that you shouldn't wanna commit.
Right? And that's a form of purification. But
what did he do? He took the person
on a process. He took the person on
a journey. And then you have the 3rd,
characteristic and or job description of the process,
and that is
that he moves to teach them now the
book and hikmah and the way, the wisdom.
The teach them the Quran and teach and
teach them the way of implementing the Quran.
And what's interesting about this is that,
teaching them the book again, it wasn't like
the prophetess and I wasn't sitting down and
saying, like, if you don't do this, like,
you're going to *. Like, prayer time didn't
come up and then he's like, everybody's going
to *. We miss prayer. Like, that's
that wasn't the way of teaching. That wasn't
the method of teaching.
That rather the prophet's approach
was depending upon the people, depending upon the
time, depending upon the situation,
but it's always soft in nature and it
was always very personal.
And we go through the job description
or the characteristics
of the mission of the prophet because
it's important for us to understand that our
way of, you know,
striving for what is good and implementing and
commanding good and forbidding what is bad, and
staying away from what is bad, and telling
our friends to stay away from what's bad,
doesn't have to be in the way that
is so
hardcore
and so
offensive.
It does not have to be that way.
You know, if we're all sitting down in
a room together, you guys are all chilling,
everybody's sitting down, it's time for my breath.
All you have to say is, hi. If
you come to pray, I'm gonna go ahead
and pray. If anybody wants to join me,
please join me. Or you can get up.
You can say,
anybody gonna pray? If nobody responds, you did
your duty of reminder.
And you get up and you go and
pray. And what's interesting is that in Surat
Al Furqan, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about,
you know, the characteristics of the Ibad al
Rahmah and the characteristics
of the servants of the most merciful, one
of the highest, you know, names you can
be called. And one of those
characters is when a person passes by some
type of frivolity. He passes by, you know,
they pass by some type of sin happening.
They pass by some type of situation going
on that they pass by kiraman with the
armor and dignity.
And when when the ayahs talked about has
talked about how Abdul Abdul Mas'ud at a
at one time, he had saw some people,
gambling. He was walking by. He saw them
gambling.
And it wasn't a situation. You have to
be able to read the room. You know,
Corona is not really reading the room right
now, but you have to read the room.
And so it wasn't a situation where Abdullah
ibn Masood
was able to advise those people. So what
he did was he just put his head
down and he walked in the other direction.
He walked away. And when he went, the
prophet then said to him, he said to
him, when you left this morning, when you
left your home this morning, you left Abdulai
with the Mas'ud. But when you came back,
you came back an honorable man. And what
that shows,
sometimes it may not be the right moment
and it may not be the right time
to say something,
but it doesn't mean that you failed
in your responsibility
as a brother or sister in Islam to
your fellow people.
That rather sometimes just your simply your actions
show as are are are as much of
your teacher as the things that you have
to say.
And so it's so important for us to
be able to be compassionate
and loving towards each other and towards people,
but still not let each other fall into
ditches. Like, your compassion, your love for somebody
should make you want to stop them from,
you know, getting in trouble, stop them from
being in a situation and vice versa. You
cannot be the one who's always saying, like,
you need to do this and you need
pray and we need to get up and
do this. We have to be better. Blah
blah. And when someone corrects you, then you
feel like, oh, man. Like so you're trying
to say I'm a bad person?
You have to be open to that correction
as
well. And real recognizing that all of this
that we're doing here, this entire conversation,
is to save us from when we when
we're standing before our loss, Fonfella, and we
have to explain to God why we decided
to do the things that we did.
You know, why we decided to stay why
we decided to neglect the things that he
asked us to do. It's all protection and
then save it for ourselves.
Subhanallah. You know, one of the things that
you said that really kind of, you know,
hit me was that
a lot of us kind of feel,
I think human beings, we struggle with this
tendency to,
to communicate what we want out of people.
Right? Like, you know, if you're around somebody,
you're like, hey. Like, we should pray.
And one of the biggest challenges for a
human being is when a person doesn't reciprocate
that sort of message. They don't listen to
them.
But
this is a lesson from the lives of
the prophets is that
they were not people who at the end
of the day control anybody.
Right? They were merely human beings, and this
is actually something that Allah mentions in the
Quran. Right? That, you know,
that, you know, you cannot always guide
those who you love. Right? You you cannot
always guide to Islam the people that you
always want to guide. There will be people
in your life that you really want to
kind of be in the same, you know,
way of life, the same mentality, the same
values, the same morals and everything as you
are. But the reality is that Allah has
created everybody different.
Everybody hits religious spiritual awareness at different times.
And what Wasedad Fatima mentioned is that the
role of the prophets
and the way that we want to emulate
the prophets is that we do what they
taught us to do, which is you stand
firm.
You stand firm on your own beliefs. 1st
and foremost, you gotta you you gotta practice
what you preach. Right? Like, you can't be
going around telling people, hey. It's salah time
right now, and then you, like, 40 45,
50 minutes late for your salah. You can't
go around telling people, hey, you know, it's
really important to spend time with your family,
and you're, like, the last person who ever
is seen with their family. First and foremost,
the way that the prophets of Allah used
to do what they do is because they
used to walk the walk. When the prophet
used to tell people that, you know, when
Allah sent down the the ayah that says,
that we have we have not sent you,
oh, Muhammad, to be anything except a mercy
to mankind.
Nobody challenged that idea because they saw it
within him. Right? They saw it within him.
So first and foremost, you know, one of
the things I think practical tips to take
away from today is if we want people
around us to be, you know, with us
in the same boat as us in in
in paradise,
And the way that we confirm our spot
is by being the best example we can
possibly be.
That's the first goal. And then the second
goal, like, the start of Fatima mentioned, is
be very kind and gentle in your message
to other people.
You know? And if they don't and if
they don't reciprocate I mean, if they don't
kind of, you know, listen or if they
don't abide by the message that you gave
them, man, there are people who didn't listen
to the prophet.
You know, like, who who are you? Right?
Like, some people get so frustrated, like, oh
my god. I keep telling my kids to
pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. I keep telling
my friends that we have to stop, you
know, hanging out here.
No one ever said that when you hit
this spiritual awareness of yourself that you're just
gonna start attracting multitudes to Islam. No. That's
not the way it works. The prophet
the first man, the first 12 years of
the prophet's,
message or the first 12 years of the
prophet's prophethood, he barely had a handful of
people fleeing away to the city of Medina
for 12 years.
Yeah. And that's just the way the cookie
crumbles. Right?
And I think it's very, very important to
remember that lesson is that, you know,
number 1, practice what you preach, and number
2 is be lenient on people's timing. When
people decide and we put when when Allah
puts Hidayah in people's hearts, they are able
to kind of approach it themselves. Right? And
at the end of the day, it's nothing
that you really did. Right? It's because Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala put it in their hearts
to actually turn to him and that's why
they turn to him. And one of the
last things I wanna mention here today is
that there's a beautiful ayah at the end
of Surah Al Zaza. You guys can look
this up in Surah in in Juz'amal, very
short Surah. Allah
says, he he says,
that the people, right, you know,
khaira yara. Right?
And every single Adam's worth from a yamal
misqala
dharatin
that every atoms worth of goodness
will be
shown that day, will be given its reward
that day.
And every Adam's worth of evil, of evil,
of wrongdoing, whatever it is, will be shown
that day, and we will be responsible for
it that day. And this is a big
reality of the day of judgment for us.
Right? That on that day,
it's just it's just us and Allah. Right?
It's us and God.
And everything else that we tried to flee
away from and everything else that we tried
to get away from, And even deeds that
you may have thought weren't really that great,
but Allah elevated it because of its intention
will be out there on the open in
front of you and Allah.
And so, you know, one of that that's
one of my reflections from today, y'all, is
to
think about, you know, our sense of accountability
with Allah
Right? Because one of the ways we purify
ourselves,
we're talking about this idea of purification of
the heart earlier today even. One of the
most beautiful ways of purifying the heart is
to be aware of the things that we
do. Right? There's a very famous hadith that
I was able to probably recount even better
than I can.
That those who who are who who know
themselves,
they know Allah.
Mhmm. Be aware of yourself,
and you'll be very aware of your relationship
with Allah. Be honest, be candid. Right? And
that's one of the lessons that we wanted
to kind of take away from you today
inshallah. So the Fatima, any any
ending piece of advice for anybody or No.
I think I think that sounds it up.
So we wanted to keep this again very
short and sweet,
but we appreciate you guys hanging on with
us for this episode of Soul Food, and
inshallah, we'll be back with you guys tomorrow,
next Thursday
for another session,
benefiting our college students. We have something really
exciting, that we wanted to kinda share with
this kind of in the preliminary works, but
we thought that we'd kind of share this
a little bit with everybody. After we're done
with,
what we're gonna be doing is thematically breaking
down topics for Sophie.
So topics like, you know,
and we'll be talking about really relevant topics
as well, cancel culture, What it means to
be an advocate for social justice? Where do
you draw the line as a Muslim on
morals and values? Right? All these different topics
that are always on our minds. We're gonna
be kind of addressing them during soul food,
Inshallah, starting in the month of September. So
we're really looking forward to,
going through that with you guys. May Allah
reward you guys for being with us, being
a part of our community. Jazakamu al Khairan,
inshallah. We'll see you guys next Thursday again.
Assalamu
alaikum.