Saif Morad – Simple Tafsir Episode 13 Sura AlFajr, Which Nafs shows up the most

Welcome to another episode of Simple Tafsir.

In this episode, we're gonna be looking at

Suratul

Fajr, the dawn.

Allah, may he be glorified, takes an oath

on the dawn.

And he takes an oath on the first

10 nights of Dhul Hijjah.

Also takes an oath on the odd and

even of things.

Yes.

And he takes an oath on the night

when it arrives, continues, and goes away.

The compliment of these oaths is you will

definitely be taken into account for your actions.

In any of the aforementioned,

is there any oath that benefits the intelligent

one?

Oh messenger,

do you not see what your Lord did

with Ta'ad, the people of Hud,

when they rejected their messenger.

The tribe of Ad that traced to its

forefather,

the tall

Iram.

The likes of which Allah never created in

the cities.

And do you not see what your Lord

did with Thamud,

the tribe of Sadeh who would carve the

stones of the mountains making houses out of

them?

And do you not see what your Lord

did to Firaun who had pegs with which

he punished the people?

Each of them transgressed it in his land.

They caused an abundance of corruption due to

spreading disbelief and sins.

So Allah made them suffer His severe punishment

and annihilated

them off the earth.

Oh Messenger,

indeed your Lord watches over and observes the

actions of the people

so he can reward those who do good

with Jannah

and whoever does evil with the hellfire.

Because the nations Allah destroyed were blessed with

power and strength.

Allah explains that blessing them with such is

not proof of his being pleased with them.

He says, as for the human, it is

in his nature that when he is tested

by his lord and he favors him by

blessing him with wealth, honor, and offspring,

he thinks that it is because of his

nobility in the eyes of Allah. And he

says,

my lord has favored me because of me

being worthy of being favored.

And as for when he tests him by

restricting his sustenance,

he thinks it is because of his insignificance

in the eyes of his Lord.

So he says, my Lord has disgraced me.

Never. It is not as this human thinks

other in feeding the poor person who cannot

find anything to consume.

You relentlessly

devour the rights of the weak

without any consideration for its permissibility.

And you intensely love wealth being miserly and

spending it in the path of Allah due

to your greed of it.

These actions are not befitting of you. Remember

when the earth will be moved vigorously and

shaken.

And your Lord will come, oh messenger, to

pass judgment between his servants, and the angels

will also come arranged in rows.

And on that day, * will be brought

with it having 70,000

reigns.

Each reign being pulled by 70,000

angels.

On that day, The human will remember his

shortcomings in the rights of Allah.

But that remembrance on that day will not

benefit him in the slightest

because it will be a day of requital.

He will say out of intense regret, if

only I had sent forth good deeds for

my life in the hereafter,

which is the real life.

On that day, no one will punish like

the punishment of Allah because the punishment of

Allah is most severe and lasting.

And neither will anyone bind in chains like

His binding of the disbelievers

in chains.

After Allah mentioned the punishment of the disbelievers,

He mentions the reward of the believers.

He says, as for the soul of the

believer,

it will be told at the time of

death. And on the day of judgment,

oh, the contented soul with faith and good

deeds.

Return to your Lord, pleased with him because

of the abundant reward you will receive.

And with him may he be glorified being

pleased with you because of your good deeds.

Now enter along with my pious servants.

And enter with them into my paradise,

which I have prepared for them. So I

want to quickly touch on 3 points. If

you notice in the Quran, Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala, he repeats things

over

and over and over.

Because the way we are, the way human

beings are, we don't get it on the

first time.

And in order to condition us

it needs to be told over and over.

We need to practice it over and over

and over

until that becomes a part of us. Until

that becomes our identity.

Until we are able to implement and act

upon the Quran.

The second thing is people they think

that if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He gives

a person in abundance, that means that Allah

is pleased with this individual.

And if He restricts

his bounty from somebody,

then that means that Allah is displeased with

them. But this is not the case

because Allah giving or not giving is not

a sign of His love for this individual.

Both the sign of His love is the

giving of iman, the giving of faith.

When Allah gives a person faith

and gives him steadfastness

on top of that, that is the sign

that Allah is pleased with this person, that

Allah loves this individual.

And in the end of this surah, Allah

mentions,

oh, contented soul. The nafsul mutma inna.

In the Quran, we come across 3 different

types of nafs.

The first one is nafsul amarabisu.

The nafs, the lower self that commands us

to do that which is displeasing to Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And then you have a nafsul lawwama,

the reproachful soul, you could say.

The soul

that criticizes us. Soul that maybe is not

really steadfast. It's trying to be good, but

at the same time, it's not. It's unable

to be steadfast.

It goes towards this direction,

but then it also slips.

And then you have the nafsul mutma'inna,

the contented soul.

The soul that is certain of the promise

of Allah. The soul that strives

and pursues and pushes itself to earn the

pleasure of Allah.

And if we look in our lives,

we'll notice that we have these different nafs

show up at different times.

The question is, which nafs shows up the

most? Is it nafsul amara?

Is our nafs consistently telling us to do

that which is wrong and we give in

to our desires?

Do we fall short?

So if we look at the nafsul nutma'inna,

that this is what it's gonna be told,

that oh contented soul,

your Lord is pleased with you. You don't

have to fear. You don't need to be

sad of what's past you

because you've made it.

And if we notice within ourselves

that there will be times that we have

that certainty,

that zeal, that push to wanna do good.

So let's look at these situations and see,

you know, what was happening.

How come I was in that state?

How can I make this more common?

How can I make this my normal self?

May Allah

bless us all with beautiful souls

that

turn to him. May Allah bless us all

with the nafsulnu.

Make our hearts filled with faith, and give

us the ability to do the action that

pleases him. Until next time. Assalamu alaikum.