Saif Morad – Simple Tafsir Episode 13 Sura AlFajr, Which Nafs shows up the most
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In this episode of a sermon, the speaker discusses the importance of the first 10 nights of Dhul born for actions of the people of Hud, which have caused corruption and evil behavior. The speaker explains that the punishment of the people is severe and lasting until the end of the day, and that the reward of the believers is not a means of satisfaction. The speaker also discusses the nafsul mutna inna, which is the true true sense of satisfaction, and how it can be a way to make the person feel good.
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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.