Sajid Ahmed Umar – Moments with the Qur’an #6

			Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh My dearest brothers and sisters in Islam welcome to episode
six of our moments with the Quran today we take an ayah from Surah Nisa, in which Allah subhanho wa
Taala says, Well, I met him yesterday. I mean, come on a
		

			minute, I wasn't happy subhanho wa Taala here is offering solutions for the believers who have
financial difficulty with regards to marriage, right they don't have the financial means to get
married. But today's session is not about the solutions for those who wish to get married and don't
have the financial ability. Rather, it's a lesson related to how Subhana Allah the Quran describes a
female using this term sonet now this term is used in different places in the Quran, and it carries
unique meanings. In some places. Sometimes we find the term used and Allah means by a married
female, sometimes it's used in Allah means by a female who's free, as opposed to a slave. Sometimes
		

			Allah uses it and through it, he means a female who's chaste, as opposed to a female who is unjust.
And as some of the scholars of the sea from the Sahaba have said, Sometimes this term is used to
refer to Islam Subhana Allah, so it is a multifaceted word. And its meanings are many in the Quran,
but are no highlights of Han Allah through, you know, deliberation how this term has a relationship
to another word in the Arabic language known as an hesson, which refers to a castle or a fortress,
La ilaha illa Allah, right. And if we think about it, in this way, we see Subhanallah that a female
is a castle, and she is a fortress, she is a castle and a fortress to her father, and to her
		

			husband, and to her son, and to her brother and to her community. Right. But we also know brothers
and sisters in Islam, that a castle and fortress can only protect us, right? based on how much we
maintain it. You got to maintain the walls, you got to maintain the pillars you got to maintain the
structure, so it can withhold any blow that comes to it from an enemy. Right? And that is why in
Islam, Subhana Allah female is protected. Right? Ana is protected. You can't accuse her of being
unchaste. If you do without evidence, there is a mighty punishment that the Sharia applies to a
person who does this, her financial matters are protected. Her father has to spend on it, right? The
		

			husband has to spend on her, it's her right her son has to spend on her. It's her Right, right. Her
brother has to spend on her, it's her right and if these people don't exist, then it's her right
that the Muslim state the Islamic State spends on Allah Subhana Allah and financial matters are
taken care of her emotional and mental matters as well are taken care of in the sense that you are
forbidden in Islam, to threaten her with Palak to mess about with her emotional and physical and
mental state. The Sharia doesn't even give you an unlimited amount of divorces, you only get three
chances after that the Sharia steps in and blocks you from her and protects her right. And also the
		

			Sharia has given us something known as a holder, which means she's allowed to give back her Maha
dowry and request to opt out of the marriage contract if if things get too difficult for her and her
the husband refuses to divorce if she's being abused, and he refuses to divorce then the Sherry has
given her to to come out of this of this environment. So Subhanallah we see how the Sharia protects
her and rightly so because she's a castle, she's a fortress, the stronger she is, the more effective
she can be, in protecting the Ummah at large in raising the children and protecting the faith of her
husband, and looking after the affairs of her father, and her brother and the Muslim community.
		

			That's who she is to panela She is a mighty element in terms of the elements of society. And if she
is correct, society will be correct, because a home will be correct, and then we'll have a gathering
of homes that will be correct, thus neighborhoods will become correct and societies will become
correct and cities will become correct and then countries will become correct and so on and so forth
is such an important element in society and thus the Quran describes as masana it's amazing Allah
it's so amazing that this term, even though it has its meanings within the Quran, but linguistically
there has this connection to the term console and to the term fortress, you know, to my brothers and
		

			sisters out there. As a takeaway from this particular moment with the Quran. Ramadan is a month of
reflection as it is a month of fasting and salah and patience. It's a month of reflection as well.
Let us reflect over our role in society, our role as a sister, our role as a daughter, our role as a
wife, our role as a mother, let us identify Subhanallah how good we are in those roles, and how
better we can be and what do we need to do to be able to become better let us use panela Ramadan in
this way, and really live the spirit of the ayat in the Quran that describe a female in this
particular way. And to my brothers out there. Let us also use an Amazon to reflect
		

			In terms of how well we fortify our castles and our fortresses, right? how, you know, how good are
we, as sons? How good are we, as husbands? How good are we as brothers? Right? How good are we as,
as fathers, as fathers, as husbands, as sons? And as brothers? How good are we in these roles to the
females of society and, and these precious beings that Allah subhanho wa Taala has put within our
sphere of operation. So let us also understand how good we are in this space and how good how better
we can be and what we need to do to get there. I leave you with these words of wisdom. Until next
episode, Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh