Ramadan 2024 #21 Surah Yaseen & More
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The upcoming weekend event is a celebration of anniversary for the Message of Jesus. The speakers discuss upcoming events, including a guest's return and a youth program, as well as the history of the Surahs and their significance to spiritual teachings. They also touch on the importance of building connections and not letting anyone's desire to mess up on one's behavior. The speakers emphasize the need for comfort in life and homeliness, as well as the importance of showing oneself to be a woman and not just be strong.AI Generated Transcript ©
Do not take these blessings for granted.
Allah is sharing them a parallel
that they were better, stronger, richer people than
you, and we turned their circumstances because they
were arrogant and denied. The Muslims were faced
with an army they've never met before,
an army of 10,000.
And they had nothing in Madinah to help
them ward off an army of this number.
And they weren't just an army of 10,000,
this was an army that intended
complete destruction.
They intended to wipe Madinah off the face
of this earth.
The intent was to remove Islam once and
for all.
This was the in this was the intent.
Don't let the Eid banquet after 30 days
of righteousness be a mixed affair with non
mahrams laughing and talking and joking with each
other whilst they dress beautifully for one husband
to look at another person's wife. To the
extent that you find some men calling other
people's wives by nicknames that their own husbands
call them. This is the level of easiness
that we have between us, and this is
not from Islam.
Islam.
Allah didn't reveal this in any way.
We begin in the name of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, and we request praises and blessings
upon
Rasulullah. Alhamdulillahrubilaaalamin,
we've begun the 21st
night of Ramadan as of Maghrib today.
And as I mentioned to you earlier,
we have now embarked on the final chapter
of Ramadan.
Our guest arrived,
and now we're counting the days
to our guest's departure.
But our guest, being generous, doesn't want us
to focus on the sadness of the departure.
It wants us to focus on the present,
and it wants us to benefit as much
as we can.
And it wants us no doubt to remember
that the Allah of Ramadan
is the Allah of every month of daya.
It doesn't mean
that when Ramadan leaves, then
fasting leaves,
recitation of the Quran leaves,
standing the night in prayer leaves,
it doesn't mean any of this. So it's
not
a month
that
distills within it the worship of Allah.
And then when the month leaves, the worship
of Allah leaves as well.
By no means or way is this the
month of Ramadan. And if this really was
Ramadan, then Ramadan wouldn't be kareem.
It wouldn't be generous.
Now Now as we begin this night, subhanAllah,
there's other blessings that we have. I remember
before I departed, I asked Allah
to
not forbid us from seeing each other's faces,
and, alhamdulillah, I see many
familiar faces, which means Allah preserved us in
his obedience, Insha'Allah.
There are some brothers that are missing, but
upon
prior follow-up, I've understood they've gone for umrah,
masha'Allah. May Allah
accept from them,
and may Allah inspire them to remember us
in the du'a. Amin.
Also,
with this being the 21st night, Darus Salam's
last 10 nights youth program will kick off,
the night arises,
insha'Allah,
and the Fajr nights program. So there's 2
programs kicking off tonight for our youth given
that they're on holiday,
for our younger youth and our older youth,
and inshallah, you'll hear about that just now.
Another thing, and I want to use this
as an opportunity,
given that we are in the month of
Al Quran,
and we are in the last 10 nights,
one of these nights was the nights in
which the Quran was revealed.
Alhamdulillah,
very recently,
my book on Surah Yusuf was published and
released, Alhamdulillah.
Now many of you received it, I know,
because I've been getting videos and images, Alhamdulillah.
But it's the first time that I actually
today, managed to hold it because I just
arrived back in the country a few hours
earlier.
And, I wanted to take the opportunity of
unwrapping it for the first time, opening it,
during this eventful night, masha'Allah,
after this eventful Ibadah
front of you all, alhamdulillah, harubillahalamin.
So masha'Allah, tabarakallah, this book is,
an explanation of Surah Yusuf, and it
encompasses almost 2 decades of my journey
with the Surah. I first started teaching the
Surah in 2,006 or thereabout.
2,005
and 2,006. And no doubt the inspiration is
always when it comes to surah, Yusuf ibn
Al Qayyib statement that Allah has left in
the surah more than 1,000 benefits.
But Ibn Al Qayyim
he passed away without writing the book
with the benefits.
So Allah inspired
after him people who embarked on this journey,
and I asked Allah to make me one
from from them. I have a copy in
front of me, Alhamdulillah.
It's the copy that I've opened, and what
I will do is I will pass it
to,
Zakir. He will flip through it, and then
he will pass it along insha'Allah,
whilst I present,
the summary of,
tonight's,
reading insha'Allah.
Please don't go off with the book, Yani.
He pass it to the next person, and
if you want a coffee, inshallah, I will
let you know how you can get one.
I know the sisters as well, perhaps inshallah,
we can get, the book to them as
well.
Today, we heard the 22nd Jews of the
Quran.
And predominantly we travel through 4 surahs.
We
started with Surah Al Ahzab,
or what remained of Surah Al Ahzab, because
yet last night
you started the surah with our Imams
during,
20th night of Ramadan.
So we started with the remainder of Surah
Al Ahzab.
Thereafter, we went to another surah, Surah Sabah.
Surah Sabah can be can have a sting
like Surah Al Nahal.
Surah Nahl also has a sting when I
Surah Nahl is a surah of the bee.
So I say sting because those who are
reading tarawih, when it comes to Surah Nahl
generally,
they see whose portion is it, because Surah
Al Nahal has it
can sting you a little bit if you
if you are happy then, you know, the
hif wasn't strong
at the time when you're memorizing.
Surah Saba can have that as well, although
our hafidhaqir masha'Allah,
Allah bless him, he's a
strong Hafid,
After that,
we moved on to Surat Al Fathir, and,
Hafid
he pursued Surat Al Fathir after Hafiz Zakir
began it, and then alhamdulillah we had Surah
Yaseen at the end, and who doesn't know
Surah Yassin? But we only started Surah Yassin,
insha'Allah,
we will complete Surah Yassin tomorrow.
Now Surah Al Ahazab, very quickly,
is called Surat Al Ahazab
predominantly
because of a historical event. And I'm sure
we all know of a battle I pass
it to your right. I pass it to
your right now.
We all know of a famous battle known
as the Battle of the Trench.
The Battle of the Trench, also known as
Al Ahazab
in which the Quraysh and the Khafavan
surrounded Medina with collaboration
with the collaboration of the hypocrites
and the Jews, in particular Banu Qurayvah.
And this was a very try trying time
for the believers
because
the Muslims were faced with an army they've
never met before,
an army of 10,000,
And they had nothing in Madinah to help
them ward off an army of this number.
And they weren't just an army of 10,000.
This was an army that intended complete destruction.
They intended to wipe Madinah off
the
destruction. They intended to wipe Madinah off the
face of this earth.
Their intent was to remove Islam once and
for all.
This was the in this was the intent.
It was one of those situations where we
say enough is enough.
It was 13 years
of
the maneuvers and propaganda campaigns against the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Makkah. Then he went
to Madinah, And in Madinah, things began to
grow. And not only did it begin to
grow, but we see Muslim civilization
kicking off. We see the first Muslim city.
We see
the Muslim
state and the functions of the state coming
to be. There was a progressive system that
didn't even exist in Makkah. You had Mashidun
Nabawi, which was the center of all affairs.
It was the ministry of da'wah.
It was the ministry of,
health.
It was the ministry
of education,
it was the ministry of public affairs
and, Media.
All these took place from Mashrul Nabawi. It
was it was center. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam would gather in Mashrul Nabawi with the
sahaba and
shura used to take place. It was parliament,
if I may use the term. He would
sit here, and this is where the shura
discussions would happen. In fact, after the battle
of Uhud,
the injured from Uhud were brought to Mashir
e Nabiwe, and this is where they were
treated, and thus I say the Ministry of
Health. We know that Abu Hurairah was from
the graduates, the alumni
of Masjid Al Nabawi. He was from Ahlus
Sufa, he used to live in the Masjid
because there were no more homes of the
Ansar
for the Muslims to be placed with. So
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam let them
stay in the masjid. So you can say
it was the also the minister of social
affairs, subhanAllah.
So we had the Masjid.
And then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
had treaties. He had treaties with the Jews,
the surrounding people, with these faith based communities,
or the Jews were they were a faith
based community, had a treaty with them, a
treaty of cooperation, and a treaty of defense
as well, of support.
Right?
So
and there were other things that were happening.
So, obviously, for the Quraysh, this was
far too progressive than they anticipated.
That not only was Islam spreading, but now
it had a system.
Islam had a home
to
spread its wings to the rest of the
globe, and it was taking away from the
limelight of Makkah. Makkah didn't have this. Makkah
had ignorance.
Makkah had darkness.
Makkah had Jahiliyyah.
The Quraysh were still upon their ways of
gambling and alcohol and treating women as commodity
and so on and so forth.
They had all of this, but Madinah, subhanAllah,
it had common sense. It had rationale.
It had a system. It had sustainability.
It had a legal system, a justice system.
It wasn't the system of the Quraysh.
So the Quraysh really intended to change the
geographical landscape of the globe. And if I
can tie events
to what's happened in our recent past, the
end of 2023 October 7th, you find the
similar kind of sentiment
that it is a people and a nation
wanting to
ultimately wipe out an area off the face
of the cloth. That's what you can see.
And they amassed 10,000 for this. Now this
was a trying time for the believers,
because Medina wasn't yet rich.
The Sahaba was still managing things
and when you have less financial resources you
need to apply a lot of physical resources
so naturally it makes you tired,
and they didn't have the numbers,
they didn't have the artillery, they didn't have
the weaponry, they didn't have the animals to
manage this, nor the horses, nor the camels,
they didn't have this,
If they put all the animals together, it
wouldn't match what was coming to meet them.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
sits in Mashirun Nabawi with the Sahaba,
and he engages in the process of shura.
Parliament
is active,
and there's no greater ideas. Everybody,
the Sahaba were never a people who were
despondent,
but in this particular case just for the
sake of being practical there were no
ideas that really were sound,
except one
from the Persian companion,
Salman,
who said, look, in Persia, when they fight
the Romans and they meet these large armies,
they disturb their movement. How? By digging trenches.
But you gotta
remember, these are experienced
trench diggers,
and then it's not a case of them
having camels and horses.
They have elephants with them. They have weaponry
with them. They have metal and steel with
them. This is something they can do.
The Muslims didn't have experience. They didn't have
the manpower. They didn't have the animal power,
resource power. They didn't have this. But they
had no choice, and the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam in light of seeing no other
idea that would beat the idea of Salman,
he opted for it. Now you have to
understand
that this would entail great effort from the
Muslims,
and they dug. We're talking about a trench
that was meters deep and kilometers wide. It's
not this little part that you see when
you go to Madinah known as the Saba
Ama Sajid
takes you on the bus and you just
see this little hilltop and they say this
is where,
the the handak. They say this is where
the battle of the trench took place. This
is just a portion of it.
This is where the battalions were stationed,
and it's to highlight to you how severe
the matter was that they couldn't pray as
one Jannah'ah, you have seven places of prayer
so close to each other
so in close proximity you can see 7
places of prayer that's what Saba Amasaajid means
7 places where they congregated to pray
This is how intense the battle was, nobody
could leave their post.
And not only this, when the Quraysh finally
arrived,
obviously, the battle didn't begin
because they were faced with a shock themselves.
They didn't have this experience before facing a
trench
in front of
them that acted as an obstacle between them
and their enemy.
So it lasted. They camped,
and the Muslims had to be diligent
and
vigilant
for a long period of time. They were
low on energy. They were low on food,
and they still had to stay awake. They
still had to,
be diligent. They still had to be active.
They had to be focused.
This took a toll. On top of this,
you have the hypocrites
who want the other side to win.
So they're trying to disunite the Muslim ranks
and they use the same tool that Shaitan
uses, pull you to the dunya, tell you
about your wives, tell you about your children,
make you scared that perhaps at the back
they're harming them. Your 2 women are gonna
be raped and your children are gonna be
taken as slaves.
So now you by the place of the
trench and you half your mind and heart
is somewhere else. This was happening.
Then there was the Jews, Banu Qoreidah. The
Muslims didn't dig a trench on their area
because the Arabs,
if anything even though they had this ignorance
they wouldn't break treaties
even though they had this jahiliyah
this darkness to them there were certain traits
they had that were praiseworthy. When it came
to treaties, they would maintain it.
Nonetheless,
the Jews with the Muslims thought,
well, with one eye and one ear, that
we don't need to dig a trench there
because they are there and we have a
security pact with them. They will not allow
the Quraysh to enter Madinah. From there, they
started
entertaining the idea, and that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala informed the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
This was heavy for the Muslims, and Allah
tells in Suratul Hazab how difficult this was.
Allah says,
when they came to you
from above,
from underneath.
The matter was so severe for you, oh
Sahaba, all Muslims.
You couldn't even focus your eyes were you
know what happens when you fear and there's
so many things going on and you overwhelmed
your eyes start looking all over the place
because you're constantly thinking there's a 1,000 thoughts
going on in your head,
Allah is describing us, he's painting an image
of what was happening. This is known as
a taswirul qurani, the imagery of the Quran.
Subhanallah. This is happening for us in Suratul
Hazab.
Allah is telling us about the sahaba.
Those who are with the messenger salallahu alayhi
wa sallam. Those who had highest demand the
ummah will ever experience.
Allah is telling us of how hard he
tested them.
Allah says we tested you so hard, not
only were your eyes
wayward,
but your heart was beating so hard you
felt it was in your throat. We say
this in the English language.
Allah
says
your heart reached your throats.
Then Allah says, subhanAllah,
that not only this, Allah knows what was
happening in your heart. You dare not say
it, but Allah saw it in your heart.
You started entertaining thoughts of about Allah that
you never ever entertained before.
Meaning, even the trust you had in Allah
was starting to shake.
That is how hard you were tested.
Allah says
That was when we truly tested the believers.
And we shook them a great shaking.
SubhanAllah.
Allah describes this for us.
We think of our brothers and sisters in
wazah. They are being shaken and great shaking.
The test of Allah has come upon them
from above and from within from underneath, and
we see the eyes.
We hear the screams.
We hear the heartbeats from the throat.
Allah indeed is testing them.
But as I read to you these verses
of Surat Al Ahab,
and I reveal to you the story of
the Hazab,
I sometimes think to myself,
are the people of Gaza being tested harder,
or is it you and
me? Who is being tested harder?
Is it the people of Gaza or you
and I?
Subhanallah.
Because the people of Gaza are being true
to the imam and
the ummah testifies to this because we see
the images.
But what are we doing, my brothers and
sisters in Islam?
What movement have we made to the sunnah
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
What journey have we made to the mandates
of the Quran and the sunnah?
What retraction have we made from sin and
vice?
What efforts have we made to correct those
within our sphere of influence? Or is it
business as usual and life as normal?
Are we still living through Ramadan, waiting for
the end of Ramadan to return to our
old ways?
Then I'm on a hold of Netflix now
for now, but when after it, I'll check
which are the new movies that were released
in it.
For now, I'll be patient.
Is that our mandate?
Who is being tested greater?
Because this Ummah is one body,
when one part is affected the rest of
the body reacts
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said there's a
reaction
there's a reaction,
and he likens it to fever and sleepless
nights.
Wallahi.
Where's our sleepless nights?
Where are our sleepless nights? We still complain
about the tarawih being too long or too
short, or the imam having extra tasbih in
his ruku or sujud. Not you, of course.
But in general, this is a general remark
that we hear.
So
are they being tested or are we being
tested? Because as they are being tested, rest
assured Allah is going to hold us also
accountable. He's gonna call us all that you
are part of the Ummah at the time
when I shook a portion of you, what
did you do?
That perhaps
you adopting 1 sunnah
even if it was as small as putting
a miswak in your pocket to use during
the day because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam used it, That could have been the
means, maybe, of 1 child being pulled out
of the rubble alive. The barakah of that
act maybe.
Have you ever thought about it like that?
That maybe
the extra duas that you are making, instead
of shying away from making it, or burning
out with regards to your duas, was a
means of a building surviving an explosion,
and hundreds of people
having their lives intact. Just because of one
Dua that you made.
That maybe
you chose to release yourself
from the chains of culture
that tied you to ideas that the Quran
speaks against directly
And because of that, subhanallah,
a family
was saved in Gaza
after a bombing.
Don't underestimate the barakah of Ta'a and righteousness,
brothers and sisters in Islam.
So if we talk about Surat Al Azaab,
then I'm representing it to you Surat Al
Azaab.
That there are verses that I read, but
these are deductions that that the Quran throws
out at us
and throws out to us because the Quran
is a guide.
So as
things are happening, we need to see the
reaction.
We need to see the reaction.
The Masaijid need to get fuller.
That that's a reaction. People subhanallah, the Muslims
are reacting. They're turning back to their Lord.
But, wallahi, let's be honest. It still a
case of they are there, we are here.
Alhamdulillah,
may Allah make everything easy for them.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, you know what
Surat Al Hazab is telling us?
That if you want Islam to be honored,
if you want the honor to come back
to the Muslims,
I don't want to use the word sacrifice.
You know I don't like that word because
that entails you giving up something for nothing.
You know when you give for Allah, he
always gives you back, it's always investment, right?
But you need to spend a bit of
yourself,
you need to become a bit uncomfortable,
you cannot expect honor to come to this
Ummah whilst you are comfortable,
you cannot,
It can never happen. If you wake up
every day and Islam is there, but after
the 60,000 other things I have to do
after the duniya, then you are thinking wishfully.
This is not how Izzah and honor comes
with the Umbah.
This is what Surah Al Ahazab is telling
us. That you want Izzah to come, you
have to be a part of the system.
It has to be on your mind, in
the front of your mind, in the middle
of your mind, the back of your mind,
the front of your heart, the back of
your heart, the middle of your heart.
How you raise your kids,
how you speak to your parents,
the discussion you have with your friends,
the reprioritization
of your hobbies,
and your timetables.
This is where Izzah comes to the Ummah
because now you've made Islah
al Umma,
Islah a nurse, tazeez, a deen,
honor of the deen and raising the ummah
at the forefront of your of your existence
so that your existence becomes a substantial existence
not a mere existence.
But unfortunately, we still have this, my job,
my this, my travel, you know, back home,
Pakistan, India, where, where, I'll do this, my
land, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. And, yeah, if I
have extra, then, yeah, for Islam, and we
wish for Islam, Islam.
Look at the whole Zakkad discussion today I
was just with the brothers and sisters in
Malaysia I was there for the last weeks
I was having the same discussion with them
that every little chance to do good we
ask is it a zakah applicable? You salam
zakah applicable, is this the only propensity you
have for your Lord?
A pillar of Islam which he made obligatory
upon you and gave you no choice in.
This is the only scope you are willing
to operate within, in terms of your financial
worship?
When in actual fact, Zakah is somebody else's
money in your account. Who are you to
say is Zakah applicable?
It's already somebody else's money in your account.
You have the burden of getting it out
of your account.
The Sahaba radiAllahu anhu Majumayeen, and I think
I've mentioned it this to you before.
Zakah wasn't a Ramavan endeavor for them.
Zakah was in Muharram or Rajab.
The books of fiqh list list Ramadan as
the weakest view in terms of it being
the month for Zakah.
It's not a problem to make it Ramadan.
But the pious before us, who Allah praises
in Suratul Ahzab,
they gave out their zakah before Ramadan, so
they could focus in Ramadan and sadaqa.
Because they knew that this is the ummah
of all nations,
and previous nations Allah told them to pay
10% in zakah.
But we are a special nation
and even in our laws, Allah shows us
that we are special, that Allah will make
us pay 2.5 because we will pass 10%
by ourselves,
but are we there?
We struggle just to hit 2.5
and we want the rules to change to
make a non Zakatable project zakatibal because we
can only help it from zakah.
So if this is our mindset, then we're
going against the miya ayat of Surat Al
Ahazab.
There's so much to say from Surat Al
Ahzab. We haven't even gone to the next
Surah. Allah will understand.
Bayib Surat Al Ahzab,
73 verses.
And it is a Madani Surah. And as
I told you before I left Madani Surahs
are filled with legislation because they were revealed
after Hijra when Islam had a state.
Now what is the relationship between Surah to
lahazab and the Surah before? What's the Surah
before lahazab that you had?
Surah?
Sajda, ascent.
Allah knows best. If we look at the
end of Surah Sajda,
Allah
commands the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam to
be defiant against the way of the disbelievers
and to patiently await the appointed punishment.
This is what we see at the end
of Surah Sajda. I think you can see
where I'm coming from now because Al Hazab,
what does it tell us?
Us? At the end of Surah Sajidah,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
reveals to the messenger a command.
A command to be defiant against the way
of the disbelievers and to be patient.
Wait for Allah's plan. The punishment is coming,
wait for it. At the opening of Surah
Al Hazab, Allah commands the messenger towards taqwa
and not falling prey to the way of
the disbelievers and the hypocrites.
By following strict by following strictly what Allah
revealed to him and for him to place
his trust in Amlah. Look at the connection.
An end and a beginning.
Even though one surah is from an era,
and surahulahazabi
is from another era.
This is the eloquence of the Quran. Allah,
no one can do this. Over 23 years,
everything being pieced together
with such tapestry, fine tapestry,
could only be from the Lord of the
worlds.
So this is the relationship.
Then
in terms of the contents of the surah,
then as we said, it's filled with the
legislation. From them, we find laws pertaining, and
this is unique
to the wives of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
settles the affairs of the prophetic household.
That this was a ripe
time
Allah sets the affairs straight of the prophetic
household
and in effect
every Muslim household.
Because if these laws apply to our mothers,
the mother of the believers,
then no doubt every female after them, because
who can be more righteous than them?
If they are the righteous of the righteous,
the creme de la creme, the cream of
the crop,
and they are told to observe certain
matters that no doubt every female after them
this applies.
In the first instance.
Allah
in Surah Al Ahab begins also, not begins
but continues canceling
some of the norms of jahiliyah,
such as adoption or tabani,
adoption when you change the name and lineage
of the child that you adopted. This was
canceled in the Quran.
Then dwehar, this was another prominent thing during
jahiliyah,
where a husband would liken his wife to
the back of his mother, meaning making her
haram for him, but keeping her locked in
the marriage. Allah abolished this.
Also, the belief
that the people of Jahiliyah had that a
human being has 2 hearts. Allah abolished this
understanding in Suratul Hazab.
And also,
that the the belief
that they had of the waiting period of
a female who is divorced before consummation of
the marriage takes place. This is also dealt
with in Surat Al Ahzab.
Also, we find the rules of hijab
being compulsory upon the wives of the messenger
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and the female believers
coming down, this is in Suratul Ahazab.
And we also find evidence of salawat upon
the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and it
being a part of faith. We find this
in Suratul Hazar.
And then we move on to Surat Saba.
I'm gonna just do a quick run through
and then we'll touch on some key ayat.
In Surat Saba,
we find
a different genre of knowledge
because
from a Madinan Surah, you jump to a
Makkan Surah.
So you went you're reading the Quran. You
come into Surah Al Hazab. It's heavy. Low,
low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low,
low, low, and just when you feel it
might be too much, Allah brings a Makk
and Surah consisting of 54 verses,
and in it,
we see the genre of ilm pertaining to
ayat before revelation, which
we know focus on what? Tawhid,
belief in the hereafter,
establishing the messenger as the messenger,
belief in the Quran as being God sent,
the word of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So
you see this balance between iman
and action.
Iman and action. That when people fail, and
you can deduce this from how Allah has
put if we go with the view that
the the the order of the surahs was
from Allah because there's 2 opinions of the
scholars.
Who put these surahs in the order? Was
it the consensus of the sahabah?
Or was it Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
And scholars opine that it was Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and this was known during the
final Ramadan, when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
revised the Quran twice with Jibril.
When the final abrogations happened, and the Quran
was set in final.
So the order was how it was, and
that's how the sahaba laid it out.
But irrespective, if it was with tajma after
sahaba, then it's God inspired.
Because then jama cannot happen.
The ummah will never ever settle
upon a matter of misguidance as the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said. That if this ummah
settles on something that Allah inspires all the
hearts to agree, then that is godly
inspired. So you if you deduce from this,
how we find in this Surah, a Surah,
a Madani Surah with legislation followed by a
surah, you see this, that if a person
feels difficulty
in implementing
the the legalities of Islam, then it has
a direct connection to the weakness of the
Iman
the stronger the Iman
the easier it is for you to apply
the laws
the weaker your Iman
the harder it is for you to apply
the laws so if the laws of hijab
are hard for you
the laws of the home are hard for
you
then go to Surah Sabah and build your
iman.
And you will come back to ahazab and
you'll be able to follow it. For Allah
establishes his oneness in this surah. Why is
it called Surah Sabah?
Sabah,
again, this is one of the surahs that
are connected to historical event, and we said
the Quran time and time again pushes us
to read history
by naming surahs after historical events.
And sabah
refers to the kings of Yemen, that Allah
blessed with much. Gardens,
and fruits, and wealth, and financial standing, and
material well-being, and sovereign rule, and, and, and,
and, and then arrogance took over.
And when arrogance took over, Allah flipped
their blessings, and the blessings became a curse.
And this is a message to the Quraysh,
that you have your power, people love Makkah,
they come into the Kaaba, they see you
as custodians of the Kaaba. You have an
automated marketplace because people want to come to
you anyway. You don't have to market. You
don't have to advertise.
The latest slippers from Yemen, the latest cloth
from Syria is going to come to your
market because they will come to the Kaaba
anyway do not take these blessings for granted.
Allah is sharing them a parallel
that they were better, stronger, richer people than
you, and we turned their circumstances because they
were arrogant and denied.
Allah says
Allahu Akbar.
Allah says, there was for the tribe of
Saba in their dwelling place a sign, a
sign for all of us. They had 2
fields of gardens on the right and on
the left, and they were told to eat
from the provisions of your lord, but be
grateful to him.
A good land you have,
and a forgiving Lord you have.
That what you have, you have because you
have a lord that is forgiving. Allah says,
But they turned away,
refusing in arrogance,
so we sent upon them the flood from
the dam, and we replaced their 2 fields
of gardens with gardens of bitter fruit
and sparse loted trees.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says this was their
recompense for their own actions.
Okay.
Then
if we look at Surah Saba and compare
it to the Surah before,
we see that Allah describes at the opening
of Surah Saba
his sovereignty and ownership.
Right at the opening of Surah Saba,
Allah teaches us of his sovereignty and ownership.
SubhanAllah, if you ponder at the end of
Surah Al Hazab,
Allah describes
what only a being
of his sovereignty and ownership can do.
Because at the end of Suratul Hazab Allah
says,
Allah says, Allah will punish
the idolaters, the male from them and the
females from them.
And the hypocrites, the males from them, and
the females from them. And Allah will forgive
the believers. Only the being of sovereignty can
do this.
So at the end of Surah Al Ahab,
Allah tells us what the Being of sovereignty
can do, and at the opening of Surah
Saba, Allah establishes himself as the Being of
sovereignty and mightiness. Subhanah.
So here we see this connection.
Also, at the end of a hizab, if
I can take it further,
Allah lists 2 names, Ghafoor and Rahim.
Did you guys hear this in the taraweeh?
Listen to the order. Ghafoor Rahim is eloquence
of the Quran.
At the end of Surah Al Ahzab, Allah
tells us
that He is Ghafoor and Rahim at the
end of Ahzab. At the opening of Saba,
Allah says, wahuar Rahim Al Ghafoor.
SubhanAllah.
Rahim comes first and Rahim comes second.
At the end of akhzab, Ghafoor first, Rahim
second. At the opening of Sabah, it switched.
Look at the connection between the Suras. Did
you know this here? Did you notice this?
SubhanAllah. But you read it all the time.
Amazing,
The Quran.
What else?
In Suratul Akhazab, Allah tells us how the
disbelievers
asked about qiyama in the form of making
fun of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Sometimes we do this. We ask a question,
istihzaan.
You ask a question to make fun of
somebody.
You treat them as a fool, so you
come to a gathering and you ask the
question to make other people see them to
be a fool. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in
Surah Al Hazab, he tells us about what
the disbelievers used to do.
In Surah Saba, Allah details their denial in
the hereafter.
So you see this connection as well. SubhanAllah.
Surah complimenting a surah. A message complimenting a
message. In Surah Saba, we see a great
focus on the oneness of Allah, the Messenger
being God sent, and life after death, which
were key elements that the Quraysh used to
deny.
Then we get to Surah Fatir.
Surah Fatir is a Maqki Surah.
So Madani Maqki Maqki.
How many verses? 45.
And it's called Fartir because of the opening
of the surah. The first of Aya, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala praises himself with alhamd.
By the way, there's another surah that starts
with alhamd, and he says Fathir,
the originator
and creator of the heavens and the earth.
Faapir doesn't just mean creator, it means the
originator.
Because a creator can be someone who creates
from something, but an originator is someone who
creates from nothing.
SubhanAllah.
So Fautir qualifies
the name of Allah Al Khaliq. That when
you understand Allah is the creator, you understand
it in the absolute term. That he's the
creator, but not the one who is a
dependent creator. He's an independent creator. He can
create from nothing.
And from the Sahaba were those who would
say, subhanallah, this word fatr, we didn't know
its meaning.
This how deep the Arabic language is, and
I believe it is Abdulai ibn Abbas, if
I'm not mistaken, said
we are we're struggling with
until one day I was in the desert,
and I saw 2 Bedouins fighting over a
well.
And one said,
and the other one said,
Right?
Meaning, one was saying, I'm the one who
brought the water out of this. And the
other one said, no. I'm the one. It's
my wall. He said, no. It's my wall.
He goes, I heard them using the term.
I said,
The one who brought something out of nothing.
It was sand before, and now there's a
water flowing. So he understood exactly what this
term means. This is the depth of the
Arabic language. Even sahaba will grow the understanding
of the Quran based on the interaction with
the different tribes.
And we're fortunate in this masjid because we
have a we have a a riwa, a
different a different mode of recitation
by Imam Suhaib, and then we have Hafsun
Aasim by the rest. And you can see,
subhanallah, different meanings coming out based on the
different words that are used in some places.
This is from the beauty of the Quran.
Okay.
Surah Faqir is also known as Surah Malaika.
Because in the opening, Allah tells us how
he decreed
for angels to be the middle process between
him and his messengers.
That was the decree of Allah. He is
the one who originated the angels from nothing
and made them this middle link between him
and his his his messengers. He doesn't need
them. He's not dependent on them. If he
was dependent on them, you wouldn't they would
have been there. But he created them
to show the Quraysh that this is not
a this is not a process of dependency.
This is a process by choosing. That is
how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has chosen it
to be.
Taib.
The relationship to Surah Saba,
they both begin with Alhamd. I'm sure you
picked this up from today's reading.
And also they are similar in length. In
terms of the contents,
similar to the Maqk and Surahs,
it's big on
dismantling the foundations of idol worship.
It's big on presenting rational discussions on the
evidence of God and that he does exist
and that he's the only one worthy of
worship. So it's not only revealed
evidence but rational evidences. We see this. The
topic of steadfast is upon tawhid irrespective of
the trend is also revealed in the surah.
The Muslims are guided to this, and then
we moved into Surah Yaseen. InshaAllah, Surah Yaseen,
we will,
discuss tomorrow.
Oh, very quickly because, masha'Allah, did you read
extra, hamdulillah? You went to bed 4, he
he did read extra. Okay. Let me let
me share with you some of Surah Yassin,
inshallah.
Surah Yaseen is a Makkan Surah
consisting of 83 verses,
and it's called the Yaseen because Allah begins
it with Yaseen. Earlier, I told taught you
all about the disjointed letters. That these are
letters from the Arabic language and something to
note, and it's in the book that's going
around. I have the discussion. Have you? We
don't hold the book. Pass it along. Masha'Allah.
The disjointed letters, if you see in the
Quran, whenever it's used immediately after that, Allah
talks about the Quran.
Allah speaks about the Quran.
We see the Quran being mentioned immediately after
these letters. And for those who missed it,
it's as if Allah is telling the Arabs
that look these are letters from your Arab,
from your alphabet.
These are letters from your alphabet
that we've used to review this Quran,
and there's a challenge to you to produce
1 ayah that can beat it.
What
are the contents of Surah Iyasin? Similar to
what we discussed earlier.
Similar to all what we see in Makkan
Surahs. Establishing to hid, the messenger being sent,
the fact that Allah exists,
rational evidence to his existence, and so on
and so forth. What's it con what's it's
connection to Surah Fathir? In Surah Fathir, the
attitude of Quraysh and the denial of the
Messenger
being sent as a winner was mentioned.
At the opening of Surah Yaseen,
Allah answers and says, Inna kalamin al Murusaleen.
That by the testimony of God, you are
indeed God sent.
Subhanallah.
In Surah Fathir, there are details of how
the Quraysh
pursued their denial of the messenger being sent
by God.
Surah Yaseen comes down and immediately squashes it.
Allah
says Yaseen
wal Quran
al Hakim
inna kalaminal
murusaleen. Indeed,
by testimony of God you are sent by
God.
SubhanAllah.
So can you imagine you living at the
time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and this is going on. And then a
verse comes down like this.
Subhanallah.
Where would we be when these verses come
down? Allah knows best.
Before we leave, brothers and sisters in Islam,
I will continue with Surah Yassin tomorrow.
But very quickly,
just some key thoughts and key verses. Alhamdulillah,
we are in the night of Al Quran
in the 21st of Ramadan and school holidays,
so, no inshallah, doctors say no one has
to run run away. Right?
Otherwise, they might say sheikh is going on
and on.
Bear with me. I'm jet lagged. I'm between
how many time zones at the moment.
As the imam was reading, firstly, subhanAllah, the
beginning, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the verses
from Surat Al Azzaab, he teaches us
that
if you are going to do dawah, you're
going to have opposition.
And if you are gonna do dawah,
you have to be ready to be patient
and be ready for the test. That is
just the nature of it.
Allah reveals that the believers, the true believers,
they have no haarij
in their hearts,
they have no
uneasiness
In that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has
made compulsory upon them.
They are the ones,
They are the ones who convey the message
of Allah.
And they don't fear anyone except Allah.
This is the way of the true dua.
The way of the true believers. Yes, wisdom
is needed.
Nobody is saying
don't be wise.
But the issue of
what is the difference between you being wise
by not doing something
or you not doing it because really you
fear?
It's the haraj you feel in your heart.
It's as if at the beginning of Surah
Al Azzaab, Allah is teaching the parents,
cause we are all du'a'id, by the way.
A husband, you're a du'id to your wife.
Father, mother, you're a du'id to your children.
Children, you are a to your parents.
We all dua to each other. Many of
us forget about this. You know, parents struggle
with their children and they start giving up
and say, hey, you're a dahi.
The prophet, 23 years before Makkah became Muslim.
Don't give up. You have to carry on.
You're a dahi.
But are you making moves
because you really fear?
But through cognitive cognitive dissonance you
convincing yourself
that you're doing the right thing by using
the wisdom card?
Sometimes you tell someone, brother,
you close to that person, advise him, we
just have to create a link. You know,
we have to build the rapport. Have you
heard this? Build a rapport.
1 year later, brother, I'm still building the
rapport.
5 years later, oh, it's a wrong grind
to build rapport with this brother. I'm still
building the rapport.
Brother, how many lifetimes you're gonna have here,
Achi? How many lifetimes does he have?
Shouldn't our love and desire be to take
as many people to paradise?
If that is our desire, then get a
move on Yaqi. Maybe there's a problem in
how you're building the rapport.
So is it really you have Haraj? Allah
says the believers,
they don't have any Harajima
They convey Allah's message.
They don't fear anyone but Allah.
Allah is enough for them.
This is the way of the Ummah.
This is the way of the 1st generation
of Islam.
This is their way.
As we read in during the 1st 10
nights of Ramadan,
that they are a people.
They don't fear
the complaint,
their,
refutation,
the complaint
of anyone.
They don't they're they're not bothered about it.
Sometimes you preach wisely,
and people take it the wrong way.
This is where you say, listen.
For you is your way, for me is
my way. But Allah send me
as Allah says in Suratul Agha Zab as
well.
I think you read it last night.
Allah says, oh Messenger,
indeed we send you.
As a witness.
As a giver of glad tidings.
And
a with the with the permission of Allah.
And we made you a lantern, a light.
And then Allah says, and give glad tidings
to the believer,
that they will have from Allah
a great father and benevolence.
Those who follow you.
And Allah says, walatuktu ilkafireena
walmunafiqeena
wadayaaadahum
wadayawakalar
Allah. Allah says, and do not follow the
way of the disbelievers
and the hypocrites.
Wataadhahum
and leave their harm. Don't let it consume
you. Don't pick it up. Don't make it
something that you think about often. Wataakkalalala.
Rather focus on your tawakkalala.
Build your tawakkalala.
So this is what we learned, from Surah
Al Ahab at the beginning. Also we learned,
brothers and sisters in Islam, and I can't
leave this because this is important to our
time.
The household of a believer.
Male and female gender interaction, and this is
a big thing because you have to know
I do this daily, almost.
As my role, as a trained Islamic judge
and adjudicator and arbitrator, this is this is
what we do.
And a lot of these issues boil down
to not looking after the laws of Islam
with regards to gender interaction
in our homes, in our families.
Whereby we put the culture
and we put the norm
and we put our whims and our fancies
before the Quran and the Sunnah. And the
day of Eid will come, subhanAllah. And the
khateeb will stand here and tell you after
a month of taqwa,
3 times, fear Allah, fear Allah, fear Allah.
Meaning fear Allah's punishment.
Don't let the Eid banquet after 30 days
of righteousness be a mixed affair with non
mahrams laughing and talking and joking with each
other whilst they dress beautifully for one husband
to look at another person's wife, to the
extent that you find some men calling other
people's wives by nicknames that their own husbands
call them. This is the level of easiness
that we have between us, and this is
not from Islam. Ma'anzalallahu
bihamin sultan. Allah didn't reveal this in any
way.
I'm saying it
because Ahab said,
athin. We have to I have to tell
you as it is,
even if you dislike me for saying it.
It's the fact, my dear brothers and sisters
in Islam.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Oh
messenger,
kulli a zwajik, say to your wives, if
you should desire the world be life and
its adornment, then come I will provide for
you and give you a gracious release from
my household.
Allah reveals, if you want to sort out
your household, you both have to be on
the correct vision. The vision has to be
united. The vision of the messenger is one
of the hereafter. You have a vision for
the dunya? No problem. I will give you
the dunya by releasing you. Go after the
dunya. We're not compatible.
So we see this tanveem coming, and this
is to the to the messenger and about
our mothers, Subhanallah.
Because Allah is in control.
The messenger
but Allah is Allah.
Allah is revealing to his messenger.
So you see the system being revealed. This
is number 1. Number 2.
We will give her double the reward, and
we have prepared for her a noble provision,
meaning a noble jannah.
Subhanallah.
Number 3.
From addressing the prophet, Allah addresses the wives
of the prophet, our mothers.
You are not like anyone from amongst the
women.
If you truly fear Allah, then do not
be beautiful in your speech, soft and gentle
in your speech.
Why?
Because naturally men can be enticed to you.
Men have different levels of triggers when it
comes to their desire.
So be careful of this. Allah created you,
and Allah created them. He knows the female
better than she knows herself. He knows the
men better than he knows himself. Even if
they don't show it, you don't know what's
happening inside.
You don't know what's happening inside and what
that gives birth to. It's a little lint
that is lit and then a flint that
is lit and then shaitan blows it.
Over time, it becomes something.
Allah is telling look. Allah is telling the
mothers of the believers, do not be soft
and gentle, that sweetness be direct in your
speech.
Do not beautify your voice when you speak
to them, lest he in whose heart is
a disease should cover, should feel inclined to
you. Allah says speak appropriately.
Short, sweet, to the point.
Today what happens? Subhanallah. And we see this.
Like I said,
more cases than we like I know of.
Brother, sister working together,
at the beginning, they have rules.
There's modesty,
there's shyness,
but over time, the rules, the sensitivity meter
starts to drop. And then what was
becomes how are you?
And then after some time, Subhanallah,
you don't look okay. You're not well. Subhanallah.
Okay. Now it's about just health. Then maybe
she has some turbulence at home, and then
it's,
you look a bit stressed today, and then
she needs to speak to someone. She starts
speak what happens?
What happens? Do you think it's not natural
for feelings to develop?
Where, unfortunately,
I have had to come across cases
of sisters falling in love with the brother's
best friend or even a relative.
Falling
in love. We just had to admit it
that this is what happened. It looked, I
didn't intend it, it just happened.
That you were busy and he was there
for me.
This is reality brothers and sisters in Islam.
Inshallah, it's not a reality in your life,
but know know that these things happened and
these verses Allah has left to be recited
through the day of qayama for a reason.
It's not storytelling.
This is instructional.
Now like I said earlier, if this is
to the mothers of the believers,
then what about us?
What about the
the children of the mothers of the believers,
if I can use that term so that
we can create some sense in terms of
our proximity to them? If this is the
case with the wives of the messenger, what
about ourselves, our daughters, our mothers?
Then this whole idea of homeliness.
Know once I gave a lecture about the
5th Jews in the Quran, Allah said,
and I thought, Subhan Allah. And I learned
this from one of my close friends, and
also the teachers of Tafsir, wal Muhsinat.
Have you ever thought how Allah describes a
female as a castle? Muhsin is a castle.
Something preserved and protected. A female is preserved
and protected.
It's amazing because in Islamic law, she's protected
by her father,
or she's protected by her brother, or she's
protected by her husband, or she's protected by
her son, or she's protected
by the Islamic state, the bait ul mar.
She doesn't have to go out and fend
for herself.
Have you ever thought about this? Allah calls
a, she's a castle, a castle is something
protected and preserved, it has walls protecting it.
This is how Allah describes her. Allah says,
for the people of Iman,
the place of their,
the place of their solace,
the place where they feel most comfortable at
is their home.
Allah is telling the wives of the messengers,
and remain in your houses.
And then Allah reveals in Surah Al Ahab,
the Hijab. That if you have to leave
your house, your Hijab becomes your house. Take
your castle with you, put a fence around
you, and go out. That in your house
you can remove the hijab because you are
preserved by your home. But if you leave
the walls of your home, take a home
with you.
Subhanallah, that this is when you read these
verses, you can see this is what Allah
wants.
So the matter of choice and comfort, this
is what Allah wants.
That when you show Allah yourself doing this,
Allah loves you.
Allah praises you.
Imagine he tells his angels, look at Aisha
Bint Fulan. Look at Mariam Bint Fulan. Shaitan
made a promise that he was taking them
to Jahannam.
I bear witness, oh angels, that this Aisha
and this Mariam are for from the for
the people of paradise for the difficulty they
have wearing their niqab in a hot summer's
day in the UK,
meaning covering themselves with the hijab.
This is where the iman is.
We spoke about the people of Gaza. What
change are you do you wanna bring to
your life? Are you still going to tinker
with matters pertaining to your faith? Allah says
and do not display yourselves as was the
display of the former times of ignorance. So
women used to make up, literally paint themselves.
To the extent that in the books of
fiqh you find ideas if you go see
the girl how do you know her age
because the makeup was so much she could
look 10 years younger
They say look at her hands.
The fuqaha will share guidance in the books
of Iqh, they look at her hands, her
hands will give an idea of her age,
because that's how much makeup they did. And
even this whole idea of the niqab, by
the way, is it wajib? Is it not
wajib? Firstly, all the scholars agree it's better.
Shouldn't we do what is more beloved to
Allah? Allah? Even if it's not compulsory.
That's number 1. Number 2, they all agree
that if she has makeup on, she has
to cover.
The issue of Wajib not Wajib should she
cover, shouldn't she cover is when she doesn't
have makeup on her face.
Today the sisters go out with makeup and
tell you niqab is a difference of opinion.
This is a wrong reading of the fiqh
to my understanding. May Allah forgive me by
misrepresenting the Quran and the Sunnah.
But we can even deduce this from the
verses even if we don't look into the
books of the fuqaha. Allah says,
do not go out beautified, made up like
the women of Jahiliya.
Now Allah tells us, tells the females what
Allah wants from them.
Establish the salah,
and give the zakah.
And obey Allah.
And his Rasul.
Indeed, Allah only intends through these rules to
remove from you the impurity of sin. And
here he addresses the mothers of the believers,
oh, people of the prophetic household, and to
purify you with extensive purification.
I'm not gonna go too much on this,
but I wanted to leave this with you.
One last verse from Surah Al Hazab about
this.
Allah tells the people, the sahaba, that when
you are in the prophetic household and He
is hosting you, and you need something and
you need to ask one of the wives
of the Prophet
for it, make sure sure you ask them
whilst they are behind the covering, behind the
veil.
They should be covered,
And Allah says,
this is purer
for your hearts and their hearts, subhanallah.
That even our mothers of the believers, they
were human beings as well. And Allah forbid
anyone marrying the mothers of the believers after
the
prophet Anyway, it's 11 flat. We'll stop here
inshallah.
We did the of, Isha,
Maghrib,
and the adkar of Maghrib. We did the
of Isha. We did the of the the
the sunnah of Maghrib and Insha'Allah,
and then we did the Ibad of Taraweeh,
we've been with the Quran, and now we
sat in a tafsir session Allahu Akbar. What
a beautiful start to the 21st night.
Alright?
You've
had multiple relationships with the Quran through reading,
through hearing, and now through learning. Alhamdulillah.
Let us continue with that. InshaAllah. Protect your
tongues brothers and sisters in Islam. And everything
I shared with you here is not for
you to now talk about other people and
don't message your wife and say, you see
that sister. Don't even let your wife entertain
you. Leave this discussion after Ramadan.
Right now take the message
and don't believe for one moment the message
is for somebody else who should be here
because this is what happens sometimes.
And I said this to you before, sometimes
the lecture happens, you think, Yeah, salaam. I
wish that brother was here, oh Allah. I
wish that sister was here, oh Allah. La,
la, la. The message is for those who
are here.
Because we need reminders.
There's no guarantee
that we will be safe on our death
bed.
So we should keep trying, having good hope
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
May Allah accept from us and make us
from the family of our Quran in this
life and the next, not only in reading,
not only in listening, but also in practice.
I mean, you're Rubba Al Amin. I love
you for the sake of Allah. Tomorrow inshallah
wa barakat.
wa barakat.