Salah Mahmoud – Fortress Of The Muslim- 10.8.24

In the

name of Allah,

the Most

Gracious, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, the

Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.

And when the Surah is revealed, some of

them look at others, saying, Does anyone of

you see?

Then Allah turns their hearts away, because they

are a people who do not understand.

There has come to you a Messenger from

among yourselves, exalted above all that you have

done, eager to help you, to the believers,

kind and merciful.

So if they turn away, say, Allah is

sufficient for me, there is no god but

He.

I have put my trust in Him, and

He is the Lord of the Great Throne.

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,

the Most Compassionate.

The disbelievers say, This is a clear magician.

Indeed, your Lord is Allah, who created the

heavens and the earth in six days, then

settled on the Throne.

He arranges the matter.

There is no intercessor except after His permission.

That is Allah, your Lord, so worship Him,

or do you not remember?

To Him is your return, all of you.

The promise of Allah is true.

Indeed, He begins creation, then repeats it, to

reward those who believe and do righteous deeds

with justice.

And those who disbelieve, for them is a

drink of boiling water and a painful punishment

for what they used to disbelieve.

He is the One who made the sun

a light, and the moon a light, and

He has determined for it stages, so that

you may know the number of years and

the reckoning.

He arranges the matter.

He explains the signs for a people who

know.

Indeed, in the alternation of the night and

the day, and what Allah has created in

the heavens and the earth, are signs for

a people who are righteous.

Indeed, those who hope to meet Us and

are pleased with the life of this world

and are assured of it, and those who

are heedless of Our signs, for them is

their abode is the Fire, for what they

used to earn.

ALLAH IS THE GREATEST Indeed,

those who believe and do righteous deeds, their

Lord guides them by their faith.

Rivers flow beneath them in the Gardens of

Bliss.

Their call therein is, Glory be to You,

O Allah, and their greeting therein is, Peace.

And their last call is, Praise be to

Allah, Lord of the worlds.

And if Allah were to hasten the evil

for the people, He would have hastened for

them the good, and their term would have

been decreed for them.

So leave those who do not hope to

meet Us.

In their transgression they are blind.

And when harm touches man, he calls to

his side, or sits down, or stands up.

But when We remove his harm from him,

he passes away as if he had not

called us to harm that touched him.

Thus was made beautiful for the transgressors what

they used to do.

And We destroyed the generations before you when

they transgressed, and their messengers came to them

with clear proofs, but they did not believe.

Thus do We recompense the guilty people.

Then We made you successors after them, that

We might see how you would act.

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is

the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest,

Allah is

the Greatest.

As-salamu

alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

By the Grace of Allah, we have just

finished Surah At-Tawbah and started Surah Yunus.

In these two beautiful surahs, one of the

ayat that I recited in the beginning was,

Allah says, Be mindful of

Allah and be with the truthful one.

Throughout the whole entire surah, Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala has been telling us about the

qualities of al-munafiqeen, from the beginning of

the surah till the end of the surah.

So in the middle, Allah subhanahu wa ta

'ala is telling us, be truthful, be truthful

to yourself, be truthful to people, and be

truthful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

Why?

Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala can see your heart, Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala knows what you have

in your mind, what you think, and which

group are you following, right?

And especially nowadays, you really need to be

ma'as sadiqeen, you need to understand which

group, which side are you taking exactly, right?

Is it the side of the enemies, or

the side of al-munafiqeen, or the side

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, The quality

of being truthful is one of the most

important qualities in Islam.

That's why out of all the qualities and

traits, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose that

quality for Rasulullah ﷺ, that khuluq.

The honest, the trustworthy, right?

So sifat al-sidq, this is a very

essential sifah and quality and the trait for

the believers.

Ibrahim ﷺ asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

and said, And the Prophet ﷺ said, So

you seek, you are truthful and you continue

to seek truthfulness until Allah subhanahu wa ta

'ala writes you down amongst al-sadiqeen.

So in everything that you do in your

life, try to always check your heart and

see if you're sadiq with your nafs, are

you sadiq with people, are you sadiq with

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, or are you

just doing something for the sake of people

and for the sake, you know, and thinking

that you're doing the right thing, but in

haqiqah, in reality, you are not doing this,

right?

So that's the first ayah.

It's a direct command from Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala to be mindful of him and

to be truthful.

The last ayah in this surah about the

Prophet ﷺ, It's a beautiful

ayah where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells

us that a messenger from amongst you, He's

from us, he's from our lineage, he's a

human being, right?

So he's anxious whenever you're injured, whenever, that's

one of the tarjama, whenever you're struggling with

something, that the Prophet ﷺ would care for

you.

The Prophet ﷺ, when you're facing difficulty, he

would always feel sad and, you know, he

feels that for his companions and for the

believers in general.

And he genuinely cares for you, right?

He wants to make sure that you follow

the path of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

and follow the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ

until you exit this dunya and you are

safe.

Until you go to Jannah, inshallah, right?

That's why the Prophet ﷺ, if a janazah

for a non-believer or a non-Muslim

passed by the Prophet ﷺ, would really feel

upset and sad.

Why?

Because he was not able to save a

human from Jahannam.

And subhanallah, when someone accepts Islam, the Prophet

ﷺ would always be happy because he was

able to save someone from Jahannam.

He cares for you.

Everything that he says to you, he asks

you to do, it's for your own benefit,

for your own interest.

He's so merciful, so kind to the believers,

right?

So when you think the Sunnah of the

Prophet ﷺ is difficult to follow in the

path and the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ

is difficult and to make our lives, subhanallah,

difficult, that is not true at all.

It's not true, right?

The Prophet ﷺ cares for us.

He tells us what is best and what

is good for us.

So, ikhwan and ikhwati, today, inshallah, let's follow

some of the Sunnah as much as we

can, inshallah, some of the Sunnah of Rasulullah

ﷺ.

Then, inshallah, later on, we're going to reflect

on Surah Yunus, inshallah, because it's a beautiful

surah and it has a lot of mawa

'iz, a lot of reminders for all of

us.

I ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to

accept our amal, ya rabbal alameen, and to

make us from those who recite Qur'an

and implement Qur'an in their lives.

Allahumma ameen.

I say this and ask Allah's forgiveness for

me and for you.

May Allah reward you well.

May Allah bless you.

Inshallah, we'll be up at 8.15 p

.m., inshallah, we'll be up at 8.15

p.m., inshallah.

May Allah bless you.