Salah Mahmoud – Stories Of The Quran- 10.8.24

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.

I bear witness that there is no god

but Allah.

I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger

of Allah.

Come to prayer, come to success.

The prayer has been established, the prayer has

been established.

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.

There is no god but Allah.

Say, O people, if you are in doubt

about my religion, then I do not worship

those whom you worship besides Allah, but I

worship Allah, Who takes you in His care,

and I have been commanded to be of

the believers, and to set your face to

the religion, turning away from it, and not

to be of the polytheists.

And do not invoke besides Allah that which

will neither benefit you nor harm you, for

if you do, then you are of the

ignorant.

And if Allah should touch you with harm,

none can remove it except Him, and if

He intends for you to do good, then

turn not to His grace.

He causes it to befall whomsoever of His

servants He wills, and He is the Forgiving,

the Merciful.

Say, O people, the truth has come to

you from your Lord, and whoever is guided

is only guided for his own self, and

whoever is misguided is only misguided for it,

and I am not a guardian over you.

And follow that which is revealed to you,

and be patient until Allah judges, and He

is the Best of Judges.

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest

All praise is due to Allah, Lord of

the worlds, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful,

Master of the Day of Judgment.

It is You we worship and You we

ask for help.

Guide us to the straight path The path

of those upon whom You have bestowed Your

Grace, not of those who have incurred Your

Wrath, nor of those who have gone astray.

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,

the Most Merciful.

To Allah is your return, all of you,

and He is Able to do all things.

Unquestionably, they conceal their *, that they may

hide therefrom.

Unquestionably, when they conceal their *, they conceal

their hearts.

He knows what they conceal and what they

reveal.

He knows what is in their *.

There is no creature on earth but that

its provision is with Allah, and He knows

its abode and its abode.

All is in a clear Book.

And it is He who created the heavens

and the earth in six days, and His

Throne was upon the water, that He might

test you as to which of you is

best in deed.

And if you say, Verily, you will be

resurrected after death, those who disbelieve will surely

say, This is nothing but manifest magic.

Allah is the Greatest.

Allah listens to those who praise Him.

Allah is the Greatest.

Allah is the Greatest.

Allah is the Greatest.

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the beginning, inshallah, tonight we have a special

program for brother Sami Hamdi and Imam Abdul

Malik.

I don't know if he's here or not.

It will be a very good program inshallah

but I mean very beneficial we're going to

talk about the current situation what is going

on in the world and we have inshallah

we're going to talk about the elections and

our Responsibilities as Muslim community inshallah, but I

mean so join us after Salat al-Isha

Brother Sabih Hamdi he came here before and

of course our own dear Imam, Imam Abdul

Malik He's also going to be here inshallah

with us.

We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

give us Tawfeeq I mean so surah Yunus

one of the One of the most beautiful

surahs actually if you notice that pretty much

I say that about the whole Quran But

surah Yunus is also very close to my

heart subhanAllah as I recite Each and every

ayah.

I feel like I have a story with

it or I have a personal connection with

it so Starting and we finish surah Yunus

and we started surah Hud We Started with

the story of Pharaoh After Allah subhanahu wa'ta

'ala parted the sea for Pharaoh So

there is a there is a khutba that

I gave before about the psychology of tyrants

The psychology of tyrants and dictators.

It's interesting that they have the same pattern.

They have the same psychology.

There is no difference.

So Firaun alayhi la'anatullah, he sees something

unusual There is an unusual event happening in

front of him.

Okay unusual event meaning that There was a

sea and that sea Basically parted split into

two sides or two pieces All right, and

there is a pathway in the middle.

This is a very unusual event Correct.

Very unusual event It's not like he had

he said that he had said that before

happening somewhere and he knows what was going

to happen Very unusual.

So he sees Musa alayhi salam and his

his followers.

They're passing by passing through it So now

as a tyrant He thinks that or he

thought that everything will always go his way

All right Always meaning that the sea will

continue the unusual event will not change meaning

that the pathway that Musa alayhi salam Created

by the power of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala

will also stay until Firaun passes by because

I'm Firaun All right, alayhi salam wa'l

kum yusra wa hadhi al anhar wa tajri

min tahti ana rabbukum al a'la All

right, so Firaun thought that it's gonna continue.

Nothing is gonna change All right, although it's

an unusual event So, of course Firaun because

of his ignorance and because of arrogance He

continued and he passed through the pathway, right?

And then what happened?

Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala brought the sea back

together because that is an unusual event.

Firaun, anta majnoon This whatever happened it wasn't

for you.

This kind of things don't happen for you

All right, you can only use humans, but

when it comes to Allah's power Dictators have

nothing to do with it.

So that was clearly for Musa alayhi salam

and his followers.

All right So what would you really why

didn't you just pause and reflect but subhanAllah

ya'na al ghaba'a kama naqul jindu

min jinoodi Allah You know, and I don't

want to say the word But ya'na

ignorance is one of the soldiers of Allah

subhanahu wa'ta'ala meaning that Allah subhanahu wa'ta

'ala makes some people ignore All right, because

that's their own destruction All right, they're ignored

So he passed, you know through that and

Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala put, you know, the

bring the the sea together and Firaun drowned

so now as a tyrant, he just realized

that Everyone around him just obviously not gonna

help him because the tyrant as it happens

and just say Sayyid Qutb as he said,

he said that the tyrant is is a

very weak person They just get their support

from the from the mass who choose to

bend their backs Alright, subhanAllah, you know that

the slaves they bend their backs for their

master so he can step on top of

them So when the when the mass is

not around him when the people who used

to praise him all of a sudden They're

they left him.

I'm not even surprised that some of them

backed out.

They didn't move forward Okay, so what happened?

Firaun drowned.

So now he's looking for her man.

He's looking for everyone around him and looking

for his following Nobody's around him.

Everyone is dying.

They're trying to help themselves.

Okay So what happens after that?

He said khalas.

I need to find a way.

I am Firaun.

I have to survive Qala aamantu anahu la

ilaha illa allathee aamanat bihi banu israeel wa

ana minal muslimeen You know what if you

cannot defeat them you might as well just

need to join them la ilaha illallah So

Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says in the beautiful

ayah al-ana wa qad asayta qablu wa

kunta minal mufsideen No, it's too late.

And even this subhanAllah the tajweed rule here.

It's madd al-azm Madd al-azm.

What is madd al-azm?

You have to stretch it six counts You

cannot just say al-ana.

Al-ana means now.

All right, but you can see just say

now versus now So look at this descriptive

that's the eloquence of Quran al-ana wa

qad asayta qablu wa kunta minal mufsideen Now

are you coming to to become a mawlana,

a mawlana qawm shaykh right now?

It's too late.

Khalas.

It's over Okay, not only this, fal yawmanu

najeeka bi badanika litakuna liman khalfaka You know

Firaun, your body you're gonna drown.

You're gonna die and this is the worst

kind of death SubhanAllah, that's why it's actually

considered to be a shaheed.

The Prophet, the one who dies in the

sea of drowning basically is shaheed, but not

Firaun, like I have to be a Muslim

first, right?

So You can imagine Firaun will face this

punishment in dunya Fal yawmanu najeeka bi badanika,

we will keep your body So the generations

until the day of judgment will see your

body.

That's Firaun All right, we're not sure if

he's really Ramses II, the mummy that they

have in Egypt now Allah o alam, I

don't know.

I'm not a historian.

Allah o alam, but it could be, right?

So everyone looks, that's Firaun.

Fal yawmanu najeeka bi badanika litakuna liman khalfaka

ayat You're going to be a lesson for

everyone who will come after you Right?

wa inna kathira minal nasi an ayatina laghafilun

Allah gives us signs and alamat and evidences

and all of that But we turn like,

you know, blind eye.

We don't we don't want to see the

signs of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so

brothers and sisters what we learn here is

is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has

the power and Dictators and tyrants they have

the same psychology and same pattern literally like

if you read in history, you will just

start laughing It's the same exact pattern.

These people they go to their own destruction

They go to their own death with their

own SubhanAllah, by themselves, by themselves and read

throughout history.

Did you see any tyrant?

That died just a regular death or he

wasn't really cursed by his people after that

Even after they die still the same thing

and if you think some of them are

alive now and this Allah o alam what's

gonna happen still they're going to be You

know The garbage of the history that's the

hikmah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from

the from the time of Adam Alayhis Salaam

until the day of judgment.

So when you see them, you know In

the peak of their power and thinking that

I'm a Allah, all right, I can do

whatever we can do.

Whatever, you know this that they're coming to

an end.

Wallahi And again, it doesn't have to happen

in 20 30 50 years.

What is 50 years compared to the SubhanAllah

thousand years, right thousand years and two thousand

years and three thousands.

What is that?

Nothing, you might we might not see them

But the generation will come after that will

definitely see that because this is the Sunnah

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That's the

decision and the decree of Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala.

It's a way of Allah subhanahu wa ta

'ala Dictators will be humiliated in dunya and

of course will be humiliated in the hereafter

There is so many other lessons we can

learn from Surah Yunus We ask Allah subhanahu

wa'ta'ala to allow us to understand the

Hikmah and the deep reflections and Hikmah of

the Quran Allahumma amina qulu qawli hadha wa

astaghfirullah li walakum jazakumullahu khayran barakallahu feekum Just

to remind you inshallah.

We have a special event a special program

tonight with brother Sami Hamdi and Imam Abdul

Malik and tomorrow Inshallah, we have our family

night after Salatul Maghrib inshallah.

We have professor Javed Iqbal.

He's coming from Pakistan Very well-known figure

mashallah, so join us inshallah Barakallahu feekum.

We have a few spots left in Umrah

inshallah if you want to join us in

November And then the retreat inshallah will be

next week