Suhaib Webb – Heavy Rotation Explanation of Sura Humaza and Sura Fil
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The speakers emphasize the importance of reading the Quran and finding out what is going on in their life, as well as the use of words like "fr" and "imational" in relation to language. They also discuss the challenges of privacy in online media and the treatment of Muslims and their treatment of people in different ways, including the treatment of Muslims in different ways and the importance of punishment. The Kava is viewed as a symbol of protecting people and the treatment of people in different ways, including the treatment of Muslims and their treatment of people in different areas of the Muslim spectrum.
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flockmen Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa sallahu wa salam
ala Sayyidina Muhammad Hi Tamil MBE one more saline. So we begin
as I just said, praising Allah and sending Peace and blessings upon
our beloved messenger Muhammad, Salah Allah Almighty us Hello,
it's nice to see everybody again hamdulillah so we were doing this
session called heavy rotation that Lauren suggested,
because of an interest, I guess in the community and she asked me to
come home to La so I said, Sure, going through kind of like the
last chapters of the Quran that are like in heavy rotation right
there, and everybody's sort of heavy rotation so that we can
bring an animation and cadence to our worship, where it might get
stale, right. So by reviewing the Quran and revisiting the Quran,
it's a way to sort of enhance our prayer, in particular, a shawl to
be he was a
great Andalusi and scholar who was blind, but he dictated a poem that
we study in karate, he says, What has Ted who you're tired of he
hated Jamala which means like, the more you reflect on the Quran, the
more the beauty you find it.
Like, the more that you invest in it, so sometimes when I talk to
people, undoubtedly not everyone can memorize a lot of Quran.
So, what I encouraged him is to like, just re study, like, revisit
what you have, and you will like constantly find, you know, he says
also hua hai Raja li Salah you Manuel Hadith, who, but I'll tell
you who has their roofie, heater Jamala. That's what he says. He
says that the best like, time you can spend sitting is with the
horror, and you'll never get bored of it. And the more that you
invest in it, the more it will unveil itself to you. Like the
more you'll find yourself mesmerized by it. So in that vein,
we're going through some of this, the chapters that are in heavy
rotation, and we started with solta Fatiha. And then last week,
we read some reflections, the short answer and today we're going
to cover two chapters, so to Homosassa, and sort of feel. And
if you think about it, it's very interesting because after
God swears by time, we'll ask her, then actually the next few
chapters up and so to sort of a class are any possible situation
that the Prophet will find in his time.
So Allah He was himself for example, the next chapter talks
about like, bad people. They backbite you they slander you,
they talk about you. The next chapter, which we'll talk about
today talks about phenomena. So to feel the third chapter talks about
his tribe, the Quraysh that we're going to talk about next week, the
coloration from Karachi, which is a shark because they will eat you.
That's why when you go to Mecca, they're tough. Medina, they're
nice. From kurush, Samak plush, you know shark, some people said
it's also from money, because they were into money. But both of those
tend to harden a person at least at that time. And then so to my
own, again, going back to if you notice, most of the chapters after
swearing by time talk about personality traits,
like negative personality o'clock character to emphasize the
importance of like, don't be like these people. And then show Tokota
again, someone who insulted the Prophet size, some after his son
was around 17, passed away, and then sold to care for your own,
and then throw to NASA. And then so Tibet here there. It's
interesting. The last challenge mentioned is like your family,
right, His own uncle, and then after that, we'll finish the
Quran. So you can think about this in one way. The actual saying
while also every sort of scenario that the Prophet alayhi salatu
salam dealt with in his life is now going to be presented in the
small chapters as though I swear by time and here's like everything
that's going to happen to you and happen to you. Our scholar said
like actually there are eight moments in your life and that's
it. There's a great poem he says them Enya to Tajiri ins equally
hear me that there are eight situations no one will escape them
while I bought the little inset in El castlemania Like you can't
escape one of the eight has normal Farhan sadness happiness was the
mountain TIFF or Farrakhan being together separating
was so common Jose hatoon Health sickness
within a while, while fucker and like being sufficient, and being
in need,
like no one will escape those eight. So I wanted to share that
just because of last week, when you think about Alaska, you can
think about sort of your life in in light of these kinds of eight
sort of umbrellas. The next chapter, Soto Homosassa is a
Mexican chapter. It was sent in regards to the behavior of a
person
and there's a difference of opinion sometimes when you read
tafsir they may say, Oh, this verse was sent about this person
then like the next sentence, a different companion is saying this
was sent about this person. Now the companion saying this was sent
about this person. These are not definitive statements. In fact,
oftentimes
When you read the Sahaba, saying this is just saying, like, like
this person, like this kind of person is like what deserve this,
this, this revelation sort of fits who they were. So that's why
sometimes you find difference of opinion. But we have a very
important axiom in the science of interpreting the Quran that says,
a specific verse has general implications.
A specific verse when it's about like, usually not always has
general implications.
Or we say that a specific cause may be a more precise way to say
it. A specific cause does not limit the application of the
verse. So like, it's it's about this person. Oh, that doesn't that
doesn't apply to me.
Or it was about this person. Oh, well, I'm not that person. I'm
good. No, no Alebrije b Oh, mama love Labby horses c sub is
actually the axiom that concern is given for the generality of the
language, not the specific reason that the verse was or person that
the verse was sent about.
So that's why sometimes you read, you know, some of the companions
when they would read the verses about other communities that
preceded the Muslim community, they would still either be
euphoric, or they will still be frightened. Because they
understood this axiom abre be Oh, mommy left Larbey, hosel Z sub,
that concern is given to the general application of the
wording, not specifically who is sent about and less like, there's
a few verses we'll talk about maybe in the future, especially
when we talk about law, where things are specific. So here, when
we say that this surah most of the Sahaba say it was sin about a
person named Agnes, ignore Sharia. We shouldn't feel like oh, I can
go back by people. Like I'm not Agnes. Right? I'm not that person.
No, no, the application is general. And the person is more of
like an example, right of someone that we should look at who was
going around and spreading information and slandering. The
Prophet peace be upon him in Mecca. The other companions say it
was Al Walid, if not more hero, who also was like, involved in in
slandering the Prophet salallahu Salam, there's also something
important here, you know,
have to be a little technical just so we can again, enemy, ourselves
and enemy are reading the Word, you know, houmas and Lumumba,
because sometimes, we may back by people, may Allah forgive us.
Sometimes we may, inadvertently or even,
you know, deliberately say things about people. And then we think
like, oh, I'm like, wait, Lulu Kulu, who was a tomb as my life is
over, I'm the worst person the world. But here we see the beauty
of the language, the form of the verb, of the noun, who met is full
Isla, it's actually appear, this kind of civimobile Ella, which
means
constantly doing this.
Like this is their habit. So it's not like Like once in a while, you
know, like once in a while, it doesn't mean we should take it
lightly, may Allah forgive us and protect us. But these verses are
about people who've habituated these really bad characteristics,
as though it's like their habit.
And this is important in language, by the way, because sometimes when
I'm reading fat to online,
and I read that people are using narrations, especially in
translation, it becomes very obvious that they don't understand
Arabic very well, which is a key to scholarship and a fundamental
fald especially in fatwa.
So for example, maybe sisters, you have the question, can I go to the
graveyard? You know, am I allowed in the graveyard? I've heard that
the woman who goes to the graveyard is cursed. You know,
she's not allowed in the graveyard. So the Hadith of the
prophesy Saddam, where it says that the woman who visits a grave
is cursed, the form is what zoo was right, that form. They're
always visiting the grave.
Because in the time of the process, when there were women,
you would what you will pay them to go to the grave. And like, they
were like, they were like bots, you know, bots at a funeral. Like
they weren't really invested in the disease, but you would just
pay them to come and like sing songs and lament and cry. That has
nothing to do with you.
Because you're not in the water. You're not going to every hour
every day, multiple times to the graveyard. But someone because
they don't understand what I just said. Because what happened
shaitan will come to people Oh, this is hard. The language is
important. The language is important. It impacts policy. It
impacts fatwa.
So specifically another example I can give you is that hadith people
translating it there Miss translating it doesn't mean a
woman whose husband has passed away May Allah protect us or her
father or brother's friends is talking about as a wallet for
Eilat.
always like those that were paid to go and you know, be Janessa
bots movie is his the word we're looking for. So here why you will
equally houmas that in lieu Meza. Homosassa is the person that is
hurting you behind your back.
And the word hammers actually means to break Kassar.
Because when someone's going around and slandering people, and
usually it means they're saying something about them, that's not
true. To create problems.
So I might go to someone to say, like, you know, like, Lauren
doesn't like you, she was just talking about you at giant, you
know, like, she's not even a giant, right. But the purpose is
to create sort of
some problems between people. This is a mess.
Loomis is the one that will hurt you to your face.
And we talked about this I believe in sort of Fatiha that Islam as a
legal system, its major axiom is to prevent harm. And one of the
greatest areas of harm is human conduct.
At its easiest, most efficient way, harm comes to us from people.
We can all go online right now and find someone that says something
that's gonna like, make us feel bad. So that's why human conduct
is so important. So Allah says Wei Liu,
Li equally every home has a Lomasa to those who go around behind you
and are saying things about you which are untrue, or could be
true, but are will talk about in the future maybe backbiting
and then Lomas? The one that is in front of you,
saying things to your face?
Acting in a dishonorable way.
It's very serious. So that's why the chatter begins whale, the word
whale
is using the Quran in three places. Right? And it has the
meaning of like, cursed wrath be upon
recipients of punishment
and so on and so forth. And usually say to someone who's doing
something wrong way in fact, it's a form of threat. The meaning is a
threat. Whoa, twice translate like an English as well.
What a what a common way Lou. SOTA. Ambia you know, upon them is
like this incredible threat of punishment. Here. We talked about
this last time. I told you that in Arabic if something appears in the
indefinite article is meant to show that it's it's undefinable
and that can be used in two ways. Number one is a praise. Like if
you say mashallah, enter No, don't.
Like you're No, but I didn't say enter a No, I said no room to show
like your light. You are a light meaning your light cannot be
restricted.
Like your benefit is immense. So that's why the word you know, the
sound you hear at the end, sometimes a word sounds like an in
an on in turn when it's a sign of an indefinite article Flm is the
sign of the definite article Al hamdu. All the praises due to
Allah if you said hum don't mean like, any proof,
limited praises to Allah.
So when Allah subhanho wa Taala talks about the Prophet alayhi
salatu salam, he says, What are Sanaka Illa Ramadan
we sent you as an an indefinable mercy to everything.
Your mercy has no limits.
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam here it's the opposite, right? Like
this is an indescribable undefinable punishment
and it's one of the things that indicates for us in in filth, that
something's haram way
if you ever watched like those old if you speak Arabic, you watch
those old like Arabic shows, their historical shows, they said, Well,
you do look
like they talk like that, you know, they use it a lot like Woe
to you.
Maybe the best way I can think of my grandma used to say like your
cruisin for a bruisin.
Like it has this feeling of threat
has a feeling like what you're doing is going to lead to a
problem.
So Allah says way load liquidly every and here we understand
something like
maybe we should, should be careful because maybe somebody thinks
well, so all type of Backbiting is forbidden. This is different than
backbiting, right? There is an intent of harm behind all this,
whether it's in the person's face
Whether it's behind them that the intention is to commit harm. And
that's why if you look in the Quran often something that brings
about like explicit harm is dealt with pretty fiercely.
But there are times when Backbiting is permissible like
therapy.
This is mentioned by Mohamed and here, but it's in the books of
filk, especially in the books of the Mufti or the kadhi. Because if
you're moved to your party, people come to you they have problems
they may need, they have to tell you everything. Because if they
don't tell you everything, it will be difficult to serve them.
So specifically, in a therapeutic situation where someone's been
abused, someone's been wronged. Someone has been harmed, someone's
been mistreated. This doesn't fall under backbiting.
You have to be careful that people try to use religion this way. How
dare you, you know,
report some kind of wrongdoing,
that spiritual abuse
has nothing to do with religion.
The second is in in criminal cases, Allah says what I talked to
more shahada or may you have to have her in the theme or kobu
Don't hide the witness. Like if you know something, right. If you
if you're able to exonerate someone or in to ensure that
someone truly is deserving of punishment, or they're guilty, and
you're asked to be a witness, you have to be witnessed.
When seeking fatwa, sometimes in fatwa it's easier you can say, you
know, somebody, you don't have to say names, unless you want to, but
you, you and I could give a description of what happened.
And also an adjudication right in front of a party.
Whether it's testimony or witness, or whatever I mentioned earlier,
President that doesn't fall under backbiting. So it was like four or
five situations where things don't fall under Ilieva
because the goal behind them is not harm.
The goal behind them is hack. And the Prophet peace be upon him said
actions are by way, by intentions. But houmas Lumas these are some
ratchet, evil disgusting people, men.
How can we ensure when people share information with us that
it's honest.
Allah says in Jaya Confessio Colombina in Factiva, you know,
if a rebellious person or shady person comes to you with
information, you have to verify it. So there's like three or four
questions we can ask ourselves. Number one, does this have
anything to do with me?
In the sense, like, do I have enough knowledge to be able to
really bring any type of benefit to the situation or direct the
person to resources that may be able to do a much better job than
me? If the answer is no, I should probably just recognize that this
is not in my wheelhouse.
Number two, do you actually know the person? Like do you have
relationship with them in a way where you're able to affirm or
deny if there's neither of those then maybe you should get to know
them more.
So that then you're able to make sort of a
you know, a proper call.
The third is that
you have to also I like one time one person told me you should know
who your people know, like do you know enough people around that
person also where you get the full image of what's going on? Like if
you're only getting like sort of like one one sort of image you're
not going to be able to really assist
so Allah says injure Confessio can be a bit inflatable you know.
So while will equally houmas at Luminesce whoa to every setback
biter and slander, but houmas As I said earlier, it means cursor to
break Lumas means a button to pierce because the idea here this
is like a metaphor, like these kinds of people are breaking and
piercing people with their words.
What they say yes, ma'am.
Going back to like the cases in which it's okay to backfire, just
to make sure I'm not overstepping. What if you're like, literally,
like talk to someone who doesn't know that person, but it's like,
purely to like,
either vent or like complain, but like, not necessarily to like
that. Like, if you're talking about something at work to like
somebody else just to like vent it hours. You actually know what
Thank you. There's two two scenarios, I forgot marriage.
You know, if you know someone's trying to marry someone, and you
know that that person's like, you know, it's not like maybe you met
them and you had a bad experience and so you know, like them didn't
work out. That doesn't count but you know, like
they're doing some great like they're bad people. You
Do you have to tell the person?
Like, you know, wait till they get married you like, oh, by the way,
remember that show like serial killers?
That was the person, right? It's probably a bad idea, right? You
probably want to, you have to actually step in before and also a
professional setting. Right evaluation.
As long as it's honest, right? We know, people catching bodies at
work. So I've been, you know, in those scenarios where we have to
make sure it's honest, it's true.
And there's some there may be some benefit for myself just to be able
to let out they actually have department for that now, right
where you can? Yeah, supposed to be where you can go and release
your frustration? Yes, sir.
Because there are other words,
Latin is more specific Latin is a curse. Well, it's just like Doom.
Like, a curse may be part of oil.
But a whale is not part of curse. So he said, they know more than
whistles. Like there's some intersectionality in the words,
but whale is more general.
Just bad. You know, like all bad things. Some people say a whale is
a valley in the hellfire.
Some of the early
companions of the Prophet saw the lace and um, he said, whale is
like a valley in general.
But the strong opinion is that it's just generally just like,
whoa to that person. It's hard to catch an English.
Man.
The first question, you said that you have an obligation to report
on somebody? If some they're being considered for marriage? Do you
have to volunteer that information? Or is it only one?
No. So let's say like my daughter, I use my daughter my 20 through
some, some guy, sorry, brothers, some dude. It's like, it's
approaching my daughter, you know, that's fine. And then like,
someone out of nowhere, calls me and says, yeah, man, this guy is
like, has a history of like, physical violence and emotional,
like, you have to do that.
Whether asked you or not, because now I'm just going to sit back and
watch all this blow up. Of course, when I say have to do that, you
got to weigh and measure your own life. Because sometimes that stuff
can be unfortunately, used against a person, but there's ways to get
around that, you know. But yeah, it's the same thing in business,
if we see people, you know, engaging in business, so we know,
one person is very shady, they have a shady past, we may even
have experienced it with them. And we see someone that we know, or
someone that maybe we don't even know, they're about to do, like,
some kind of business, we should. Somehow it can even be anonymous,
but like, let them know, like, this person is not someone that
you need to be doing business with. So you don't you're not wait
to being asked, because we're commanded to prevent harm.
Right. It's one of our, you know, mandates where we should be wise
with that. Yes.
If you say sorry, you have to pay like $10. You know, the No, I have
a no. So I have a no sorry, rule. That no sorry, rule. And then I
say sorry.
I'm gonna make
sure but
do you if you hear a rumor? Do you have to like verify that report?
Or should you just share it and say like, this is a rumor, I'm not
positive, no unverifiable information we should be careful
with. We're talking now about like facts. Right. So I know. Like, I'm
not maybe I heard something. You know, now, if I hear like a from a
million people that weren't sort of like, Hey, I heard this, maybe
you need to look into it. Right. So there's levels to sort of where
that is.
Yeah, my issue with a lot of this is what I see sometimes is that
the victim is turned into the aggressor, and the aggressor is
turned into the victim. And then everything's about what you can't
talk about them. You can't say anything, because, right, but
that's not that's not law. Like that's not the how the shadow
works.
So, yes.
So I've seen in a lot of
online spaces, especially like a lot of online Muslim spaces,
people will say, you know, if you're gonna post something
publicly, then till then you don't have a right to say that people
can't comment on it. So a lot of people like stitch video and might
also like, you know, respond to them and say, you know, you're
posting it online, so therefore, it's not really about biting or
like, it's not even.
Yeah, like you shouldn't, you don't have a right to complain
about other people commenting.
If you if you post something online, like that, and also they
also say like, you know, we have an obligation to prevent harm. And
so that's what I'm doing by
I think that's to be adjudicated, you know, I come from maybe a
different era, so forgive me, I'm the old person in the room. But
I've seen a lot of times also where online stuff has destroyed
people that I knew a person who committed suicide did nothing
wrong
with them, and doesn't mean as one person out of a lot of
People who also did bad stuff, I just think like, I don't know if
online spaces is the place to adjudicate
accusation. But then again, also, sometimes if you've grown up your
whole life, and every time you've gone to someone and said, This
person is doing this to me, and they keep dismissing that person,
and then you go to institutions and institutions dismissed them,
you can't really blame people for going online. Like that's the only
place to have to turn now. So I think that there needs to be a
neither this or that. I think there a mechanism needs to be
brought in place of how our online like, say within Muslim spaces
investigated, presented. And then, you know, rightfully treated, it
couldn't be locally. And we don't have that. I don't I don't know if
anyone, maybe big churches have it. Right. But they generally tend
to protect
the profit without the pH.
Which is a disaster. Yeah. So I am in the middle, because I've seen
people get put on blast like that individual, lead suicide
destroys things. And you find out later on, there was just like,
some disgruntled people. I've seen women put on blast online,
couldn't get married, you know, and did nothing wrong. Then I've
seen a lot of people put online who should have been putting only
online they shouldn't put it in like lineup.
And so I tend to try to I struggle to how do you like how do you find
the middle space for this where, you know, people have you can't
tell people not to, like, go online and post what they want to
post?
Yeah, it seems like we're we're hitting the nerve here today. Yes,
ma'am. Good questions. You said like, the backfire. dissenters are
wretched people. So wondering, what is it? Are they recipe for
their actions? Or when? When can we ascribe an action to a person?
Yeah, I mean, the action, you know, they may repent. So of
course, we're talking now about
the action itself.
So when can we say a person is bad instead of like saying, like, the
things that they did?
You know, I try to stay away from that kind of stuff. So
philosophical, I judge the actions leave
that to Allah subhanaw taala, you know, so I don't know. I don't
have an answer for that. Yes, sir.
Generally,
from what I've heard is that when people ask questions about what to
do in the online space, they say that the journal
will be acceptable in person. Also play online. So somebody
is somebody in a woman's life
and you're competent, commenting on issues that
you won't be able to comment on her in person.
I think that I think that applies to certain situations, but online
is not on life. And so from a field perspective, they're not
going to say they're the same. Right? Like if you if you're
talking to a woman online, it's not Hello.
Hello, has to be a place where you could have sexual *, and
no one would know it. They haven't been online. I mean, as of yet.
So yeah, I mean, this fit in at this shaytaan technology, who
knows next, but these are different, completely different
spaces. But in general, of course, we should treat people online, I
would treat them on life. Right with the same dignity. So let's,
let's move sorry, I think we need to do like an open q&a session,
because the great questions that hamdulillah so the chapter begins,
well, to liquidly every home has a loom. As we said the word
Homosassa is someone who's habituated his behavior. So that
kind of answers the question you had in the back, right? This is
this, this form of the noun for Isla is something they do all the
time.
And Lumumba is someone who is, you know, in front front facing people
kind of she said maybe even online in the comments box, just
destroying people.
So Allah subhanaw taala says that these people are in trouble. Then
he describes them a levy Gemma know what I did.
And here we see something. Rossi says something nice, you said that
the only reason people backed by people or you know, slander them
to their faces or come at them is either because of envy related to
something bad or envy related to something good.
But we'll talk about envy we get to the end of the Quran sorta has
it? But then the next verse talks about the narcissism of this
person, and the sort of false understanding they have of wealth.
And there's actually two clear I hear a lady Gemma and Marilyn is
how you read it. But Hamza and Kisatchie and abbiamo they say a
levy. Jim was shed.
Jim Matt
ngema.
And we have an important rule in language that when you add it's
almost like food when you add spice it gets to taste changes. So
when you add anything to a word, its intensity becomes more.
Usually, usually.
So Gemma, it's from like Joomla to come together, right? I love the
the one who Gemma who collects. That's how when you read it, it's
understood this way. Gemma I'm Alan collects man.
Mal is wealth.
What I did, and counted
this person was like really big into their possessions, you know,
but in an unhealthy way. Like, don't worry if you go home and
like, you know, maybe you like certain this is not this is not
the context.
The other Kyra, from three out of the seven I love the gym mat
means, like, compulsively counting
what I did, so consult compulsively collecting and
compulsively counting. So they're big about that life. And they're
big about like,
counting or seeing what they have, because it fuels their sense of
value.
But here, basically, you're talking about someone who like,
just lives for this world.
The wealth, the wealth doesn't have like a noble means, because
maybe sometimes we have to be careful in religious discourse,
people may think that wealth is something wrong, or wealth does
something bad. If wealth is achieved through halau means and
good means what's wrong with it?
Maybe someone says What can I still, you know, be a person of
the achiara the hereafter if I have wealth, I believe also one of
the goals of of, especially like, I don't want to talk about again,
but like post the post colonial world is like kind of like, you
know, Muslims, righteous Muslims should be poor, they should have
no resources should be away from the dunya. Yeah, but look at your
enemy.
They have everything.
Right. So it's sort of doesn't make sense here. But even though I
am is a great theologian, he says something beautiful, he says, if
if wealth was the key to piety, then Sulaiman would not have been
a prophet.
But at the time of Solomon, Prophet Solomon, there is no one
on the earth, more pious than him. Yet he asked God to give him
provisions and power, the likes of which no one has seen before.
So we should be careful. Here, we're not talking about someone
who you know, is successful. Hamdulillah, someone who has been,
you know, Allah subhanaw taala has opened the doors of his provisions
for them no, hamdulillah we're talking to hear about a
narcissistic lunatic. Who goes around slanders people back bites
people, and specifically you hear the Prophet peace be upon him.
And in fact, you know, you have some really interesting statements
of early scholars about financial sufficiency. We believe financial
sufficiency is kind of like a fart, you know, Kumbaya, we don't
believe in opulence. That's the difference between us maybe in in
others, if it happens, Hamdulillah. But we believe in
sufficiency. And the Prophet said, as related by to me, the the best
one of you is the one who has been guided to Islam and has sufficient
provisions.
I learned this when I first became Muslim, I told you before, like I
had to start a hustle because I was worried that my family would
use you know, I was young, like, my lack of financial sort of
freedom against me. And now look at the Muslim world, the IDF. I
mean, the IMF, right, and the IDF and ioof. But all these threes,
but especially the IMF, right, look what they did to Indonesia,
25 years ago under Suharto, they guaranteed that the interest that
they would earn for the next 60 years would be more than their
GDP.
So basically, you became a slave. And it continued, even though
there may not be a military look at Egypt, for Egyptians, and CeCe
continues to like, take huge loans, which are bankrupting and
destroying, you know, the country.
You think about Muslim leaders who've ever talked about economic
independence, most of them are dead.
Right? Most of them were killed. So, you know, there's concern that
we should not equate these verses that are deploring occupancy and
hyper materialism and, and critical sort of engagement of the
dunya with people who understand that, as I say it, and we'll see
it one of the great early Muslim scholars said a metal seller had
to move in in that wealth is the weapon of the believer.
In fact, he said there's no good and the person who doesn't have
enough wealth to make moves, basically, that's why it's called
miskeen because it's like you cut them from 1616 is a knife. So the
poor person is the one who's incapable of making moves like we
say in slang.
They've been cut
All right, underserved.
So he said there's no good and the person who doesn't have enough he
doesn't he doesn't mean this for everybody. It means people who
have the ability, who doesn't have enough wealth to protect
themselves, their family, their community, and their people.
And we, you know, just I'm from Oklahoma, look at Tulsa, Black
Wall Street, look at Harlem, right wherever, in America in
Philadelphia, where black people begin to understood understand the
reality of having their own financial system and support, it
would be destroyed by people.
So you shouldn't underestimate the importance of being you know, in a
place of sufficiency. But this verse is talking about a person
who's just straight up shaytaan Allah the Genma man and what I
did, the word male is translated as property, but the word man is
from male male means to lean away from Arabs are smart. They named
things about what they do, because one day your wealth will leave
you.
You meet to meet who and
so they even before the time of Islam, they understood and they
appreciated like the temporality of the glitz.
That's why what did they call gold?
Why have
they called Gold their head? Because that means I went because
one day your gold is gonna wind
and silver fell, but in Fabu to perish.
So they were smart. They named,
you know, wealth by words that lent to the idea of temporality.
And one day there'll be separation.
So Allah says, Well, you will equally Homas at Lomasa, Alethea,
Gemma and Myrna what I did, collects it counted and one thing
you're gonna appreciate from this chapter is like the kind of people
the prophet had to deal with.
Like these are like bad people.
Yeah, several nm Allah who are holida. Your sub means to assume
there's two Chiara here also? Yeah. Sib Yes, sir. same meaning.
It's one of those words in Arabic that takes to
like sub rubbish, you know, like vows.
Yeah, several.
assumes Yes. All right. So did you say sorry?
That's $10 right there. Sir. Do you see donation box was that
number
two Q and A's I can hold as well. But this relates to both of the
verses that we just went over. You talked about Gemini as the also
interpreted as shutdown Gemma Yeah, and the same for Yes, have
interpreted recited, recited so
actually vary between different written versions, because that
seems like a big change, because it changes the meaning Gemma and
Gemma, or both read by the sahaba. Okay, we'll talk in our class that
will start hopefully in the fall, we start night class, we have this
class on the history of the Quran, and how these variant readings,
you know, how do we understand variant readings.
Textual integrity is very different in the Muslim tradition
than, say, the Christian tradition. That's one of the
challenges we have is we may be reflecting through sort of
a different way of thinking about text as it plays out within like
religious within the Quran specifically, but it's really
cool. It's very interesting, but sometimes it can impact the so
I'll give an example why it can impact the intensity of the
meaning. So Allah subhanaw taala says, you know, don't approach
your wife had to react to her until she had to order means she.
She just like washes.
But there's another pura Yatta horna means until she makes goosal
why would why would we have to Kara here, because not everyone
had enough water for himself.
Right? The people in the Bedouins they didn't have what she might
not have enough water to completely wash herself. But we
want the Allah wants their family to be happy them to have a
relationship to continue their their relationship as they
normally would. So sometimes the different okera are meant to allow
for different rulings in situations. So animates in and
that's important. Why do we have the digital camera to go back to
the Prophet peace be upon him?
Because the Quran is the everlasting miracle. One Clara
will not necessarily provide everyone what they need. The
person that doesn't have enough water the person does have enough
water or the person who's slightly narcissistic to one that's a
lunatic. So this expanse actually has a mercy but the integrity of
it is profound and we'll talk about that we have a class that
goes on that it's a long class that's why I'm saying I'm not
trying to
blow you off. Yes. Is now just understood to be like material
wealth or can it also be like social capital or like power?
Mal mal can be so first of all, the word mal actually like as
interpreted by the people of Medina met right
camels because that was like the Bugatti right the red camel was
like, you know, but in general Mal is anything that you can possess
yeah Bitcoin
right in the stocks yeah but it's a material wealth not not a like
spiritual wealth or
no health isn't health is risk.
So he says yes he will or we accept or n level and this person
who was seeing why this person is a problem also in their attitude
towards wealth is they think that their wealth holida who you say a
hardy Deena fee her everlasting. So, lambda is the verb means that
person assumes that his wealth will cause him to live forever.
Kalida like the word harlot?
Here's something interesting domain. If you look at it, a
colada is a past tense verb.
It's not a present tense verb, the imperfect tense does say, Yeah,
see, we're in the murderer who usually the who?
says a fella who why would it be in the past because that person's
conviction in their wealth is such like it already happened.
Seeing like a pourtant this something in rhetoric, sometimes
they use the past tense to show certainty, whether it's real or
whether it's an attitude. So for example, so to be known. When God
is talking about paradise, what does he say a pod F la helmet been
on? The believers widely successful?
It's actually translated sometimes it bothers me. I believe we should
translate it as it is in Arabic, because it will be weird in
English. But that weirdness is there on purpose. Because the
weirdness is to make you what? Why is that like that? Exactly. So it
leads to, like, I worry sometimes about over translation. Because
when you over translate, you take the adventure for the reader.
Whether you want them to like engage someone like a fool. I
mean, on the believers were successful, I ain't dead yet. How
am I already successful, Allah bless you, he chose you to be a
believer, even before you were born. The success of the believer
is guaranteed as though it's already done.
So here, it's in a negative context. This guy, a holida,
thinks that his wealth like it's my wealth got me. That's one
interpretation. So his reliance on his wealth is unfortunately
misplaced and his reliance should be on
like God and, and living a virtuous life. The second
interpretation, is that a leader who means that this person thinks
like, Okay, I'm not doing good. I'm not a good person. I don't
follow Muhammad peace be upon him. I'm actually an enemy of Prophet
Muhammad, peace be upon him, but my wealth will supplement my
shortcomings.
Like, my wealth is my good deeds.
So he's like living vicariously, if you will, to his wealth.
Kela next verse Keller is used to say like, Nah, like, there's
really outs I just did. Like, sometimes you have to translate it
in slang outside of a text to give the meaning. Kela is like always
say, like, no. That's the feeling of I think it's like, nay. You
know, nobody, like we don't I don't think we talk like that. But
you know, someone did, I'd be like, Wow, that's so cool. Oh, not
at all the exclamation mark. Okay, I see you. That's pretty good.
This is our translation we're using Dr. Mustafa hottub gave me a
whole box. So if anyone wants one, they can have one. So he
translated like not at all, like no way would be also the sort of a
way to say it. You know, it's a way of saying no, that is sort of
insulting
was called in car.
like, Nah,
that's the feeling Kela meaning everything that this person thinks
of ill assumptions like that my wealth is going to cause me to
live forever, you know, that I can count and collect his wealth as a
means to rely on.
No. And if you think about the chapter that just came before it,
this is an Intel insula feel
like this person that we're reading about now is that person
in loss
so it says Not at all.
Such a person will certainly be tossed into a halt on
here. Some stuff lost man, like the idea of being tossed is there
you know, but now you've but the meaning is tossed into something
deep.
Something that is deep.
And also there's a there's a there's a form of emphasis the
lamb in front of it in the new NAFTA it was touched, it was shut
the legume by then law is not law. No law means really, and the
Indian, really
so like India,
He did indeed. And a better translation thrown. Because the
idea is just kind of like bringing things into comparison, the person
thinks that their wealth has stabilized them. Well, when you're
tossed into this deep ravine in *, you won't even be able to
control your body.
So the idea here is that's why it doesn't say like, it's not like
your piano throne.
Now, that means here to be like, tossed in a way that they have no
control over their physical body.
So what did your wealth do for you, you can even control your
self fill Hold on, hold on, man, is the word homies to crush but he
was talking about hellfire.
And we'll talk about tonight if we have time, like why is there
hellfire? How do we how do we in our minds sort of grapple the idea
that God is infinitely punching people?
Like how does that work? It's a good question. People ask, well,
that I thought I'd come and help it rock means to reach
for a drug to so deeply I reached my friend like they were high up.
Here. It's used to show an idea that may challenge us to ascend in
a way cognitively, that we have to kind of grapple with this idea. Or
that adult aka Acharya Ahmed Dada LELO Takada, like, I have to
invest, I have to think it's like a journey.
You know, it's very difficult to have relationship with the Quran,
who someone is and like a verse to aversion.
There has to be some uncomfortability because you're
trying to explore God, like you're trying to explore a mystery.
And so that's an important part of bringing a person in not
overburdening them of course, but one man I don't I cannot help. I'm
like, Yo, you got to think about this.
You have to really invest I have to really invest. Now to Allah
hinwil, Kedah the fire of God
mukha that means like raging, burning, and this is a form of
embellishment in Arabic because fire is already raging fire is
already burning. So it's like an assault. Oh, no, no, no neither
nor Light upon light. Why do you need two lights?
The Arabs they do this a lot, at least in classical Arabic. They
they like to embellish something by mentioning
like they'll say, Oslo or Saul how you translate that you don't
remember first read this sentence Oslo or Saul as what the heck does
this mean? The foundational foundation
right so the idea here is that this fire is so intense. And it's
indescribable and unimaginable beyond physical sort of
definitions that it's like the fire is on fire.
A lead he totally remodel F EDA. What which will reach the core of
the person's soul and heart
arrives he says something interesting why because the heart
is where disbelief happens.
And we have a great axiom of ageism and Jin Suleiman people
will be punished according to what they deliberately earned. We have
to note that this person we're talking about now is someone who's
like they're invested in these bad qualities. They're very deliberate
there's intentionality in their Coover.
So it says hola t tell Talia al F EDA in NA R mo sada
what * is something that's like above you
something coming on top of you something that's suffocating
there's another Cara more sadder. See meaning
that is something that you can't escape
like towering
Fiamma the moment that
what that means is like this is hard to translate actually, but
the meaning is that the person is in a way incapable of escaping
this pit of * May Allah make it easy for us
to the extent that it looks like the pillars and the doors are the
same That's why if you speak out pay attention is Fiamma didn't say
be I'm adding as though the door and the pillar our feet inside
each other like they became one this is like some special effects
type business that you know like they merge together because the
door there's no way out in the pillar There's no door sort of the
feeling here. There's also Clara fee or OMO Dean
for a med like him or Everyone knows him alright.
Donkey, the plural of him is what homework? So are you mad? Oh my
god. So you can take Arabic you can impress every teacher. Next
time you go to class Fiama the moment data
Okay, this fire is like inside there inside this
place where there's no escape. And it's like the fires are like
pillars that they can't move out of. What do you take quickly from
this chapter because of time, is like we want to be very careful
like how we talk about people. Unless it's the truth, you can say
bad things about people if it's the truth, like and it says,
there's a need we talked about at the very beginning when it's not
considered backbiting. But this is talking about something different.
This is a person who's slandering the Messenger of Allah peace upon
him slandering Islam, and slandering the companions of the
Prophet and Mecca to their faces, and behind their backs. And this
person will act on us even a serial killer was also very
wealthy. And he was known to have used it mentioned use his wealth
for evil. So he did not use his wealth to heal a fractured world,
he
extended those fractures. And he also assumed, you know, that
wealth is what drives
success.
Intrinsically, we say that wealth is a means it's like a tool.
Every great Imam I know, has patronage. Like they're too busy
to earn. Right? That's just that's just the reality of teen videos.
That's coming from people that are supporting, right. So we want to
locate also like, the importance of good actors on this front
center DC, right? It's growth. Obviously, it's from people that
are using their wealth for the right reasons here. So do not
answer Videla, or at least in the Quran. Allah says these kind of
people use their wealth to keep people away from online.
So after so to answer Soto Homosassa, I wasn't going to do
it. But then I realized it's sort of like, has to be done. Because
this these chapters after so to answer, encapsulate the chapter on
time, all of the experiences that the Prophet peace be upon him,
especially in prophethood is going to experience and one of them is
shady, evil people.
And it's interesting out of all of the things that could be
mentioned, it's speech.
That's why Imam, Mohamed lazarey, in his famous book, he has an
entire section on, you know, the dangerous qualities of speech. And
he has a chapter on the positive qualities of speech
that takes us quickly to the next chapter and
try to do my best to make it before market IP sort of feel. So
to feel especially if you're a child, you know, my my youngest,
she has a fascination with elephants now for some reason,
because of shorter field. I'll fvl
sort of feel also sit in Mecca. And we know that it is recording
something that happened before
the prophesy Saddam is born.
And in fact, that happened a year he was born.
Salalah Holly was salam.
And it's about an incident that happened. There was a king and
Yemen
who became upset that people were going to Hajj or going to the
cabin, excuse me. And he felt you know, at that time, Yemen was at
the top of the world was accessed successful kingdom. And he felt
that
you know why they go into these
Bedouins? Like, why are they going there? Like they should come here.
So he built a huge church, a massive church. For those times,
like we'd say, a mega church, maybe no,
built a mega church, and someone from bento Kwinana, which is a
tribe Kwinana. We're in defecated on his church.
That takes us to a very important rule as we see now. The genocidal
maniacs destroying mosques and churches, without any concern
we've seen, unfortunately, even in some Muslim countries, people on
the far sort of periphery of normal Islamic thought, you know,
Bernie churches are attacking people. Because of different
religions, this is considered completely forbidden.
In fact, the Quran says what to Subala Xena Yeah, they're Ottoman
junella Hey, if a Subala had on the lady and do not insult the
gods of other people, because they won't, so Allah, if that's the
case of their gods, what about their institutions?
So this individual he went and deprecated less the strong opinion
or did some kind of vandalism, biological vandalism or otherwise,
to the church. And so this individual this king, he became so
upset he just dispatched an army to destroy
the Kava.
There's a reason that in Islam, it's not only for utilitarian
gain, but
There's a great principle of why we should have good character with
people. Because usually bad character brings about worse
things.
What's called in in Sharia Sundara closing the doors of potential
harm.
So oftentimes how we treat people how we respect others out of also
being good people, right? But also it can lead to reciprocal acts
which are worse.
Doesn't mean that we're always nice. There's times to be also
religiously, rough, religiously firm. Absolutely. But the general
rule as we'll talk about and shorter calf your own, why does
Allah I have to command the prophet to say, oh, kaffir because
the Prophet his nature is not to talk like that whole year Kaffir
because his nature is not even to those disbelievers. You
disbelievers. You disbelievers. You just believers.
It's like that movie those British guys, you know, disbelievers. You
know, they're like attacking the disbelievers has, like 1000 times
that British Irish accent. You know, it's like, bro, relax. The
process. Some said, yeah, you have to care for your own because Allah
made him say it in that moment, they deserve to hear this. But the
general rule of thumb is yeah, you will insane. Yeah, uns or people.
So our, our approach is we should treat people with respect and
treat their religious institutions with respect.
We don't have to agree with people to respect who they are what they
do, I can still differ with you.
So here Allah subhanaw taala says, I'm taught Okay, for for Elora
Buka. We also have a field
and M is a rhetorical question. Alam Anna Sahib, am I not? So hey,
you're not going to be like, oh, yeah, like, you're here, man. So
that's the feeling it can be used in two ways. One is to debase a
person, a Calaca. In the current study, I might use savara. Did I
not say to you won't be patient with me when Heather says to
Moses, Moses, keep asking questions. Is a colleague, a
colleague didn't tell you didn't say to you didn't say to you here
is discipline. It's a rhetorical question. Yes. You know, I told
you that. Here also Alam Tada que pasa Alora Buka. Because
Haberfield is used to talk to the prophets of Allah when he was
Salama, to strengthen him.
And here we can take context of what's going on in the world, that
you know those elephants coming into the hijas. Those were supreme
in every political, military economic way, but they had Allah
and now we see the people in a bizarre, they have the Muslim
world at least leadership not that people have abandoned them to be
subjected to public international filmed execution on social media.
But they have Allah.
Allah has a plan.
So here in some ways, is to remind the Prophet sallallahu it was
Salama that this is a Mexican chapter, you're going to face some
very serious challenges that will be like these bellowing elephants
that came into the hijas against these camel owning farmers from
Mecca who had never seen anything like this before.
And we know that elephants are something you know unique in Soto
Juma? We know that when they stood up and they ran out of the Juma
why what came into Medina? Elephants? Well, Tara Cuca ka
Emma, they left the prophecy, some prophecy given the whole barn
everybody runs out. I mean, why? Fei Olivia, elephants, elephants
even in the term of Mr. Matic, your hidden a lady who was only 16
He came from under Lucia his grandfather embraced Islam. And he
came to read with Mr. Malik and his father, and one day they were
reading them wathba And someone said, Elephants Elephants in this
is you know, Malik is born 94 after injury so this is like
happening later on. Well, after the follow that were made, which
is 132 So you're talking about the mid one hundreds, long after what
happened with the Prophet and the Sahaba or the Sunnah. And still,
even at that time, like elephants, like it's a big deal. It's like
the Tesla truck or something. Got to help us so you know, they Mr.
Matic is teaching them water everybody runs out except Yeah 16
years old. And he said to him, don't you want to see the
elephants he said magic to the jellyfish. I didn't come to the
elephants
came to learn but the point is, as they left the profit in Joomla,
watada Cuca ca EMA the Quran says they left you standing there why?
Elephants same time. Same thing in the mathematics time, elephants
were still some remarkable. In the Arabian Peninsula. It's not their
natural habitat. So imagine those people in Mecca when this army of
elephants Abra Abra has come in to them.
Now the province was seen as being too
Old, metaphorically there's some elephants on the horizon. But
don't worry.
So there's a message in this chapter you know, not to give up
if you're doing something right. Allah is with you.
We don't hear that enough. Well, who am I? Am I?
So Allah says Tim Adam Tada Tada, nice to see the prophesy son,
there's no way he could see
what happened
in the year of the elephant, why is Tara used because the Quran
wouldn't narrate something to you. It's like you're seeing it with
your eyes.
It's very nice. It's like a, it's a sort of a rhetorical usage,
again, should be translated this way. Like, in a way that you feel
like oh, the Quran is telling me I saw I wasn't there. It's 2024.
Like how, oh, this is the hat.
So even though I wasn't there, because it's there. It's like I'm
there. understand something here. So Allah says to the Prophet,
Adam, tada, because how if you think about shorter feel, in many
ways, the goal or shorter field is to teach you how to be brave in
the face of tremendous challenge. existential threat out of many of
its lessons, the one is to know that you're on the truth. Like if
I know I'm right, I do much better when I know I'm right. Like I'm
no, I'm truthfully, on the truth. falsehood is a shaky sort of
foundation. So I'm Tara, did you not see, of course, he didn't see.
But because it's revelation, coming to you from God, telling
you about what happened. It is as though you are actually seeing it
with your eyes. That's why it says Tara
kafer, fad or bookmobiles? Hubble field? Did you not see how hear
something lost? Maybe an English case, we say in theology is called
watch, a delete, watch, delete, when we want you to think about
how something happens instead of what its essence is. It's dealing
with the how the K fear.
And so a sort of reflection that's on the how of something may be
actually much, much more sort of particular than what it is. Oh,
yeah, I know. I know. Lauren, okay. But how does Lauren parent
Okay, now site, you have to go into details.
So here's something amazing, because a MAMARAZZI says something
amazing about sort of theory is that this is a slap in the face to
atheists. Because atheists tend to argue that like the natural order
of the world, sort of is like how you argue for example, atheism.
But Soto field is like turning the natural order on its head.
The whole his whole story itself doesn't align with any kind of
like, symmetry, logical symmetry, it doesn't work. But also, here's
something I want you to think about in your relationship with
the Quran and your relationship with Allah. And this is dad talk I
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hour so
I got from a birthday man. It's like shaving so
shea butter, eye cream. I'm like, what? cake that's the case you
wonder what's going on with the KV and now when you try and tell me
no, I'm just joking. Turkish Airlines who are calm but for
real?
Real que FIA I just did on I did it on purpose. Like when I said
what my wife gave me that's the case here.
So now you might like what's his wife's like? Oh my gosh, shea
butter. They have shea butter for white people. Oh my gosh, shaving
soap. That's heavy. So right like that's k fear. What is k fear lead
you to do pay attention here. It makes you think about something in
a much more pixelated way. The Quran in your relationship with
God asked you to do both the K fear of Allah and the man who
Allah
so it's a response maybe to people to say like you know, religion
doesn't encourage us to think about God. religion doesn't want
us to push him to think about God. Listen, insecure religious
teachers are not responsible for that are responsible for that. Not
religion. But the Quran says Alam Tada kafer think about the K fear
go into the details of it. frm young guru ILA summer K for Bernie
now was a year now will they not look at the heavens and see how we
decorated it, how we made it the case. But then other verses say,
you know how come you know what think about God as a as a as an
existing, being without the caveat, the point I want to make
too is both you're being invited to do both.
The general kind of reflection on God and, and the Prophet and Dean,
but then the how.
And so a Razzie says this is how you undermine arrowhead. This is
how you undermine atheism because
You don't shut down thinking you actually encourage it at all
levels. So it's something beautiful here sort of feel like
I'm Tara it didn't say I'm Tara Mirtha Adora book what he did que
fear how he did it.
So the what and the how we are invited to in our relationship
with Allah subhanaw taala in the Quran to think about
everybody understand sort of what I'm saying to you now. So, LM todo
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Tara kafer Ahmad Allahu Allah Azza wa Jalla Mahabharatha BIA Allah,
Allah doesn't say no, do you not think about how God commanded this
Fattah as though to say, your Mohammed, when your enemies come
after you and when your adversaries come after you, it's
like Allah is there with you acting.
So that's another sort of way to gain confidence in the face of
challenges. Number one, to make sure I'm rooting it in truth.
Number two, to think about it correctly and to engage it. Number
three to remember in the Cuddy Allah as close to you.
So the word fat as usually applied to us like I do something fat.
So I want to make sure I explain this. It doesn't say in the Quran
here, what God commanded to happen what God ordered to happen says
what God acted on as though at that moment when something evil is
happening it's like God was there doing it
as a sense of sort of eighth bet.
You know, sort of to strengthen. So I'm Tara K for for Adara Buka
Huayra book. Now a rub the Lord why your Lord again, it goes back
to the Prophet, you're about to face some serious challenges, but
you have a lord and Rob I don't like the word Lord bothers me.
Cherisher and Sustainer Rob is your caretaker.
The one the one that gives you what you need the one looks after
you provides for you. So I'm taught okay, you know what I
Booker? And also this is a way to show you know the status of the
Prophet sallallahu sallam, the US herbal field this is very
important.
Hope I can explain this correctly. You know the word Sahib can only
be used with something which is your genus.
So you can't be a Sahib to a tire
you can't be a Sahib tuberous BUSA you can't be a Sahib with biryani
or burgers. Right? You can be with end man but Sahib is is you know,
like Allah says about your parents while Ha he will whom feed dunya
model for like your parents. That's the closest thing that's
your DNA right there. That's your genetic print. So saw hip home.
Also, this is a great, you know, way to praise those people around
the Prophet are called what Sahaba
because they're their people. He's a person so it works but also to
show like they're there they were close to prophetic light.
So here's a question why they called us Haberfield talk about
this record.
Like seriously, like this is like if you said anthracite have a more
right? Slot him army. It's like you are a donkey and the donkey is
you just like a double entendre that is you know,
super incredible. So why are they called us? How about feeding
the show that the elephants
metaphorically
to sort of attack them if you will.
So Alam Tada que viva la la boca be as Hannibal field.
And in fact, some scholars
that was understood as the elephants actually are better than
them. That's a long discussion we'll have time because I was
gonna come but as he goes on this real long diatribe about why the
elephants mashallah are better than Abraha that's why elephants
stopped.
There's something you know, we'll talk about in the future, but
we'll get to let me Ajala kada who, sadly he paid attention. As
Hubble field the effort of this military enterprise was a physical
effort to harm the Messenger of Allah to harm his community.
Someone's definitely in some 90s mixtape, 90s mixtapes 90s mixtape
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Alexa Be quiet.
So yeah, no one asked me about music now. So
let me okay, the whole third layer we need to pay attention as these
strangers interruption I've ever had in my life. Are you okay?
I'm about to edit this from the record. I think it's great. So the
first verse talks about actually physical threats the second, the
second verse talks about what
what they're planning
so as as a way of telling the province say some don't worry
about external threats, don't worry about internal threats
doesn't mean they'll be strategic. But Allah has your back. Like can
you imagine? If how many things that Allah has protected us from
we don't know about
you Subhan Allah, the day my daughter, she's playing on this
swing, she's having the time of her life. I look up and I see like
a tick just like
you know that take a look at my daughter like halau burgers, you
know, I'm saying is true, right? And I have to like, flick the tick
off. But what if she didn't see her mother law before had Lyme
disease so we had this experience with it. So what I'm saying is how
many times our life things happen, we don't know about Allah
protected us.
So here Allah subhanaw taala is saying to say notice also some
external threats internal threats, we got your back we'll just like
we had their back. Maybe somebody asked
those people at the time of the, at the time of the field, were not
Muslim man. That kava was filled with idols. They were pagans. Why
did Allah help them?
It's a question.
This is before the Prophet saw you Saddam comes
Kava is filled with like filth.
People are doing making the wharf without clothing. It's the wild
time right.
And you can understand that you know, Mecca that sounds like the
Manhattan the Greenwich Village of the Jazeera
but actually would say it's more like you know, the financial
district of the desira not Greenwich Village. That was five
why then is the DA answered?
And we know that in the Quran, we find we find to Allah has
conditions certain way we should supplicate certain places you
know, eat halal live Hello, like, you know, things like this. But
it's very interesting. You know, your mama manavi He said that when
it comes to oppression, everyone's Diaz answered, because oppression
is that bad.
Whether it's in this life or the next.
So the you know, it's a great discussion, that this is
oppression.
And this is not just oppression, this is oppression of of the kava
that's our hope now for Hudson Folstein the bank better Allah.
And we know that when that army came close to Mecca, they sent an
emissary
and what other people thought of he, you know, I've been watada He
came out and he met them.
And he said, you know, this place has a lord. In fact, when he left
the accident Allahumma and ILA out You let him see why, like, Oh
Allah, I'll only only hope I have for these people to be guided to
you. Some crazy people come and try and knock down your house.
And then he said I asked you to protect him from you.
Because he had that kind of hope. But here we see something even
though they weren't Muslim. Right? How do we treat just because
someone's not Muslim? We don't mistreat him.
Wish we should be far away from any form of oppression justice is
not oppression
so they're protected. Lm et al Qaeda home feed Todd Leland here I
don't want to make it too technical for you. But yeah, J L
is the imperfect tense meaning whenever they plot will protect
you whenever they plot Well, we will turn it into loss fee to lead
in their their shenanigans were not successful.
Well also that led him player on Airbnb, and we sent upon them
birds in groups who we learned something the importance of GEMA
even usually, when I lost when I thought I punished his people he
punished us and was something that comes in a group not by itself.
What about us division, disunity? You know, I appreciate the
maturity people always telling you suddenly you see all these young
people they're more mature than you
that they get along.
You find people from all different areas of the Muslim spectrum.
And they work together.
Young doesn't mean dumb.
In fact, I like to to old people y'all are dumb because you walk
down the trail too many times how can we keep falling over the same
log?
Right? They have been on the road yet they haven't excuse What's
your excuse? So masajid still divided still showing in
capability of you know, fostering greater unity improvement handle
on the area of good Imams now
but when Allah destroys people he destroys him with a Jimana Abbey
it means a group even our bass said if you looked in the sky it
was like birds from every direction.
Well also the RA him play urine ever be Tom
him behavior a team in Sijil Abu Hanifa used to the army him
meaning Allah through the stones at him
but the sound Clara Tormey him those birds launched these small
stones there's a lot of discussion about is it at this size the
stone? Yeah. Is that what's important to you important is they
were punished.
behaved Yattaman CGT so do you have different meanings? It's
interesting. It's very interesting actually. One of course was like
dry clay
but also what do you call a recorder?
massagin
When you buy a recording in Arabic, like I said, What's it
called Test G to G let an Egypt that used to sell test G Latin a
little, you know, bodegas the street to see that. Also Tsujita
means what's recorded before creation
so there is an interpretation that says taught me him behavior it
means to JIRA that they were punished with that stone that was
decreed for them and recorded for them to be the object of their
punishment Subhanallah like that stone was written for him
that punishment is written for you
so he said toward me him behaved yell at him in sigil Vijan costume
Matt Cool, and then we made them and this is a this again is sort
of a tough description. We made them like excrement of worms.
So they were like, just left their carcasses were left in a way that
it was like you know the excrement of worms and that there was
weakness the absence of strength do you notice both chapters
there's this back and forth person thinks they have well if this is
what they don't have, the person thinks they're the army thinks
they're strong, and they come out at the end of the day, like
Caterpillar dung.
As we finish, there's a important
point to be made here. And people may ask like these punishments are
severe. And sometimes we may struggle like philosophically
would like how is it that people are going to be punished?
punished, you know, infinitely in * shall in our class, hopefully
we'll do our night classes this fall here. Start actually night
classes online tonight at 11 free for everybody you can find on our
social media. But one of the discussions that we have is like
how do I how do I work through the idea of like punishment? We talked
about of course, different people now we're talking about a person
who deserves like punishment. We're not talking about, you know,
people never heard the message or like some really nice person, you
know, never got around. We're not talking about our disbelievers.
You know, can we pray for their forgiveness in the hereafter?
That's a whole nother thing. people commit suicide. I hear this
mistake all the time in Muslim community. Do you think people
commit suicide or Kufa? This is ridiculous. This is popular
stupidity versus scholarly
information. Majority of the Folk AHA Hannah