Suhaib Webb – Heavy Rotation The 107th & 108th Chapters of The Qur’an
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I've met a lot of him. And hamdulillah I've been Alameen wa
sallahu wa salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad woman, what we begin just
want to just sit down every bite. So short prayer that we usually
start our discussions or classes with, for blessings that begins by
praising God Almighty sending Peace and blessings upon the
Prophet, Muhammad peace be upon him, and all of the prophets, and
those follow them until the end of time. So it's nice to be back
again, as we go through the last few chapters of the Quran,
that most of us probably are reciting, or at least, you know,
using on a daily level. And so we put this program together at
Lauren actually, to like, bring back a sense of nearness, and
maybe refresh kind of our our playlist, if you will, to update
our relationship with these chapters. And last week, we talked
about the 106 chapter. And for those of you who have been coming
since we started, after we did shorter, fatter and shorter
answer, I know that after the chapter called answer,
the next few chapters are going to talk about events that like or
people that the Prophet Muhammad, either experienced or dealt with.
And so that's one of the the opinions is that we'll answer a
Astra Naboo is like the time of the Prophet himself. So when God
says, I swear by time, it means like his time as a prophet. And so
the remaining few chapters up until the last three, are going to
sort of encapsulate moments that are very important for us to think
about as followers of the Prophet, peace be upon him and how we may
like you said you had a rough day at work. She's praying now, right?
Like, how do we handle sort of, maybe similar moments, it's very
important that when we read Stories of the Prophets, we read
the Quran, we think about contextualizing it to our own
lives.
And of course, want to be careful. But when there's like a clear
lesson to be learned, we should we should trust where God is leading
us. So I had a teacher used to say, like, you won't really
appreciate it.
Until you experience the loss of atom.
Like you won't really appreciate it until you experience what it
was to be made fun of. Like, no, like, no. Like, you won't really
appreciate it. Until you experience
the family struggle of Prophet Abraham Ibrahim alayhi salatu
salam, like everyone has to be lonely, like use of everyone has
to be in the fire like Abraham, metaphorically, right in our
lives, we go through these moments, and then that allows us
to sort of tie in to a living prophecy to a living Quran. And I
think that's one of the challenges. My wife is born with
some I of course, became Muslim. So she's sometimes like, even my
daughter, my 20 year old daughter, who's obviously born Muslim. She's
like, I'm not a convert. She says that to me. Like, what does that
mean? She's like, you're like crazy about this stuff? Right? I
was born with it. You're like, really over the top, right? And
she told me one time, it's like, knowing how to ride a bike. And
then the guy who's reading the instruction manual, he's like,
super excited about, like, the wheels and the pedals. No, and
she's like, I just ride the bike, you know? And so what I thought
about that conversation with her, and I said, you know, I think for
someone who embraced Islam, Islam is very much like exploratory.
Whereas maybe for you, I said to her, this is, you know, my
responsibility. Maybe for you, it's kind of like something in a
museum.
Like, how do we sort of move away from that, where there is that
appreciation for what it means in the past? Most definitely. But
then at the same time, everyone should have somewhat of an
exploratory ethos, when it comes to their interaction with
religion. That makes it exciting, that makes it sort of even
mysterious, mysterious and spell bounding. So when we're reading
these stories, and these chapters about the Prophet, it's, it's
important that we think about, of course, what they mean. But
there's duality. And I had a great teacher who used to say, you know,
Nedjma, Vail, Colorado or Anwar Clara Taekwon.
used to say, like, you have to read the Quran and read the Quran,
the Quran is existence. So like, you do care of the Quran, but you
do care of your life.
And then you bring them together in a way that, you know, creates a
beautiful sort of synthesis. And people may say, like, well, what
if I mess up all the mess up? So what?
Like, God's not petty? Right, if there's an attempt to do
something, right, and you make a mistake, God is forgiving, right?
But I do believe that that in some ways, at least, my experience here
in education is that we don't teach religion this way.
We don't teach it as exploration. We teach it as conformity, which
is important, right? There's certain things we want to conform
to. We're not crazy, but there should be like, a mystery to this.
So that takes us now to the 107 chapter assault on my own. The
word Matt Oh is from my own. You actually know this word you say in
Salta, fatsia every time who knows where is this word? Unsalted fat?
Yeah, it's derivative.
Because think about it, if you're taking this Arabic class, I'm
going to tell your teacher if you don't raise your hand.
Almost you're so close man. Super close. The stain. Yeah, that's the
only means we? It's okay. It's okay. If I was gonna give a wrong
answer. There'll be the wrong answer I would give to that's
okay. There's no wrong answers. Hamdulillah I told you guys a
story about the Russian guy in my class in Egypt. Who would always
get the best wrong answer, masha Allah. So netstat en means our
global our own, not global, our own like we're seeking our own our
own is help.
But it's a it's a it's a
it's a pervasive help. That means in all aspects.
whether great or small, is different than NASA. We'll talk
about NASA when you get to salt on us. But that can also be like
emotional assistance, spiritual assistance, intellectual
assistance, it could also be physical systems.
So in the context of the economic Buddha, what you can assign, like
we're seeking aid to worship.
Keep us on this path.
But in this chapter, my own my own means anything that someone needs,
whether great or small.
And so that's why if you look at some of the classical like
explanations, there's like a number of different sorts of
opinions about what it means none of those opinions are wrong
oftentimes in classical books of Tafseer they're not telling you
like this is wrong and this is right. They weren't modernists
like us. Now, they're just telling you like, these are the probable
meanings.
According to these people, it's interesting that this chapter
comes in, in a location right after Soto Koresh. Because Soto
Quraysh. The 106 chapter that we read last week, reminds that the
tribe of the prophet that God fed them
and that he protected them from fear.
And we didn't have a chance to talk about this. But in some way,
Soto Koresh is a reminder of the role of the Muslim state. at a
policy level, if God is protecting people from hunger and fear, then
the state has to be in an extension of that if it if it
connects itself to quote unquote, godly morals, that it also has to
protect citizens from fear and make sure that they're fed but of
course last week, I went on the hot dog diatribe, so we didn't
have a chance to talk about so so to coresh. Allah the author, Mr.
Holman, you are in what Mr. Holman Cove in the next chapter talks
about this chapter. We're on today about a person who doesn't do
that.
Who acts in opposition to that.
So the chapter begins on a to levy, you can remove it in that in
the beginning of the chapter that our Atia like Adam Todd okay for
for Elora Booker is called Hamza to to clear the rhetorical
interrogative article like I know you know if you're married you
hear it a lot bro. You know like did you do the dishes? Like you
get you get the you get the rhetorical question a lot it's
good. So immediately you should be able to plug into this it's a good
thing so our ater lady you can the will be Dean is asking the Prophet
peace be upon him specifically directed to the Prophet Have you
not seen the one who denies a deen?
And the Prophet has. He's He's witnessing it around him. And
again, this goes back to what we talked about in our very first
session, how theology is sociology are intrinsically married to one
another for religion to really function. So how the Quran
encourages us to engage our own utility and to push in with our
own agency. And oftentimes, we experienced in religious
education, the idea that you have to like surrender your utility and
just kind of go with the flow and don't ask questions and don't get
involved and don't engage too much. God forbid you, you know,
you start to quote the Quran and Hadith.
Whereas, in Surah Fatiha it begins right, we said it's an incomplete
sentence. Bismillah R Rahman Rahim, the only way it becomes
complete is when you put the verb there, so therefore, you see
without you, it's not going to work.
And also without the rest of it, it's not going to work. So Islam
finds this
Very unique sort of balance between
divinity, unassailable ideas and the sacred, but I have to push in.
So here are a tad levy actually is asking the Prophet a question
peace be upon him that he knows the answer to.
So that means the prophets experiences now are being brought
in
and sort of strengthened and affirmed by revelation. And if you
think about this, I opened our first session with this idea. I
haven't touched on it a lot since. But if you think about what I'm
saying, you'll have a deeper reading of the Quran now, because
you're going to see it over and over and over again. When Prophet
Musa says, Set Prophet Moses says, gel to la cara be the Torah, I run
to you. Now I'm leading.
So when Moses Moses has like I run to you, so you'll be pleased with
me not like let me just wait for God to come in and interfere and
the world to suddenly be a better place.
So the, the subtle relationship between the will of the finite and
the will of the Infinite is at constant occurrence in the Quran.
So here are our Atia leather, you can the will be D. And also we
learned something about the character of the Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam, and he's a sociologist. He pays attention to
his neighborhood, he pays attention to the people around
him. God will not ask him a rhetorical question if he wasn't
paying attention to people, but he pays attention to people. And this
is something that happens over and over and over again in his life.
So for example, in one narration, very simple narration there was a
man who used to come to the Prophet's mosque and pray with his
son, and then he stopped coming with his son, and then the Prophet
and this was someone I don't even know if we know his name, this
companion, and then the Prophet peace be upon me ask, Where's the
son?
And they said to him, No, unfortunately, you know, his son
died.
And so the Prophet saw last time he sat with his father, he pays
attention to people.
There was a woman in Medina who had a miscarriage, the prophesy
son and he asked about her, they said she had a miscarriage, he
went to her home. And he said to her as you struggled to keep, this
may be a baby from you know, being dragged from your womb, this baby
will drag you into Jana.
So when we read it out on a tiller, do you want to look at
this and layers? Like why would God ask him something he knows,
because all sorts of it's sort of sort of a window into how the
Prophet is in community. How do you set out to CERAM? How Yeah, he
sees things, he knows his things, he notices the good he notices the
bad.
And oftentimes we find people using religion as an alibi not to
know what's going on in the world.
Right, I was in a Friday sermon last week in Texas, and the team
said they not like us. And all them kids started listen to the
football.
Right up until that point, it could have been a snoozer. No
disrespect to the guy given the Friday sermon, but when he said
that, you know, everybody was like, Oh, okay. And they listen to
the rest of his code, but some people may find that problematic.
I thought it was like a genius move of rhetorical excellence that
woke up every teenager and college student and that had mashed in in
Texas.
That the point is when he says RIA to levy your candy will be Dean.
The prophet is someone who pays attention to his community.
And not only does he pay attention to like the good people are at a
levy a levy, the one specifically you can the will be dean here the
imperfect tense you can dip means because listen, sometimes that we
talked about this before it's very interesting that major mistakes
are often used in a imperfect tense the verb that has no ending,
right? Fat animal data. Why? Because this is not like a one
time thing.
So like, from time to time, we may make mistakes, but are you in the
imperfect sense? Or is it like just a one time thing? It's very
interesting right? And even in good behavior, Allah Allah says
Allah the net up Munna Salah those who established like, it doesn't
stop, they pray. There's consistency in their prayer again,
the imperfect tense is used. So here you can the will be Dean this
person didn't just like deny their religion wants or go through some
doubts or go through some ups and downs. This person is like when
100% all in for the stranger Helia like this person has a problem.
Because sometimes, like Muslims are good people, you know, so they
usually don't make mistakes, which is one thing but then they'll come
like I've done this like catastrophic mistake. I'm going to
*, you know
Oh, whatever I get it's important, but don't you start to talk to
them, it's not a GOING TO THE * type crime Hamdulillah. And then
secondly, it was like a one off.
Not giving anyone a green pass, of course, but I'm just saying, like,
we have to differentiate between people who are like really
egregious, and people are human.
That's why Abdullah, Omar de sahabi, are the great companions
of the Prophet. He said, an ignorant person is the one who
reads the Quran, the verses about like Pharaoh, you know, Qarun, the
hypocrites, Satan, and then tells the Muslims, this is about you.
He's like, That's a dumb person. Because that they're gonna be
like, why am I doing all this? Because really to be Muslim.
You know, as someone who embraced Islam, you, you do have to have a
lot of discipline,
like you really do. And
one of the things that helps us stay strong is like God's promise.
Like I got you what a Sofia or Chico Booker for total dog. But if
you start hammering me with verses above your own cartoon, and then
when I forget you telling me that's me, and I'm trying to hold
on to my dean on 1510 v or u street on a Friday night,
I might do a u turn into Dean. I mean, that's just reality. And
that's why I've done it. Even Omar said, that's an ignorant person.
And oftentimes, we saw the jihadist movements, quote,
unquote, in the last 30 years who killed more Muslims than anyone
else? Why did they kill Muslims? Because they took verses that were
talking about disbelievers and applied it to Muslims. They said,
Oh, see, here they are, let's just like slaughter them. And then
we'll create like a utopian sort of Islam doesn't work that way. So
our itella, the UK, the will be D, the profit is around someone who's
constantly
denying the dean. The dean here means the Day of Judgment. I'll
ask Euro.
And the word Dean is from Dane Dana's is a debt.
Because everything that we have, we got for free.
You know, like, our oxygen, our eyes, our sweat, our blood
pressure, everything that we have, in that way, the essentials more
or less, we're not paying bills on it. Hamdulillah.
But there will be recompense for these blessings.
Like we will be ask, how did we use these gifts
that were given to us. So this is a person the Prophet notices him.
And there's differences of opinion about who it is. I wish I had some
said Al Walid, some said I will Sofia and before he embraced
Islam,
there's a strong opinion that this chapter actually was sent in
Medina, not in Mecca, because it talks about salah
and the qualities of the hypocrites when they would pray in
soda.
But whoever it was,
yeah, they're not a good person. What also I think is interesting
is how it doesn't put them on blast. I very rarely does the
Quran like out people.
Right, that's, that's sort of a
sort of something that we find in this era, or a to levy, there's a
reason for that also, because now it's not just a person, it's an
archetype. Like, if anyone has these characteristics, then they
risk falling under this sort of designation.
The last point, and I said it earlier, but I think it's
important is that the Prophet SAW Allah Hollywood cinema.
And l. Qaddafi was a great judge from Egypt. He has a really
incredible book in law.
On the branches of law, the secondary issues like this comes
out of this comes out of this comes out of this comes out of
this, it's crazy. But in that tech, in that text, he has a
section on the different roles of the Prophet, peace be upon him
like a husband, a father, a general teacher, a shake, a
grandfather, you know, a prophet, a legislator, Jose ahead, he goes
through all kinds of those different sort of designations.
But one thing we can see here is that the Prophet, he also pays
attention to the bad
not just the good.
So he's noticing Olivia Kathy will be D. He's not caught up in his
own team. He cares about people. Allah says in the Quran, Allah has
Wonka womb like don't don't let the bad things they say make you
sad like he used to be worried about these people. On one end,
you don't have I mean, this is sounds strange, like you don't
have to like someone to guide someone.
Right? If someone may ask you for directions somewhere you don't
like them, you're probably still I will give them directions. But
maybe they will.
Hey, you know, you probably give him directions, right? So the
Prophet, and that's one of the interesting things about his
character is like he has to embrace people into his community.
He doesn't really like them.
And they didn't like him.
And so here he's noticing the state of a person who is denying
Him, who rejects him, who rejects what he teaches. And that's why I
like to say, you know, we have to free ourselves from the shackles
of the secular political designations of the right and the
left and the red and the blue. We're Mohammedi.
Like, we're prophetic. And so a prophetic designation allows us to
sort of rise above kind of the trifle
you know, be careful how I say bad stuff on the right and the left
and to function in a prophetic way. Although there may be there
may be overlap in some of that. So our atre levy you can the will be
Dean also the form can thereby you can the Boo, this extra sort of
the it's a little w the shed there, right? That means like,
insistently they're constantly in a state of denial
like they're they're really into it remember when we talked about
in Soto Homosassa Jana and Jim matter? I told you that meme with
that shut that means like really collecting so now it's just not
like yet they'd be Dean you can they be like, everything.
Nothing's left
and I don't want to make it too hard for you. But this is cool.
That's why there's no object there. Usually there's an object I
say yeah, active DNL Islam, yet the deen Allah with Fatah. But who
don't see it, there's a bad because with that Shuddha it's so
intense. You have to make bring like an article preposition for
the sentence to function. Because the person is like denying
everything. And that's why if you think about what I said, I'm going
to keep it at a base level that that means with so it's like they
deny everything with the nothing is left.
But most of the companions of the Prophet they said dean here means
Asherah everything related to the hereafter. In general, there's
like 12 things we have to believe about the hereafter. I can't
remember them. Now because I have two kids. I can actually have four
kids, but I can barely remember that I had four kids.
But I'll give you some of the things that are like non
negotiable things we believe about in the Hereafter. And then in the
fall, we take our class and theology, we can go through it.
Number one, of course is like death. Hopefully nobody denies
death. You know, secondly is the question in the grave.
Third is the period between
being in the grave and being resurrected was called balsa
Balzac means be like a barrier, being a homer Balzac will lay
about en phobia. Early on, I become I took a demon says no
Quran between them is like a barrier. So this is like the
barrier between death and resurrection.
And then we believe in the resurrection.
And then we believe what's called a hash or hashes where everybody
will be right together. And they will stand, you know, under the
sun will be close to people's head, and people will be begging
the prophets to intercede. And finally Prophet Muhammad Ali
salatu salam ala interseeded shefa Otto Cobra.
So that's the next belief is what's called chef out of Cobra.
I'll mention them again, because I'm going faster than I probably
should
than after chef out to cobra is he said, May Allah make it easy for
us people will be
audited.
And then during that process of auditing will be the conversation
between us and the one who made us Can you imagine this conversation?
That's why if you're a lawyer, one day will be like 50,000 years. You
ever been to court?
Can you imagine like, so you did this with your eyes? No, I didn't.
Imagine you did this with your hand. No, I didn't. So one day
will literally be like 50,000 years. It's a metaphor for a long
time because people are going to argue everything.
They're going to die. And that's why in short, firstly, let's talk
about Hola, hola, T and Takakura che, there'll be some people like
their mouth will stop talking stop talking and their limbs will begin
to testify against them. Because and this is one of the challenges
we have sort of within
something we'll talk about in the fall. It's a philosophical
question. How could God infinitely punish anyone? It's a good
question people can ask right? Well, because God has
transcendently just
and if we do
find God by neoliberal principles of justice or Neo conservative
principles of justice. This is a subtle form of idolatry.
Because God transcends to human concept of justice, and that's
actually what it means to trust in Allah.
It's hard. Don't get me. Don't get me wrong. I lost my whole family
in last two years, like everybody. It's hard to deal with. Sometimes
it's okay to struggle with that.
So after the auditing, then people will cross what's called Sirat.
It's like a bridge. And during the audit that there's something
called Mi Zahn like scales, but not like scales that can Whole
Foods. You know, they're indescribable. Of course, not
something we can imagine. And then the Sirat and then heaven and
*, and then eternity.
Do you need me to mention them again? I can't. But those are like
the nine sort of negotiable beliefs we have about about the
hereafter.
So this person is denying the Hereafter. And you'll recall I
said on our first night together, we have to reformat how we
translate the Sunday School axiom. I believe in God to I believe with
God, because bad doesn't mean in. Bad means with B. This Arabic word
is Article preposition. If I say I came be husana It doesn't mean I'm
inside the Senate. miskeen if I'm inside a man, poor guy, right, but
I came just to be with summer, I came with him. So when you say
Bismillah, you're a with Allah. So there's a relationship there? Of
course, not physically, Allah is transcendent. So here you can the
will be Dean he denies with not only in but with meaning this
person makes the wrong decisions that don't add up in the
relationship. Because a relationship comes with mutual
responsibility. And I talked about that when I say I believe with the
hereafter it means I'm going to make choices
or hold myself accountable in a way that exemplifies that I'm
living for a greater mandate.
So this person you can the will be Dean, this person is denying. And
here, I don't even know if you translate. Have you seen the one
who denies the final judgment? Because it's hard to translate.
But it means Have you seen the one who denies like, in their lives
with the hereafter like they deny it their actions exemplify the
fact that they're not living in that way. And why I find that very
powerful, is that immediately if we think about it, that way, I can
ask myself, Am I living fell?
Like, how do I live?
What kind of actions Am I engaged in? Do they exemplify someone
who's living for the hereafter or not? And then the chapter
continues to mention for that he can lead the adult earlier team.
That is the one who constantly who constantly repulses the orphan,
pushes the orphan away,
and
literally means to push to like shove. So there is an
interpretation that there was a person that, you know, the
underserved orphans in the community would come to him and
ask him for support, and he would literally shove them.
So that's one of the interpretations of the verse and
that works like you can take the literal make it work. I worry that
in America, we live in a time where being poor has been
militarized.
Like it's no longer seen as a like a social part of the social
contract, or our responsibility in some ways to at least assist.
I don't know about in DC, but some places they passed laws where,
like, you're not allowed to be outside. It's illegal. So where do
you go? If you have nothing in New York City, you know, when I live
there, people used to always ridicule the homeless people. But
there was a study done in New York City. The main reason people were
homeless, they couldn't afford housing wasn't because of drugs,
or some of them. They had jobs. I lived in the Bay Area. years ago,
there was people that worked at Oracle that were in homeless
shelters,
because they couldn't afford the housing in the Bay Area. So it's
much more complex, maybe, and just simply militarizing
people who are underserved.
So this person yet do a rule your team can think about this in many
levels, right policies that are used to militarize the
underserved, that
fail to assist, if you will, in their challenges at a physical
level, actually physically pushing people away. And then another
interpretation is like, this guy would just like get away from me.
So he would like he would repulsed him in this way, just like, get
away. He would repel them, excuse me this way.
So that's a quality
Someone who denies the hereafter. They don't have empathy.
You know, the first Hadith that we read like Hadith, like really read
Hadith to our teachers and travel to read to them, I traveled one
time to Morocco to fess the first Hadith that you should learn in,
in your like Wu Tang Shaolin sort of studies, right is
I learned this from a teacher in India, Gujarat, in Morocco, in
Egypt, in the UK, wherever I went, this is always the first Hadith
they'll teach you with a sonnet chain of narration back to
Mohammed. And that is the Hadith Rahim on your hammer humara. Man,
the Merciful once the Merciful One is merciful to them. Why would
that be the first Hadith you will learn? Why would that be the first
Hadith meaning first quote of the Prophet you would learn to sit
your pace and frame you around, being somebody who embodies
prophetic mercy?
Or humble man, fill out your ham comfy Sama, be merciful to those
on earth, the one in the heavens will be merciful to you.
So this is a person that doesn't have empathy for people who
deserve it.
Wallah your whole bottle miskeen for community organizers this the
opposite. This is a community disrupter.
This person does not only fail to serve those around him when he has
the means to
and pushes them away from himself. And may in fact, you know,
physically pushed him away. But he also doesn't encourage people to
help them.
And so now like if you're an organizer,
that's an act of worship today, a lady called me she's a really
amazing activist out of Toronto. And she's like he's like activism
worship as like, of course, it is. Like if you read a sort of offer
that guy call illogical movement, or if you're on the optimal Imana,
who, that guy who hid his Eman, he hid his faith and he protected
Musa he's a lobbyist. Like, for all the right reasons, right? He's
a prophetic lobbyist. He's like, why would you kill him? He's just
calling to God. He's on team, Moses, but he's hiding himself.
Someone engaged in like a form of worship, right? So this person is
the opposite. How about means to encourage What are your humble
does not encourage, out of time and miskeen and time here means
food. But usually the Arabs will use food to show like, the
simplest thing you should give to someone whose food
like at least, you know, in Malaysia, I was traveling one
time. And
you know, my teacher was like, if anyone asked you for food, don't
say no.
Like food at a base level, like just, that's someone's How can you
if you can afford it, right. So here at a at the simplest level,
like not even encouraging people to bring food to the most
vulnerable in their society was the orphan.
And then miski
And the Prophet peace be upon him was both
he was an orphan,
or a salatu salam. And there was a time in his life where, especially
when he they were he was a baby. They his family did not have a
tremendous amount of wealth.
We said we said the word miskeen has its own sort of epistemology,
right? I don't like the translation poor. I don't know how
you translate it in in English, but miskeen is from 1616 is a
knife.
That's why Sakina tranquillity, the relationship Sakina is good
tranquility. But when you slaughter something, it's no
longer moves.
So the miskeen is someone who has been cut in a way whether through
their provisions or maybe even through society that we could say
it and slang like they make no moves.
They can't move.
That's the miskeen
and miskeen for us doesn't mean just someone eligible for the car.
So car is the basic thing.
But there may be people who are eligible not eligible for the car
but still need help.
Whenever you have time in miskeen because think about it, if some
someone comes to you, they said like, look, I got no food. I'm
hungry. That's called Red. Like how many of us has happened to us,
right? We don't like to give people money in the streets
because we don't know what traphouse that may end up and
right. I get it. I appreciate that. We don't know what liquor
store they may go to. But if they ask us for food, what will you do
as a Muslim? You'll bomb some food.
I was with my relative in
to another, and this lady came up to us. And she's like, you're
Muslims. I need a sandwich.
And then my father in law who some of y'all know, I was like, Oh,
God, we're gonna be like three hours, man. So he took her man, he
was gone for, like, 45 minutes. He's like, I had to find a place
that didn't have pork. I'm like, man, you're in Spain. Like,
you're gonna have Teresa like,
he's like, No, I'm Turkish place. I got some kabobs
wow, I bet she was like kabobs.
But like, if someone asked for food, then you know, it's usually
code, right? So this is a person doesn't care. Well, I hooked a lot
of time in miskeen. So the first part, the first quality of a
person who denies a religion, is that done not able to really live
in a way that honors the social contract, and their social
responsibility. And they've been blessed with the ability to do
that.
For way too little mousseline we already talked about what whale in
so Tomasa whale will equally Homas at illumines whale in you can
think about a whale is like whaling. When do people whale when
something bad's happening? So whale it means like something bad?
Whoa, to you.
Little mousseline to those who pray
in Kira is not allowed to stop here.
Because if you stopped here for a little more saline, Allahu Akbar,
some
people will be like, Man, I'm not going to pray anymore. Wait a
little more saline.
And you'll notice something here. It's unique in the language. I
don't want to make it too hard for you. But it's really cool.
He didn't save Hawaii, it will live Dina your saloon.
Now, the word changed is not the verb anymore. It's not the
imperfect verb. It's not woe to those who always pray. Because
this person doesn't always pray
is supposedly the active participle like sometimes they
pray, sometimes they don't pray.
So when it became once evil, right, you know, your, your Dhulia
team, your whole do, it's the imperfect tense, they always push
away the orphan. They're always discouraging people. When it comes
to prayer. They're just most of these.
Depending on the context of how you Mussolini's don't freak out,
but here mostly means the active participle. They're not constant.
Prayer is not like intrinsic to who they are.
So folio, Lynnville, Celine,
a Lavina, whom I don't saw that he himself those who are negligent in
their Salah
here Saheeh like we have such total Saha
is a little different. But so he is the one like they're not really
in the prayer. But it's deliberate. Now. It's different
than someone who struggles, right, because it's really impossible.
You may read some stories have to be very careful sometimes about
the mythology of Islamic stories like this guy prayed for 40 years
like the same will do and, like all he thought about was Jana for
like 45 years. And they're like, Who's that like the Sahaba were
like this, like, you should just always ask yourself like, the
Sahaba were not like this.
The Prophet wasn't like this. We know the prophets had a lesson or
even sometimes one time he prayed in Bosnian Muslim and after the
prayer, he got up and ran to his house and came back and they said,
what happened? He said in Salah, I remembered some charity I left in
my house. So if it was haram and completely forbidden for your mind
to wander in prayer, would that have happened to him?
So here you see something. So as long as not asking us to be
perfect. Islam is asking us to try.
We have to be very careful of how a post enlightenment sort of you
know age has raised the bar of the superhero now that's permeated
into religion. But the beauty of Islam is its organics.
Islam can take Khalid bin would eat and wash him up, take Malcolm
and clean him.
Right It has that transformative power. You can't do that if
everyone thinks they have to be like this at the same time and
encourages us to push ourselves by in a way that doesn't break us. So
for awhile, you will mousseline Alladhina, whom answer that he
himself goon. Moscato said he, what that means is that they
either didn't pray
on purpose. Because there are times when you're allowed to join
the prayers. This may be important for you according to the Maliki's
and the humbly med hips, for example, at work. Let's say you
get called into a meeting. You can't get out. You're stuck. It's
once in a while. It's not constant.
I'm teaching a seminar at the university. I can't just go on
leave.
Right try get that tenure.
Until now.
Let's say I got I got two kids at home. You
my two year old is not about that life. If it's time for her to get
every single drop of attention I have in my being
Baba.
I go home I'm not swayed well honey and Baba,
that comes with responsibility when you go to a doctor, maybe
surgery, so there are things that happen right what are called
hedger in filth. Hajra means needs.
Sometimes when when people shop, like I get this question a lot
from people, where I'm from an Oklahoma, like some of the
aunties, they go shopping and they're scared to pray, because
they might live in Northville.
It happened to be one time I prayed and Oklahoma they call the
police will lie they call the police. Police showed up I was
like Institute I can see the I was like, oh my God kill me.
Die martyr.
But I'm not ready though. They're ready to go out yet. But like
that's a legitimate concern. So on those students, sometimes, I've
had professors that are complete jerks.
You might not be able to get out of an exam, you might have
something that you're stuck in every once in a while. And that in
that situation when there's a hatchet it's allowed to join the
prayers.
As long as it doesn't become a consistent habit.
And we don't short their prayers unless we're traveling. So we're
talking about now someone who's in their home, not someone who's
traveling,
going into the habila and America keys.
But this is talking about people that are up to something else.
They pray and don't pray because they're not. They're hypocrites.
This is among African. So that's why some scholars had this chapter
sit in Medina, because the moneta they didn't the hypocrite didn't
exist in Mecca, because it was hard to be a Muslim in Mecca. Like
you like you've gotten nothing out of it. But in Medina, there was a
value prop to being Muslim. So when there's a value prop to
always be people who are not necessarily
honest.
So Alladhina hermanos sadati himself is said to to sort of
meanings one is they leave salah, they talk Surah or they wait till
the very end, and then they will come to the masjid and pray. And
then the next prayer will start.
Alladhina Homura own what does that mean? And they do it, they're
ostentatious.
Their religion is for exhibition.
So they pray. So people will think they're good.
They pray but they have alternative motives. And that's
why in short, the SEC says well if Quran Allah Isla kalila, right,
they pray the hypocrites they pray, but they're not remembering
God.
It's not talking about again, sometimes when we pray, there's a
lot of on our mind, we struggle like that, that can that's
different. These people they're just like not they could care
less. I'm just going through the motions.
Well, Yumna own alma our own.
And now we see it goes back to this imperfect tense.
Write your own em their own. Like they always do this. They're
always showing off, not once in a while because it's normal.
Sometimes showing off is something that's going to come with people,
we have to fight it. But these are people who don't care. They're not
filtering it
is just for fame. Just so people think they're good in that
community.
William narrow, unelma own and they're constantly prohibiting and
stopping
the smallest act of aid.
Translation, I think use of it says, like small act of kindness,
God bless him. It kind of changes the meaning my own from my own.
Like, they don't encourage helping others.
It's one of the key components of Edison. When people came to the
Prophet Muhammad and they asked him what's Islam he said to feed
people
to spread Salaam
and the Prophet Muhammad said who's not merciful doesn't receive
mercy.
mudaliyar Hamlet your hand.
So these are the qualities of a person who's not living for
the hereafter, that we should think about if you look carefully
at this chapter, and the chapter before it, you'll find the
opposites are mentioned. So for example, Allah subhanaw taala
says, you know, Lila if your Quraysh elf him relata schita he
will say Philea Bowdabra Hertl beit Allah the otter Amma home in
June.
So you know the one who has fed they don't feed the one who
provides actually the next chapter, sorry. Next chapter.
There's a relationship between this chapter next chapter forgive
me. So that takes us to the next chapter. We'll go through quickly.
The profit
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi salam he had
four daughters and three sons.
A lot of people, a lot of people may not know that his first son
will cost him actually died when he was 17.
He was not an infant.
And he was considered a Sahabi
Companion of the Prophet he died in Mecca.
And
that was not an easy thing for the Prophet salallahu Salam, nor say
to her deja his wife and people began to ridicule him because of
this. They said like this is an omen from God. You can't have kids
you're not going to have children your wife now is old, your old hag
and have kids.
For us theologically, we've talked about this before there is
absolutely no relationship to our material possessions and our
relationship with God at all.
We don't commodify our relationship with God like the god
the prosperity gospel like oh wow you got a new benzo God loves you.
It really is that easy.
Let me finance that bends today
because we know that like the Prophet peace be upon him said Oh
ALLAH resurrect me with the impoverished
and maybe i i receive something and it's a test and maybe
something is kept away from me that I really want and it's a
blessing well La Jolla Allah and Allah Tada Munna Allah knows you
don't know that's what the Quran says. In fact, we say that people
if anyone wants to truly be on the path to Allah, also need to know
is to attributes of Allah. That's it. Just two attributes and Names
of Allah Al COVID and Al basit. The one who restricts and the one
who expands.
That's our whole life.
Like everything we have around us, Allah Who ye Basu to
Allah Subhan Tada, expanse
and he restricts will you ever be to La he told John
he's constantly giving you constantly holding back. And then
the HECM that we were reading I think can we was two years now.
There's one Hycon we didn't get to it. He says robomart I'll talk I
felt like Monique. Maybe he gave you but he kept you away.
What Obi Monica mana aka attack and maybe he kept it from you and
He gave you
Allah Who ya Allah wa and to what I taught him.
So that's like this is functional to hate. Now, this is not like
theoretical faith. This gets down to the nuts and bolts of
everything about me. So the Prophet alayhi salatu salam,
he loses his son.
And immediately the disbelievers they tie that commodity into an
indication that the Prophet peace be upon him is not a good person,
as we said earlier about people who militarize who they perceive
to be underserved,
that the poor are punished by God with poverty. Are you crazy?
That's insanity.
How many of those celebrities that we see over the years who had
everything they wanted? And it led them to like Insanity?
And how many times have we met people? I, when I travel, I
encourage people, you know,
I told my 20 year old daughter like travel for a year, like just
go on frontier, I'll pay for it.
But I got to on spirit and frontier. Got you just book it now
for two years from now, you know, I'd be like $20
and fly standby. But
But I sat there like
after you finish college, you need to travel. She's She lived in
Egypt. She speaks Egyptian, but she speaks Malay. But like you got
to see the world. It'll teach you a lot. The world is on the
dresser.
And so
one of the things that you will see, at least I saw I lived in
Africa for seven years.
I lived in Asia man way out there in the middle of nowhere for a
long time. Is you see poor people that you think are loaded, man. I
don't know how to explain it. They're so generous. It's like
crazy. I was on a platter. There was this guy used to pray with at
the mosque. He was Bhutan. My ortho territory. He speaks he
speaks brushed on and that's a wrap. I speak some Persian but not
much. So it was a weird relationship, you know?
And then he's like, you're you're from America. And he was like,
yeah, he's like, you're like really? You're really good. Amen.
Like you're really white. You know? I was like, Yeah, I'm from
America. I know. It's scary. I'm not an FBI agent. I swear to god
At, but he would always take me to his he had a brick hut and have
tea
and tea parties. And Don.
And I was like, but you have like in my mind like you have nothing
man.
And he would like it was like a five star meal.
And then one day he said to me, the guy translated he was like,
you know, I'm always happy.
And I was like, never thought about it. Like, yeah, why are you
happy? He said, because God gave me this brick shack next to the
mosque.
It's like, what the heck, I'm like, complaining about having to
walk from my house, you know? And he was like, can you imagine if my
shack was far from the mosque?
He said, that will be a fitna.
So you meet people.
They remind you of humanity, sometimes through how they're rich
without having. Right they're rich as the Prophet said, Well, I can
Aloha. Well, Canada, Lena, Lena neffs right. richness is to be
rich inside.
So these people think that the province is Saddam is somehow not
favored by God because he lost his son. That has nothing to do with
it.
And also the opposite holds true just because something someone has
everything is not a direct indication that they have
anything.
So it says in Artina calcofluor, because I'll ask him know what?
Who is the father of I'm gonna ask the sahabi
asked him know what he was really calling the prophesy some he was
saying you're uptight, you're Okta, you're cut off, you have no
kids.
And also, how stupid is it to say someone has no value? Like
oftentimes we find people in the community, you know, you get
married, and like two hours later, they're like, why haven't you had
kids yet? It's been two hours. Is there something wrong with you? Or
you must hold? Is there magic happening? It's been two hours,
right? Man leave people alone.
And usually, it's the woman who bears the brunt of this injust
sort of way of thinking.
But alas, my thought was the one who gives kids
I knew people Subhanallah for 14 years, they cannot have children.
And they had like, they got they look like you know, a Mormon
family man. A bunch of kids.
It just happened 14 years later, you know? And people like there
was people unfortunately were saying things about them.
Like how it's decrepit. Right. So here what last night it was making
fun of the Prophet Allah so we gave you a call with our co author
is from a word you know, because see if you speak Urdu Kassir
Arabic because he English a lot, right? But it's fell ill the form
CO thought means a lot a lot. I told you this before, whenever a
letter is added to a word is added to a word to show more so co
thought from Kathy. So that wow was added. We have a lot of it's
very popular amongst girls co author.
The word co author means abundant the word Kathy means a lot. So
it's like a lot a lot. COFA there are different interpretations
about what this is, of course, the famous, you know, fount of the
Prophet alayhi salatu salam that people drink from in the hereafter
that's one of the things I didn't mention that we have to believe
in. That's when I forgot.
The other is elevate Rasul sodomized
the family of Satan Muhammad. Let us lucuma it Jorah Illa my word
that will CORBA I don't ask you for anything the Quran says the
prophecies except to be good to my family. And of course today is the
day of sending Imam Hussain
and a large number of the family of the prophets of some were
massacred in Karbala. six sons of say naughty if I tell you their
names there'll be no Sunni Shia fighting anymore. What are the
names of say that Allison after Al has someone has seen
Abu Bakr even naughty with the man ignore it? Why would the name is
to kiss Abu Bakr and with me
if there was some kind of beef between us
Jaffa abbess
but the prophets family were slaughtered on that day 18 men
from the family I've seen them Muhammad SAW some were slaughtered
in Karbala. And there were even Sahaba like Solomon it was
swatted, who was beheaded at 93 years old.
And his head was given to Marwan Mahakam a movie but that being
said, some of them as a co author, even though the process and they
thought he doesn't have a lot of offspring, but now everywhere you
go in the Muslim world you have say it's
Ashraf
everywhere you go you find people I told you, the girl who converted
I think I told you the story maybe from from Canada who contacted me
and said I saw the prophet at my dream like 60 times I told you the
story. She saw the Prophet she was like is to see
Mohammed in your dream like a big deal
except that they will get paid by job. I have an idea of.
So this this lady, this lady, this lady dostum, she contacted me, she
you can tell she's not Muslim, because she's like, Oh, hi. Hi,
Mom, you know? And then she's like, I have a question on
Instagram. She said, I saw the Prophet Muhammad. And my dream is
I'm 30 times is a big deal. Then I asked her what to do look like it
will Allah he's like, she's reading chemin. To me. She
described him as he is.
So then I said, Look, man, I got to talk to you zoom, whatever, get
on a phone call. And then she told me I'm adopted. I'm from I'm from
somewhere in the world, I don't want to say, and there's a piece
of paper that it's like, weird, it's written backwards. I was
like, please be out to be please be shut out. She's like, they
said, It's my family.
So they read it. It's an Arabic. And she's Husseini.
She's from Alabama also. So I asked her like, what is the
Prophet Muhammad doing in your dream? She said, he's hugging me.
So I said, I know what you don't do this. So don't ask me anything
else. I said, I think I know what your dream means. She said what I
said if your family abandon your grandfather came to pick you up.
And she took shahada Hamdulillah.
So like, there's Baraka, so I'll Caltha like the process.
who frequently McCain,
his family hams, are all over the place. The other interpretation is
that it's just like good like, cleric theory. Most scholars that
I heard from my teacher is like, get to be all of them. Like it
doesn't have to be one or the other. As we said earlier,
oftentimes, these reflections of Sahaba are all potentially Great.
In that Artina calculator. We gave you a quarter phosphor LED or a
beaker one half so then pray and slaughter for your Lord. We
learned something quickly as we have to finish because people are
fasting that we should turn blessings into worship. So we gave
you coauthor don't chill, fossa li the Arabica 100
Then pray
to your Creator 100 and slaughtered for his sake.
In the Shani Akka, who will better Shani is a hater. I know it sounds
like a very sort of rough translation but as a Shelly is a
hater
shun earn or Coleman, Allah Tadeu and sort of
sort of made others different Cara Shanna and we'll call them in
Allah Tao Liu Liu acabo de taco but Shana and means hatred, like a
great hatred. So in this Shani egg, the one who hates you, who
will avert or is the one who is cut off,
not you, he's cut off.
So we'll stop here because it's time for people who are fasting
last month I accept your fast hamdulillah and next week we'll
pick up with Psalter calf urine. And then in early August, I'm
going to be in Turkey for I
think 15 days we're taking a group of the encamped students from the
encampments.