Taimiyyah Zubair – Taleem al Quran 2012 – P01 013B Tafsir Al-Baqarah 74

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			lesson number 13 Surah Al Baqarah is number 74 to 82. In the previous verses, we learned about a
story. Which story wasn't the story of the cow. When the Bani Israel were commanded by Musa and his
sunnah, that Allah subhanaw taala is telling you that you have to slaughter a cow. And why was it
that they were commanded to slaughter a cow? What was the reason? Because they loved the cow, they
had some divine beliefs regarding the cow, they love the cow a bit too much. And we know that as
believers, we should love Allah subhanaw taala more than anyone and anything. And if we begin to
love anyone else, more than Allah subhanho data, then there is a problem. So this is why they were
		

			told to slaughter the cow. This also shows to us that if you ever feel that your love for something
is greater than your love for Allah, then what do you have to do? Kill it, get rid of it, slaughter
it, expect it from your life, if you cannot reduce the love, because then it will destroy your iman.
Another reason why they were told to slaughter the cow to settle a dispute about who was the
murderer who killed the man. And then eventually, when the slaughter the cow, they were commanded to
take a piece of the cow, whichever piece it was, it doesn't matter. But they were told to take a
piece of the cow and strike the dead man's body with it. And the dead man, he rose, and he spoke out
		

			the name of the person who killed him. Think about it, a man has been killed, he is dead. And all of
a sudden, he wakes up and he speaks out the name of the person who had killed him. Isn't that a big
thing? Imagine if you saw such an incident, wouldn't it shake you? Wouldn't it change your entire
life. Of course, there are people who when they even washed the body of a dead person or if they see
a dead person, it affects them so much that their entire life is changed, their thinking is changed
their way of dealing with other people is completely changed. I remember once this lady was telling
us about how she helped in Washing the dead body of a woman and that woman she was elderly and she
		

			had hair dye in her hair. And she was saying that as they were washing her body, they were washing
the hair and the color kept coming. No matter how much water they poured on her head, the color
would just not go away. And she said that's it. I'm never ever putting your dye in my hair again.
This was just something that she learned that I don't want that when I die and people are trying to
wash my body. They're just trying to get rid of the color in my hair. It affected her so much it
changed her. Now, seeing something so great as this should definitely have an impact on your heart.
But the problem with the bunny is sloth you imagine they had MN and so welcome down upon them.
		

			Imagine the sea was split open before them. Imagine Musa alayhis salam struck the rock and 12
Springs came out of that for them. This saw so many things, but yet they did not become humble
before Allah Subhan Allah so Allah subhanaw taala says, So Maka set Globacom member the bear like
then after that, your hearts became very hard after that, after you saw the dead man coming to life
or after you saw all of these things that are mentioned over here, so Mufasa Kulu buco, Globacom
member Daedalic are set are set is from the letters have seen well from the word cassava, cassava
and what does that mean hardness, toughness, when something is dry, when something is hard, it is
		

			solid, so, it does not absorb any effect it does not absorb anything, nothing can have an impact on
it. This is a sour This is the toughness of something, you know, when they make something that's
supposed to be very strong, they put it through many different tests, they will put a lot of weight
on it, they will throw it from a height or they will push it or they will do different things with
it to show how tough it is. And when that thing does not break then what does it show that I think
is very strong. So Assa hardness over here, this is the hardness of what the opposite blue become
your hearts. Galoob is a plural of color. What does it mean by the hardness of the heart? The
		

			hardness of the heart is when the heart does not feel any compassion, any mercy. When the heart does
not feel anything, meaning no matter what the person sees, no matter what the person experiences, no
matter what the person gets to know. It doesn't have any impact on the heart. If you see something
dramatic if you see a dead person, you know there are people who start crying
		

			deers begin to flow from their eyes. Similarly, they make firm resolutions. That's it. I'm never
going to do this again. They change their lives. But the hard heart no matter what a person sees, no
matter what he experiences no matter what he gets to know it doesn't affect him. It says though, the
heart has become desensitized, desensitized, so nothing can affect the heart. Nothing can have any
impact. There is no sympathy, no compassion, no softness, no mercy, no change, no change at all. So
So Makossa Globacom member Daedalic no humility, no fear, no submissiveness.
		

			Do things soften our hearts. First of all, looking at the ayat, Kony, what are I at Coney the signs
in the creation that Allah subhanaw taala has placed the way the clouds formed the way the rain
falls, for example, thunder, that's I akoni. I mean, you hear thunder and all of a sudden you
realize the greatness of Allah subhanaw taala. You think about your sins and you think about death
and you think about changing yourself to think about stopping the wrong that you're doing. I had
County, the signs in the creation.
		

			Whatever person reflects, and he sees the ad Kony that keeps his heart soft. What does it do? It
keeps the heart of a person soft or it softens the heart of a person. That's something that should
happen. The second thing that helps in keeping the heart soft, or in making the heart soft is
reflecting on at shutter. The verses that Allah soprano data has revealed. We learned in the Quran
when they hear what Allah subhanaw taala has revealed that our you know whom the field will mean a
demery you see their eyes overflowing with tears. Crying is a sign of what softness of the heart, do
things keep the heart soft and they soften the heart what reflection on Iron gonee and reflection
		

			recitation of I add sugary but if a person does not get affected by them, then there is nothing at
all that can affect him. If a person does not get affected by at Coney by a charity, then that's it,
nothing at all can affect him. But he is thrilled so far had the scene I at Coney many. I had
surgery of course they were given the total but when they did not bring about a change in
themselves, then what happened their hearts became extremely hard. Some opposite Globacom member the
VALIC then your hearts became hard after that. How hard did they become? Allah says for here so it
here refers to the Kullu he has the feminine have who are so your hearts they became Cal Hijra like
		

			the rocks. Elijah is a plural of hedger and hedger is a rock you may have heard of the term alhaja a
sweat? Are you familiar with that? Hedgehog is with the black stone? What is the black stone? Where
is it? in Makkah, where in particular? On the Kaaba, anything special about the black stone? It was
sent down from heaven. What are we supposed to do? Yes, we're supposed to kiss it or touch it. Isn't
it amazing? No other rock has that value. But hedges is what has the value and you know has your
password on the Day of Judgment. It's going to testify in the favor of those people who have guessed
it, who have touched it, who have followed this another prophet Sallallahu sallam. So anyway for
		

			your call hijra, so your hearts have become so hard that they are like rocks. They're similar to
rocks in hardness. Allah says Oh, or a shadow Casa even more intense in hardness. I should do this
is from Sinead Chien dial dial What does she need me extremely intense, you know, shut the what is
shut down the W sign that you see on a letter in Arabic. And when you see that sign on a letter What
are you supposed to do on that letter, shed the emphasize the sound. For example, if a bear does not
have that, you will just read it as but, but if it has a shudder, you will read it as the bird
you're going to intensify the sound. So this is what you need is a shed the password more intense in
		

			hardness. So your hearts have become like rocks in their hardness or no even more than rocks in
hardness. Iron is it hard? Yes. But if you put iron in fire, Will it melt? Yes. Rocks. are they
hard? Yes. But if you put rocks in fire, will they melt? No. They will become black. They will
become extremely hot. But they will not melt. They will not change. No matter what Iraq is exposed
to. It will not melt. It will break okay. But it will not melt. It will not change its form. You can
crush it. You can crack it, but its impact
		

			possible do melt it. This is why Allah says that for Hegel, hey Gerety oh a shad, dukkha, Sua or
even more intense in their hardness. And if you think about it, such is a state of those hearts that
are not affected by the Quran. No matter what they experienced in life, no matter what they see,
they don't soften up. They don't change. A person may be crying before them, begging them for mercy.
There could be a person who is hungry before them a person who is destitute who needs their help,
but still, they will be oppressive against them. There will be a child who is hungry, a child whose
parents have been killed, but such people will have no mercy on them. There will be people who have
		

			been evicted out of their homes, but such hearts would have no mercy on them. There will be people
who have no fresh water, no access to health care even no gasoline, no basic needs being fulfilled.
But yet such hearts will have no mercy on them. Women are being killed, men are being killed,
children are being slaughtered, buildings are being bombarded but their hearts will not soften. And
this is a fact that Allah subhanaw taala says vehicle hijama at a shadow crosswalk or even more
hard, more tough than rocks in hardness. Rocks, they are very hard but eventually they break
eventually a time comes when they will crush or when you know some goodness will come out of them
		

			for example diamonds there are extremely hard but aren't they a source of beauty? Can you not make a
lot of money through diamonds? Yes, but hard hearts are their source of any good at all. No way.
Allah subhanaw taala says we're in nominal hija ality and indeed from the rocks indeed from the
rocks are those that lemma surely that which yet the federal Roman hole and how rivers gush forth
from them. There are some rocks okay, they don't melt but what happens they break and rivers a lot
of water gushes out from them gushes out through them. Yet the Fed journalism the route letters Fer
de la, what does Fajr mean? Don and I told you earlier crack of dawn when something splits breaks at
		

			a large scale. So yet the fedora the fedora, the Fedora is when something breaks at a large scale
and when it's used for water, when because of water, something is broken up and a lot of water is
erupting, a gushing forth. So there are some rocks which are yes, very tough, but at least they have
some good in them that if there's water coming through what will happen to those rocks, they will
break apart. They will not stand firm, solid unaffected know the force of water will break them and
as they break, water is gushing forth through them gushing gushing, yet the front gentlemen will
inhale. And notice Allah subhanaw taala does not just say water over here, what's the word that has
		

			been used? And how and how is the plural off? No. And what are rivers? A lot of water coming
through? So imagine these rocks, they don't stand firm against the river against the river water and
this river water who benefits from it? People, animals, birds people irrigate their fields. They do
so many things with that water. Yes, they are rocks but the sun good come out of them are their
source of good for mankind. Yes, they are. But a person whose heart becomes hard. They produce
nothing good. They are worse than solid rock. Then Allah says we're in them in her and indeed from
it meaning some rocks are such that lemme Yasha Kaku that split asunder Yasha Kaku sheen, cough,
		

			cough shock. What does shock mean? When something solid when something hard, when something very
tough, it cracks open, it breaks open it splits asunder. So there are some rocks that is shokaku the
split asunder and as a result what happens fail reducer it comes out how Rajiv men who from that
breakage from the crack what comes out Alma water, power, these type of rocks different from the
first day, the first day, they just break apart, they're massive and they break apart and rivers are
gushing forth. The second category is of such rocks with just break a little. And as a result, a
little water comes out, for example, in the form of springs. Remember when Musar is Salam, he struck
		

			the rock with his stick and as a result what happened 12 Springs came forth. Is the water coming out
with a lot of force? No, the water is just coming out not with a lot of force. So this is why Allah
says fire. What do you mean when Matt compare these to one type of rock they break? A lot of waters
gushing forth. Another type that just
		

			read a little bit of water comes out is there a difference? Yes, one from it a lot of water is
coming and the other a little bit of water is coming. But at least what is common? There is some
water coming there is something good coming from them. They are beneficial some a lot and some very
little.
		

			Another type of rocks Allah says we're in them in her and indeed from it meaning from the rocks.
Llama surely that which yeah beautiful it falls down Mihashi Attila from the fear of Allah. Yeah,
beautiful hair ba ba who bought and who bought is to fall down from above. So there are some rocks
which fall down. Why do they fall down, mean, Hachette Illa out of the fear of Allah? What is
cashier cashier? Her sheen? Yeah, it is fear. But what kind of fear is it? It is such fear that is
due to knowing the greatness of the other. You realize how great Allah is and as a result you are
afraid. So you can say it is like ah being in awe of someone. And it is such fear that is based on
		

			knowledge because Allah says in Nehemiah Shalom and everybody Runa it is the knowledgeable ones from
His servants who fear Allah, these rocks they fall down from the fear of Allah. What does it mean?
Yes, this happens that out of the fear of Allah rocks will fall down. Allah says for example, in
sutra, how should i a 21 that low and Zelner Heather Khurana Allah jobelan La ADA hoo ha, Sharon
Mutasa, Darren min Cushie Attila that if Allah had sent down this Quran on a mountain, on a rocky
mountain, what would happen to that mountain? You would see it humbled harsher on with the foot
there are breaking apart. Why? Out of the fear of Allah. Similarly, we learned in sort of paragraph
		

			143 That mozarella Sinha when he spoke to Allah, He requested that Oh Allah, I'll be areni under the
lake Oh my Lord, show me yourself. I want to see you will start is that I wanted to see Allah
subhanaw taala Allah subhanaw taala said Linda Ronnie, you will never be able to see me when I
convert owns or illegible. Look at the mountain. Allah subhanaw taala he shown some of his light
onto the mountain, Allah said only eligible for in is the Cobra Makino for solfatara Annie if the
mountain can stand there, while Allah subhanaw taala is light is being cast upon it, then okay if
the mountain can bear it, you will be able to bear to see me but the mountain would happen to it,
		

			that it generally who the CAIR Allah subhanaw taala turned it into powder into crumble. So there are
many verses in the Quran as I just showed you two verses in particular, that showed us that rocks
mountains even have fear of Allah subhanaw taala. Apparently we say that these rocks are falling
down because of the melting glacier or because of the landsliding or because of whatever reason, but
of the reasons is what that they fall down out of the fear of Allah. Allah tells them fall down, and
no matter how tough how huge, how solid they are, what will they do, they will fall down, they will
follow the Command of Allah. That huge rock will not just stand there saying no, I'm a rock I can
		

			stay here. No, Allah commands it fall down and out of the fear of Allah. It falls down. Allah says,
Who am Allah who believe in Him and Allah is not at all unaware. I'm Martha, I'm alone, about what
you do. Luffy lawfulness from line five Alang, La Fleur and what is off law negligence, heedlessness
unawareness when a person does not pay attention. So never think that Allah is unaware of what you
do that I'm alone. I'm aligned mainland. No, Allah is fully aware of everything you do.
		

			What do we see in this verse? We see that Allah subhanaw taala is describing the hardness of the
hearts of who of the Bani Israel and Allah subhanaw taala compares their hardness with the hardness
of the rocks. And then Allah subhanaw taala mentions three types of rocks that despite the fact that
they're very hard, there are some who break and rivers gush forth there are some that crack and a
little bit of water comes out. And there are some that fall down from the fear of Allah. But what do
we see that hearts that have become hard? They are worse than rocks because rocks, they fall down.
They humble themselves. They obey Allah despite their toughness, something good at least comes out
		

			of them despite their hardness but a heart that has become hard. It is much worse than that. Allah
says he is not unaware of what you do, meaning anything that you do, Allah is fully aware of it, and
he will ask you about it. Because whenever
		

			Since heart becomes very hard, he goes on oppressing other people. He goes on mocking at the
commands of Allah, he goes on distorting the religion of Allah. Allah says he's not unaware of your
activities. Don't think you will not be questioned, you will be questioned. What do we learn in this
verse? First of all, we learn about the blameworthiness of the one whose heart has become hard,
despite having seen so many I had, despite having read so many verses, when we see the eye when we
learn the verses, what should happen to us, our hearts must humble before Allah subhanaw taala. And
what does it mean by the humbling of the heart that a person's heart is full of gratitude is full of
		

			fear, humility, submissiveness, that when a person sees when a person learns, he does what is
required, that knowledge is translated into action, that realisation motivates a person to do
something, when if a person is not grateful, if a person does not obey Allah, then what will happen
his heart will become hard. This is just like, if you have a plant, and on the soil, you pour water,
		

			if you pour water, what should happen, the water should be absorbed by the soil why? So that the
plant may grow. But if the water is not absorbed, then what's going to happen? Fungus is going to
grow on the top, the water is eventually going to dry up, and eventually the plant is going to die.
Similarly, when we learn about something, when we get impressed by something, there should be a
change. If we don't change, then what's going to happen, our state is going to become much worse.
Knowledge must turn into action. realisation must lead you to doing something, what do we do
generally, we cry at that time, and then we forget. Or we say, Oh, wow, that was so amazing. And
		

			then we move on.
		

			That Wow, so amazing, should make you do something that fear should make you do something. And if
we're not bringing about a change in our actions, then we should worry because this is the cause of
hardness of the hearts. Allah subhanaw taala told us intellectual hadith is number 16 that Allah Mia
Nila Lavina Amma no and tashera Kulu Boom linic Rila. Woman as Telemental Health has the time not
come for those people who believe that their hearts should humble for the Dhikr of Allah and what
Allah subhanaw taala has revealed of the truth, meaning that they should do something when Iacono
can Medina Otaki tournament Kabul fatale la he will Ahmed focus at Google Home. And they should not
		

			become like those people who were given the book before. But a long time passed by and then their
hearts became hard. What does it mean by this that a long time passed by a long time came between
knowledge and action? If you delay, if you defer, if you procrastinate, then it's going to harden
the heart. So what do we learn? When we know something? When we find out about something, when we
feel something, then do something? Don't just sit there. Don't just dream and imagine and think no,
do something. There should be action. If there's no action, it's going to lead to the hardness of
the heart. Then we also learn in this verse that rocks, what are they? How do we look at hearts,
		

			inanimate things? creatures that have no life? No feeling? No nothing. You can abuse them, you can
throw them you can do whatever you want, because they don't feed anything. If you hit it, it's not
gonna scream. If you break it, it's not gonna cry. No, nothing's gonna happen to it. But what do we
learn from this verse? That rocks also have fear of Allah. Everything that Allah has created,
whether it is animate or inanimate, living or nonliving, intelligent or unintelligent, with reason
or without reason has the ability to recognize its creator, has love of Allah has fear of Allah by
nature. Yes, human beings are those who, as they grow older, they distance themselves from Allah,
		

			they disobey Allah. But by nature, every creature has been made such that it knows Allah, it has
love of Allah, it has fear of Allah. Allah subhanaw taala says you serve behind Allah He manifests
in my word, you will level up everything that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Allah will
Eman che in Illa u sub bit here behind the UL Akela the owner this behind every single thing in the
creation, what does it do? It glorifies Allah but you do not understand how they do it. So rocks
even have fear of Allah. Now telling me something is that rock is humbled before Allah. If that rock
obeys Allah and if we don't who is worse, when we have been given more knowledge, more ability, more
		

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			Standing. But still, if we don't humble ourselves before Allah, then truly our state is worse than
that of rocks. A loss of personal data describes those people in the Quran who go astray from the
right way who disobey Allah who do go for that such people are worse than grazing livestock animals
even by whom Allah they are worse than an arm. Why? Because the cattle grazing livestock, at least
they obey their master, at least they respond to the call of the master. But if a human being does
not respond to Allah, then in reality, he is worse than animals.
		

			So we should check ourselves, we should reflect on ourselves. Whenever you go out to, for example, a
park and you see all these beautiful trees, and you see the water and you see the clouds and you see
everything. Think about it. Everything is obedient to Allah. What about me? What do I do? Then we
also learn this verse about the vastness of the knowledge of Allah subhanaw taala the vastness of
the knowledge of Allah subhanaw taala that Allah says he is not unaware of what you do, meaning any
action you do, Allah knows about it fully. Why, because of the perfection of his knowledge, because
of the vastness of his knowledge. And because of the fact that Allah has encompassed all of us
		

			completely. Then we also learn in this verse that the hardness of the heart is a reality, meaning
people do suffer from this problem. Have you ever experienced it that perhaps you see someone in
pain and you don't feel anything for them? Someone is begging before you like yeah, I don't care. If
for example, your mom is telling you wake up, wake up, and you're like, you just put your blanket on
your head and you turn away as if she's not there. This is hardness of the heart, that somebody's
calling a scum column already. And we're taking our time as if it doesn't matter, they're waiting,
their time is getting wasted. They're standing outside. This is hardest of the heart. Food is
		

			brought before us and we don't eat it and we just toss it into the garbage, overlooking the effort
that other people have put in, in purchasing that food and making the money first to purchase that
food and bring that food in preparing that food and serving you that food. And if you just toss it
in the garbage isn't that very hard of your heart? It's very hard. What's the solution to that?
Because as human beings, we do become desensitized. Unfortunately, when we are surrounded by so many
blessings, and it happens that we do something wrong, but nothing affects us. You know, there's no
harm that we suffer. We think it's okay to do such things. So what's the solution? That for example,
		

			we hear the Quran we're not affected. We know that yes, we're supposed to pray, but we don't bother
praying. What is the solution to the hardness of the heart? Anything you can think of? Knowledge?
Because sometimes hardness of the heart is due to lack of knowledge or due to knowing something but
you've almost forgotten it's not fresh in your mind and as soon as it becomes fresh be like oh my
god, what am I doing? What am I thinking? For example, since childhood all of us know we're supposed
to pray salah, but why is it that there are times when we're supposed to pray, but we're become lazy
and we say, oh, never mind. Oh, it's okay. We forget. What's the reason the heart has become hard.
		

			So what's the solution? Knowledge? Learn about the importance of Salah, learn about the sin the
crime of neglecting salah. We learned for example earlier that IBLEES refused one search and look at
his consequence if we refuse many, many search doesn't what do we expect of ourselves. So knowledge
softens your heart. What else opens your heart recitation of the Quran, reading of the Quran
learning the Quran. This also softens the heart of a person reflecting on ayat Kony reflecting on
the creation of Allah subhanaw taala. This also softens the heart of a person, knowledge, the ayat
		

			making dua that ya allah soften my heart, keep my heart soft. Repentance. For example, if a person
does something wrong, seeking forgiveness from Allah subhanaw taala, remembering the hereafter
remembering death, because death is the destroyer of all pleasures, if you remember your death, if
you remember your grave.
		

			If you remember, if you think about the angels are going to come and question you. If you think
about the time when you will be put under the earth, and everyone will walk away and you're alone.
If you think about the time, if you imagine yourself over there, it will definitely soften your
heart. What else can soften the heart of a person increasing in arriba worshipping Allah subhanaw
taala.
		

			Surrounding yourself with good people. And also one more thing that softens the heart of a person is
looking at and caring for the unfortunate ones. If you hear about a very sad story about for
example, a woman whose children are extremely ill extremely sick and how they're struggling every
single day of their lives, then that will soften your heart that
		

			will bring tears to your heart that will shake your heart, counting your blessings. If you look at a
child who is an orphan that will soften your heart, by seeing your hand over an orphans head that
will soften your heart, helping out people who have been affected by some natural disaster that will
soften your heart. Unfortunately, we live in a place where we don't see poverty. I mean, yes, even
people who are poor who are suffering from poverty, still, we don't see them as destitute as weak
compared to people who are weak and poor in other countries. So it's important that whenever we, for
example, go back home, go to a third world country anywhere, what should we do take time out to go
		

			visit such places. I remember when I went back to Pakistan, I'm originally from Pakistan. When we
went there, after a long time, there had been a natural disaster over there, a lot of people were
living in camps, I really encouraged my husband to go and see because he's never been to such
places. And he's never seen such people. So I really encouraged him to go and see and help out over
there. And he went, and he saw children who were you know, handicapped, and that didn't have
wheelchairs for them. Instead, those children were we brought in wheelbarrows. Just imagine in a
wheelbarrow, extremely cold winter, people don't have warm clothes to wear, they have no socks,
		

			their feet are bare, their heads are bare, their hands are bare, they barely have any clothes on
their bodies, they have no food to eat, even the little that you give them. They're so grateful. So
when he came back, he was a different person. It's important that we reach out to these people,
because this will soften our heart. This will make us more grateful, more careful. Otherwise, we
will buy something so expensive. We don't like it or get rid of it. waste our money here there. And
we don't care about other people. We don't care about the actions that we're doing. So one of the
things that softens our hearts is caring for who the unfortunate people that will soften our hearts.
		

			And it's important that we continuously do these things. Because our hearts they become hard. When
we ignore the constant request of someone that is what the hardness of the heart when we hear verses
of the Quran and it says Oh, nothing as affected as that is ordinance of the heart. So we do
experience it every now and then this is why it's necessary that we do all of these things. Let's
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