Taleem al Quran 2012 – P02 022E Tafsir Al-Baqarah 168-171

Aruba bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim we'll begin from number 168

Yeah. Are you a nurse all mankind, all people. Allah subhanaw taala addresses all people.

Previously when we read Yeah Are you a nurse what was a command? Or Budo Robuchon worship your Lord? And now what's the command? Kulu eat?

Interesting. First we were told worship and now we've been told eat.

Why? What's the connection?

The thing is,

that when a person worships Allah,

then he can even make his eating, an act of worship. He can make his drinking an act of worship, he can make a sitting and his standing and his walking an act of worship. Meaning even through these little little things, he can earn the pleasure of Allah he can make Allah happy.

Just like when you love someone, you can make them happy with little little things. When you know about what they're like,

when you know about what they're like you can please them with little little things as well.

So Allah subhanaw taala told us over here Kulu eat from Hamza calf lamb, eat, eat, what mimma of that which Phil RP is in the earth,

eat what is in the earth, meaning anything that is on the earth in general, you can eat it. Obviously there are exceptions and inshallah we will learn about that as we studied the Quran, but Kulu may may fill or we eat whatever that is in the earth, Allah Subhana Allah tells us in Surah Bacara 29 That who Allah the Halacha Allah Kumar Filoli to mirin Allah has created whatever is in the earth for you.

So eat whether it is stuff that you find on trees or it is stuff that you find underground or it is grains or it is fruits or it is vegetables or it is birds or it is fish or it is animals eat

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However,

there is one condition and what is that? That it should be Hello, Hello Alan by uban

meaning eat dead which is halal eat dead which is for you. Halal is from Harlem lamb and halal is that which is permissible that which is allowed. Now, what is it that we are allowed to eat? When is food halal? There are two reasons there are two things that make something halal. First of all, when it is halal in and of itself.

In and of itself, it's a permissible thing to eat. So for example, Apple is it Hello? Yes, an animal such as a cow that was slaughtered and at the time of slaughtering Bismillah was pronounced and the person who slaughtered it was a Muslim, a Christian or a Jew.

Okay, so that meat can you eat it? Is it Hello? Yes it is. Because Bismillah was pronounced the name of Allah subhanaw taala was mentioned at the time of slaughtering.

So it is halal fee that he in and of itself.

Secondly, it is halal Ficus b He in the way it was acquired.

So for example, you go to the grocery store and as you're shopping as you're buying the fruit, you see grapes. Oh, they look very nice. Let me take a few and you start eating.

No, I don't think I'm gonna buy the grapes. They're very expensive, but I'm just gonna eat some here.

So you eat them. You go to Bulk Barn and you see let's say cookies and you like them. You're not going to buy them when you start eating. And if somebody tells you why are you eating says hello.

But has a kosher sign on it. Okay, it's halal he that he but is it halal, Ficus b Did you buy it that the store owner give it to you? No. So it's not halal for you to eat it if you eat it you're eating haram.

You're eating haram. If a person finds change in other person's bag in their pencil case and the ticket and they go to the cafeteria, buy a piece of pizza and they eat it and they say it's halal okay the pizza in and of itself is halal but did you acquire through Halal means no.

So it whatever you want. But make sure that it is halal. It is permissible

and it is altered by given to you by your for your for something that is clean, that is pure, that is good. And five is also something that is beneficial for someone meaning it's favorable for them it suits them.

We learn about the

Yes, that is for you. When the ship is sailing wind that is the year meaning when that is favorable, it's not blowing against the ship and with the ships that with the sails the ship can smooth even faster.

So for years what good beneficial clean and favourable

so hello lumpa uban Halal understood, what is this the hip, eat by your food?

Meaning eat that food, which is actually good for you.

When is food good for us? When is food clean for us? What's the first condition that it has to be halal?

So for him, in other words is halal.

Because that which is not halal? What is it? It's impure? It's unclean. Allah subhanaw taala says concerning Mehta, a dead animal that for inner who reads indeed it is rich, it is filthy, it is impure. So, buy this first of all halal, something that is good, clean has to be permissible for us to eat. Secondly, in the general sense as well, it should be something that is good. So for example, if instead of drinking water, every time you have an option to drink something, you've got a very sugary, extremely sugary drink. That is terrible for your teeth, terrible for your stomach terrible for your health. Is that playing? Is that the you know, it's not? It's not at all for you. If

instead of having the fruits and the vegetables, and the very beneficial nutritious food that Allah has created, instead of having that all the time, we're munching on processed foods. Will that be fine? You

know, I'm not saying that processed food is haram. Please don't think like that. processed food is halal if it is halal, okay. However, it may not be for you. It may not always be for you.

Why? Because if you have too much of it, then what's going to happen is not going to affect your body. Yes. All the preservatives, all the extra ingredients. If you ever look at the ingredients, what do they tell you? What are you eating? Literally, if you look at the ingredients, and the second thing is sugar on the list of ingredients, what does it mean that thing is backed with sugar. So don't eat it. I remember I took a lesson somewhere on quality chocolates. I love chocolate. So what is good chocolate, what is pure chocolate, how chocolate is made? What are the things about cocoa where it comes from and it said that if sugar is one of the first three ingredients, don't buy

the chocolate.

Don't buy it

because it has more sugar than cocoa. So there's hardly any real premium chocolate in it. It's not good for you. It's not going to bring about that real taste that original taste of chocolate. So if there's too much sugar in something, then is that the you know so hello Ellen, by human eat that which is halal and for you

while at the top of your rule who to attache upon and do not follow the footsteps of Shavonne again see that W etbr terrain, don't follow the hotel at the Sheraton hotel or discipline the footwork hot or well. And hoto is basically the gap the space that is between two footprints.

The space that is between two footprints and how to work footsteps footprints. When a person is walking one step, second step third step each step leads to the other.

So don't follow the footsteps of shaytaan what does it mean by following the footsteps of someone

following the footsteps of someone means following them in what they do. That whatever they are doing, you do the same thing. So for example a person is following the path of a burrito of a camel. He is going exactly the way that the camel went. So if a person is following the Hottel attache lon what does it mean? He is doing exactly what Champon does.

He is doing what chiffon does what chip on wants him to do what chip on called him to the actions that chip on likes. Allah says do not follow the footsteps of shape on why

because in know who indeed he meaning shape on he is looking for you are the one will be in he is a clear enemy to you. I do i in the URL Well, are there what is enmity and our do is someone who hates you? who opposes you? Who wants to harm you doesn't want anything good for you. And we've been clear by noon, meaning his enmity is clear. He's made it very very clear to you that he's not your friend in studies your enemy.

Allah tells us over here, eat that which is halal and for you. And secondly, don't followship on because she Athan what is he going to invite

You too, every way that Allah has forbidden and every way that Allah dislikes, and because he's your enemy, a clear enemy. This is why he's going to call you to the disobedience to Allah subhanaw taala. Why, so that you suffer?

You become a failure at the end? He doesn't want anything good for you. The question is, why is this mentioned right after eating? What's the connection between eating halal and playing here? And not following the footsteps of chef on?

The thing is that eating? Why do we eat? Why do you eat?

To get nutrition to get healthy, but seriously, you eat fries and chips and Coke, just to get energy? Desire.

You like something? So you eat it? You want something? So you have it?

So food is what satisfying? A desire eating food is satisfying desire

shaytaan? Where does he come to us from how does it lead us astray through our desires.

Because our desires, when it comes to them, we become very weak,

a person will be very strong. But when it comes to, for example, the chocolate bar, they'll do anything to get it.

And sometimes you'll be amazed people who are big strong, and they desperately want a drink. They desperately want something that they like to eat.

So it happens, we have desires and Champon comes to us through our desires. So for example, we're eating something we want to eat the chip on says don't worry about the ingredients don't look, don't look. What if there's lard and this what if there's soy and soy ingredient in it, then you won't be able to have it. So Shavon makes us eat her long food.

And so it happens that for example, we're very careful about what we put in our mouths. But Shavon He makes us negligent about what we put into our ears or into our eyes.

We're careful about what we're eating, but not about what we're taking in with our eyes and our ears. Desires.

Likewise, a person would be very careful about what he's eating. But he doesn't realize that at the same time he may be eating the flesh of his dead brother.

Backbiting libre. So Shere Khan calls us to all evil acts that Allah subhanaw taala dislikes

and he comes to us through our desires.

This is why Allah says well at a W two at the shaytaan because in the hula coma or do when will be Indeed he is to you an open a clear enemy.

Now what are some of the Hotwired of shaytaan what are some of the ways of Shavonne

some of the things that chant on does some of the things that chip on calls us to because Allah is telling us don't follow him. So what are the things that chip on calls us to? Can you think of something

okay Shavon does not like to do such the and he does not want us to do such. So when it comes time to pray we're too tired. We're too sleepy. We are too busy. We want to do something else.

Okay steps to Zina steps do haram okay look at that guy look at him again.

His hair his shirt, his shoes Wow What does name oh my

hold the wet the shade lawn, taking people to Zina taking people to haram well after chiffon does innovation, fabricating things in the religion, others something very small.

The Prophet sallallahu sallam said Leia Hadoken Mishima Lee, Willa Yashraj Bishi murli here for in the Shavon Yeah, it could be Shamala he where she will be she merely

none of you should eat with his left hand and none of you should drink with his left hand because shaytaan he eats with his left hand and he drinks with his left hand. There's a hadith in Sahih Muslim

eating with the left hand drinking with the left hand this is what the ways of shaitan Allah tells us don't follow up on don't do what he does.

Likewise, we see that yawning when a person yawns This is from Ceylon Chitwan makes us yawn. This is why we start yawning the more we start praying or the one when we start reading the Quran.

Does it happen with you? Yeah, and when a person yawns with his mouth open Shavon laughs at him. He mocks at him.

He laughs at him.

So when a person yawns he should control himself. First of all, try not to yawn and if it's coming, you cannot resist it, then control it to the best of your ability. What happens?

If a person uses his left hand to eat and drink, then he is pleasing Shetland. And when a person pleasing chiffon chiffon becomes more stronger, and he will lead him astray in other ways as well.

Then he should try to change his habit. Because in a hadith we learned that a man was eating with his left hand, and the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, don't eat with your left hand, eat with your right hand. He said, I can't. He said, I can't eat with my right hand. And he said, May you never eat with your right hand.

And the man was never able to lift his right hand up to his mouth.

So this is something serious. And the thing is that we say, oh, a person in a writes with their left hand, but there are many people who write with their left hand. You write with your left hand? How do you eat

with your right hand?

Yes, you eat with your right hand. I've seen her. She writes everything with her left hand, but she's drinking, she's driving. She's doing so many things with her right hand. I mean, think about when you're driving, even if you're left handed, aren't you going to use your right hand for so many things? You are?

So why is it that when it comes to eating, we say, oh, we can't, we can. You're stronger. Don't make yourself weak, don't handicap yourself.

Likewise, we see that the wave of Chopin is making incorrect opinions in religion. Yes, that is facet that is incorrect. So for example, we see that Allah subhanaw taala told shaytaan frustrated to Adam, he said, No, I'm better than him. So I'm not going to prostrate to Adam.

So likewise, we are to pray. A person says no, but I don't understand what Salah means. So I'm not going to pray.

We are told fast we say no, the fastest too long. I'm not going too fast. Using logic, incorrect logic, in the religion, this is of the ways of Shavon

another way of shaitan has said jealousy, how he was jealous of them and his salon.

So Allah says, Let the tiberiu How to add a shape on don't follow the footsteps of shall plan because he is to you and open enemy if you follow Him, He is going to lead you to hellfire. He is going to lead you to destruction and other day of judgment he's going to care for you know, just like we learned earlier that the all the leaders what will they do?

They will disassociate from their followers.

So likewise, Sheldon will say on the Day of Judgment, I only called you and you responded to me, so don't blame me blame yourself. I never forced you to do it.

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and so is something that makes a person feel sad, feel bad? Yes. Who it makes a person feel bad.

If you ever fight with somebody, how do you feel afterwards? How do you feel

bad? If you have a conscience that is alive? How will you feel bad? Can you think of some other sins that if we do we feel bad afterwards?

What other sins are there that we do and after we perform them we feel bad.

Lying, skipping prayers, getting angry,

answering back to our parents not submitting an assignment, coming late to wherever we have to.

When we're doing those actions, it doesn't matter. But afterwards we feel bad. And you know what, even if we don't feel bad, our life becomes difficult because sins have consequences. If we do something wrong, we will see its consequences in our lives.

So in the Maya, Moroccan Bisou Shavon orders you with bad actions, things that will make you sad things that will affect your life in a very negative way. Things that will have terrible repercussions in your life. Well for sure and also the indecency for sharp for her sheen. And fascia is that which is indecent. Now when Sue and fascia are coming together so it refers to minor sins. And fascia refers to major sins. major sins like Zina because it's indecent killing somebody absolutely indecent. So, think about it. Ship on orders you would sue and fascia. If you think about minor sins are they're forgiven by the good deeds that we perform, aren't they? Yes, a person

performs minor sins and when he does something good, then good deeds erase bad deeds. Why do you think Shelton would order us to do small changes

And yes, because they lead us to greater sense. Because when a person does something wrong once a small thing, a little thing, get into it again. Yes. Can you do it again? Yes, can you do it again, of course. And when he does it a number of times, then it becomes easier for him to do something that is much worse. And this is why when a person persists on minor sins, then it becomes equal to a major sin. So in the mayor, welcome besought he will fascia doesn't show how much he hates us, that he doesn't leave anything, he doesn't spare any chance to harm us. Even if it's studying us to do something small that is bad, he will take the advantage and he will do that.

And he also commands you that undercooled that you say Kafala or Allah upon Allah meaning about Allah may Allah Tala Manuel you do not know, Darla moon or in mainland me, he tells you to say such things about Allah that you have no idea about. Meaning he tells you to invent things about Allah to say wrong things about Allah to have wrong assumptions about Allah subhanaw taala.

When it comes to call on Allah, talking about Allah, it could be of three types.

First of all, that a person says something. And he knows that, yes, Allah has said it. This is true with regards to Allah. Is that good? Should a person say that? Yes. So you know, something that is mentioned in the Quran? And you tell somebody about should you do that? Of course you should. There's something beneficial.

Another is that a person says something and he knows that Allah has not said it.

So he says, oh, in the Quran, such and such as mentioned, and he is saying that deliberately.

How is that it's Hello, it's forbidden. And this is from shaitan.

Another is that a person doesn't know. And he says that Allah has said such and such, but he doesn't know if Allah has said it or he has not said it.

He doesn't know. Is that right? No, even that is not right.

So what is this, I assure to us that shaytaan any command that he gives to us is what? So for sure, it's evil, It's indecent.

So anytime we have the thought of even doing something wrong, saying something wrong, saying something evil, then whose command is it? Whose command? Is it? Share Plan, because many times we say, Oh, I don't know if this was worse for some shape on? Does it ever happen? Or I don't know if it was actually the worst was of shaitana If it was just my heart, anything evil, that you intend that you want to do know that it is from Shavon. And even if it is from your soul from your own heart, who was trained your heart to be like that children.

So don't do that, control yourself. Don't listen to that. And with regard to that, Allah Subhana Allah says in surah, Arafa 200 that were in my hands of undocumented SharePoint in Aslan. First, there is bill, that whenever you feel the chip on is prompting you with something evil, then seek refuge with Allah. So any evil thought you want to say something evil about somebody, you're thinking something negative about another person, instantly or with a biller?

You want to say something that's obscene to another person, say something that is indecent to another guy who is a biller.

Because you have these desires, chip on will urge you to do something at that time control yourself. And then we also learn in this verse, that we must not speak without knowledge, especially about to Allah subhanaw taala. Because when a person speaks without knowledge concerning Allah, then this is a result of what

is the result of pride. It's a result of arrogance. It's a result of foolishness at the same time,

that a person says, Oh, why is it that Allah has commanded us to do such and such? or Allah does not know Allah does not care? I'm going through so much hardship Allah doesn't care about me. This is what pride Who do you think you are to say such a statement?

No self esteem negative feelings about ourselves, all of this is from shape on.

So let that the bureau photo attache plan, don't follow him. Because into my model can be so evil Russia wasn't the cooler or Allah He my letter alone.

And a person could say wrong things about Allah concerning his actions concerning the attributes of Allah concerning the commands that Allah has given. And whenever a person says such things, all of this is based on

ignorance, foolishness, pride, and that is from shape one, two.

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When some people are told, follow what Allah has revealed, how should you follow it? Meaning whatever Allah has revealed he should have the same belief, whatever Allah has revealed, you should say, according to that you should act according to that, live it, believe in it, follow it in coal in Farrell in Arcada. Then what happens? What's their reaction? Do they accept no, their hearts don't soften.

Allah says that ALU they say, well, Natta Viru. Instead, we are going to follow mal finally,

we are going to follow when we found our forefathers on

we're gonna follow our families, our parents, our society, our culture, what we have always been doing, and fina, lamb farewell ofor This is to find something by chance it is to find something by chance you weren't looking for it. But you found it. Okay, you weren't looking for it, but you found it. So for example, the person wasn't looking for the truth. He wasn't looking for religion, how to worship, how to celebrate how to live, he was born in a family, and they celebrate a particular way they worship in a particular way. So he just started doing that. He hasn't selected it for himself. He didn't choose it for himself. He didn't look for it. Whatever he found, he just got it. He just

took it.

So this said that instead, we're going to follow what we found. Our forefathers on ABA is a plural of meaning our ancestors, whatever religion they had been practicing, that is what we are going to practice, whether they are right, or they are not whether they were on the truth, or they were not on the truth.

Why do you think they say that?

Because they love their forefathers, they love their ancestors?

Many times it happens that when it comes to worldly things, do people like to follow their ancestors? Were leavings.

So for example, your mother used to wear back in the day, certain type of clothes?

Would you wear the same type of clothes? No way. Back in the day, they used to wear certain shoes, would you wear the same shoes? Not at all. Back in the day? They used to wear a particular kind of bags, would you wear the same thing? Not at all. It's embarrassing to do that. What everything else we think whatever our forefathers, our parents, our families have been doing, it's outdated. We can't do it.

If a woman has a child, and the mother will tell her feed this to your child said no, no, no, you guys don't know. Now the doctors say that you don't give solids until such and such month and you don't give this food until such and such month.

We don't look at the advice of our parents or our elders. We disregard that completely. Why? Because we feel we have found something better. Something that's more beneficial.

But when it comes to religion, many times the state of most people is what that they will limit themselves to what their ancestors would do.

I have experienced this myself. I remember, there was a girl I knew her very well. She was a Christian. And I used to tell her that why don't you come study the Quran? Because she used to say I love to study. This was back home. She used to work in somebody's house. And she said I love to study, I really want to go to college. I really want to learn so I told her if you want to learn something, come here. You know, you can learn this in English. And we'll take care of it. You studied she said okay, fine. She was interested. She wanted to learn. But then after some time, she came to me. She said you know what? Your religion is what your parents do. Your family does. So I

was born in a Christian family, so I shouldn't be a Christian. So I don't think I should even study Islam.

And I couldn't understand. Her mother used to dress differently. She didn't say Oh, this is my mother dresses like that. I should also dress in the same way and I said that to her that. Why don't you follow her in every way.

Do they know about your religion is your family your religion is your culture everything we will go against the culture. But when it comes to religion, it says though we cannot use our minds over there

and it is something for which we need to use our minds the most because it's the most important things concerning our lives.

So all over Natalia Roma, Alfie, naturally, Allah says, A willow can go home alone, meaning they will follow their forefathers, even though can about whom their forefathers lay your Hakuna che and they did not understand a thing are in Coughlin. Well, if they don't, and they were not rightly guided, had Alia hidayah

they will follow their forefathers even though their ancestors did not know anything about the truth about their religion. And they were not rightly guided still, they will follow them.

What does it show to us

that we should not be so obsessed with something or someone that we follow them in every way that even if they're doing something wrong, even if they're doing something illogical, we still imitate them, we still follow them, we still listen to them.

We should use our mind.

If somebody is telling us to do something wrong, we're not going to listen to them, no matter how close they are.

No matter how much respect we have for them, once a group of companions were traveling, and their leader was a little upset with the rest of them. So he said, Jump into the fire. He was very upset with them. He said jump into the fire.

So they didn't and when they came to the Prophet salallahu Salam, they told him what happened, that they disobey their leader, and the Prophet sallallahu sallam said that the gist of which is that if you were to enter that, then you would enter the hellfire.

Meaning you can't obey people when they're telling you to do something wrong.

Many times it happens that a person belongs to, for example, a particular school of thought they say, Oh, we're supposed to be Hanafi or we're supposed to be Salafi, or we're supposed to be this we're supposed to be that we've invented these names ourselves. And these names did not exist at the time of the Prophet salallahu Salam at the time of the righteous people. So we say that okay, even though the Hadith says that, but since I'm Shafi since I'm so and so I'm not going to do this, I go to that masjid, this is why I'm not going to follow this hadith. We cannot do that.

We cannot follow other people just because we respect them. Know, we are supposed to follow the truth. We are supposed to follow the truth. And the truth comes from WHO? Allah so whatever Allah tells us, whatever his messenger has informed us when we find out about it, then we are obligated to live it we are obligated to accept it.

And any person who rejects evidence, then he is similar to such people who don't use their mind.

Well, Martha Lulu, Dina Cafaro and the example of those people who disbelieve

Alladhina Cafaro Gabbatha. Lee is like example of who a lady the one who general

he is yelling, he is shouting he is screaming.

Allah the general known rain cough. This word means to scream to shout. It's also used for the calling of a cruel It's also used for when a shepherd is yelling is calling out his animals. So any loud sound under the under could the one who is yelling Who is he the shepherd? Who is he calling? When the shepherd is making a noise? Who is he calling? His animals his flock, his sheep, his goats, his cows. But when he's calling them What do his flock hear? be met with that which mad refers to the animals that he's calling? Layup smooth. It does not hear me those animals don't hear in that except door on one either an Andhra or any. That's all they hear. Meaning they don't comprehend what

the shepherd is saying. They're just responding to the sound that they hear. Da dial or in well need that known dial. Yeah. Dir is to call someone with a specific name. So for example, a person has a dog and they've named their dog, Peter.

So when they want to call their dog they will say, Pete Peter. So as soon as the dog will hear Pete Peter, what will he do? He will respond. This is their

need that is to make a general sound. That is not specific to one but too many. So for example, a man a shepherd is calling all of his flock all of his sheep, so he will go like

whatever. If you ever seen people call them

begins by doing a and they come, they come running to you because they think you're giving them some food. So they have been trained to respond to that particular sound that particular word. But do they comprehend what is being said? No. Do they process the words that are being sent to them? No. They don't fully comprehend them. They've just been trained to respond to that sound.

So likewise, those who disbelieve their shepherd, meaning their ancestors, they call them and what happens, they respond immediately, without even thinking about what they're being called to.

Many times it happens that a person will do

and the chickens will run to them, and they will grab the chickens and go slaughter them.

If the chicken knew that I'm being called, so that I may be slaughtered with the chicken never respond.

Never, never. A dog is not on a leash. He's running openly in the field running here. They're having so much fun. And then the owner calls him Pete, and the dog comes running and the leashes on. And in Hugo,

if the dog knew what was meant by that address, would he ever respond? No, he wouldn't.

So these people, they don't use their brains. They don't even think about what their ancestors are calling them to what their cultural values are calling them to. They're just following blindly. Whatever people are doing. They're doing whatever they've been doing before they've been doing.

They don't critically analyze what they're following what they're practicing. This is why Allah calls them someone, chlorella, or someone who is deaf slogged me mean, they don't hear the truth. But come on, chlorin off Eboracum back half meme, one who is mute a person who is unable to speak.

So they don't speak the truth, or Omean. Florida farmer, I mean, yeah.

A person who is blind, the one who does not see the truth, for whom layer can answer they do not understand.

These people are as good as animals. Animals that don't comprehend what is being said. They're just they're trained to respond to the sound, as soon as a call is made, they go, whatever particular sound is made, they respond to that accordingly, without even thinking about what is being said. They're just following blindly.

Likewise, these people are doing the same thing, following their forefathers blindly, lost in that love. Unable to open their eyes and look at their surroundings and look at their actions and consciously decide what they want to do for whom Leia can own. They don't have uncle, but do they not have intelligence at all? Of course they do. The people at the time of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam the wish the king was not intelligent people, yes, they were very intelligent when it came to business, when it comes to many worldly things, but when it came to religion, not at all.

Ibrahim earned his Sinha he tried to convince his people, the sun, it grant the moon it when the star it went, these idols, they're broken, you put the food they don't eat, you have to fix them, you have to take care of them, but at the understand that logic, they didn't understand. Because if we're just following blindly,

you know, just like a dog has been trained, that if there is a stranger close to the house, you know, the dog will start barking. And you're just playing in the park and you go to get your ball, and the dog barks at you as if you're gonna go into the house and do something wrong. And many times the dog will also chase people, and he will bite them and the dog will even harm the kids. Why? Because he thinks that these people are going to barge in and they're going to do some harm. Has it ever happened with you? You're walking and you did nothing to the dog and the dog is barking at you without even thinking that you have no business with the dog? Why? Because he's been trained like

that. So he doesn't use his mind doesn't use his reason who to bark at who not to bark at.

So we have to be careful. What are we doing? Are we doing things just because our family does it? You know, for example, when it comes to a wedding, people will celebrate their wedding just because it's celebrated that way in their families. You have to buy a dress that's very expensive, that you're never going to wear again, ever.

Why? Because that's how things are done. Is it really worth buying a dress that so much money? You're never ever going to put it on again? And nobody else will take it from you because it oh, you've worn it? Is it worth it? Aren't we not just following people blindly wasting our resources. And there's so many emotional values attached to these things. Or we have to do this we have to do that. How can we not do it? You don't have to what's the big deal? Who said you have to if you don't do it in a nothing's going to happen? And people think like for example, if you're getting married, you have to get married in a particular way and all

Neither is acceptable. I remember that just this Friday, actually, we had a wedding here. And the brother who was getting married, it was his turn to give the hotbar Jamar Caldwell. Any other person, oh, it's your day off. He came, He gave the hotbar. And then right after that was his Nikka.

Paul says you have to take a week off, you have to take months off, to get married to enjoy and everything. No, it's just cultural. These are things with which we have made our lives difficult. Another sister who was in this institute, as well, she's one of the teachers here. The day she was getting married. She taught her this your class. She taught us your class when got married, came back, dressed up, got married, went on. Hanlon, Allah who said that you have to waste so much time you have to waste so much money. You don't have to. These are just cultural things that we have dyed ourselves with making our lives difficult.

So use your brain use your mind.

We have to go to the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam the way is that Allah likes and like we learned earlier, let that who who to let the shaytaan don't follow shaitaan he commands you with Su with fascia with indecency with wastefulness wasting your time wasting your energy wasting your money so don't followship on

let's listen to the recitation

well either.

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so what's the lesson that we learn in these all the verses that we have studied today?

What do you love? Who do you follow? Why do you follow? Wake up? Use your senses. Use your mind.

Don't be a blind follower. Except to Allah subhanaw taala

don't love anything blindly except for who? Allah subhanaw taala because you can trust Him and you cannot trust anything else.

Subhanak Allah will be handy Kenisha do Allah ilaha illa Anta the stuff we will cover to retake a Salam or aleikum wa rahmatullah. He will get