Taimiyyah Zubair – Taleem al Quran 2012 – P15 148B Tafsir Bani Israil 94-96

			Are the bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim lesson number 148 Surah Al Assad
is number 94 to 111. Woman Munna Anessa you may know is Jaya homall Hooda. Warmer and not mana. You
it prevented it stopped. Who are NASA the people? Uh You may know that they should believe it Jah
who will who the when guidance came to them. Nothing prevented people from believing after guidance
came to them meaning after they received the Quran in law except one problem one objection they had
that prevented them from believing was what an Kalu that they said Bharath Allahu Bashar Rasul
Allah.
		

			Did Bertha he sent Allahu Allah Bashar on a human being Rasool Allah as a messenger has Allah sent a
human messenger. This is the only objection that they could ever come up with, that they had a
problem with Sahiwal Quran with the person who brought the Quran, the person who delivered the Quran
to them, because when they look into the Quran, they can't find much faults. And in fact, the
problems that they do find in the Quran, it's because of some other reason. And every question or
every objection that they raise against the Quran, there's always an answer for that always is. So
with the Quran, they cannot find any fault. What is it that they come up with? In order to
		

			disbelieve, they say, how can we accept a human messenger? What if he's lying? What if all of this
was just a big conspiracy? What if he never actually received revelation it was just, you know, some
feeling that he had, or some gin that used to come to him, or something else, it was just his own
imagination.
		

			They refuse to believe in the Quran, simply because of the fact that the one who brought the Quran
to them was who a human being. People at the time of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam raised this
objection, they said, why human messenger? If God wants to send a message to us, he should send
angels to us. In fact, he should speak to us directly. Today also people say the same thing. Human,
not reliable. Really, if you examine his character, study his sila How can you not accept what he
said? How can you not believe in him? called Say, Allah subhanaw taala says, Say lo Cana if there
was fill early in the earth Mala ecotone angels, em Shuna they walk motorman in Nina securely with
		

			my Indian is a plural of Mahatma in and who is multiple in the one who has intimate Nan? What does
intimate Nan need to be? Still? Okay? Like for example, you are very anxious, very afraid. You have
many questions, many doubts, and then you read something and that brings you intimate none.
		

			It brings you comfort, meaning it's settled your heart that storm that was in your heart is now
over. So this is intimate none. Now over here multiple a Nina what does it mean? They were still on
the earth? No, they were residing on the earth. Because if my hon McCann is to stay in one place,
meaning to reside there to dwell there. So Allah says that if there were angels upon the earth who
were walking around, and they were the dwellers, the inhabitants of the earth, then Luna Zilla, or
lay him surely we would have sent to them mean a summary from the sky Mala cannon Angel was hula as
a messenger, then of course, we would have sent to them an angel messenger. Why? Because they were
		

			angels. So what do we learn? Why did Allah subhanaw taala send a human messenger? Why did Allah send
a human messenger to human beings? Why? Because that's the most logical thing to do.
		

			A messenger is supposed to be a role model. A messenger is supposed to be a teacher. A messenger is
supposed to be a leader.
		

			A messenger is supposed to be an example. Someone whom you can relate with someone whom you
understand and they understand you.
		

			And if the messenger was an angel,
		

			or if there was no messenger, then what would happen? What would happen? How would people find
guidance? How would people be led? You see, sometimes it happens that you're working with a group of
people.
		

			And the person who's you know the
		

			lead of the team, for example,
		

			if they're from a different gender, or sometimes from a different background, different race,
different ethnicity, different, you know, career, different upbringing, you have issues. You were
saying something, they're understanding it differently. Right? So for example, women issues, they
cannot always be understood by men. Right? men's issues cannot always be understood by a woman. So
much older people say, Oh, you're not married, so you don't understand my situation. Oh, you don't
have children, you don't understand my situation. You don't know what divorce is, you don't
understand my situation, isn't it? So when we see that a person is different from us, we cannot sync
		

			with them. Right? We cannot relate with them. There is a big disconnect. Now, Allah subhanaw taala
always sent a human messenger to human beings, in order to guide them in order to teach them in
order to lead them. So much so that a messenger was not a stranger, he would always be from the
nation that he was sent to one of them, not a stranger. Why? Because they were familiar with him.
Because the thing is that when you are friends with someone, when you've known them for some time,
then if they talk to you, first of all, they can talk to you, you will listen to them. And if it's a
complete outsider, complete stranger, if they are trying to talk to you, you won't even pay
		

			attention to them.
		

			And this is the reason why, you know, when people are trying to promote something or advertise, what
do they do, they come and talk to you as if they know you since ages.
		

			Right? Or they start talking to you about something that's common between you and them so that
you're comfortable, and you will actually be willing to listen to them. So this is simple. The
reason why Allah subhanaw taala sent to human messenger was because humans live on this earth. Old
Kafa BiLlahi Shahidan benei Verbania consent sufficient is Allah as a witness between me and you. He
is a witness to my truth, Whether you believe or not, whether people believe in Muhammad Sallallahu
sallam was a messenger or they don't believe in Him. If Allah has said he's a messenger, Colosse
he's a messenger. In the who can have everybody have your embassy or indeed he's ever with his
		

			servants, hobby and bustle your hobby, he is aware he's acquainted buslee. And he is seeing he sees
them. He watches them, so he knows who to choose. And once he's chosen the messenger, accept his
decision.
		

			Now in these ayat, what do we learn that if you want to communicate with people, if you want to
deliver a message to them, if you want to do Dawa, to them? Who should you be a weirdo and a
stranger? Someone who never talks to them and never sits with them? Yeah.
		

			Can it ever happen, then will you ever be able to talk to people, if you've never sat with them and
had lunch with them? Can you know? So for example, when you go to school, when you go to work, when
you go to university, whatever your house, even if your reputation is that as soon as you walk in,
you leave everything at the door, and then you just go inside your room and shut the door and come
out only for dinner. And then you tell your brother haram music, and you tell your mother, Mom, this
is not halal food, they're not going to listen to you, they're going to be quiet and go back to your
room. Be quiet and go away. We don't want to listen to you. Because you don't spend any time with
		

			them. There is no relationship here.
		

			If you want someone to listen to you, you better show interest in them. Show interest in them not by
pointing out their mistakes. No, by befriending them. Did the Prophet saw a lot of them show
interest in people? Of course he did. So much so that little children even he showed interest in
them. How there was this one child, his bird died, pet died. And the Prophet said a lot of sun would
talk to him and he would say, McFarland no later, what did your bird do? What did your bird do?
Where did it go? It left you and died. You know, he's talking to the child about his dead bird.
		

			The profits of a lot of them showed interest in the man who came to serve Him. Remember when he took
refuge in that garden? When he was leaving? If and that man, you know, when he told the prophet saw
a lot of snow where he was from, there was a conversation that came about, talk to people at least
look at them, thank them, communicate with them. And for that we really need to come out of our
shells. You can say I'm shy. I'm antisocial. I'm an introvert. You know what you have to come out of
it for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala for the sake of his Deen because when people look at you,
they don't look at you as a shy person. They look at you as the other girl who wears hijab and she
		

			never talks to anybody. Yeah, that person who's a Muslim in my workplace, and she's just trained and
she's just in her own world.
		

			all the time, that identify you as a Muslim, as a hijabi, before anything else, I was just thinking
that the process and he paid so much attention to each person that he would turn there, his whole
body just to talk to them. And that everyone felt that they were the most beloved, like that man who
came and he started asking, you know, like, I don't want to get to the end of the lesson, probably
at the end here, in a gathering, every single person would feel that he was most important to the
profits of the lobbyists.
		

			So this is a lesson that we need to learn. Go ahead. A lot of the times, whenever I started to,
especially this year, I started trying to speak to people around me within classes, just a walk
around the hallways. And they're always surprised, because they don't expect Muslim girl wearing the
hijab, to come up to them and talk to them. And whenever, you know, when I've gotten to know them
better, just like, You know what, when I first went met you, I didn't expect this from you, I expect
you to be silent, quiet, not really talking to anybody, except for you to your own group of people.
And I found that very surprising. Because, you know, it's a lot of times when we're within our own
		

			groups, we're very social, we're very open and happy. But as soon as we step out to other people, we
become close. And I feel like that's unfair. Because, you know, they're all great people, we really
should get to know them. And to better, you know, show Islam to them, that shouldn't be our purpose.
Yes. And the thing is, as human beings, especially as girls, we need friends, you can't isolate
yourself, you can't cut yourself off. Yes, you may have this fear, but if I spend time with them, I
will get influenced by them. And I will, you know, start saying the same words and why are you
thinking yourself as so weak?
		

			Why, think about the fact that inshallah you want to be the one who will influence them. And for
that, you better be connected to your source, you know, to your power source, and that's the Quran
as long as you're connected, Inshallah, you will be strong. And the moment you disconnect yourself
with the book of Allah, then yes, of course, you will become weak. So
		

			I was just thinking on the same note is that sister, like I run a club. So I used to be very shy.
And I used to think when people would look at me, maybe they're thinking bad thoughts or something.
So then, you know, I tried to take that out of my mind and try to be more friendly. So even if they
couldn't see my face, or see my smile, I would look at them directly and say, you know, hello, so my
neighbors. When I'm walking down the hall, I try to say hello to them to show that you know, where
you can interact with us. It's okay, there's a person behind right.
		

			Now, of course, you are going to remember the rules and the etiquette of interacting with other
people. Right? So don't think that just because you want to do Dawa, you want to interact with them,
you forget about all the rules and regulations that Allah subhanaw taala has given, of course,
that's understood that that has to be kept in mind. Last week, my son was helping the neighbor right
to in removing the snow. The girl she asked her, where is another twin? Then I looked at him and he
said, bluntly, he's reading Quran. Then she said, have you done? Then he said, Yes. Subhanallah I
really felt so good and humbled that your son was confident enough to tell the neighbor that my
		

			brother is reading Quran. Now, when can you tell them when you're helping them? So well, there's no,
right. But if you say there's no my snow, their driveway, my driveway, their life, my life, their
caffeine, I'm Muslim, then what will happen? Not because this is how we think this is how we think
we instantly block people off. Why? Because they're from a different religion or they're from a
different background. We instantly block them off.
		

			So what so that within Muslims also, what do we do different skin color, different language? She's
Arab. She's Pakistani, she's Somali. And she's this kind of Pakistani, and she's this kind of
Somali. Right? We instantly block people off and we're doing ourselves a great disservice.
		

			Remember, once I was shoveling the snow and I have a neighbor, she's an older woman, I start
shoveling for her. As soon as I went inside, she returned all the snow in my side. And I was like
surprised so he knows a test from Allah. I didn't I didn't say anything. I started traveling again.
After that, masha Allah, she started being good with me after that.
		

			I was born in Pakistan. So I mean, I had family members, I've seen them and worker and all that. So
it's not like nothing unusual. But a couple of years ago, I went to as a teacher with a group of
students. One of the students asked me if I would volunteer to go to one of the conferences. I
forgot the name of the conference, but different Muslims come from different schools and it was on
the weekend. So I did volunteer goings, I was the one who's responsible for the group of students.
Now, it was wonderful group of students, but there was like, boys and girls, and one of the girls
are wearing makeup. So even Muslim and I have seen people in burqa I found that I had difficulty
		

			Reading her emotions or what she was conveying, like, it was very difficult for me to see if she's
happy about a certain situation or because I mean, they were all high school students. So I'm asking
them what they're eating on what they're participating or if they're liking certain activities or
not. But so first time, I realized that how difficult it was for me, I didn't really know like how
close I have to go to her because she's kind of a spring, I couldn't tell much. If she's happy about
a situation, or she wants me to do something or so I just found it very hard to communicate. At that
time, I realized how difficult it would be for another person who is from a different culture, a
		

			different religion, just to interact. So this is why, you know, when you're wearing hijab, when
you're wearing niqab, you have to go, you have to take that extra step, you know, like that sister
said, You say salaam, you say hi, you say hello out loud. You communicate with people. And you have
to do that.
		

			And in a very similar situation, one of the schools where I was teaching at one time, there was a
function and lots of the students were very active. So they were able to get lots of Muslim women,
which usually doesn't happen. A lot of Muslim women did participated, the parents did participate.
But they were so much in their own groups. Like I was wearing hijab, but I noticed like none of them
will approach anybody outside their group.
		

			So the message as an outsider would be that you don't want to interact with and people don't know,
because most of the people are very respectful here. They don't want to get into other people's
space. So until you let somebody know how to interact with them, then people want to stay away. And
then sometimes, I'm not saying people could be very disrespectful and rude to, but sometimes they
just don't know.
		

			So anyway, the main message is what?
		

			If you want to do Dawa to people, you better live amongst them. living amongst them doesn't mean
blend within them and lose yourself and lose your identity. But communicate with them, interact with
them, engage with them. And remember, the laws that Allah subhanaw taala has given us with respect
to rules of engagement, they cannot be neglected, they have to be observed. But in addition to that,
you have to put in the extra effort to interact with people, halal haram have to be observed. Right?
They have to be respected. Go ahead. So long ago, the first time when I went to school September, I
felt so awkward. I didn't know who anybody was. I didn't know anybody. So then like, at the
		

			beginning, I told my sister to come with me. I was too nervous. And then he told me that to just to
stay calm. And then you have to find some friends or something that listen to, you know, you have to
make friends. Like you need to know how you should make them. Exactly, and that it begins with
communication. Last year, when I was in grade nine, I was sitting beside this kid in, I think he was
trying to figure it out. And then after he was seen upside me right, and he asked me about my job.
And from that day on, he always asked me from that day, he always asked me I always wondered why
because he hadn't listened friends as well. And I was just thinking, why, why why? And then I
		

			realized that it's because I didn't say, Oh my God, what's wrong with you? Why ask me like that?
It's like Alex made Tamsin normally like it was nothing. So I realized that's why I was asked. So
there's a way to approach and talk to people as well. You know, you have to interact with people, if
you want to do Dawa to them. And I don't know if you noticed, but last week and 100 Allah, we had a
young girl come, who was not a Muslim, but she came and sat through the entire MCU class. And you
know why she came? Because she has a Muslim friend,
		

			who comes to this class, who talks to her on a regular basis, communicates with her is normal
friends with her.
		

			And it doesn't mean that I'm being friends with her shoe. Forget her Islam. No, she will remember
Islam. But she could only take her Islam to her friend when she spoke to her, acknowledged her
existence. Right? This is how we can do that. And that girl after class, she came to me she asked
me, you know, a question about resources. And I'm and I answered, and she's like, Yeah, that makes
sense to me. And just normal questions. People don't even know what we think what we believe they
have no clue because we're so closed within ourselves.
		

			So this is something that you can do.
		

			interact with people at school, your friends, call them to class, let them come and see what you do
on the weekend. or have them listen to the Quran. Read the words of Allah. Let them look at the Jews
that you study. Let them look at Arabic. They'll be fascinated. They'll be amazed at how you come
every weekend and sit through a class. Let them know what you do. Let them see what you do. Bring
them to class and I tell all of you Inshallah, we'll do a bring a friend day or something.
		

			So everybody has to bring a friend or somewhere.
		

			For the last little while, I've been trying to make this effort of not having my headphones on
constantly. Because it's become quite a culture of always having your headphones listening to
something, even when you're walking down the hallways walking down the street. Sometimes it's a good
thing when there's no one around. But I feel like a lot of times we miss opportunities to speak to
people. I was on the bus once and I didn't have my headphones on that day. And I was, you know,
reading something from my jaws. And there was someone sitting beside me, he looks over and he's
like, Hey, what is that? Right? And I'm thinking, well, if I didn't have you know, if I had my
		

			headphones on, I would have missed this opportunity to explain to him, this is the Quran. This is
the book of my religion. And he was just completely fascinated. And he's like, you know, what are
they talking about? And I explained to him, you know, oh, yeah, it's that chapter was about Musa
days and I'm, he's like, no way the Quran has Musa they sound like I didn't know that. And so I
realized, like, just small efforts like this, just try to talk to people like I've started. Whenever
I'm walking down the street all if there's an elderly couple, passing by, I'll say good morning to
them. And now they're the ones who say good morning to me every time they see me, because we walked
		

			down that route every single day. But they become more accepting of you. They start liking you just
because of the small little efforts that you make to try and interact with them. Show them hey, you
know what? We're the same. And it just create a better community that way?
		

			Yes. Recently, something happened to me on my workplace. This co worker, she sits right behind me,
and she knows that I practice. So she keeps asking me like, Oh, why do you wear this? This is your
culture thing. So I explained to her. So one day during the last week, we were just talking and I
gave her like little candy as it was given to everybody to celebrate and stuff. So she asked me,
she's like, You believe in Abraham? I'm like, yeah, and then, and then I went on in naming all the
prophets. I'm like, Noah, Jesus, Moses, he's she's so surprised that she's like, You're lying. And
then after that, um, so I told her, I was like, no, no, like, we really do. And this is all the
		

			stories and then we talked about the stories where she was like, Oh, my God, that's so true. And to
a point that, you know, I created such a hamdulillah relationship with her that after, like,
recently, I left the workplace, she still messaged me, and she was concerned, like, how I was,
everything was okay, how I was doing in life. And she's like, I'm teaching my daughter about
everything you told me and stuff like that. And I'm like, Oh, Hello,
		

			America. Subhanallah like few years ago, my biggest challenge was speaking to a non Muslim. And
like, even if they were next to me at work, I'll just say hi, and be quiet and not say anything. And
I remember once in journey of faith, we had this experience just 10 days before. I remember I was in
who knows around this versus I think, where we were learning about interacting with our neighbors
and non Muslims and giving Dawa and we had like, 10 days before that conference. So me and like, few
girls are like, You know what, let's just invite non Muslims. And and she was like, Okay, how are we
going to do it? And we're just gonna go to coordinate and be like, we're gonna invite non Muslims.
		

			We're gonna give Dawa. This is one of the things we need to do. She's like, Okay, we've made so much
to hire, we went to the head of the Jordan FA. He's like, Who are you guys? 10 days before the
conference coming in. We have like, once planning like, pleases just invite non Muslim since he how
he works. And then I remember he was like, finding by 50 non Muslims. And we were so shocked or
like, 50 We were like, thinking 10 People only. And we're like, okay, Inshallah, we made so much
that we made invites, we made so much things And subhanAllah one thing, I realized that by non
Muslims, they're always searching for peace. They're always searching for truth. And the fact that
		

			we have the hijab and the Quran, this is our gift from Allah, and we should be so proud of it. And
on that day, 150 people showed up, we didn't even know where they came from his panela years later,
they went to 300 506 like it was, and within the first that 150 people showed up, 12 people accepted
Islam. You know, like, it was like, just put an effort and trust in Allah and Allah will make it
easy for you.
		

			So go
		

			have a male teacher, which a lot of times scared of him because he feels so much and he's way too
strict. He like called me for something. I didn't know what it was. So then he's like, come here,
and I got so scared. I'm like, Okay, what's just happened now like, then the next day like when when
you want to talk to me, yeah, I got like still a go learner. Then after a few days, like I got so
used to it then I started to talk to them a little bit. So it happens that just because you see
somebody you think I can talk to them, I cannot tell them anything. But the more you speak to them,
the more you interact with them, the easier it gets.
		

			I find it especially like true for like the knock offs, especially for like girls who choose to
dress in like all black while wearing the niqab. Like as a Muslim, I'm totally supportive of the
niqab. But when I see them, I feel kind of like, uneasy approaching them, you know, and I think like
as a Muslim, it's about how you carry yourself, how you will talk to people how you will engage with
people, because in this country anyway,
		

			You can wear anything, right? Let Halloween come and that people wear whatever. But still you see
them saying hi, hello, how are you? The weather is nice or whatever, they will talk about how you
carry yourself and how you interact with people. As long ago, I just wanted to mention, in art
class, I had an acquaintance and he was Colombian and he was always asking me questions. He told me
that, you know, I don't talk to Muslims or like people who wear hijab, but like, you know, you're
different. You actually approached me, and you talk to me. And so he's asking all these questions
about Islam. And what started out as a conversation between the two of us just became like a
		

			conversation between the whole table and it turns out, the whole entire art class was just listening
to us. And we were just conversing about Islam. And until I was actually studying the tafsir at the
time. And so what I would learn, he would ask when I was in class, and then I would know the answers
to its panel.
		

			When we look for friends, we tend to look for people who we can relate to, and usually that's other
Muslims. But for two years, I went to school where there were barely any Muslims at all. Right?
Like, there was one other hijabi and we didn't really hang up for some reason. So I had to have
friends, right? Because you need friends. So I became friends with non Muslims. And I think one
thing that they learned from me was that we're the same, we're all the same. And because I was in a
situation with where I couldn't be with people who I could relate with, that's why I was friends
with non Muslims. And so okay, I don't know what I'm saying. But basically, just go be friends with
		

			all Muslims. Because only then you can do Dawa. Now remember,
		

			remember, 100 alone, this entire conversation, we've emphasized enough, and I think this point is
clear, that you have to interact with people, you have to, you know, speak to them. But when you say
we're the same, remember, we're same but we're different. Okay, remember your boundaries. Always, if
there is a man, remember your boundaries, if there's a boy, remember there boundaries. If there is
an almost same person, or even a Muslim person was different. Remember, there are boundaries. Don't
start talking negatively about your religion and making fun of your religion just to please them.
Right? represent your religion, be confident about your religion, if they ask you questions, give
		

			them answers. And if you don't have answers, find them. Find them. But don't ridicule your religion,
or show it as weak or show yourself as very weak. before others, go ahead. So I like them. I think
it's like really important to talk to non Muslims because like, I'm in high school, and like, a lot
of my friends are not Muslim. And like, recently become really close. And like, I have a whole group
and like, we're all different religions. And then like, it's gotten so far, like, something will
happen. Like, she'll be like, Allah, or sheep, like a stock for a lot. And like, yeah, I remember
that as well. And like she wears like her jobs. And like, she's so interested in the religion like,
		

			and like I have other friends that like before they eat, they say Bismillah like, because they copy
us. Yeah, this is what friends do. Right? I remember, once in our street, there was a Muslim kid
that used to live to three Muslim families. So these Muslim kids were playing in there was a non
Muslim kid who would also play with them. And somebody in that street had big dog. Okay, so this one
kid brings his dog with him and these Muslim kids, of course, they're afraid. So one of the Muslim
kids just runs into the house and I'm watching and this non Muslim kid, he's telling him, well,
Allah, he won't bite you.
		

			Well, Allah, he won't bite you. And I was like, humbly like he said, Allah's name.
		

			You know, at least he said Allah's name. He's so familiar with the name of Allah, may Allah really
give him Eman. But at least he said the name of Allah. Right. So like what you're saying your
friends are saying Bismillah before they eat or a squid Allah or whatever, at least they are
becoming comfortable with Islam.
		

			Right. And this cannot happen except through you.
		

			It cannot happen unless and until you are studying with them. You're working with them. You are with
them. It cannot happen unless and until you are with them. But this is a very dangerous zone in the
sense that you really have to be on your guard. You really have to remember your boundaries. Because
Allah Allah Dini, ideally, a person is on the religion of his friend. Right? So you have to see what
kind of friendship Do you have with them? How close is that becoming? If they're picking up on the
words that I am saying? Am I using their words because sometimes the opposite also have
		

			But so you said Jesus, jeez. Right? Just because you've been hearing that on TV or just because you
hear your friends saying that, or sometimes bad words they become a part of your language because
that's all you hear.
		

			Remember that, you know like the prophets, Allah Salam said, Korea Rocanville Jaya Helia to hear
Conville Islam, the best of you and Julio are the best of you in Islam. So even the people in
Jamelia, there are those who are best among them, people who use good language, people who are more
good than bad. So see amongst non Muslims also, who is it that you are associating with? Who is it
that you're sitting with? Who is it that you're talking to? Who is it that you're interacting with?
Is it people who are listening to music and reading and saying such bad words or you know, who have
bad habits? Is it such people who are you interacting with? Who are your friends, this is something
		

			that we cannot neglect, but at the same time interact? And you remember, we learned earlier that
there are different levels of friendship or association, right? One level is of you know, general,
you know, relationship in the sense that general interaction with people and the prophets on a lot
of them did that right. And then there is a level that is closer than that and a level that is even
closer than that. And close friendship, of course, you cannot have that with a non Muslim. That's
understood. However, just because you cannot be close friends with them, it doesn't mean that you
don't even talk to them and speak with them. Right. So there has to be some level of interaction.
		

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