Taimiyyah Zubair – Taleem al Quran 2012 – P15 150C Tafsir Al-Kahf 13-14

			insha Allah will begin from is number 13 of surah. Tool calf.
		

			We were learning about the story of the most horrible calf, the people of the cave, national nakasu
la cannibal, whom we relate to you their story, whose story, the story of the people of the cave,
who is telling us their story here, who's telling us a story? Allah subhanaw taala. So when Allah is
telling us about an event about something that occurred in history, then what does that mean?
		

			Is it true? Yes. Is it beneficial for us? To know that? Yes, it is. Because if you think about it,
so many things have happened since other money center was created, isn't it? So many amazing,
extraordinary events took place. But Allah subhanaw taala selected a few incidents. All right. And
he informed us about them. And he preserved them in his book why for us to recite, for us to learn
from for us to take benefits from those incidents. So don't take this as any other story. Know,
Allah subhanaw taala selected the story made it part of his book for our benefit. So the purpose the
reason why Allah subhanaw taala is telling us a story is also beneficial. Being there's good for us
		

			in learning about this incident. So nakasu Are they gonna buy a home Bill Hawk, who were they in the
home fit yet on? Indeed, there were some Utes some young men who were strong and able in body who
were strong in willpower, who were strong in their faith. And what was special about these men, Amma
noburo Be him they believed in their Lord. They believed in Allah was in our home and we increase
them Hoda in guidance. So this story is a story of young men who believed in Allah. And Allah showed
them the way through their struggles, Allah showed them, Allah guided them, he increased them in
their guidance, as these men faced struggles. Don't we all want that, that when we start something
		

			good, or when we want to become better, Allah subhanaw taala shows us the way.
		

			Because whenever you do something good, remember there are problems. There are challenges, internal,
as well as external.
		

			Many times I come across people, you know who graduated from a Houda. And they go back to their
world, you know, of school of University of work. And then when I see them after a few weeks, they
say, you know, it's so difficult to go to school, it's so difficult to go back to work, because
there's so much pressure and there's so much everybody's so different and there are so many fitness
and so on and so forth. Life is difficult. And only Allah can be your guide
		

			was in the now home Houda Allah guided these people through their struggles. And if we ask Allah for
guidance, Allah will also guide us through our struggles. And remember that every person their
struggle is unique. One person is struggling with his family, with her family, with her spouse with
her children. Another person is struggling at school with their friends. Another person is
struggling, you know, with their co workers with their boss or the kind of work that they're doing.
Each person is struggling in their own way, because each person is being tested by who? by who?
Allah subhanaw taala remember the beginning of the surah what did we learn? What did we learn about
		

			life from the beginning of the surah
		

			Lena Birla home a new home Sano I'm Allah, this life is a test. And the thing is that our religion
Islam is a religion that requires constant growth and constant you know, spiritual development. You
never reach a stage where you can say yes, now my Eman is perfect. And yes, now my fear of God is
perfect. And now my Taqwa is really good. Now I'm stable. Now I'm good. No way.
		

			This is a religion that pushes us to constantly grow and improve and become better. For example,
taller. I'm sure there must have been a time when you performed your salon you thought, yeah, you
know, that was good. That was good. And then what happened five days later? What happened a month
afterwards? Where did that Hoosier go? So can you ever reach a level of Yes, who you are. And now
I'm good. I don't need to worry about who you are anymore. Now I need to worry about other things.
Never.
		

			You know you were struggling with for instance, your language and you
		

			force yourself and you develop a habit of using good words, using polite speech, watch your tone,
everything. And then what happens? You reach that level and then after a few weeks, you see, you're
going down again. Right? So what do you need always heard, that Allah is constantly guiding you. You
need two things for improvement, knowledge that you keep learning about what to do, how to improve
what else you can increase in. And secondly, you constantly need ability, ability to implement what
you know, ability to seize the opportunity that has come your way so that you can improve and Allah
subhanaw taala is the one who gives knowledge and Allah subhanaw taala is the one who gives ability
		

			now these guys what happened with them. Allah says am a newbie Allah be him. Was it the Nahum who
that Allah increase them in guidance, both types of guidance, guidance of a shadow of a lack of
knowledge and guidance of their field of ability of Aman? Was it an AHA muda both knowledge and
ability come from Allah subhanaw taala. But when, when a person trusts upon Allah, He strives to do
his best. He has a desire and a yearning to improve, to become better. He is doing his utmost than
what will happen, Allah who will also guide him, as we will learn in this story. Because these guys
once they embraced Islam, they didn't just sit back and say, Oh, Allah will guide us, Allah will
		

			protect us, Allah will take care of us. No, they made a plan. They said we have to do something. And
then they left their homes, they went secretly to the cave. Did Allah guide them? Yes, he did. Did
Allah take care of their affairs? Yes, he did. But did they have to do something as well? Yes. You
have to want to remain guided. And if you want to be on the right path, Allah will keep you on the
right path.
		

			When you go to school, and you see everybody is doing strange things and you say, Oh, this is too
difficult to find the only one who's different than what does that mean? You're agreeing to become
like them. And when you will agree to become like them, you don't mind then what will happen is just
a matter of time, one month, two months, five months a year, what will happen? You will become just
like them but when you will want to remain guided you said no this Quran I do not want to leave my
salah I do not want to compromise on ya Allah you protect me, Ya Allah you save me and you act upon
what you know. Then Allah who will also guide you was it in our home Huda? What are batana Allah
		

			Kulu be him Roberto Anna from robbed. What is Robert Amin robata is to try to fasten to bind. You
know, for example, we learned the Quran about rebuttal Hale tying horses, you know, keeping them
ready and prepared. So what about wanna Allah Kulu be him, we tied their hearts meaning we made
their hearts firm, like the mother of Musa alayhis salam, when she had to put her baby in a box and
then put that box in the river. What happened? Allah's punctata says Lola, a Rabbana. Allah could be
if we had not died her heart meaning made her heart firm. So Allah made her heart firm. Likewise,
these men, Allah made them made their hearts firm, meaning he gave them strength in their heart,
		

			patients courage, confidence, when it camo when they stood. When these men, they stood up, despite
the fact that the entire nation was different. Despite the fact that the entire nation was doing
something completely opposite to them. The nation was engrossed in Schick and these men had
renounced Schick. So they stood up for all who and they said, Rob buena. Our Lord is Rob Buscema.
Wealthy Well, He is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Imagine the entire nation is doing shake
and what are these men saying?
		

			Our Lord is who? Only one The Lord of the heavens and the earth, they are saying something that is,
first of all different from what the rest of the society is saying.
		

			And secondly, they're saying something, which will definitely, you know, bring a lot of problems to
them, which will definitely put them in a lot of trouble.
		

			So what made them so strong? What gave them the confidence?
		

			Who gave them the confidence? Allah gave them the confidence why? Because they wanted to remain
guided.
		

			They wanted to remain guided. Because generally what happens as people
		

			We become afraid when we are alone.
		

			When we stand out when we are different, you know, if we're dressed differently, or if we're doing
something different, we're saying something different, we're eating something different than what
happens, we begin to feel alone. And when we feel alone, we feel afraid. And because of that fear,
what happens is that we want to give up what is making us different from the rest of the people. And
we want to become just like them.
		

			Now, the thing is that with regards to many things, it's okay, if you're like the rest of the
society, you eat, they eat, you go to school, they go to school, you work, they work, fine, no
problem. But then there are some things where you cannot be like the rest of the people, where,
where Allah subhanaw taala has given you certain commands, he has given you certain limits, that you
have to abide by certain restrictions that you have to remain within. So for example, when it comes
to eating, just because everybody's eating something, or drinking something, doesn't mean you can
also indulge in that doesn't mean you can also indulge in that. No, just because everybody is
		

			dressed in a particular way doesn't mean you can also dress in that way. No, there are some
guidelines that Allah has given us. And I'm sorry, but many of these guidelines are very visible,
tangible, because they're not just the state of your heart.
		

			They are about your body, about your actions about your dress. And as much as you would like to keep
this matter private, it cannot remain private, it becomes public. Right? And there we have two
options. Either become afraid of people and given or stand firm. Hold on to Allah subhanaw taala.
And Allah who will give you firmness Allah who will give you strength, Allah will keep you firm on
what is right. If you become just like, the rest of the people, you become like them, there is
nothing different between you and them. Is there anything wrong about that?
		

			Is there anything wrong about that? What is? What's the problem with that? If I dress the way people
in my school are dressing, what's the big deal? So what if I don't wear this hijab? What's the big
deal?
		

			Because if there's no problem, then let's go home without hijab today.
		

			Is there a problem? What's the problem?
		

			Okay, you're disobeying Allah. So, yes,
		

			you're compromising your religion. So
		

			tell me like some consequences. Am I going to be in trouble? I mean, I think I'll be having fun.
		

			Show my hair. You know, look nice. does fit in so nicely with everybody. There are no serious
consequences, at least in this life. Yeah.
		

			Exactly. Metatron Khalil,
		

			it's temporary enjoyment. You will have friends, okay. You will look cool, fine. You will look like
that model. Okay. You will look really nice, fine. But this is all temporary enjoyment for a few
years, you will have fun. But then what are you going to say? When you face your Lord? And he asks
you
		

			the I have blessed you with this and this and this. And I asked you to abide by these rules. Did you
observe them? Or did you fear people more and you wanted to please people more?
		

			The thing is, that when it comes to the matters of Deen, we take them very lightly. We become afraid
of people we want to fit in and we forget that there are serious consequences in the
		

			Salah. If you're getting up in your school, in the middle of your class, to go and pray. You look
like a total weirdo.
		

			Because everybody else is having fun. Everybody else is sitting and here you are getting up in the
middle going to the washroom, taking your hijab off and washing your arms in public. You look
strange, you look different. One option is leave your Salah and just pray everything at night when
you go home.
		

			And the other is that no, you pray there. Even if people laugh at you, even if you feel very very
scared. You remain firm. You know Allah will give you firmness if you try to be firm. Because we're
Latina Jaha do fina Lana Deanna who Solana those people who strive for our cause. We guide them.
Allah guides them. Allah shows them the way
		

			but you have to take the first step.
		

			And all you need is the strength in your heart. You need to believe
		

			If that what you're doing is right. And once you believe what you're doing is right, then you won't
have any fear of people.
		

			You won't be afraid of people, if you believe you are right, Allah will give you firmness, what a
batana Allah Kenobi him.
		

			Slowly, they will just leave you alone and be like you don't know, she's like, I just leave her, Oh,
they won't even invite you to Marcia, they will consider you are those people that we will always
remember Allah and that you will always rule their gathering or their circle. When you set your
limits, right and you set your rules, nobody has to define your rules for you. You decide what you
want to do in your life. If something is important to you, you do it, regardless of what people say.
I mean, these days, especially in the winter, many people have this issue, you know, with low Salah
and our salah, at school at work, what do I do? What can I do? How can I leave in the middle? You
		

			know, there are many people who will say I can't, you know, get out for the hood, or I cannot leave
my work at all. So I will have to join or I will have to delay.
		

			Once in a while it's okay if it happens, but every day,
		

			every day is not okay. You cannot keep joining your prayers, nor can you keep delaying them
deliberately. In fact, that is a major sin to delay your prayer deliberately is a major sin. But
there are other people who will go to their principal, who will go to their boss or whoever, and
will speak to them. But look, I will get my work done. I promise, I will do my work. I will not
waste my time. And just excuse me for five minutes. Give me time for five minutes. And I will just
pray and get back to my work.
		

			And if you try that Allah will make a way for you. Are there not so many examples of children in
school? Finding a place for prayer? There are right. Recently I was watching a video about this
Irishman who was a teacher, right? And he said that in the month of Ramadan. He was a teacher in a
school and he said in the month of Ramadan, there were some Muslim kids who requested their
principal, if they could get a room to pray Salah in. Because he said it's Ramadan, we're fasting
and we really need to pray. So anyway, they were given a room to pray in. However, the principal
appointed this teacher, that you have to keep an eye on these kids when they're praying because
		

			they're kids. And they will say they want to pray but they're not necessarily praying. So he said
that for the whole month of Ramadan. I was sitting at the back of the room when the kids would come
and pray. And that was my job to watch them while they were praying. And he said for the first few
days I watched them and it was like, Okay, interesting. And then he said after a few more days, I
realized that, you know, they're doing something interesting. And he said that while they would be
praying I would be searching about Muslim prayer. What is it that the Muslims say in their prayer?
Why they're praying that way? And he said that became one of the main reasons that led him to Islam.
		

			Watching school kids pray.
		

			Watching school kids pray, these are kids, and they're taking their prayer seriously.
		

			This is how you do Dawa. Also. But you know what our problem is? We will go speak to our teacher.
Can I have five minutes to pray? And we'll go hang out somewhere. i One night, they call me to go to
another center. So I was thinking, the center I work for so that center. They know I pray every time
so they're fine with it. So when I have to go to another center, then that night they call me can
you go? I said okay, I'll go. But I was just thinking about my pray how I'm going to pray over
there. So as soon as I reach there, the director came to me and say, Oh, well, I'm really happy that
you came. If you need anything, just call me. So I told her like I'm absolutely fine, but I just
		

			need five minutes to pray. She sees that. Oh yeah. Don't worry about it. Then she said okay,
whenever you need to pray, just call me I will come. So I called her and she opened her main office
for me. Then I went to her office and I pray in her office. So after my prayer, she came to me and
she had a little bit conversation with me, like, why people wear this kind of hijab or like scar for
display. So at least like she opened her main office for me to pray. So hamdulillah it was really
great. And she was so nice. She said, don't worry about anything. Whenever you need, just call me
and go to pray.
		

			And when you have to talk to someone and ask them Can I please get five minutes to pray? It is such
a daunting task. It's like you know you're dying almost. You're like sweating and you have no life
and you feel so afraid so nervous. But, you know, ask Allah for strength make the rubbish Riley
slithery? Who is silly, Emery. Allah, you know, make my tasks easy for me while I'm Melissa Annie,
you have Cocconi you know, make it easy for me. Ask Allah for help.
		

			Thanks
		

			To the I've personally felt so much Heiser, Allah subhanaw. Taala has guided me to do the right
thing. Just yesterday I was at the library because I had to go for a meeting, it was five to seven.
And like, I asked my dad to drop me at 430 because he had to go to the machine. And then there was a
matter of where do I pray Maghrib salah, and the library was kind of packed like there wasn't a
private place you could go to. And you know, just for a second, I got the thought that maybe I can
just pray when I go home, even if it was seven. And then I said no stuff rather. That's not right.
So anyways, I tried finding the meeting room. And there was no one there yet because it was 445. And
		

			there was a leader who was in charge. And I asked her, you know, can you please tell me where NE is
I just have to pray? And she was like, Yeah, go ahead. I'm just gonna step out for five minutes. So
you can take however long you want to pray, it was completely empty was completely silent. And, you
know, I really felt like at home, the last one really does help you Yeah, but you have to take that
first step, right. And if you don't take that step, then what you think like a somebody's gonna come
out to you from nowhere and tell you Oh, would you like to pray you can pray here. But you have to
take the first step.
		

			Just a quick, because I've worked in the corporate sector for years. So I just want to share my
example of are propelled for years a big company, right. And I have seen how they have accommodated
people like white people, non Muslim people, they go above and beyond. So we have a direct room, we
had a quiet room next to that to the VP room, anybody could go and pray. And I used to manage
people. And there will be special accommodation made for the breaks for the, for the Joomla slot for
the people. What I'm trying to say here, if we ask or if we step up to people will come ahead and
they will accommodate. My husband works for IBM and he said there's a mosque. And there's this
		

			Islamic washrooms in the basement. So Subhan Allah, anybody can go and just pray. Right? It's just,
it's everywhere. It's just we should never should never be afraid. Exactly. We should never be
afraid.
		

			Sit on my ego. I was also I recently I noticed where we pray in the vice principal's office every
time for Lord Salah and Alhamdulillah. We've been consistent. So we go every day, even if the girls
can't breathe, or the guys go in and they praise Allah. Initially, vice principal is very hesitant,
right. But now she's gotten used to it. She's like, if it's busy, she gets it, she guides us to
another room. So the other day, there's a portrait of like the founder of the school, and we
normally remove it down and then we praise Allah. We left and one of my friends came in late, so she
sort of broke the portrait. So at first she sort of cried, and then later on, she went to the vice
		

			principal's room to confess. And she wonders, the vice principal and she's all nervous, because the
vice principal needs to remove it because you just put it up carefully. So she went in, she
confessed, honestly. And she told her that, you know, we sort of broke the painting of the founder,
and the vice principal Subhanallah she wasn't, you know, mad or upset. She's like, it's okay, stop
crying, you can go no problem. And the lesson that I took was, I think she saw that, you know,
whatever we did, we were sincere towards it. And if we had to do something like remove the picture,
it was something that was necessary. And because she saw how dedicated we were, she didn't take as
		

			such a big thing. 100 Allah
		

			Asami come in our school we have a large Muslim population Alhamdulillah so we have Friday prayers,
and my last class on Friday with all the Spanish and in my Spanish class. There's a lot of Muslim
guys and girls and the guys are very like guide they don't like listen to the content, but they
always go to the Muslim parent. And the teacher always on Fridays even if like usually in a homework
and such we get caught up and sometimes we forget and the teacher she's not Muslim and she reminds
us you have to go to find a player. And I think she knows like how important is for us. And I like
last week I forgot because I had a lot of stuff going on. And she came in she like you said I don't
		

			you have to go to fight it period and Alhamdulillah you even these non Muslim they get caught up in
they have the even like she has a lot of herself to do but she reminded me to see you set your
rules. You set your boundaries. You tell someone what is important to you what you have to do and at
the same time what you cannot do at any cost ever.
		

			So what about on our on our Karoubi him if camo for call Rabona or bossa nova fuel up. They said Our
Lord is the Lord of the skies and the earth Lemna the rule we shall never call min Dooney he besides
him Isla Han or God meaning we're never ever going to call upon any God besides Allah. We are going
to ask only him when we are in need of something and we're going to worship only Him. Look at the
color certainly we would say it and then when if we were to call upon other than Allah, then we
would be saying a statement that would be sharper, sharper up from the root letters CIM thought
thought
		

			shuffled is basically to go to an
		

			Extreme to go too far. For example, the word shoot from the same route is used for a house that is
very, very far, like in a remote place
		

			very far in a remote place. And sometimes you see such houses in the middle of nowhere. There's no
main road that connects to it. And then even if there is a street, then the driveway so long, right?
You wonder how they put their garbage out? Right? Honestly, if it's such a long driveway, how is it
that they bring their garbage out, especially in winter? So anyway, she told us a house that is
remote. Now from this the word shuffled is used for something that is exceeding its do bounds that
is far from what is right. So they said that if we were to call upon other than Allah, then we would
be saying a statement that is far, far from reality. It would be extremely unjust, it would be
		

			extremely unfair. So what do we see that these men, they believed in Allah, they believe that Allah
is the Lord, he is a rub. So they believed in his Rubia. And they also believed in the fact that he
alone deserve worship. They believed in Allah, Allah here. And they made this assertion of the hate
and rejection of Schick when, at a time when there was a very tyrant king, who was, you know, ready
to kill anybody who believed in Allah Alone. So this shows that when you're alone, and you're doing
something different from what the rest of society is doing, it's very important to find like minded
people, even if they're a few, because these were seven men, right? And they're talking amongst
		

			themselves. So when you talk about these things amongst yourselves, and it increases you in faith,
it increases your determination. You know, for example, this discussion that we had just know about
making your prayer a priority, no matter where you are, and don't be afraid. Does that make you
stronger? It does, right. It reminds you and it keeps you firm. So likewise, these men were talking
amongst themselves in order to be more determined increasing their determination and strengthen one
another also, that's listen to the recitation of these verses. No, no, no.
		

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