Taleem al Quran 2012 – P17 170D Tafsir Al-Hajj 77-78

Now we reach the final verses of Surah Al Hajj, which is a conclusion to the surah Yeah. Are you her Latina AMA? No. All you who have believed at the beginning of the surah who was addressed? Yeah. Are you a nurse or people Itakura bacame Fear your Lord at the end of the surah who is addressed those who believe or you will believe? What should you do? It will Kuru do record was do do and do sujood wire boo robber come and worship your Lord will follow Hira and do good. Lala come to your home so that you may be successful. In the Surah we see many commands were given Hajj was mentioned. And in particular, the Muslims were told to rise up and defend themselves and they should not worry because

Allah is going to eat them. Allah is going to defend them. And over here, we are given the way to success. How is it that a person achieves success? How do you become of the muesli home? Lala come to flee Hoon. How does that happen? It begins with record. All you who believe four things are mentioned here. First of all, it'll Kuru was judo. Era Kuru do record record is a position of bowing in Salah. What do you say and record Subhan Allah better Aleem?

Right, you glorify Your Lord, you mentioned his greatness. You ask Allah for forgiveness, you praise him Subhan Allah he will be handy. You can say different forms of the spear. Why? Because you're praising you're glorifying Allah. And what physical position are you in? You are bowing down.

Why? Because you are humbling yourself before Allah, admitting his greatness, showing that you are in need of Allah. So all you will believe, do to core Humble yourselves before Allah, bow down before Allah and in ROCOR glorify Him, praise him seek forgiveness, ask him for help. Seek what you need from him. Those besides Allah that people call upon, they cannot help you. They're weaker than a fly even if you need help. You need something to be done. seek Allah's help Humble yourself before Allah. Ill Kuru was do do Secondly, do sujood el carro ROCOR already shows humility, but sujood what does that show even more humility.

So be humble, and then be even more humble if you want Allah's help. And in sujood that's the closest position that you can have near Allah subhanaw taala when you're most humble, you will find Allah subhanaw taala closest to you. That will be the nearest that you can get the closest that you can get in this world. So be humble, increase in humility, seek more forgiveness, praise and glorify him even more. Ask him for even more help. Pray Salah el carro was Judo record and sujood both of these positions what are they in? In salah? And remember earlier we learned in the Surah that those people who seek Allah's help and Allah gives them victory. What do they do?

What do they do a call masala today established the prayer. So all you who believe if you wish to be successful, pray, perform Salah because what is Salah, Salah is basically a mirror meaning something that will show you the state of your iman

it reflects your iman, what is the state of your faith?

What is the state of your relationship with Allah subhanaw taala What is it like and the way your Salah will be that is how you will receive Allah's help. Because the relationship is two sided right? We cannot keep asking you Allah give me this give me this give me this give me this and we do nothing in return nothing at all. No, the way we pray Salah that is exactly how we will be treated by Allah subhanaw taala Because salah is the connection.

It is the connection between us and Allah subhanaw taala. So if you wish to be successful, praise Allah, do recall, do sujood and praise Allah, the father of it, the word you above it, meaning that which is obligatory and beyond that also the Prophet sallallahu Sallam the one command that he was given in Makkah, meaning the one ritual that he was told to pray for

I'm in Makkah was which one? Salah

you know when it comes to fasting, the actual ritual fasting meaning with the details and everything that came later on in Medina when it comes to the cat also all the details they come later on in Medina when it comes to all the major commands of the Sharia are all the laws they come later in Medina. But in Makkah, one of the first commands that was given to the Prophet sallallahu sallam was Tommy Lael, stand in the night, and do what? Praise Allah, perform the prayer,

performed the prayer, and we see that the prophets of Allah Islam and the Muslims, they will perform twice a day in Makkah. And it wasn't fun, like it became later on. But it was something that they were supposed to do, they were required to do it. But if somebody was not able to do it, it wasn't a big deal. But later on, we see that when the prophets of Allah Azza went from Raj, and that was towards the end of the Meccan era, than five prayers were made obligatory.

So we see that when a person becomes a Muslim, when a person accepts Islam, you know, when a person becomes serious about his religion, then one of the first things that he needs to focus on is his prayer. Because you cannot have a proper relationship with Allah subhanaw taala unless and until you speak to him, unless and until you you pay attention to him, you think about him, you spend some time talking to him, glorifying Him, praising him seeking His forgiveness, seeking his out. A then A Siddhartha Musa team, you're required to say that in every regard of Salah why because you're asking Allah for help.

So if you want to be successful, then what is the number one thing you need to focus on you need to work on you need to improve what is that salah and the thing is that Salah is amazing. You can never reach a level where you can say yeah, now I've perfected my salah. I have mastered my prayer. You can ever say that.

You know for instance, there's a hadith in which we learned that if a person performs will do like the Prophet sallallahu Sallam did, and he performed Stuart ACARA salah, in which he does not speak to himself if he performed stood across Salah like that in which he does not speak to himself then his sins are forgiven.

And you know, if you try like for example, you performing to Nephal and you tell yourself I'm not going to speak to myself I'm only going to you know speaking to yourself means having a conversation with yourself thinking

in your Salah you know you start with that intention I'm not going to talk to myself I'm only going to focus on the words of Salah you know I'm really going to pray in Salah with focus attention who sure and what happens in your Tisha who you ask yourself Did I talk to myself? Yeah, you just did.

Right you just did. Now this hadith what does it teach us? That you have to try in every Salah you have to try to make it better.

Every Salah must be performed with that effort that I want to make my salah better.

And if you begin to think that yeah, now my salah is good. I think I've mastered for sure. No way. You haven't mastered it. You can never master it. It's not possible. Because you're a human being you have a heart and mind that keeps working and you cannot stop it. Right?

You cannot stop it, you cannot turn it off. Once it's turned off, you're dead. Right? So as long as you're alive, this brain is working. This heart is working. It's thinking it's feeling. So in so another will definitely be distractions. So keep trying and trying to improve and better your prayer.

Exactly. You can always improve your Salah by adding more Atholl to it. Right, saying certain doors of God. I mean, there are certain accounts that we learned as kids, right until today we say them without bringing any variety, from the wealth of God that the Prophet salallahu Salam has left behind for us. But we don't take advantage of that. We just have to paneled below the most vulnerable of these vulnerabilities. It's so quickly that we don't even think about it. Yes,

discussing it. My friend. She said I want to tell you a story. A man he told it he really prays to God. He said Allah subhanaw taala to me in my dreams about my prayers. He was used to close his eyes while praying for more cashew. And you know, I was afraid when she told me the story. Then in his dream, he saw a woman wearing a white dress, but he saw her back when the woman turned towards him. She was blind.

So she told me you know the Sunnah is to look at the place of such events or towards your feet.

So the more you follow the Sunnah, the better your asana

I will be no matter who you are you will have and unless your Salah is good, your connection with Allah is not good. It's not good. Like seriously when you press Allah consciously and you prayed Salah like you the way you should pray, do you feel closer to Allah? subhanaw taala afterwards? Clearly you do. But what happens when you rush through prayer? Do you even want to think about how you prayed? No. Because if you start thinking about how you prayed you feel guilty and you feel afraid so just don't even think about it. Yeah, of course you I was praying properly don't even go that side. Right. The fact that you don't want to discuss it even with yourself isn't evidence that

you didn't pray properly. The battle for constant wushu and Salah it stops us from making our prayer stagnant. It stops us from making it seem like a habitual thing where we just do it without thinking about it. The point of salida is to connect directly with Allah subhanaw taala. And if we just do things out of habit, then they become meaningless and even a crucial even if you don't think about anything, juris Allah, that doesn't mean you're doing it right. Because you have to think about the words that you're saying you have to think about what you're saying to Allah subhana wa, yes, and because Salah it can never be stagnant in the sense that you always have to try to make it better.

Your relationship with Allah subhanaw taala also can never remain stagnant. You know, either you are improving it, or you are ruining it. It's like that either you are improving it or you are ruining it. I remember somebody once mentioned to me that gave me an example that seeking knowledge is like going upstream, you know, rowing upstream going against the water basically. Right? So as long as you are rowing, you are going, you're moving forward, but the moment you stop what will happen, will you stay where you are no.

What will happen to you, you will flow with the water and go backwards. And this is how Riba is as long as you're working on it to make it better, you are going forward you are drawing closer and closer to Allah subhanaw taala. And the moment you stop working on it, you fall behind. So your Salah should be taking you closer to Allah and if our Salah is not taking us closer to Allah because we're not giving it to do help, then you know what? We could be going farther away from Allah.

So yeah, are you Alladhina amanu? Ill Kuru was doo doo. Thirdly, why would Rebecca worship your Lord? Praise Allah. But there's more about that, besides Allah also. Perform those acts of worship to your Lord, for Your Lord to draw closer to Him. Why are Buddha Robuchon pay attention to fasting also, the vicar also through the day, pay attention to different acts of worship will follow higher up and do a higher perform good Lila come to flee home. What is what you see after a brother clave it's become more and more general. Start beginning with salah, then everybody rituals, acts of worship. And then after acts of worship, different good deeds. And this includes you know, for

instance, being good to the creation, spending in charity, helping them looking after the needy going to visit someone who was sick, giving good advice. All of this is part of what our little hide, so fill your time and your life with height. Because if it's not filled with higher than what will happen it will be filled with sharp, same thing. Either you're going forward or you we're going backwards. So far a little higher. Don't just avoid haram. You know, sometimes we say, Yeah, I don't date and I don't flirt and I don't, you know, have alcohol and I don't do all these wrong things that people do. But at the same time, what is filling my life? What is filling my time? How many

hours are spent on you know, socializing, and how many hours are spent doing something claimed by going to visit a sick person, you're calling someone who needs advice, spending some time with family showing love to our children reading a book to our child taking them to the library so that they can grow in their literacy. I mean all of these things have done with the right intention they are playing and we need to see what is occupying our lives our time

what is it occupied with? What for a little high in La Jolla come to flee Hoon. So we see over here in this ayah we are given the tools of productivity

All right, that if you want to be successful, you have to be productive and how are you productive? Work on your Salah. fill your life with arriba fulfill the purpose of your life and fill your time your life with good works.

And sometimes we think that oh good work is you know, like for example, the weekend class that I go to

That's good. Okay. Alhamdulillah this is good. And this is something that we should be grateful to Allah subhanaw taala for that Allah gave us a thorough feel the ability to spend two days a week, studying his book, reflecting on his book, deriving lessons from it so that we can better the condition of our heart and better the condition of our lives. This is a huge blessing, and we are grateful to Allah subhanaw taala for that, but also beyond that. What else are we doing? What about the five days? What are we doing in the remaining five days? Is it just school? Is it just work? Or do we make time for different works of higher? Volunteering somewhere?

You know, contributing some money for a good cause? If not that helping a good cause with our time, our physical effort? Well, for a little higher, do something good. Law and law come to freehand so that you can be successful? Because you see when a person is helping others he's doing something good, then what does he receive Allah's help?

Allah has helped he receives. And when we just live our own lives in a small shell in a small bubble, then what happens? We become selfish, we are only concerned about ourselves. And what do we lose the help of Allah subhanaw taala. So what our little hide Lala come to fly home.

They also help us manage our time, if we automatically start filling in the gaps between our solar, if our entire structure is based on what times do we have to press a law? What times are going to give to Quran what time are we going to give to one thing or the other, it automatically makes us more productive, because we start filling in the gaps in our times with something useful, and something that we actually need to get done.

You know, recently I attended the tequila salted Bacara in the tiki that's going on during the week. And I was envious man, I was jealous, literally in a good way. Because each group was assigned a project that they had to, you know, choose one way of life. And together they had to work on it. And subhanAllah it was beautiful, because each group worked in such beautiful ways. Like for example, one group, they got together, they went to a food bank, and they you know, help sort the food and pack it and serve it and even bring it they spent the you know, several days of March break over there. Right, this is hive. What for our little height? And I think in Sharla such homework should

also be given over here, right? Because, you know, sometimes we do it out of our own willingness, it comes naturally but other times we kind of have to force ourselves. You know, we believe that He has given food to others good. Helping other people is good. Yeah, I helped my mom do the dishes sometimes. Right? And I help Dad with the car sometimes. But beyond that also, there's good that we can do. What Farlow height hola hola come 231 And we might think that if we start doing good things like volunteering somewhere, we won't have any time. The fact is that if you do good you will be successful Allah will put Baraka in your time

either the group is changed or not the students are changed but mashallah she's doing it and I really love her sisters of a mashallah from last two years she's doing it

what did he do Villa he haka jihadi what Jaya he do and all of us strive not some of you.

What does Allah say Jaya he do. All of you together strive. Not even one person should stay behind

all of you strive Fila. He in the Cause of Allah meaning for his pleasure. For his Deen. How should you strive? How do you have the as is the right of striving?

Meaning don't strive for the cause of Allah halfheartedly, as if you're dead, as if you have no energy as if you have no life. No, strive as you should be striving, strive, as you should be striving. You know, for example, if you're going to university and you have your midterms coming up, how do you study for that? Yeah, I think I've seen the book. Yeah, I think I went to most of the lectures. I think I attended most of the classes. Yeah, when is the exam this week, next week? And which book is it from? And how many pages and how many chapters? Is this how we study for an exam? It's at school? No, Allah says wotja He do Fila haka jihadi when it comes to the deen of Allah. Give

it its do Huck also. When it comes to university, we're very particular. But when it comes to a juice test, why is it that the night before we're asking which I had this agenda which have Jews is it? What does this word mean? You know, sometimes I'm amazed that mashallah your group in charge is out there sitting in making sure that you know the meaning of every word

And this is like you're being given a cheat sheet.

Right? You're being told these words will come and these are the meanings of the words and these are the possible questions. This is not studying for a test

this is honestly this is how you would study at university this is how you would study at high school and why is it that when it comes to the Quran we think it's okay no big deal. This is not haka jihadi.

This is not right. It's really not right. If this is how we're treating the book of Allah, if this is how we're studying for the exams, or if this is how we're taking the assignments for the book of Allah.

Then what kind of love Do we claim for the religion of Allah?

This is frightening. What Jaya he do for Allah He haka jihadi, Allah is telling us strive in his cause, the way you should be striving.

And what is Jaha do from Jehovah. And Jehovah is whoosah the capacity that a person has thought, the ability, the strength that a person has enjoyed, what is your head to struggle hard to strive to apply oneself with strength, meaning give your maximum, you know, ability, whatever it is, within your ability, give it do it. Don't sit back. Don't be laid back. Don't be lazy, when it comes to the religion of Allah strive as you ought to strive, strive in the way in the manner that Allah deserves, that you should strive for him.

You're striving in the way of Allah should be with sincerity, what is it that Allah deserves and when he was driving Allah's way you should do so with sincerity, with dedication, with maximum effort, as Allah has asked with Exxon, not half heartedly.

You know, for example, if I showed up one Saturday, and then the next Saturday, I didn't show up, and I called in five minutes before the class, I'm busy account calm. Would that be fair for you?

Then is that fair, when a student doesn't show up, or a group in charge doesn't show up? Is that fair?

You know, if I take this class lightly, and if I don't show up regularly, and if I don't prepare, and I don't teach you properly, This is injustice towards all of you. Right? But even when one student or one group in charge doesn't take their role properly, this is an injustice to the entire group.

The responsibility doesn't just lie on my shoulders, it lies on every single one of us. Because together we are serving the book of Allah. Together we are trying to understand the Quran so that we can bring it into our lives. We can improve our lives and we can improve the lives of the people that we live with. This is a team effort a group effort and every single person needs to take this cost seriously. What Jay Do filet haka jihadi, treat the Quran the way it deserves to be treated, treat this duty this role as it deserves to be treated. Because you know that if we worked at some other place, the way we work here that work would not be acceptable. We will be fired the next day

we would be expelled from the school the next day right?

So why is it that we take this matter so lightly? What Jaya he do fella he How could you had this is our commitment with Allah we want a did from Allah. Look at what Allah has given us the whole earth he has subjected for us how many blessings Allah has given us in our life can we not dedicate some time to study his words? Give them the hug would you head off Elia jihadi we're asking Allah for Jana by this effort.

This effort we're dreaming of Jana J do fella haka jihadi, why are you being lazy? Why are you holding back who want you to back home he has chosen you. He has selected you, edited by Jean bow is to select someone from a group. Imagine the millions of people that live Allah has given you tofi To spend two days learning his book.

You know, sometimes when I tell people I have a class Saturday, Sunday, they're like, every Saturday Sunday. Like yeah, kind of except for the long weekends. And honestly, you know, when you think about it, you realize that you could never have done this yourself.

You could never have done this yourself that every Saturday or Sunday for the past three years doing it. Not possible. Allah chose you. He gave you ability to do this. This is why you're doing it. So you're doing it. Take it seriously. Do it properly. Do it with their son, do it beautifully, so that you get something out of it. who watch the Volcom and this beautiful beam that Allah has given to us wama and not Jarrah, he has made our lay come on you for Dini in the demon hemorrhage, any difficulty. This theme. It's not meant to make our lives

difficult it's meant to make our lives easy. Any problem that you could possibly be in? In the religion there is a way out if a person commits a sin what's the way out Toba?

Right? It's the fall

of Farah there's always a way out there is no constriction no difficulty in the danger is always an alternate. What is this Dean militar a be calm Ibrahim. It's the religion of your father Ibrahim was Ibrahim, honey and Allah. Allah is friend. You are in his footsteps. Do you realize what you're going towards what you're working towards? You want to be Allah's friend, like Helene Allah who was ever a hero his son was this is the way of Ibrahim take this matter seriously, who has a Malcolm will Muslim in Allah He some Malcolm He has named you Muslimeen Muslims, he has given you this title. He has called you muslim who is Muslim, the one who submits social submission to Allah

shows submission to Allah, Allah has honored you with this title. But unfortunately, we take pride in other titles.

We take pride in calling ourselves you know, Sunni or Shia II or something else or something else. But what is the title that Allah chose for us?

What is the title that Allah chose for us Muslim? Take pride in this title mean to Kabul before meeting for every Oma? Those who believed in Allah, those who strove in his way they were called Muslim, what he had and also in this meeting also in this religion

so strive in Allah's way give the striving to do right do it properly. Leah Kunal, Rasul, because remember that eventually the messenger will be Shahidan aleykum, a witness over you. On the Day of Judgment, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam is going to bear witness that he delivered the Quran to us that he delivered Allah's message to us with a coup and you have to be a Shuhada witnesses alumnus over people. On the Day of Judgment, you will have to bear witness against the people against the people meaning against every nation, that the message was conveyed to them. The prophets were sent to them. So we have a heavy responsibility. This deen is an Amana that has been given to us to pass

on to others to live by. This is the path to our success. This is the path that will take us to Allah's pleasure and we are answerable for it on the day of judgment for upheaval Salah So, how do you make it better? How do you make the striving easy? establish the prayer if you're finding anything of the deen difficult, then start by working on your Salah. Okay masala What are two Zakka and also give this a gift charity? Because charity what does it do? What does it do? Exactly? it extinguishes the fire of our sins. Why are Tassimo Billa and hold on to Allah for strength? Hold on to Allah because you cannot go even a minute in doing something good except with Allah's help. So

hold on to the source of strength. Hold on to him. Don't let go on him. find shelter find refuge find safety by calling onto him. Who am Ola calm? Why hold on to him because he is your Mola he's your protector for Nirmal Mola. What an excellent protector he is. He will protect you. You have fears. You're worried. Don't worry, Allah will protect you. Allah will take care of the affairs when they're mislead. And what an excellent helper he is. You're finding this cause difficult. ask Allah for more help. Allah will make a way he's the best helper he's the best one to help you. Let's listen to the recitation of these verses quickly. Yeah

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to this is the message of pseudo hedge that everyone needs to look at themselves, their salah, they're striving in Allah's Cause. This is a huge responsibility that we need to take seriously where it brings a lot of benefits. It's also a huge responsibility that we will be questioned about. So panicle love Moby Hamdi Masha Allah ilaha illa Anta Mustapha Roca want to relate Assalamu alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh