Tom Facchine – Surah al-Hujuraat #1 – Putting Allah First

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			This week, we will begin a five week series on the 49th chapter of the Quran surah tell her gerat
		

			This surah which was revealed after the Hijrah to Medina, is known as the surah of a clock of
etiquette and manners, because of the many guidelines it contains for life within the Muslim
community. The beginning and the end of the chapter both deal with our etiquette towards a loss of
Panama to Allah Himself.
		

			Allah begins the surah by saying, Yeah, you had a lady in a large vein he learned he was sorry, what
Tapachula in Allah has sent me when Ali, Oh you who believe? Do not put yourselves before Allah and
His Messenger, but fear Allah. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and knowing
		

			a lot begins the surah by addressing us by our most important identity, not as men or women, not as
old or young, not as autumn, or not out of not as rich or poor. But as believers,
		

			our common ground and our strength is in that identity. And so that's the identity that Allah
consistently appeals to when he's about to give us a command or a prohibition. What is the
prohibition here? Let's look at the moon and full circle
		

			to cut the moon, even Ferris in his dictionary of Arabic root words. John Mackay is a logger. He
explains that this root, this word comes from the three letter roots thought, thought that meme
which means to proceed to come before something else. In Arabic we call something Kadeem, if it's
old, because it came before the present time. We call the foot a problem, because when we walked, it
moves out ahead of us when we take a step
		

			Allah says at the last ayah and Surah, Telekom qaddoum is seated
		

			at a place of honor and preference, someone who is put before others. And finally, a more Kadima is
well known, it's an introduction to a book, since it becomes, it comes before the main text. So when
Allah says, led to God demo and full circle, he's telling us not to put ourselves out in front of,
to not put ourselves before Allah and His Messenger, and the guidance that was given to us by them.
		

			Our rightful place is behind, following submitting.
		

			Allah is telling us here that in order to deserve this title of believer, yeah, you have levena
Avenue, in order to live up to what it means to believe. We have to make a laws guidance, first in
our lives, and we have to make our own opinions. And once secondary.
		

			Now, every single one of us, myself included, when we hear these words, we nod along and say, Yeah,
sure, of course. But every single one of us needs to evaluate ourselves and analyze our actions to
find out if we're really acting according to this instruction. This has to do with our deepest
intentions. This has to do with the compass that we're following that's guiding our path. What is
driving and motivating our actions? Are we living for ourselves? Or are we living for Allah? Are we
really here just to eat, work? Have children? is our only goal to have our kids have a more
comfortable life than our own? Or are we trying to transform and uplift our community? Utica?
		

			Are we trying to establish Allah's religion? Right here in our own backyard? Are we trying to bring
justice, purpose and fulfillment to everyone?
		

			Even when our outer actions look pious, we still have to check ourselves. Are we serving the deen?
Or are we making the deen serve us?
		

			When one of us stands up to give them a cookbook, or one donates money to the masjid or one has this
title or that title or sits on this committee or that committee? We have to scrutinize ourselves?
Are we doing it to serve Allah's religion? Or are we trying to build our reputation? Are we trying
to pad our CV? Are we trying to pat ourselves on the back?
		

			And how can one tell? How can we tell if we're putting ourselves before Allah and His messenger? One
way is to ask yourself, what would you do? If serving Islam, or living like a Muslim didn't benefit
you at all in this life?
		

			And example, what if the person to whom you're giving charity turns around and insults you?
		

			Would you still continue to give charity to that person?
		

			If the answer is no, perhaps you're not entirely doing that action for the sake of Allah.
		

			What would you do? If all the good things that you did? Were to go unrecognized? All the money and
time and energy that you gave to the masjid imagine when you walked in that door? No one greeted
you. No one even looked at you.
		

			Would you still serve the message?
		

			When we ask ourselves these type of questions when we test ourselves, if we find that our service to
Islam is a little too self serving,
		

			what do we do about it?
		

			Allah knew we would have this question. And so he gives us the answer. He gives it right at the end
of the very same verse, what Tuffle law and fear Allah, always be aware of Allah. Always keep Allah
on your mind and in your heart, and even if you stray, temporarily, you'll be able to bring yourself
back.
		

			When Allah is constantly on your mind, and in your hearts, you can admit that you don't know. You
can admit when you're wrong. You can apologize for any harm you might have caused, without feeling
the need to defend yours.
		

			up, because it's no longer about you.
		

			In the law has semi on it a lot finishes the sort of the idea with certainly it is Allah who hears
meaning here's all that we proclaim and profess that outward things that are obvious and are lean.
He knows what's really going on inside.
		

			A lot goes on to say in the next first year or Johan Lavina Ave Latifah sweater consult assaulting
NaVi wala Tetra Haruna, who will be the Kohli Kecia rebound, laid out and tough battle. Look on what
Antonella says Sharon. Oh, you who believe.
		

			Do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And don't be
loud towards him, and speech, like the loudness of some of you towards others, lest your deeds
become worthless, while you don't even realize it.
		

			After Allah gives us guidance for our internal spiritual orientation in the first verse, now he's
directing us towards the external to a concrete result of what's going in what's going on the
inside. raising your voice directly at somebody is a sign of disrespect. It's a sign that your
respect and honor towards them is not complete. It's lacking. We would never, for example, raise our
voices at our parents. But even if you don't raise your voice, at your a person directly, but
towards someone else in that person's presence in that person's company, that means that you've even
then lost sight of the respect due to that person, which would normally require that you control
		

			yourself of a hottie narrates the events that inspired the revelation of this verse. There was a
delegation that came to Medina from the tribe of Tamim Abu Bakr and Omar were there and they had
different opinions as to who should be appointed governor for the tribe of Tamim. Abu Bakar
suggested one person and then Irma contradicted him and suggested somebody else. Abu Bakr then got
angry with amo, saying, You only said that because you wanted to contradict me.
		

			And so they started arguing, raising their voices in the presence of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa salam
		

			prompting the revelation of this verse. Abdullah ibn Zubair said that after this verse was revealed,
Ahmad would never be heard talking to the Prophet salallahu Salam, except by whispering
		

			even the best two companions of our nation momentarily lost sight of who was in their company, and
the proper respect that was due to him. So we too, can expect to lose sight of the respect and
decorum due to Allah, His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the revelation that they gave
us from time to time.
		

			The important thing though, is that we develop a self awareness so we can tell when it's happening,
and we can turn back just as the Companions did Akula polyhedra was Dr. Allah Holly welcome. When he
started I mostly mean Culloden. First off, you know who in the Horn of Africa Rahim.
		

			Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah.
		

			After the verse about not raising one's voice around the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, a
companion after it was revealed a companion by the name of sabots even place even a mess went
missing. Sabbath even twice if you're not familiar with him is someone worth knowing. He was from
Medina, making him of the unsought from the tribe of cousin Raj. When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam and the Companions came from Mecca, at making their Hijra to Medina the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam made brothers between the mohajir ruin from Mecca and the unsolved from Medina. So
he paired with fabkids Ivanka is he paired our mouth even Yes, sir.
		

			sabots was known as cultivo, to Sula. He was the orator of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
because he had a booming voice, and he gave very powerful speeches. One time a different delegation
came to Medina, and they brought with them an orator, and he made hostile remarks towards the
Muslims. The Prophet SAW I said, I'm commanded Fabrice, I'm gonna face to stand and respond to him.
phablets speech was so skillful in both preserve preserving the honor of the Muslims, but also
defusing the tension of the situation.
		

			The Prophet Mohammed Salah said I'm praised him for this Sabbath, even Christ was eventually
martyred during the wars of apostasy in the reign of Abu Bakar. So, Sabbath wasn't seen for days
after the revelation of this verse, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam noticed this, and he
asked around about him, he got sad even more of who was sabots neighbor to check up on him. Solid
found sabots sitting at home, crying.
		

			He said to him, how are you doing?
		

			sabots replied, terrible. I'm the one who raised his voice over the voice of the Prophet Mohammed
salah.
		

			My good deeds are gone. I'm going to help.
		

			Saad went immediately back to the Prophet salallahu Salam, and told him about the conversation he
had with status. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam responded saying to Assad go back and tell
him that he's not going to help. On the contrary, he is among those promised paradise.
		

			This story is full of lessons for us as a community. First, notice how strong the Brotherhood was
between the companions. If somebody went missing, people noticed, people asked after one another,
they took time to get to know one another. And they truly cared about how the other one was doing.
		

			This goes far beyond giving sometimes, the Companions realized that in serving their fellow Muslims,
Allah placed an enormous opportunity for good deeds, and obtaining paradise. They didn't look at
each other with suspicion. They didn't recoil. When they were asked to help out. They didn't have an
attitude of That's not my problem.
		

			And part of what enabled that trust and cooperation was the fact that they took the time to get to
know one another. Sometimes we criticize those who asked for help. Why can't they get a job? Why
can't they do this? Why can't they do that. But often, we haven't even taken the time to truly
understand where that person is coming from, and what they're going through.
		

			Sometimes, we're not even coming to the masjid enough to even have those interactions in the first
place, and understand what's really going on in the community.
		

			Also notice how phablet suspects himself first, instead of pointing the finger at other Muslims,
when the revelation came down, he wasn't going around accusing other people barking orders. His
primary concern was to assess himself and evaluate himself in light of the revelation. And he found
just the possibility that it might apply to him. And so he assumed that it did
		

			look at the purity of his heart to feel the grief and regret that he did, instead of trying to avoid
blame, and make excuses for himself.
		

			As the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, certainly the believer sees his sins as if they
were a mountain he was sitting under, just about to fall on top of him
		

			and the wicked, he sees his sins as if they were just the fly, passing in front of his nose.
		

			Allah tells us the reason for not raising our voices at the end of the verse and tackle for our
local one from that session room, lest your deeds become worthless while you don't even realize.
This teaches us that our good deeds, they can be erased, bringing all of our hard work to ruin.
		

			After giving us three prohibitions in a row, Allah then encourages us by showing the right way to
behave in the livina Yagoona ASWAT seven in the Rasul Allah Allah equilibrium tahun Allahu Palooka
Khomeini Taqwa Lahoma Farah toma as you do in alim, indeed those who lower their voices before the
Messenger of Allah, they are the ones whose hearts Allah has tested for righteousness for them is
forgiveness and a great reward. This is the opposite of what came before lowering one's voice, both
literally in the sense of speaking quietly and figuratively in the sense of submitting to Allah's
revelation. Not because we're afraid of what others will say, not because we want to fit in, but
		

			because it springs forth from the humble submission that fills our hearts. When Allah says they are
the ones whose hearts Allah has tested for righteousness. The testing here, according to Ibn caphyon
means that Allah purified their hearts you
		

			Because of their submission,
		

			even cathedra then mentions a brief illustration. He says arm up was asked which type of person was
better, somebody who avoids sin because he doesn't want to sin, or somebody who avoids sin despite
their desire to sin.
		

			Amo replied, The one who wants to sin and stops himself from doing so. is better. And then he
recited this verse Buddha you can lean into Han Allahu Kaluga HomeNet Taqwa. Lahoma Hera tone well
as your own alim. They are the ones who are laws whose hearts Allah has tested for righteousness for
them is forgiveness and the reward.
		

			Forgiveness and good results aren't free. They must be paid for. What's the price? Allah again gives
us the answer close by this time a couple of verses later when he addresses those who used to shouts
at the Prophet salallahu Alaihe salam from outside his house while in the home Sadhguru had tetap
Raja iliamna kind of hide on level wala who got photo Rahim. And if only they had been patient,
until you could come out to them, it would have been better for them. But Allah is Forgiving and
Merciful. Patience is the key word here. We have to develop patience. We have to train ourselves to
be patient if we want Allah's forgiveness, and his reward. Notice the context. Someone is standing
		

			outside the house of the prophets that I sent him who never refused a request in his life. And
they're calling out to him. The man who's calling out he wants things to happen on his time, when he
is ready for it, as he thinks that they should happen. It takes patience to trust Allah. And Allah
has plan for all of us. The timing that Allah has determined for us and once we develop that
patience, we will find that submission putting ourselves behind and not before Allah and His
Messenger has become a lot easier than it was before all of them original hyper haka What is it
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