Yahya Rhodus – Reflections on Surah Ya Sin #7 of 19
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Knowing that I know what I mean whenever I wouldn't if that were
to occur or to hear what effect it is different or has the added
tendency we get to have a law or some sort of slowly solid law and
is anyone do I let her know that I know fair enough to her? Would you
like our model to accord with Wahby subhanho wa taala.
So inshallah we're going to continue on in our study of sort
of Eocene looked at open up the meanings that to our hearts and to
our minds, and allow us to be able to fully absorb those meanings and
to put them into practice in a way that is pleasing to Him. subhanaw
taala. Keeping in mind all along, is that the Quran is the ultimate
massage, it is the ultimate way out, according to a prophetic
Hadith. That indicates in times of tribulation, in times of strife in
times of difficulty, and all of the other meanings of fitna, the
Maharaj is the Kitab of Allah, the book of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and
then it's really about learning how the Quran is a Maharaj and
what that really means how that is important for us to view the world
from the Quranic worldview, to be able to implement what the Quran
encouraged us to implement all of the the meanings of that bringing
the Quran into our lives and living its realities to the degree
that we do that will be to the degree that we experienced the
Quran as that lochridge As that way out. And we have reached verse
number 18, which states call in Appleton tuna become in Lambton
tahunanui and Joomla NuCalm. On AMSN Nicole Mina Addabbo Alene.
They the people of the city said we augur ill of you, if you desist
not we shall surely stone you in a painful punishment will be for you
from us. So that if we remind ourselves where we are, verse 13,
will deliver the whole method and Asaba the validity is Johannes
Mercer noon. When Allah says and set forth for them as a parable,
the people of the town when the message bearers came unto it
is also an alien with an ad for Canada will whomever as an avatar
they will call in a commercial when we sent to them to they
denied them. So we reinforced them with a third and they said, very
we've been sent to you. And then they said you are but human beings
like us. They all Marcia was not sent down anything that he has not
revealed anything. You are simply lying. Then they answered, our
Lord knows that we have indeed been sent unto you will not Eileen
Lennon Villa we're moving in our duty is only to convey the message
clearly.
And then this is the verse that comes after it. They the people of
the city said we augur ill of you, if you desist not, if you don't
stop what you're doing, we shall surely stone you in a painful
punishment will befall you from us. So let's look a little bit
more closely at this verse.
So call this the people of the city there's a conversation now
taking place. And keep in mind is that these apostles are these
messengers were sent to the people of the city, and to call them to
do hate and to call them to that proper conduct. And then
everything that happened after from their denial of them and
everything that they did,
from that, denying them and lying to them, and accusing them.
And then the response of the messengers in how they emphasize
that they had been sent to them and that their Lord knows best.
And then reminding them as well, is that our duties only to convey
the message clearly. Now the conversation shifts to the people
of the city, where they're going to do something different now. So
keep in mind, we already said is that they first and foremost that
that there was denial, which is that then putting into question
that a human being can actually bring revelation.
And then the lie that that Allah Tada had not sent down anything.
And then the accusation is that they were liars.
And so then when they responded to those claims, and everything that
was said, then they start doing something different now.
And that this is very telling about the psychology of disbelief.
And again, you see the same archetypes manifesting throughout
history, and even to this day and age. So now what do they do that
they resort to a pretext?
they resort to a pretext to turn
The Message bearers away. And the idea of a pretext is to find some
justification. And to give a reason for what they want to do,
which is to really rid themselves of them. And that even if it's not
the real reason, the real reason is they don't want to hear it.
They don't want to be reminded, the real reason is, is that they
want to remain as they are. And the pretext is, is that now
they're trying their find something wrong with him so that
they can demonize them so that they can character assassinate
them in so that they can justify to their people, that the fact
that they need to rid themselves of them. So what do they say that
in apple pie Yumna become
that indeed that we auger are we auger ill of you? We augur ill of
you. And that another way of translating this is, is that we
think you are an evil omen.
And so here to play your is to take in an omen, but in this case,
an evil omen.
So they augured ill of them, they took an evil omen from them.
And the idea of augering ill is this idea of that seeing something
as a sign or warning that is something likely to happen.
And the commentators say
is that the main reason that they all got ill of them and took a bad
omen from them was because they came with a religion other than
theirs. Other commentators say with other opinions state that
some of those that denied were afflicted with leprosy, when they
disbelieved other say is that they suffered from the famine.
And so they saw this as an evil omen for these people that had
come.
And but the key here is, is that they're starting to point the
fingers at them that there's something wrong with them.
And so let's look at this word a little bit more closely. That
taken an evil omen, that appdata, your and Arabic it's also known as
a Tisha on, in relation to its root, it's actually very similar
to the English root.
Because that an auger was actually a religious official in the Roman
Empire, who would observe natural signs, especially the behavior of
birds, interpreting these as an indication of divine approval, or
disapproval of a proposed action. That's where the word actually
gets its name in Arabic as well. But the player comes from the word
player, which is a bird. And the in the pre Islamic Arabia, what
they used to do when they needed to make a decision is that there
would be a certain person that would that move towards birds, and
then see which way that they flew. If they flew to the right, it was
a sign that this is a good sign, and they took a good omen is
something we do if they flew to the left, that they would consider
that to be a bad sign, and that they would refrain from doing it.
And so that, that thus has become to be known as a total year, but
that we translate this as taking a bad omen.
Now, it is important to note that our Prophet Salah SNM, is that He
prohibited us from taking bad omens. And he says, in a hadith,
la Adwa, without the euro, that, that Adva is the idea that
diseases or illnesses can be contagious. And that what is
really meant by this hadith is, is that we have to be very careful in
relation to the power of Allah, is that yes, some diseases are
contagious, but we believe in the power of Allah, it can only happen
by the will of Allah.
It can only happen by the will of Allah. And that there was a that
scenario that took place was seen OMA when the hotbar when he was
kind of, and there was a plague in a particular place, and that Satan
Omar did not go into that particular place. And that they
then said to him, that are you that fleeing from the color of
Allah? And then they brought forth one of the companions who
mentioned to him a hadith, right, that about there being a plague
and that you shouldn't go to whether it's a plague and people
that there shouldn't leave and say no more than said, is that we're
fleeing from the culture of Allah to the color of Allah, meaning
there's no way to flee from the conduct of Allah Tana. And that
the idea of that disease is being contagious and so forth.
That means is that we have to be very careful in that falling into
the idea that it's happening in and of itself, from the power of
Allah Subhana Allah
adda is that he can do whatever he wants to do. And people that are
involved in medicine have to be careful to say that there's no
cure for this, right, this person is definitely going to die. If
they don't do this, this is going to happen to them. No, that's not
the way we deal with the ASVAB a lot of called an adequately che
outwardly you can look at statistics and analytics that
indicate that this percentage of people die and so forth and so on.
But you have to be careful when it comes to to hate, and we will
present it in a slightly different way. And this is what we suggest
and the pupil of Allah are very careful with their language, very
careful with their language. And so that sometimes they say that
they want to go somewhere,
instead of saying that, I am going to such and such a place. Even if
they say Inshallah, they might prefer to say the plan is to go to
such and such a place. Why? Because that they don't know if
they're actually going to be going to that place or not, they're very
careful with their language. One of the righteous for instance,
when something was said about something that happened in a
particular place, and then people are talking about this incident,
but you don't know whether it is hearsay or not.
Then when someone asked him about, Oh, what about this, what he would
say is, they say that such a such a thing is happening, instead of
saying such and such a thing is happening. Why because if you say
such and such a thing is happening, it's really not, you
have not taken part in something that is not a truth. But if you
just save yourself that Oh, other people are saying that this is
happening is that you're just relating now when other people are
saying the righteous want to be careful in the frame, and how they
frame things and what it is that they say.
So then the promises without the era, that he's negating that the
taking of bad omens. And what is really meant by that is, is that
there's nothing that intrinsically has qualities from people or
things or events, that we can say that's always going to be a bad
omen. We don't take bad omens. And there are people that believe
intrinsically, there's something in that person, or there's
something that's in that particular thing,
like a black cat, or walking under a ladder, or opening up an
umbrella, that inside and these very superstitious type things. We
don't believe in any of that.
And however, that this doesn't mean that we don't protect
ourselves, this doesn't mean that we don't take the means to ward
off harm from ourselves to that ward off evil from ourselves. So
of course that you know that anything that could potentially
harm you, you protect yourself from it. Okay, so we put
everything in its proper place.
And so that this is what they are saying, this is the pretext for
what it is that they want to do to them if they actually don't leave,
which is we shall study, we shall surely stone and a painful
punishment will be for you from us. Why? Because we that feel that
you are a bad omen, you are an evil omen.
And so that, then, that this is also it's important to point out
that this is the way that that oftentimes that people of
disbelief act, and that there is another verse and sorted out off
in relation to the people of the pharaoh, where Allah Allah says
for either gentleman hasna to call Newland ahead he went into
syndrome. So yeah, to get the Yahweh Musa woman, nema power Euro
home and Allah, which translates as, but whenever a good came to
them, they would say this is ours. If an evil befell them, they will
consider they would consider it an ill omen on account of Moses and
those who were with him, nay, their ill omen lives with Allah,
the Most of them no, not. Also the people of Salah coddled by yearner
Beco women Knack caught or Unicom and Allah, they said, We see you
and your followers as an evil omen here applied, God will decide on
any Omen you may see you people are being put to the test.
And so this is the pretext for what it is that they want to do.
And this is the nature of people of ignorance, is that when it
relates to something that they don't want, they try to speak ill
of that particular thing. And that when it's something that they like
that they'll speak that well of it, and this is a real problem.
And we should always be very careful that when we're involved
in the any type of group effort.
If we don't get our particular
our way, we have to be careful to the distinguished between simply
saying what I wanted didn't happen in between finding fault with a
person or persons or the decision making committee or whoever's
involved, that somehow there's something wrong with them. Because
sometimes there's a tendency to do that, when your opinion is not
taken, is that then you're gonna find fault with the other people
were as part of the adab have shorter the etiquettes of
consultation is if your opinion is taken, you actually make Toba and
it's still far, you repent to Allah, and ask His forgiveness.
And if your opinion is not taken, you show your gratitude to Allah
and say, Alhamdulillah. So whenever people come together, and
that everyone should feel that fully comfortable putting forth,
what is that they feel is best, no one should deter them from putting
forth what they feel is best. Now people should put forward ideas
that are well thought out, we shouldn't just shoot ideas from
the hip.
And after the ideas come forward, and they're considered,
then that
if an idea is accepted, in it's the person whose idea was
accepted, that's their etiquette is actually to seek forgiveness.
And when their idea is not accepted that they showed they
actually said 100, Allah, in these are the etiquettes that are going
to keep people together.
And it's very easy to criticize, they're easy to criticize La
Ilaha, illallah, Muhammad Allah.
And it's only when you start to do your own thing, you start your own
company, you start to try to start your own organization, tried to do
your own thing, that you start to really regret all of your bases
criticisms from the past, and sometimes really nitpicky
criticisms, or even if they were justified, that you're not until
you're actually going through it yourself, to realize how harmful
it is the vast majority, people just want to take things down.
And I remember learning a beautiful lesson where there was
one time in that place where I had studied, and felt that something
could have been bettered. And that when I went to the person who
could have actually done something about it, his response was, okay,
please formulate your thoughts, write it down on paper, and then
present it to me, and I will fully consider it.
And then in the moment, I was kind of like,
I just want you to take my idea in mentioning what I said, and do
what I said.
And then I started to realize Subhanallah, there was a lot of
knifes, in my response to that situation, enough is never going
to bring good. That is the proper way. There's an organization,
there's it's running, is it's not as easy as just implementing a
solution. It has to be that well thought out to begin with, it has
to be considered in light of everything else that is happening.
And sometimes things take it's a process, they take time and so
forth and so on.
And not that you can always justify everything people make
mistakes, of course, but the point is, is that having a good opinion
and putting things in the proper place, and taking the time to
really think things through but it really gets back to that. How do
we respond when we don't get what we like? This is really what this
is about. And the vast majority of people when it doesn't go their
way when they don't get something that they want is that they'll use
that as a pretext to that speak in the US that some of the US
demonize, you will use their demonization of that person as a
pretext to that RID that person from their life or to move that
person out of the organization or whatever it might be.
So they said we see you and your followers as an evil omen
Excuse me. So this as we all grow ill of you we think of you as an
evil omen. And then what did they threaten after this? Letting them
tend to who knows you man? No, come on I MSN, no common name. If
you don't stop what you're doing, if you desist not we shall surely
stone you and a painful punishment will befall you from us. So now
the resulting to a threat. If you don't do this, this is what we're
going to do now. And this is the nature of that this same
archetypal person, again, is that they started already with the
approach that was previously mentioned. But then when they
There is persistence from the other end is that it's going to
result ultimately to violence. And that here is that why did they
mention stoning? Because that this is that one of the ways that that
used to that punish people and premont in previous times, and
that this is also an indication that when IMS and NuCalm is that
they want it to be brutal, and they want it to be a painful
punishment. And that would that again, have I that I mean, it'd be
painful, and it would really hurt them. So this is what they've
resorted to. And then the messengers are going to respond
back to what they've said Carlota you know, Conoco in the Hilton,
but and Tim Coleman mystery phone,
they said your augering ill is upon yourselves, though you have
been reminded, no, but you are people who have exceeded the
bounds. Alternatively, you could translate this as the messenger
said Yanni, in response to them, the evil omen is within
yourselves, why do you take it as an evil omen when you are reminded
of the truth? You are going too far? So in other words, the
response from the messenger bears to the disbelievers is that
the that what they're saying that they're going to do to these
people? Is that really going to befall them as because of their
own disbelief, and so that the evil omen is within their own
selves, that there are people, the messengers came to them with the
best of intentions, they've come to them to call them to only
something that is beautiful to worshipping only one God and to
having sincere worship towards him. subhanho wa taala. And they
were the ones that responded in that particular way.
And
there is some technical language here that I'm going to just quote
verbatim, because it's going to point to a particular point. And
that in the most widespread reading on this verse, though,
you're reminded is read in the curtain meaning, even if you're
reminded in this reading the ellipsis indicates a rhetorical
Elysian that constitutes the object of the interrogative and
serves as a rebuke as if to say, Do you augur ill in disbelieve,
even when you have been reminded, and so that this idea is, is that
that they are taking an evil omen that about these people, but
really, is that the evil omen is that in their own selves, is that
it relates it's upon their own selves. So this is something that
we see often is that the same people that are doing this or
wanting to do this to others, is that what ends up happening is is
that actually falls back upon them. In this reflexive sense, and
this is why we see in different places in the Quran, is that the
idea of that someone trying to deceive, but they are the ones who
are actually only deceiving themselves is that someone wants
to plot but in reality they're being plotted against. And this is
the nature of this mentality. And this is why we as believers
have to be patient.
Because people that act like this, Time won't pass, except that it
will come back upon them. And this is a principle that we believe in,
and we live by, if you want something to be right, you have to
have a right intention. And you have to have a right way of going
about it.
The ends do not justify the means
the means have to be justified, and the ends have to be justified.
You can't say that you want this lofty end, and then that you're
going to that take whatever means necessary to get to that end, we
do not believe in that. The means have to be justified. And the ends
have to be justified, we have parameters, there are certain
things that you can't do.
Even if were you to do that thing, you think that it leads to some
type of good, you can't do it.
And this is the general principle
of how we go about bringing about change, we want to have the means
be done right? And we want to have the ends be done right with a
righteous intention all along the way. And that those that choose to
live another way that try to cut corners, or that try to that cheat
or that try to deceive, it will come back to them. It will come
back to haunt them even. And people that you maneuver against
at the workplace to get to a particular place is that there
will be people that maneuver against you at another point.
Anytime that you cheat that you deceive
All of these types of things that happen, anything that you attain
in the world, whether it be money or a position or a job or anything
else, as a result of trickery and cunning and deception, is that
short time will pass, except that the same thing will happen to you.
And that will either be taken from you or is that you will suffer and
go through difficulties as a result of what you did.
And the reality is, is that this is a sign for us so that we can
that, know that what is happening here in this world and rectify our
state, the 100% of embroidery would be my case a bit aid in us
is that a lot of the says, Is it facade corruption has appeared on
the earth, that and in the see from what that the hands have
wrought. But what is law to say at the end of this verse in hope, in
hopes that they will return
and Allah to add a taste them, that some of what they caused them
to taste some of what they've done in hopes that they return. So when
you see negative consequences of things that we've done, up here,
the hope is that we return that we should know this is that we must
be people of principle, nothing that is worthy of us doing nothing
that is a noble thing to actually do. That can be accomplished
except through noble and meanwhile means. So this is coming back upon
them now.
And so that,
that, they said, We see you and your followers as an evil omen.
They said, Excuse me, that the evil omen is within yourselves,
why do you take it as an evil omen we are reminded of the truth, you
are going too far. And there is that one other thing today we're
going to have a shorter class that we wanted to bring up in relation
to this, it also relates to the same word is this word fall in
love, Tara says in sort of the Israel will call it inside and as
of now, but you don't have your own. Okay? We'll know who it is
you live on human reality, Keith haben, yokocho insurer, we have
bound each human beings destiny to his neck. On the Day of
Resurrection, we shall bring out a record for each of them, which
they will find spread wide open. And the scholars differ about what
this partner is. And if an ambassador's opinion is, is it's
their it's their deeds, their actions, and everything that was
decreed for them that they would do as it's constantly with them.
And that Mujahid says that it is no person is born, except that
there is that a water paw, that something written that attached to
his neck? Is it whether that person is a ship to your site,
that people of paradise are people of perdition. And others say that
it's their portion of the air and shot of good and evil. And if you
think about this,
that it would be more difficult for a person to try to really
understand what this is in the premotor world how all of that
could be that attached to someone's neck. And that this is
one of the ways that we're actually helped by modern
technology, and understanding how you can have an incredible amount
of information on something that is actually really, really small,
tiny, that just a tiny piece of whatever the material actually is
that when you that extract the information from it is that it can
contain a massive amount of information.
And this is something we believed Allah had the power to do, even
without a knowledge of that modern technology. But modern technology
makes it easier for us to understand how that can be,
because this is manmade, and that you can have these tiny little
things that have such a large amount of information indicating
to us that then what are the possibilities in relation to the
Quadra in the power of Allah subhanho wa Taala is that this is
something that is always going to be with us is that based upon the
decisions that we make, and the good or the evil that will come
from the various things that we do. And so when they responded to
them that in this way, and they said that the evil omen is within
yourselves at the very end they say you are going too far is that
you are people in no court entered into uncommon monsoon is that your
people
that have that gone astray, that you've gone too far. And that you
should have been in the opposite state and accepting what these
messengers brought in again, I wanted to quote this last passage,
this comes from the shadow of the Tafseer of event jiba. That
relates to what it is that we have to go through, and how it is we
should that view it. And he says here, a humble Hulk and Allah in
fact, only one cycle from the home, most beloved of Allah's
creation to Allah are those that are most beneficial to his
dependents. And those that give them the most advice and then in a
hadith Leon Yes, the Allahu because Anwar hate and hate on
that come in harmony.
For Allah to Allah to guide one person through you, is better for
you than read camels, which was the most beloved form of wealth to
the autumn. So it says for him by the lemon or other law firm, we
have vetted Habib are in aluminium hardware with cream, and yet to
hamdulillah Shma sharp earshot Ebro dilla will start with as part
of his Africa. He said, for those that want to attain the love of
the Beloved, into draw nearer to him and to have that close
proximity to him, is that to accustom themselves to bearing
difficulties in helping the servants of Allah, earshot
literally means to guide in guiding the servants of Allah, and
that whatever it is that they have to do, in order to do that
Amundsen specifically here traveling to go about helping
people Leanna individual career where corbetta Aldine, so that we
can gain a great station, that with him in closest to him. This
is something that the vast majority of great people that you
will find is that a good portion of their life was spent that
pointing people towards goodness guiding people towards what is
best, teaching people, advising people being there for people. And
this is the way these people are, in the same way that with minor
modifications, depending upon where they are, geographically
speaking, if I think about the teachers that I've had, in
Mauritania, in Yemen, primarily in some of the other places that I
visited, even though that they're very different, geographically
speaking, that culturally, they're very different. However, it's the
same archetype of the great shoe, they're doing the same things.
They're dedicating their lives to teaching, that dedicate their
lives to helping people and just serving people and to advising
people, and they have taken care of their families in their
worshipping, and so forth. So it's the same archetype which that
leads us to that have the understanding is that all we have
to do is strive to emulate them to do our best to do what they did in
their particular context in our particular context. And that, like
anything else, when you build an environment, you have to be well
aware about the characteristics of the environment, so that you can
that know what it is that needs to be in place in order for things to
thrive and things to grow. But a lot to add to give us Tofik and
bless us to open up the meanings of these verses to a heart isn't
in IT data and they are not gonna have everything that we do me
deeds that be pleasing to Him some Hearn went to Anna Mae a lot of
other data makers from upon the path and blesses to live and die
upon the meanings of la ilaha illAllah Muhammad Allah so Allah
by Siemens blessings in the month of Ramadan for us and for our
families and for our loved ones and for our community, and for the
OMA of our Prophet sallallahu Sallam May Allah Allah blesses to
be blunt of relief for him. I've seen Muhammad a month for increase
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