Yasir Qadhi – The Parables of The Quran #12 – Āl-Imrān- Verse 101 – The Rope of Allah

Yasir Qadhi
Share Page

AI: Summary ©

The transcript describes the parable of hang on to someone or something, using the symbol of a rope and a mountain to signal the importance of hang on to a person or something. The use of the title "the Greatest People" in Islam is highlighted as a way to express pride in the people who have made a difference in the world. The transcript also uses the use of the symbol "p hope" in Vietnam's culture to signal gratitude for the people who have made a difference.

AI: Summary ©

00:00:00 --> 00:00:00
			Hi I'm
		
00:00:02 --> 00:00:11
			Nina Shay. banyo lungeing Bismillah Ar Rahman AR Rahim
		
00:00:14 --> 00:00:15
			watching can
		
00:00:19 --> 00:00:19
			see wama
		
00:00:22 --> 00:00:23
			in
		
00:00:24 --> 00:00:25
			Nanaimo
		
00:00:28 --> 00:00:32
			salatu salam ala rasulillah Allah Allah He was a woman while
		
00:00:33 --> 00:01:17
			we move on to Surah earlier in Milan, and our first parable or similar to riches, verse number 101.
And in this verse it is preceded by verse 100. Allah subhana wa tada says in verse 100, to set up
the parable, or to set it as a symbol to Allah says, Oh, you who believe Yeah, God then I'm gonna
talk to it. What a tomato now. illa Anta Muslim. We have the taqwa of Allah the way that it is
worthy or deserving that you have Taqwa of Allah and do not die except in the state of Islam. Then
verse 101, begins the parable or the symbol today why I tell c mu b heavily la hija me and all of
you hold on to the rope of Allah obviously rope is symbolic here there's no actual rope dangling
		
00:01:17 --> 00:02:02
			down. All of you hold on to the rope of Allah why I tossed the movie heavily lahij me on what data
for Roku and don't divide amongst yourselves with Guru netmeds Allah here are they come and be
conscious and remember the blessings of Allah on you is going to Ida and when you were all enemies
for lF obey Nakuru become he brought your hearts together for us by Tom Bennett, Mr. De Juana and
you became by his blessings, Brethren, and then another and ology another symbol tude will come to
Mother shafa and you were on the edge of a noun of the fire for another Caminha and Allah azza wa
jal saved you from that. So this verse actually has two symbolisms in it. The first Allah azza wa
		
00:02:02 --> 00:02:42
			jal tells us, all of you hold on to the rope of Allah why I thought the movie habila and this is a
powerful metaphor, a powerful symbol, because what does a rope signify to the one who is lost to the
one who is drowning to the one who is in the ocean and then the helicopter comes? And there's the
rope there? What does this signify many things First and foremost, that there is an authority or
there is somebody there who is able to save you the rope is coming from on top. And of course, here
we have the hablo law. This is the habit of Allah, Allah literally calls it my rope. What is the
habit of Allah By the way, scholars have differed over this but they're all the same thing. Some
		
00:02:42 --> 00:03:00
			have said the religion of Allah, some have said it is the Koran Some have said it is the group of
the Muslim Ummah, and they're really all the same thing. But the most precise opinion is that the
hablo law is a reference to the Quran itself. How do we know this? Because in the Hadith in an
Wooster, Bazaar, and in also in
		
00:03:01 --> 00:03:45
			the Masonic, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that the Quran is the rope of a law
dangling from the heavens to the earth. Part of who will be the law he will be a deacon, one side of
the rope is in the hands of a law and the other side is in your hands for Thomas Scooby, he says so
hold on to it. So the Quran and the Sunnah use the metaphor of the Hebrew law to be the Quran. And
Allah is saying hold on to the habit of Allah hold on to the rope of Allah subhana wa tada and don't
divide amongst yourselves. Another symbolism of a rope is that what does a rope do? It lifts you up,
it pulls you up, you're climbing a mountain. If you're joining in the water, you're gonna climb up
		
00:03:45 --> 00:04:27
			there. So the rope signifies ascent. So the Quran is going to lift you up. And this is exactly what
our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said that Allah azza wa jal will lift people up with the
Quran and he will cause others to go down we seek Allah's refuge but metaphor of lifting up Allah
azza wa jal er for oberheiden Kitab jaquan. So the same notion of the habit raising you up another
point of the habit, another point of the rope here, the metaphor of the rope here is that when Allah
is saying be gathered together and be united, he is not saying unite on your whims and desires. No,
there is a central point, the rope is the central point. All Muslims don't just unite upon anything,
		
00:04:27 --> 00:04:59
			unite upon the rope of Allah subhana wa Taala. So the rope signifies there's a center there's an
actual place you need to go towards. It's not that groups come together say we are united know what
I tassimo the heavenly love Hold on all of you to the rope of Allah and then be united. So these are
the metaphors of the rope over here a very beautiful and powerful metaphor. When you hold on to it,
you will be saved. And another point you're drowning in the ocean, you're on the edge of a cliff and
a rope comes if you don't hold on to it. What is the alternative?
		
00:05:00 --> 00:05:39
			Destruction that's also valid here. If you do not hold on to the rope of Allah the Quran if you
choose to let go then call us that is if there is no other hope for you so this is a powerful
metaphor here of Allah telling us why thoughts the more they heavily law hegemony and one at a for
Rocco and don't dis unite or divide amongst yourselves and be conscious of the blessings of Allah
when you were all enemies, the mohajir rune and the Ansari would never have been brethren enjoy
helliya and even the unsolved themselves the Osen, the hazaragi they hated each other. They were at
civil war for 50 years for one entire generation, they were killing one another. They could never
		
00:05:39 --> 00:06:09
			imagine peace. So Allah says, Remember, Allah's blessings on you, your enemies to one another and I
brought you together for a leper Bay Nakuru become in another verse, Allah says lo unfuck
automatically out of the journey and after being a fool obey him if you were to spend all the money
in the world to try to negotiate a peace treaty and bring them together you would never have
gathered them together when I can no longer a left Albania home a lot brought their parts together.
And then the second metaphor comes and that is what come to my Alicia,
		
00:06:10 --> 00:06:48
			Alicia for a minute now. And you were at the edge of a pit of a fire. So imagine you're on a cliff
Scheffer means that they're at the edge. Imagine you're on the cliff or volcano, right. And you are
literally standing on a very precarious ledge here. And if you slip, you're gonna fall into the
fire. Allah is saying, you were on that ledge, you were on that cliff, you are literally going to
fall into the fire. What is the fire here, of course the fire is symbolic for the actual fire and
it's also for their destruction. So Allah is saying before you embraced Islam before you were guided
to Islam, you were literally standing at the edge of a volcano, you were looking down and you were
		
00:06:48 --> 00:07:29
			just about to fall in what quantum Allah Shut up. Hopefully Timoner now for is a large if you like
whole minute now. So you were on a large hole at the very edge of it gonna fall into the fire, then
what did Allah do for another Caminha? And this is exactly what our Prophet sallallahu Sallam said,
Heidi, this is a Muslim, and others that my example with regards to all of you is like a man who's
holding on to the belt of somebody who wants to rush into the fire. And I'm telling you come back,
come back. So the profitsystem is giving the same metaphor. And by the way, notice here every one of
these phrases in the Quran, we find a similar metaphor in the suddenness of Han Allah, it's all
		
00:07:29 --> 00:08:06
			matching up together. So the prophets have said my example with the rest of you, if you don't follow
me, if you don't listen to me, you're going to rush headlong into the fire. But if you hold on to my
sooner I'm letting you come back. I'm telling you to not go into the fire. I'm holding on to your
belts telling you don't go there. Come back to me. So Allah azza wa jal is saying it is Allah's
blessings that you followed Islam, you embrace the path, otherwise you would have been destroyed.
And these are very two very beautiful metaphors in the same verse. Both of them deal with Allah's
blessings on us, and most importantly, to remember that the Quran is the rope of Allah and all of us
		
00:08:06 --> 00:08:32
			Muslims need to unite on this Quran. Otherwise, if we do not unite on it, we are going to go astray
and Allah azza wa jal saved us by guiding us to Islam. Otherwise, if we did not embrace this faith,
if we were not guided to this faith, literally we're about to fall into that fire and a lot saved
us. May Allah subhana wa tada make us all united upon his heaven And may Allah azza wa jal cause
this man to forgive our sins and to save us from the fire of *, inshallah we'll continue tomorrow
cinematic
		
00:08:34 --> 00:08:36
			work ganas.
		
00:08:37 --> 00:08:44
			In Vietnam KGB shave evolution, Ernie era he was to be
		
00:08:46 --> 00:08:51
			had by the Obama team why Gina Annie