Yasir Qadhi – The Stories of The Prophets #01 – The Need of Sending Prophets

			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim appraises due to Allah subhana wa tada who raised the heavens and created
the creation. He spread for the earth and beautified it with greenery and vegetation. He placed the
sun and the moon in orbital harmony and rotation. Thus blessing us with day and night in perfect
alternation. He gifted us the faculties of hearing, seeing and sensation, and he bestowed upon us
the arkell, giving us intellect and perception. He united us from different tribes and races to make
us an oma one nation. And he sent to us a prophet to be a paradigm of virtue and emulation. He
revealed to us the Koran guaranteeing its preservation, and he blessed us with the Kadena as our
		

			solid foundation. He gave us the Shetty as our source of legislation. For indeed he is the king of
kings on the Day of Resurrection, and he shall raise the Prophet salallahu it he was seldom on the
praise worthy station, All praise is due to him for all that is in the heavens and earth bows to him
in prostration. As to what follows I welcome you to our newest series which shall inshallah will be
a very, very long series be an ally to Allah if Allah azza wa jal gives us life and health and
safety and security, which is what we ask of him. And this will be a series about the concept of
prophets and messengers, and the stories of the prophets and messengers that we are familiar with in
		

			the Koran and in the Sunnah, and the messages and the morals and the lessons that we can extract
from that entire series of stories. And we will begin with a series of introductory lectures and
then we shall allow the other will then move on profit to profit and messenger to messenger so our
first few episodes will be introductory in nature. And today inshallah tada I wanted to begin by
talking about the concept of prophecy and the need for prophets and messengers. We're all aware that
believing in prophets and messengers is a fundamental pillar of a man. You cannot be a Muslim
without believing in the prophets and this is something that is mentioned in too many verses to
		

			list. Allah xojo says in the last two verses asserted Baccarat on our rasuluh female owns a de la
hora be worth more than a colon M and Abdullah he won mela equity he will call Toby he will do
surgery he these are the kind of event we believe in Allah subhana wa Tada. We believe in the
angels. We believe in the books we believe in the prophets. And of course, the hadith of gibreel
mentions the six famous pillars of a man and Allah azzawajal mentions in the Quran, Allah
Kindleberger, Rahman M and A biLlahi. At that true piety is the one who believes in Allah subhana wa
Taala. And in the last day, and in then there between those who believe in the prophets of Allah
		

			Jalla Jalla hoo hoo. So belief in the prophets is indeed a fundamental pillar of our Iman. So today,
we're going to begin by talking about the need for prophets and messengers. Why do we believe and
why do we need the notion of prophets and messengers, and we began by realizing as well, that the
concept of prophecy is not universal across all of the faith traditions. In fact, for many of us as
Muslims, we consider profits as being a part of any religion. But in reality, the concept of profits
is only found in the Abrahamic religions. And in the pre Abrahamic religions, like Zoroastrianism,
it is only in these religions that there's a notion of a human being who communicates with the
		

			divine who communicates with the Creator. And that human being teaches us what we need to know about
the Creator. We need to understand that for Eastern religions or the dharmic religions, they don't
have this notion of profits. And that is why the pagans of Arabia as well they were disconnected
from the reality of profits. They didn't know what profits were. And so when our profits a little
lahari said him came to them, they were wondering, what is this called the profit what is a levy?
What is it or soon, and we have a number of incidents where somebody even asked the Prophet
sallallahu I sent him one nine nebby and what is a prophet as we're going to come to inshallah Tada.
		

			So we really need to understand a very interesting point and that
		

			Is that belief in the prophets is not universal amongst all faith traditions. And interestingly
enough, the dharmic religions, Hinduism and these offshoots of Buddhism and Jainism they don't have
this notion of people being chosen by Allah. The same goes for the for Eastern religions shintoism
and Confucianism. It is something that is unique to the Abrahamic faith traditions. And therefore,
we need to begin by explaining why, why the need for prophets, Allah Subhana, WA tada created us in
the best of all fashions and forms, and he gave us faculties that made us better than all other
creations that we are aware of, and of those faculties. He gave us the faculty of reasoning and of
		

			action and of intellect, and that faculty is indeed of a law's greatest blessings upon us. But with
that blessing also comes a test and the responsibility, the blessing can potentially become a curse,
the blessing can potentially become a cause of rejection. And therefore, this blessing that Allah
azza wa jal gave us with that of intellect. It raised us above the other creation, but it also gives
us a false sense of arrogance and knowledge. Our intellects give us this sense of superpowers,
almost we feel that we know so much. And when we compare to the other creatures around us, when we
compare ourselves to the animals and the bees. When we compare ourselves to inanimate objects, there
		

			is no question that that sense comes into us that we know so much and yet, and yet, our knowledge
can only take us so far, our intellect can only take us so far, our intellect is not infallible.
Actually, our intellects have a limited scope in which they operate in in which they can excel in to
try to use our intellect outside of that scope is going to mean disaster for us as well. Our
intellect even within the scope of its usage is not absolutely infallible. On the contrary, our
intellect is fallible, even within the scope that it has been created for. And therefore, therefore,
there must be a source of knowledge that transcends the human mind, there must be a source of
		

			knowledge that is beyond the scope of human intellect, and transcending the biases of our own minds
of our own bodies of our own cultures of our own analyses. And there must be a source of knowledge
that is infallible, and that is protected. human knowledge is both biased and fallible. human
knowledge is tainted, human knowledge is finite, and human knowledge has the potential to earn. And
therefore there must be a knowledge that compliments and perfects the knowledge that takes the human
mind where it ends, and then causes it to go forward and takes it to places where it could not go
without that divine knowledge. And this is where divine revelation and the profits come in. This is
		

			where the profits are needed and necessary. All we need to do is to examine the history of ideas,
examine the history of ethics, of laws, of politics, of human governance of philosophy, and see how
diverse and how varied mankind has been, since the beginning of time. Most of us because I'm
speaking in the English language, we are somewhat familiar with the trajectory of Western thought,
beginning with the ancient Greeks, and of course, going through the Greco Roman civilization, then
the Judeo Christian civilization. And then we are here in our, you know, post reformation and post
Renaissance, European, if you like, a nation state world, and that trajectory is well studied by any
		

			observer, and any person who has gone through a liberal arts tradition in our colleges. And of
course, the primary philosophy or the primary, if you like paradigm of that trajectory, is the
notion that the intellect in and of itself is capable of rational inquiry, and is capable of
deriving ultimate truths. That is the fundamental premise of the entire thrust of Western
philosophy, at least up until the advent of Kant and post modernism, that is when things began to
change. And of course, in our times, our philosophers of the Western tradition have humbled
themselves just a little bit. But nonetheless, that concept, that kernel of arrogance of the human
		

			intellect remains embedded in the entire western psyche and the trajectory of Western philosophy,
the notion that we are rational creatures, and that through philosophical inquiry, and deductive
reasoning and scholarly discourse, the truth of our existence and the realities of our beings and
the correct
		

			interpretations of our ethics and laws, we can arrive at them simply by this type of conversation
and this type of contemplation and this type of deductive reasoning. And of course, one can show the
falsity of this pseudo supremacy, one can show that this trajectory is inherently flawed by many
methods and ways and of them is to show the fallibility of the human mind, the ease of corruption
and the inherent biases that are present in any one person's mind. And of them also is to
demonstrate that the conclusions of the very people who claim to follow the intellect the
conclusions of the very people who claim to prioritize human reason, these conclusions themselves
		

			are diverse, and they are mutually exclusive, and they are contradictory. If the human intellect
were so perfect as to arrive at all ultimate truths. If the human mind alone were capable of such
perfections of reason, then one would assume that all rational inquires and all philosophers would
arrive at the same ultimate truths, but what is the reality? The reality is the exact opposite of
this, the spectrum of Western philosophy is the best indication that the human mind in and of itself
is not infallible, and it is not capable at arriving at ultimate truths, the variety of thoughts and
the whole spectrum of conclusions on all aspects of philosophy is enough of an indication of the FAL
		

			ability of the human mind. And in fact, even within Western philosophy, you have competing methods,
competing notions of philosophy, you have idealism, you have realism, you have post modernism, you
have existentialism, you have pragmatism. And within all of these you have subcategories and
competing branches, so much so that the reality is that people within these different schools, they
cannot even have a cohesive conversation across schools, because the paradigms are so radically
different, and the epistemologies and the assumptions are so different, that in reality, there's
little fruitful conversation about the realities of discussion between these various schools. And
		

			this is why Allah subhana wa tada has sent to us, prophets and messengers, to transcend the
fallibilities of the human mind, and to make sure that we have a source of knowledge that is pure,
that is unadulterated that is literally divine. We have communication that transcends one culture
and one time and one place at one mind and it is direct from the Creator of the heavens and the
earth. So we differentiate between fallible human knowledge and infallible divine communication. And
this is what Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions in the Quran in multiple verses, for example, and
pseudo author, verse 82, Allah subhana wa tada references this continual clash between the knowledge
		

			of men and the revelation from Allah subhana wa tada laughing at our enemy, a pseudo fill out of the
don't they travel throughout the lands for jambu and examine what was the end result of those who
were destroyed before them. Notice Allah is telling us look to history. Look at all that has
happened before you look at how many civilizations have been destroyed. And Allah says, Can you shed
them in Hong Kong? those ancient civilizations were more powerful than you are people have the
courage to look at the ancient Incas. We have no clue what happened to them. Look at the pharaohs
and the structures that they left right, look across the globe, and you will find mighty superpowers
		

			and empires. And Allah says, Can you shed them in kokua will accept them while and while running.
Some verses Allah says they have more wealth, they had more money. And the law says they left behind
monuments that are greater than yours throughout the land. But Allah says from a townhome Of what
use was all that they had, because why? When the messengers came to them, Allah says, Listen to this
Federico Bhima in the Home Ministry, they were deceived and became prideful in the knowledge that
they had fairy who behind the human and well how could they be here says you own and ultimately they
were overwhelmed by the very things they used to make fun of meaning the message of the prophets
		

			overwhelm them. Notice here that Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions 30 aubema in the hominin. And
Allah says when our rushville came to them with beja, not when our messengers came with clear and
explicit guidance, the bayona is indisputable proof proof that cannot be rejected, proof that is
established and a lot of calls the knowledge of the prophets begin at a low cost, the knowledge that
it comes down from the prophets to be certain and Allah says what
		

			They contrast their knowledge with the baby not of the prophets, they rejected it. Why? Because
fairy habima in the home mentally ill me. They were deluded by their own knowledge, not the
knowledge of a law, the knowledge they had arrived at. This clearly shows us that human knowledge is
susceptible. human knowledge is fallible, human knowledge has the potential to be mistaken. And
human knowledge is extremely deceiving. You become deceived by the knowledge that your own
civilization produces. And you think that your civilization has reached the end all and be all. And
when the prophets come, and they present the truths from Allah subhanho wa Taala. It is so common
		

			that each civilization thinks our knowledge is bigger, our knowledge is better, 30 COVID-19
dominant, and the net result will be what that were, how could be him, Michael will be he Yes, does
he own it, in the end, the punishment of a law will come and when they attempt to believe it will be
too late at that point in time. And the reality as well is that of course, this is the thrust of
Western philosophies. In some of the Eastern philosophies, especially the Far Eastern, it isn't as
much the rational intellect, as it is about tradition, as it is about respect of one's culture,
respects of one's land, respect of one's heritage, and preserving the ways of one's ancestors. And
		

			perhaps this is most boldly demonstrated in shintoism, the Far Eastern religion in which the
veneration of the elders is the core of what they believe in. But in fact, all of Eastern culture
was of a similar mindset and even pre Islamic Arabia as well. And that is why when the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came, their main point of contention was what multiple times in the
Quran in wadjet in an IRA, we found our forefathers following a custom one in either authority him
move to June, and we shall seek guidance and be guided through their customs Makoto doing and
another verses, we're going to be following what our forefathers followed. So this is yet another
		

			clash that takes place the clash between one's heritage and one's forefathers and one's culture and
between the knowledge of the prophets and once again, that clash is eternal. It is something that
takes place in every single era when the prophetic knowledge comes and when knowledge of the Divine
comes and people's heritage and people's culture and people's ways and forefathers clash with that.
Then once again that notion comes and of course, Allah subhana wa tada challenges this as well, in
response to this in multiple ways. Have them in pseudo Zoho verse 22 and pseudo Zoho first 22 Allah
subhana wa tada mentions in the Quran belcaro in the region abon Allah omoton what another 30
		

			mahkota June that they said that we found our forefathers following a particular way, and we're
going to follow in their footsteps, right. And allies origin mentions in the Quran that worker
radicals similarly, we have never sent any Warner to any society, except that its elite would say we
found our forefathers falling away and we are walking in their footsteps, we're gonna go exactly
where they went. And then Allah says, that color he says our to do to come be at the minima was at
tamale accom. Even if what I bring you is better in guidance, it is more appropriate, it is more
correct than what you found your forefathers upon. Notice this simple logic that is used in the
		

			Quran, that just because your fathers were doing it doesn't make it right. What if I have come to
you with a knowledge of a way, and a methodology and a lifestyle that is better than that of your
profits? Excuse me than that of your forefathers. And here we get to another point. If every single
society is to use the same excuse, we found our forefathers doing something, then in reality, all
societies must be equally valid and correct. But using the excuse of forefathers is something that
is extremely shallow, who cares what one's forefathers did? It doesn't make it right? And that's why
the Quran says, What if I bring you something that is more rightly guided than what your forefathers
		

			used to do? And yet still they rejected what has come from the prophets. So what we find here is
that the Quran is mentioning some very, very explicit wisdoms, about what prophets do about the
function of the prophets, about the role and clash between the rightly guided knowledge of the
prophets and between pseudo knowledge of those who think they have knowledge and between the
cultures and customs of previous societies. Allah azza wa jal created us know
		

			Knowing that our knowledge will only take us so far, and therefore he sent to us prophets that are
meant to guide us, one of the primary functions of the prophets is to function as a guidance for
mankind. And the guidance in aspects that mankind's intellect is not going to take them, because he
Here is another beautiful point of benefit. And that is that when it comes to this world, generally
speaking, Allah subhana wa Taala has not sent prophets to teach us the minutiae of this world.
That's something he has left to us and our intellect, this is the domain of our intellect, go ahead
and build your technology, build your towers even higher, go ahead, go to the moon, go to Mars and
		

			come back, go ahead and do that. That's where the intellect comes into play. And that's why none of
the profits came to teach the principles of engineering, none of the profits came to teach partial
differential equations. Go ahead, do whatever you want to do. All of the profits came without
exception, to teach the knowledge that one's intellect cannot definitively arrive at to teach the
knowledge that is more important than the knowledge of engineering and the knowledge of medicine and
the knowledge of this world. And that is the knowledge of why we are here the knowledge of who
created us the knowledge of the purpose of our life, and what is going to happen after our death,
		

			that knowledge is infinitely more important than all of the knowledge of this world. And that
knowledge is not available to us via the means and mechanisms of our human intellect without any
divine aid, unaided human intellect cannot take us to the knowledge that is needed for why we are
here, and who created us, and what is the purpose of existence? And how should we live our lives and
what is going to happen to us after death? And that is why Allah subhanho wa Taala through His
mercy, and because he is the Hardy, and the new and the Karim, because Allah azza wa jal is the
Rahman and Rahim he didn't just create us and let us be no, it is a part and parcel of a laws
		

			manifestation of who he is that he sent prophets to us. And the purpose of those prophets, as Allah
says, In Surah Surah verse 52, that look at Attica, hyena Rica, rule him in a marina and this is how
we have revealed to you a rule a spirit from us makuta de melki taboo, that you did not choose to
know what is the book? Well, he man neither GGG know what is the faith? Well, I can join now Who
knew? But we made this a light by which we guide whomever we wish of our servants were in Nicoletta
de la Surat, in Worcester came and you Yarra Sula, la are the one who will guide them to the Sultan
muster theme. What is the salata? Mr. Payne, Surat Illa de la de la humann. Kusama wa T. What are
		

			the Serato Mr. Team is the path of a law, the one who is the creator and the one to whom belongs the
heavens and the earth in D to Allah. All matters will return for judgment. This verse sutra Shura,
verse 52. Please open up the Quran and read it yourselves. It's a very powerful versus a very
significant verse. And it demonstrates the reality of prophethood and the knowledge of prophethood.
Allah azza wa jal uses some of the most profound metaphors in this verse about what prophets do
about the role and function of profits. We learn from this verse, a number of things First and
foremost, Allah says, What karateka our hayner eleiko who have been emelina and this is how we have
		

			inspired you Yara Sula, law. So this shows us that prophecy is a blessing from Allah, we have chosen
you, we have picked you and we have sent this book down to you. We're going to mention this point in
a future lecture. But it is a fundamental point of our theology, that Prophethood is a gift bestowed
from a law to those whom he chooses a law chooses the prophets, Allah who Yes, stuffy, minella
Malaika, to Loose Women, woman and as a lot of chooses, from the angels and from mankind special
that he calls them the prophets, a lot of chooses, and a lot of prefers. Yes, the entire creation is
created by Allah, then Allah chooses who to make profits. This is in contrast to some of the more
		

			fringe movements of our faith tradition. This isn't mainstream Islam, but there were those called
them. The philosopher called them others. They basically said that the prophets, they rise up
through their own efforts, through the purity of their own intellects, through their own research.
They rise up until they become prophets. And of course, that is blasphemy. Because a lot
		

			As the widget chooses profits, and a loss of a job, confers Prophethood, on those whom He blesses
and chooses, and this is what this verse says. Another point event benefits here. Notice what Allah
calls revelation. He calls it rule, worker radical hain elica rule henneman a marina. And of course
the rule means spirit means that which makes you alive. And this shows us that without revelation,
we are not fully alive. Now bodily, we might be alive. We can physically eat and drink without
revelation. But revelation, what it does, is that revelation and the message of the prophets, it
gives us Ultimate Life. If we did not have the prophets, our life would be meaningless. Think about
		

			that. If we did not have prophets, we would not have spirit in the lives that we live. And that's
why Allah calls the prophets and the message of the prophets and the revelation to the prophets.
Allah calls it route. Because through the knowledge of the prophets, the knowledge of what the
prophets come with, our life attains, meaning quite literally, without the knowledge of the
prophets. We are living a dead life, a worldly life devoid of higher purpose. We're like a corpse.
And only when we connect ourselves with the knowledge of the prophets and the knowledge of the
revelation, that is when our life acquires meaning, acquires purpose acquires nobility, and that is
		

			why Allah calls the knowledge of the prophets. waka dyadic ohana de Kuru Hamad Amida. Another point
that we that we learned from this verse, Allah says to the prophets of Allah, why do you set up not
competitory? melki tableland. Eman? You did not know you had a pseudo law. What was the book of
Allah? You did not know it. Neither did you know theology man, you didn't know the realities of
faith. And this is another very key point. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Of course for us
He is the best of all human beings without any question. He is the greatest. He is the most
intelligent. He is the purest. He is indeed the sacred or the leader of the children of Adam. And
		

			yet, and yet, before the revelation came down, how far could his mind take him? before Allah chose
him and revealed the Quran to him? before the beginning of Cora? How much was he able to know? Ma
Quinta de mal kita Boylan, a man, you did not know you're a pseudo law, what was the Kitab you did
not know what was a man.
		

			And this from a person who is the most intelligent and the purest of the soul, from a person who
would literally sit in a cave, literally sit in a cave, and contemplate and worship Allah subhanho
wa Taala. The soul and the intellect can only take you so far. And by the way, it did take him
pretty far. He never worshipped in idols, and a lot of it he was held up, he lived up to every
single good value that the fitrah the human nature tells us. He was an honest person. He didn't
drink, he didn't gamble. He didn't harm anybody. He was kind to the orphan. All of these things are
coming from the purity that Allah created in mankind, the profits of some maximize that purity. And
		

			his intellect also told him that I'm not going to worship these false gods. So his intellect and his
purity guided him to be the solder and the amine to be an amazing person who was beloved to all of
mankind in Macau at that time. But without the Koran, and without the revelation from Allah. He did
not know what's going to happen after death. He didn't know how to worship Allah subhanho wa Taala.
He didn't know the details of a man. He didn't know the angels. He didn't know what is to be done.
All of this will come with a law's revelation. Mar quintet, editie, Mel kita Boyle and he man, and
then Allah subhana wa tada says, Well, I can john know who knew on rather we made this a new we made
		

			this a newer, this is yet another profound metaphor. A lot calls his revelation and communication
with the prophets. He calls it new or the same verse has also called it a spirit of rule. And the
same verse calls it a new, therefore, the message of the prophets is a shining light upon the
darkness of this world. All of this world is enveloped in darkness, the darkness of human greed, the
darkness of human evil, the darkness of sadistic cruelty, the darkness of passions, the darkness of
sensual pleasures, it's all dark. And then a laws revelation comes the process.
		

			It's come and what do they do? They illuminate the world. They tell you who you are, through light.
What happens when you have light. When you have light, you can situate yourself. You can see where
you are, you can see who you are, you can look around you, you can see the destination, and you can
see how to get there. That's what light does. When you don't have light, you're literally
immobilized you have nothing to do you just sitting there nothing to do. You can't see yourself. You
can't see anything around you. You have no purpose. Even if you did, you wouldn't know how to get
there. And so where does that light come from? From the prophets, the prophets bring that light to
		

			an ever dark world. And that's why Allah says well I can jhana who neuron and then what is the
purpose of the route and the Lord net the V Manisha we will guide the hedaya will come. It is the
prophets and the knowledge of the prophets through which hedaya comes to be rightly guided, you have
to follow the prophets, there is no hedaya without the prophets of Allah, without the prophets of
Allah, you are without soul and you're without light and you are misguided. What were Jeddah cobalt?
		

			For Haider, we found you not on guidance, and we were the ones who guided you. If this is the case
of the best human being, which is a cabal, then your intellect and your psyche and your soul and
your human fitrah can only take you so far, and you will never be upon the Serato Mr. Team without
the neural from a law and that's why Allah azza wa jal says we're in Nicoletta de la salata, Mr.
team, and you Yasuo, Allah are going to guide to the Sultan was the team, you will guide the people
because Allah has chosen you to be his prophet, it is the prophets who guide to the slaughter, Mr.
team, and what is the ceramista team sorority law, it is the path of Allah, the path that Allah has
		

			chosen, the path that leads to Allah and all of this coming from the prophets of Allah. So without
the prophets, we don't have souls that is a spiritual soul. Without the prophets we don't have
light. Without the Prophet profits, we do not have guidance. The same sentiment of being alive and
seeing the same sentiment is echoed in Switzerland. Verse 122, so that an amorous 122 where Allah
subhanho wa Taala gives a metaphor, a parable, a woman can have eaten for a hyena
		

			can the one who was dead, can the one who was dead, and then we brought him back to life. And we
gave him a light by which he would walk amongst mankind, can that person be compared common method
of Guru Matt, like the one who is in complete darkness from which they can never escape? And this is
indeed how the evil of the disbelievers has been made appealing to them. Once again, Allah gives the
motif of dead and alive and aluk is the motif of darkness and light. The one who does not have the
knowledge of the prophets is spiritually dead, even if they're physically alive. The one who does
not have a knowledge that the prophets come with is in spiritual darkness, even if they're in the
		

			light of the sun, spiritually, they don't know what they're doing. And will lie This is so true. So
true. Look around you look around you, those who don't follow the prophets. What are they doing with
their lives? What is the purpose of their life? What do they plan to do? What is their vision, their
goal? What do they think is gonna happen after that they don't even think about it. And that's where
the knowledge of the profits comes in. Believing in the profits, knowing what they came with. That
is what gives our life meaning. It makes us aware of who we are in our surroundings, it enlightens
us, and it makes us upon the subtle thermostat theme. And there are many, many such verses in the
		

			Quran. Another very beautiful verse, by the way, sort of the rod verse 17. look this up that Allah
subhana wa tada mentions rain that he sends down from the skies, he causes the valleys to flow with
water, each one according to its capacity. And then the currents come from this from the rivers and
the streams and they carry the rising form and allows origin says for Amezaga to further Buju for
the worthless residue, it is cast aside 1 million for NASA for young good to find out that which is
a benefit to mankind. It goes into the soil and remains in the soil had been Tamia comments on this
and he says, this is a metaphor of the knowledge that comes from a law through the prophets. That is
		

			the rain that comes and the valleys are like hearts, people's valleys are small or large, some
hearts can acquire a lot of knowledge. Some hearts do not acquire any knowledge and then that
knowledge is sifted useless knowledge
		

			Which goes is of no value, that which is of benefit, the knowledge of the profits that goes into the
heart and it seeps into the heart for a miserable failure, would you
		

			follow NASA for young good without even taymiyah says, and that which benefits the people, which is
the knowledge of the prophets, it remains in the heart, that is the ultimate beneficial knowledge.
And that is why it is the knowledge of the prophets. The knowledge that the prophets came with is a
knowledge that the human intellect in and of itself can never attain. It is the knowledge of the
life of the hereafter. And that is why the prophets have come with the knowledge that cannot be
attained by a mere reflection, it potamia also writes that the knowledge of the prophets, it teaches
us three genres or three types of knowledge that we would not have access to, were it not for the
		

			knowledge that Allah has given the prophets, the prophets have come with a knowledge that is simply
beyond the realm of human knowledge. And he mentioned three primary ones. Number one, he says, a
knowledge of Allah subhanho, wa Taala, and a knowledge of his names and a knowledge of his nature
and a knowledge of his attributes. And that includes a knowledge of knowledge of other Allah has to
tell us the reality of God. And this also includes a number one, the stories of those who believe in
a law, and those who reject a law. And so Allah shows how He loves the believers, and although shows
the fate of those who reject his message, so the first is the knowledge of a law, and the nature of
		

			a law, and the believers of a law and the rejecters of a law, all of this included in one category.
And included in this is the stories of the prophets of old that we are now beginning. The second
knowledge that the prophets have come with, he said, is the detailed knowledge of the laws and ethic
ethics of how to live, the customs, the Sharia, of how to live, what is allowed, what is not allowed
this to the prophets come with, and we are not capable of definitively arriving at those laws. And
all you need to do, as I said, is Look around you look at the globe, look at society, every single
country has its own set of laws, what is legal in one country is illegal in another here in America,
		

			we have 50 plus states, what is legal in one state might be illegal in another what you can do in
one state or city, if you drive 20 minutes and cross the border, you might go to jail for doing the
exact same thing. Why? Because our laws are all different. Our ethics, our norms, they're all
different. And so the profits come with that knowledge. That's the second knowledge. And then he
said, the third knowledge is the knowledge of the afterlife, the knowledge of what happens after
death, the knowledge of Heaven and *, the knowledge of gender of barossa the knowledge of gamma,
all of this knowledge of rewards and punishments our mind could never derive. How can anybody tell
		

			us what's gonna happen after life? How is our brain going to understand that? So these three aspects
of knowledge, even taymiyah says, This is the primary function of the prophets to inform us of these
three things. Number one, knowledge of a law and included in the knowledge of a law is the knowledge
of the believers have a lot and that's the previous prophets. Number two, knowledge of the laws and
ethics and customs and number three, knowledge of the afterlife and heaven and * and of course,
this is expressly mentioned in the Quran as well. In multiple verses. Allah subhanho wa Taala
mentions that this is one of the reasons once again that the prophets are sent. The prophets have
		

			this knowledge that is beyond our knowledge, and so they are off verse 157. So that our offers 157
Allah subhana wa tada mentions that the knowledge of the Prophet that Allah gave him is what? And
levena yet to be Runa rasuna Nabeel Omi, those who follow this prophet the unlettered Prophet, whose
descriptions they find in their own books of the Torah and the Injeel Yeah, Morrow home Bill Maher
roofie way in her home and in moon curry, while you're here Lula homotopy Bharti where you had Remo
la himal haba is this prophet, he commands them to do what is good, and forbids them to do what is
evil, he allows for them that which is good and pure, and he forbids upon them that which is impure,
		

			and he relieves them from their burdens and chains that they were shackled in. They were burdened by
ignorance. They were chained by their own desires. And so Allah says, The Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam will lift that burden will lift that burden of what is the burden here? The burden of
ignorance, the burden of not knowing what you are here for the knowledge that the profit system
comes with? What will they do? It will tell you how to live your life.
		

			It will tell you what is healthier than how long it will tell you what is good and bad. It will tell
you ethics and laws and morality and it will free you from your own shackles of your desires. And in
fact, Allah subhanho wa Taala rhetorically asks us What else did you expect when I created you? Did
you think that you would not be told your profits would not come to you? Did you think that we would
just create you and not leave you with a set of laws instead of a Yama Allah says, Yes, I will
insert a new a new troca sudah did man think that he will be left in chaos? Did you think that Allah
would create all of this perfection and then not send you prophets not tell you how to live? What
		

			How is that a part of perfection of Allah subhana wa tada and therefore the prophets fill this void.
The prophets tell us how to live our lives, and the prophets inform us of that what we need to know.
We also mentioned of the knowledge of the prophets is that they tell us the stories of the previous
prophets. And this is expressly mentioned in the Quran as well. Our Prophet system tells us
histories that we would otherwise never know the Quran is full of stories that are now long gone.
Historians have not recorded them but Allah recorded them. And that's what Allah says in the Quran,
what karateka hyena ileka that this is how we are inspired to you the stories of the hype. You are
		

			not there when they deferred you are not there when they bickered, you are not there when they
decided to kill use of you are not there on the western side of Mount Sinai when Allah spoke to Musa
lahmacun tele de him you were not there. But then Eliza just says we have inspired to these stories.
So these stories we're going to be beginning in all of this series, it is a fundamental reason why
Allah sends the prophets, Allah sends the prophets to tell the believers of the stories that they
need to know. And that's what we'll be covering as a part of our own series. Another source or
wisdom of why Allah sends prophets is to purify our souls, the concept of desert skia the concept of
		

			purification. And this is another interesting point. One of the Divine wisdoms of sending prophets
is to purify our souls. This is mentioned in multiple verses in the Quran, already by different
Amina Suleiman whom he is the one that has sent amongst the unlettered nations, meaning the Arabs, a
prophet rocks them, what is that Prophet do yet to either him it, he recites to them the book of
Allah, and he teaches them the knowledge and wisdom, and they use the key him, and he purifies them.
So one of the functions of prophecy is to purify the soul. You know, I think this point, you really
don't even need to contemplate, open your eyes, and look at the spiritual bankruptcy of the cultures
		

			we live in. Look at the decadent lifestyle, look at the hedonism that is rampant across the globe.
Look at the sensual pleasures that have become the gods that people worship, there is no purpose of
life other than enjoyment for the bulk of so many of mankind. And this is the reality of those who
have turned away from the knowledge of the profits, even those that attempt to follow the profits
and they're misguided in their attempts, like the people of the book, there are infinitely better
than those who don't even care to follow the prophets. Those people who attempt to follow Jesus,
even though they have misinterpreted Jesus's statements, those people will attempt to follow the
		

			Mosaic Law, even though it has been abrogated. We still find amongst them decency, and we find
amongst the morality and we'll find amongst them a higher purpose. Why? Because they have some
linkage with the prophets of God Subhana Allah, they have some linkage in connection with the
prophets of God, and those that have turned away from any connection with the prophets of God. What
has happened to them, there is no Ischia in their lives. There's no spirituality, there is no reason
or cause for existence. It's all a selfish, narcissistic, bacchanalian, hedonistic cause of
existence, and that's what Allah is saying, the prophets will purify you, you will have a sense of
		

			inner peace when you follow the prophets. And this is done by multiple ways of the ways that it is
done. Allah says in the Quran roussillon MOBA sharina woman zerene profits were sent as Bashir and
Montville. This is another function of the profits. Why does a loss and profits mobis should and
mundare Bashir on one
		

			Veera, and Bashir here means you are giving glad tidings, you're cheering them up, that if you obey
your law, there's a eternal life of bliss that will wait for you. If you are pious, if you are
righteous, then all of the pain and suffering of this world is worth living. If you turn to Allah
Subhana, WA Tada, your lives have meaning, and your death is not a death, it is the beginning of
eternal life. That is mubashir. And the opposite.
		

			The opposite if you turn away from a law, if you reject a law, if you live for your own self, and
not for the higher purpose, then wonder, Nazir, Warner, careful, don't waste the opportunity given
to you or else there shall be punishment. And so the profits come as mubasher and munther, Bashir
and the and this once again necessitates it implies that the prophets are teaching mankind about
heaven and *, afterlife, reward and punishment about obedience to Allah, about how to attain a
less pleasure and happiness. All of this is one of the main functions of the prophets of Allah to
give glad tidings and expect the rewards of Allah if we're righteous, and to warn against punishment
		

			if we commit sins. And this also indicates purification occurs, the test gear and the Bashir and
then they are all linked together. If we purify ourselves, then we will be rewarded and we have
something to look forward to. And if we don't, then the opposite is there. Yet another reason for
sending the profits is to act as ultimate role models for us as mankind. You see, we are so weak
brothers and sisters, we are so weak, we need role models. And when we don't have more role models
that are religious, we create role models that are not religious, all you need to do is look around
you, it is human nature to create role models. And therefore rather than leaving role models to our
		

			whims and desires, Allah subhana wa tada has chosen for us the best of all role models. And these
role models are meant for us to look up to, for us to emulate for us to learn and benefit from. And
that is why we are starting this entire series, because we will discuss each and every one of these
role models that Allah has mentioned. And we will discuss their lives and their trials and the
tribulations and what we can benefit from their stories in a very powerful series of verses. And I
encourage you to look them up so little and arm versus 83 to 91. So that an arm versus 83 to 91.
Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions a long list of profits and I'm going to go over it because this is
		

			what we're going to be doing in this series of ours that Allah mentions the story of Ibrahim with
his people. And then in verse 83, Allah says, What tilaka Pooja tuna artina Ibrahim Morocco me This
is the argument that we gave Ibrahim to his people, you know the argument of the stars in the
movies, we're gonna come to there to that story Charlottetown when we get there notifier da da da
Tim inertia, we raise and elevate in rank whomever we please, indeed your Lord is all wise and all
knowing. And we blessed Ibrahim with his heart and Yaqoob what will happen that I was happy aku
coolin Hi Dana. All of them we guided and before them, we guided notes, and his descendants as well.
		

			The route and Sulayman and a tube and use of and Moosa and how rune and this is how we reward the
good doers. And also zecharia and yahia, john the baptist, and Isa Jesus and ilias Elias, all of
whom were from the righteous, and we also guided a smart, Ishmael. And then yes, sir Elijah, and
Eunice Jonah and Lupin lot were cool. And for Belinda and amin, and all of them, we favored over all
of mankind, woman about him, and from their fathers were very yeah to him. And their descendants
were acquired to him and their brothers were jetavana, whom we chose them, what are they now whom in
our slot muster team and we guided them to the straight path. Now notice, by the way, the series of
		

			verses is one of not D, but one of the longest series of prophets names in one page. So within an
arm, verses 83 onwards, Allah mentions all of these prophets by name. And then there's one other
passages that Allah mentions even more profits, and we'll talk about that a shallow tangent In our
next lesson. Now after all of these profits, what is Alessi? vladika who the lot this is the
guidance of a law that he guides whomever He wills
		

			of his servants. Yeah deepin Manya sharmin arriba de wallowa shockula habitat Houma, Kenya Maru had
the associated partners with a lot, even their good deeds would have gone to waste. Then Allah says,
These are the people that we gave the book to. And we gave the wisdom to and we gave the profit to
for in yuck Furby Ha ha, Ola II. If these pagans disbelieve in this message, then we have already
given it to those who will never disbelieve in it meaning the oma of Islam us a lot is saying, if
the Quraysh reject, don't worry, the Muslims already believe la cadena hasta la all of these
prophets were the ones whom Allah guided Furby Huda who motto today, this is the phrase I wanted to
		

			come to after all of this long, I wanted to come to this phrase, Fabio Hooda, whom you're quoted.
And so through their guidance, you as well attain guidance, Allah is commanding me and you to look
at all of the profits and to gain from their lives guidance to take them as role models Furby who
there who look for Teddy guidance is sought through all of the knowledge of the prophets. And then
Allah subhana wa tada says, After mentioning all of these prophets, one other la hakoda de and they
did not show Allah Subhana. Allah, the respect that a large is deserving of when they said, a law
has not revealed anything to any human being. This verse, verse 91, of Sudan and
		

			it shows us a very powerful point.
		

			To deny that Allah sends prophets is to deny the perfection of Allah. In this verse, Allah links His
Majesty and His power with the concept of prophets. And Allah says, And Allah says, Those who
negated that I'm sending profits, they haven't given me the quarter that I deserve. One quarter
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			to negate the profits is to negate the perfection of a law. That's how important belief in the
prophets is. And we explain why this is the case, that a law being who he is, could never ever
create mankind and let them be a law xojo could never just create this perfect world, and then not
send prophets to us. And this is the only way that Allah subhana wa tada has chosen to communicate
with us, if allowed one to two, we could have had a different creation, but it is Allah as well. And
we do not question the will of Allah, He created us with an intellect that takes us so far. And then
the profits come and they complement and the profits come and they go beyond that intellect and the
		

			profits come and they teach us what the intellect cannot tell us. And together with our intellect,
and our psyches and our filters and the knowledge of the profits, all of this is complimentary. When
we put it together, then and only then will we attain ultimate guidance, and the hedaya have a lot
gentler gelato. So to conclude our first lesson, we have to still continue this topic to conclude
our first lesson, the necessity of sending profits is actually an extension of the power of a law
and of the knowledge of a law. If you understand who is a law, and you understand the names and
attributes of a law. The necessary corollary to that is that Allah azza wa jal would never leave us
		

			without guidance. And so he chooses from amongst us, a category of people called prophets and
messengers, and he communicates to those prophets and messengers, a knowledge that we would never
arrive at if we didn't have them. And he then sends those prophets and messengers to all of us in
order that we have access to that knowledge and in order that we have that hedaya and that new and
that rule that comes from him. Without the prophets, there is no spiritual ROI. Without the prophets
there is no spiritual light. Without the prophets, there is no hedaya We ask Allah azza wa jal for
his desire and we will need charlo to either continue the series of introductory lectures before we
		

			jump to our first profit and that is our father undivided Salaam. Until next week, she's alchemilla
head set on wanting to Lahore Baraka