Yasir Qadhi – Wisdoms of the Quran #14 How Belief Will Get You Guided
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The transcript discusses multiple interpretations of the verse "has a creative beginning" in Islam, including the use of the verse "has a creative beginning" to describe achieving economies of scale and achieving reached economies of wealth. It emphasizes the importance of belief and trusting in Islam, as well as increasing one's hidra and taq wa wa wa wa. The speaker also discusses the meaning of "by the way" to increase one's health and wealth, and encourages individuals to keep trying to achieve their goals.
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Today's Quranic wisdom, Surah At Taqabun verse 11.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Whoever has iman in Allah
shall have his heart rightly guided.
Whoever has iman in Allah, his heart will
achieve hidayah.
And of course, by the way, whenever the
Quran and the sunnah mentions heart qalb, obviously,
the meaning here is not the biological organ,
it is the spiritual
because our ruh, our soul also has the
equivalent of a heart. Like our body has
a physical pump, so to our soul, it
has a center within that ruh. And whenever
the Quran and sunnah talks about the qalb,
it is a reference to that
spiritual qalb of the soul. So in this
verse, Allah says, waman yukmin billahiahdiqalba.
Once again, like all of the wisdoms and
rules we're doing, there's multiple layers of meaning.
There's multiple levels. At the basic level, we
all understand what this reference is, and that
is
hidayah
will not be achieved except when you believe
in Allah.
You will not be guided without Islam.
You will not be guided without belief in
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is, of course,
the most obvious meaning. You shall never attain
hidayah
without belief in Allah, without belief in Islam.
And this is a fundamental
principle we firmly believe
in. There is no hidayah without Islam.
There is no guidance without belief in Allah
and belief in the Messenger. And by the
way, this is a very simple point, yet
still, unfortunately, there are people that are challenging
this. Sometimes even people that have training in
Islam and they're saying, You can find hidayah
outside of Islam. No. There is no hidayah,
and there is no guidance, ultimate guidance, without
belief in the kalimah. And there is no
salvation
without belief in Allah and belief in the
Messenger. In nadeenaindallaha
il Islam. Wama yabitaghi ghayral islamideenan
falaniukhubalaminhu.
Whoever chooses a deen other than Islam, it
will not be accepted of him. Yes, if
somebody's ignorant, that might be an excuse. But
somebody who knows hidayah and rejects it, there
is no hidayah without Islam. So this is
at the base level. But the verse has
multiple meanings.
A secondary meaning,
the context of the verse,
The beginning of the verse, Allah says, There
is no that happens to you, except that
it is written in a kitab. It's already
decreed.
No calamity befalls you,
except that Allah has already decreed it will
befall you.
Then Allah says, waman yukmin billahiadriqalba.
So now, this phrase has a whole different
meaning.
What I said before is absolutely valid, but
now there's a whole different level of meaning.
What has a calamity
got to do with
Let me ask you, what happens
when you face a calamity?
What happens to your heart when you hear
of a tragedy?
How do you feel when you are dealing
with a crisis?
Your heart is not in peace.
Your heart is palpitating,
physically even. You're feeling anxiety.
And Allah azzawajal
is saying,
after a calamity befalls you,
When you turn to Allah,
your heart will find tranquility.
And so,
yahdi here is not just the hidayah to
Jannah, that's also there.
Yahdi here is the hidayah to tranquility,
the hidayah to courage, the hidayah
to overcome
Allah
says, if you turn to Me,
I will guide your heart. Your heart will
find tranquility.
And that's why one of the qira'at, you
know, there's multiple qira'at. One of the,
ancient qira'at of the of the tabi'un, it
was actually yahda'u,
which means his heart will literally find tranquility.
His heart will become calm when he turns
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And so, a
more profound meaning, even though the first meaning
is absolutely valid, is that when your heart
is in need of tranquility,
when you are stressed out,
when life is causing you grief and anxiety,
Allah is telling you,
If you have iman in Allah,
then I, you hadi Allah, will give hidayah
to your kalb. And this means we turn
to Allah.
We make dua to Allah. We increase our
sajdas and ruku'is to Allah.
We believe in Allah's qadr because the verse
right before it said, whatever
happens to
you, It's already written down. It's already decreed.
No calamity happens except that it is done.
In Allah's qadr, it's there. So then Allah
says, and if you believe in Allah, which
means you must believe in qadr as well,
believe that everything is happening is happening for
a plan. Allah is our mawla. Not a
leaf falls, except that Allah has willed it.
Not a leaf falls, except that Allah has
willed it. When you have that iman, your
heart will find tranquility.
The world is not random. The world is
not chaotic. There is a plan, and you
must trust in the planner. You must trust
in the rab of this world. And when
you have iman, then you resign yourself over
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So this is
a secondary meaning, which is absolutely valid. And
then there is yet a third meaning that
we can derive here. Woman yu min billahiyahdikalbaahu.
Whoever has iman in Allah, his heart will
be even more guided. Now, there's a bit
of a circularity. What do I mean by
this?
You cannot have iman without hidayah,
but you also cannot have hidayah without iman.
Let me repeat,
you cannot have iman without hidayah,
right? You can't have iman without Allah guiding
you, and you cannot be guided by Allah
without having iman.
So there seems to be a small circularity
in the verse.
Whoever believes in Allah shall have his heart
guided. But then, you cannot believe without hidayah,
and you cannot have hidayah without belief. And
our scholars mentioned what this verse is referencing
is each one
increases the quantity and quality of the other.
Each one leads to the other, and this
leads us to the third point, and that
is how do we increase our iman?
How do we increase our hidayah?
How do we make it even stronger?
We keep on pushing towards Allah. And the
more we push towards Allah, the more we
desire to have iman, the more
subhanahu wa ta'ala will grant us iman and
hidayah.
Iman is not stagnant. We all know this.
In this month of Ramadan, our iman is
at an all time high. Iman goes up
and down. We know this from the Quran.
And Allah tells us in the Quran, waman
yukmin billahi
Whoever has iman in Allah, Allah will guide
his kalb. The same thing that that we
went over here,
Whoever has hidayah, I will increase their hidayah
and increase their taqwa. And Allah mentions the
people of the kahaf, you know the young
men of the cave, Surat Al Kahf. Allah
mentions them. Innaum fitiatun, how does Allah describe
them? Innaum fitiatun,
aamanoo bi rabbihim, and then what?
When they turn to me in iman,
I gave them even more hidayah.
What this means in a nutshell,
if you're struggling with Iman, and we're all
struggling with Iman,
if you're struggling to be a better Muslim,
if you're struggling to be closer to Allah,
then realize,
if you take
one step to Allah, Allah will take 10
steps to you.
If you put in 10% of effort, Allah
will bless it 100%.
If you take one step, this isn't a
hadith, it's not me speaking. The Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam said in a hadith of Sayy
Bukhari that Allah says,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that Allah
says,
Whoever comes closer to Me by one step,
1 shibr in the Arabic means one hand
span, I will come closer to him 1
arm's length.
And whoever comes 1 arm's length, I will
come 10 arms length. And whoever comes to
me walking,
I will come to him running.
Whoever comes to me walking, I will come
to him running.
This is what this ayah is about. Waladeenaamanu
Whoever has iman, Allah will increase their hidayah.
Allah will make their heart, yahdiqalbahu,
which means if you're struggling with iman, O
brothers and sisters,
you put in a little bit of effort,
and Allah will bless that effort much more.
You come to Allah with even 1% energy,
and Allah will make that 1% 10%.
Then when you have 10%, Allah will make
that 10% 100%,
and so on and so forth. You know,
it's inversely proportional. The
the the amount you put in, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala will bless it much more than
what you put in, which means
the going gets easier.
The going gets easier. It's literally the more
you effort you put in, Allah will bless
that effort even more. So do not give
up. Do not say, how can I climb
this big hill of iman? It looks big
when you're at the bottom. It does look
big. You look at the righteous people, you
look at the muttaqeen, you look at the
saliheen, you're like, I can never get there.
But Allah is telling us over here,
athyaqalba Allah is telling us, you just start
walking, and you know that hill, all of
a sudden is gonna start shrinking in your
eyes. All of a sudden you're gonna realize,
hey, I can do this. I can climb.
Before you know it, you're already halfway there.
Before you know it, mashallah ta'ala, you reached
levels you would never have expected.
So this ayah is an encouragement.
Don't give up. Keep on trying. Put in
a little bit of effort, and Allah will
bless you with a massive amount. Woman yu
min billahi yadiqalbahu
Have iman in Allah, and Allah will bless
you with hidayah. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
grant us that iman and hidayah