Wisdoms of the Quran #15 Dawn Is Near

What evening of Ramadan is it tonight?

Which means

half the month has gone.

Isn't the month almost over?

So today's aya is about the swiftness of

time.

Surah Hud verse 81,

Alayasasubuubuqarib.

Alayasasubuubuqarib.

This is such a powerful,

sweet, profound verse.

The context of the verse, of course, it

translates as isn't the dawn so close by?

It's the middle of the night, isn't the

dawn around the corner? Isn't it almost time

for the dawn? And the context of the

verse,

the angels visit Lut,

and they tell the Prophet Lut that Allah's

punishment is coming. At the crack of dawn,

the angels are gonna come, and they're gonna

turn Sodom and Gomorrah over, and the punishment

will come. And then they say to Lut,

alisasubhugukarib.

And of course, the primary meaning, hurry up,

get out. Hurry up, it's almost done. Alayasasubhubuqareeb.

But as usual,

this maxim, this Quranic wisdom,

this gem

has so much profundity.

And because of time, we are limited. But

I'm gonna extract 2 separate points.

1st and foremost,

alayasasubuubikari.

It is an encouragement

for us to act immediately

and swiftly,

to not procrastinate,

to not delay.

The Quran is full of commandments to act

immediately,

and the Quran

criticizes

delay.

Allah tells us in the Quran that when

the angel of death comes, Allah says,

make sure you're giving charity.

What?

Kharib. Give me just a little kharib time.

Just a little time give me. And Allah

says, no, that's not gonna happen. That's why

the Quran says,

rash to do good deeds. The Quran says,

win the race. Our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

said, Badiru bil aamali

Be hasty to do good deeds. Our prophet,

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said, ikhtanim khamsan kablakhamsin.

Shababa k kabbalah Haramik.

Take advantage of 5 things

before

5 things will come that destroys them. Take

advantage of your youth before you become old.

Take advantage of your health before you fall

sick. Take advantage of your free time before

you become busy. And the hadith goes on.

Be quick, be hasty, do not procrastinate

and delay.

Even

evil deeds, when you commit them, Allah says,

do not delay in your tawba. Inna matawba

tu a'allallahi.

Lilatheena yamaloonasuabijahadatin

thumayatuboona

Allah will accept the tawba of anybody

who does a sin, and they did so.

They were jahil when they did it. They

were not good people when they did it.

But Allah says,

They repent

They repent immediately.

So the first thing we derive,

Isn't the dawn so close by? Isn't it

almost time for the dawn to come? Allah

is encouraging,

just like he's encouraging lut alayhis salaam. Don't

delay. Pack your bags, get your family, get

out of here. Don't delay. The punishment is

coming. So act swiftly,

act hastily, and do not procrastinate.

And in fact, we learn from some of

the statements of the sahaba. Some say it's

a hadith, but it's not a hadith. It's

a statement of a sahabi. Ataswifu

minashaytan.

Procrastination

is from shaytan. To delay something, it is

not from our sunnah. And this is every

effective leader, and every single

successful person will tell you the number one

thing, you take advantage of time. You do

not delay, you do not procrastinate.

You wanna be successful

in this dunya, much less the akhira. You

cannot procrastinate.

So we get this from this ayah, alayhisasubuubikari.

There's another profundity

in this ayah. There's another

deep meaning in this ayah, alasa subhububiqareem.

What is the context? The context is Allah's

punishment

upon evil people, and the context is Allah

saving

the righteous people. Remember, the righteous people are

being persecuted.

The righteous people are being mocked. The righteous

people are being physically harmed, and the evil

people are the Walimun and the tyrants. And

Allah says in that context,

alaysa subhubikareeb.

In other words, don't lose hope.

No matter how dark the night is, there

shall be a dawn that will cause the

sun to rise. No matter how bleak the

world looks, no matter how much

and oppression is taking place,

there shall be a change, and there shall

be an uplifting.

Oppression

will not be allowed to continue forever. There

shall be a day of reckoning, and there

shall be the crack of dawn that will

get rid of all of the evil and

the that exists. So there is a positive

news for those that are being oppressed, and

there is the threat of punishment for those

that are persisting

in the evil. And the Quran is full

of this motif of Allah's help being kareeb,

of Allah's rahma. Inna rahmatallahi

kareebun

minalmursinin

Allah's rahma is kareeb from those who want

to achieve piety. And Allah says, wakhurasuhibunaha

nasrumin Allahhi wa fathun

kareeb. Allah's fatha is kareeb. Allah's

Verily Allah's victory is kareeb. Do not lose

hope, oh people who are oppressed. Do not

lose hope, oh people of ghazah. Do not

lose hope, oh people who are being shown

unprecedented amount of lul. Allah's help is

kareeb, is kareeb,

Allah is inspiring optimism,

Allah is inspiring courage, that no matter how

bad the situation is, Allah's nazar, Allah's rahma,

Allah's fata is always kareem, and Allah reminds

us in the Quran

the difference between the kafir and the mumin.

Allah reminds us that when it comes to

Allah's help and victory, when it comes to

qiyama, Those who reject Allah, they think Allah's

help is never gonna come, or is very

far away. They think reckoning will never come.

And as for us,

We know Allah's help is close. We know

Allah's victory is close.

Isn't the dawn so close? It's not far

away. And so we put our trust in

Allah. We put our in Allah, Allah's help,

Allah's victory, Allah's nazar, Allah's rahma, all of

it is kareem, and how can it not

be kareem when Allah himself

is

kareem?

When Allah is kareem, then how can his

nazar not be kareem? How can his fatah

not kareeb? How can his rahma not be

kareeb?

Ibrahim says, my rab is kareeb, and my

rab hears the dua of the one who

is oppressed. So Allah is kareem, and his

help is kareem, and his naser is kareem.

So he reminds us, Alayasasubhubikareem.

O Muslim, do not procrastinate.

Turn back to Allah in repentance. Hasten to

do good deeds. Turn over to live a

better life. Alay sal subhubhuibikareem.

And all Muslim, do not give up hope

of Allah's mercy.

Never despair of Allah's rahmah and conquest. The

conquest of Allah, the naser of Allah is

InshaAllah ta'ala will continue tomorrow.

InshaAllah ta'ala will continue tomorrow.