Yousuf Raza – Changing The World With The Quran #6
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The importance of forgiveness is emphasized, as it is necessary for everyone to forgive themselves and create tension. A speaker discusses the loss of family members' memories and the importance of seeing the beauty in suffering. The segment also touches on the origin and origins of the Bible and the president's actions, as well as the importance of acceptance and understanding of the future. The importance of shrock and clarity in decisions is emphasized, and the need for acceptance and understanding of the signs of the future is emphasized. The importance of acceptance and understanding of the future is emphasized, as it is necessary for future events to occur.
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We seek refuge in Allah from the evils
of our souls and from the misdeeds of
our deeds.
Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide him, and
whosoever He leads astray, none can guide him.
And we bear witness that there is no
god but Allah, one and only, with no
partner.
And we bear witness that Muhammad is His
servant and Messenger.
As for what follows, the best hadith is
the Book of Allah, and the best guide
is Muhammad, peace be upon him.
And the worst of things is its occurrence,
and every occurrence is a creation, and every
creation is a misguidance, and every misguidance is
in the Fire.
Allah, the Exalted, says in His Noble Book,
after I say, I seek refuge in Allah
from the accursed Satan, And when the camels
parted, their father said, Indeed, I find the
scent of Joseph.
Why do you not deny it?
They said, By Allah, indeed you are in
your old error.
Sadaqallahul Azeem Rabbish shakhli sadri wa yasir liyamri
wa ahla lughdatan min al-lisani yafqahu qawli
Allahumma infa'na bima'allamtana wa a'allimna
ma yinfa'una wa zidna a'ilma Allahumma
arina haqiqata al-ashya'i kamahi Allahumma arina
al-haqqa haqman wa arzuqna attiba'a wa
arina al-baatila baatilun wa arzuqna ajtinaba Ameen
Ya Rabbil Alameen Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa
barakatuh The last time, last Sunday, we
concluded with 93 ayats of Surah Yusuf And
we're starting from the 94th today By the
end of the last ayah, Yusuf's identity had
been revealed to his brothers They came to
realize how he's definitely chosen over them by
Allah for good reason And that their abject
weakness, moral weakness before and now financial weakness
Every kind of weakness that you can possibly
imagine These brothers who prided themselves on their
strength at the very beginning of the story
Who could not understand their father's preference that
he had for Yusuf And now they've come
to understand that there was something about him
that he had lived up to Something that
he had proven through his life, through his
example And so Yusuf Alayhis Salaam gives them
his shirt And tells them to take it
to their families and bring the families to
Egypt So when the caravan departed from Egypt
Their father said I feel the scent of
Yusuf The caravan is departing from Egypt He's
not anywhere near Egypt right now Yaqub Alayhis
Salaam is next to Baitul Maqdis And he
smells, he has the scent of Yusuf Alayhis
Salaam Even though you may consider that I've
lost my mind You will think that I'm
crazy But this is what I feel They
said, by Allah, you are still suffering from
the same old delusion of yours You still
think Yusuf is going to come back But
when the bearer of glad tidings arrived So
before the caravan came, the one announcing the
caravan comes first He took the shirt and
cast it on Yaqub's face And his sight
returned The smell of Yusuf, the scent of
Yusuf that he had when the caravan departed
And then the shirt itself With, of course,
if he's that familiar with the scent of
Yusuf And the shirt itself comes to the
father And that is a sure shot sign
that Yusuf Alayhis Salaam is not only alive
He wants his family to be with him
And the eyesight that was lost in grieving
Yusuf Alayhis Salaam Returns in celebration of his
return He said, didn't I tell you I
know from Allah what you do not know
They said, Ya Aba, we ask forgiveness for
our sins Now the brothers, they implore their
father They said, our father, forgive us our
sins We were definitely guilty We made a
lot of mistakes We were on the wrong
Forgive us, accept our apology He said, I
will soon ask my Lord also to forgive
you Note here, he does not say that
I'll do it right now He says, I'll
do it later Yusuf Alayhis Salaam had immediately
forgiven his brothers He'd processed it Yaqub Alayhis
Salaam, his wounds are fresh His hurt that
he suffered at the hands of his own
children For the loss of Yusuf Alayhis Salaam
for all these years And then bin Yamin
He's not that ready to forgive yet And
again, this is something that we need to
remember For we become very oppressive on our
own family and friends Demanding from them to
forgive Forgiveness is not an obligation Forgiveness cannot
be enforced upon anybody You have to forgive
It is a matter of Ihsan It is
a matter of personal excellence and choice And
you're not respecting, you're not honoring that freedom
that a person has When you're imposing upon
them that you have to forgive And ayat
upon ayat, and a hadith upon a hadith
Cornering the person, not recognizing where they stand
at that point emotionally That has to be
given space It may well be, and so
many people when they do feel compelled Or
they feel cornered, they feel pressurized Into forgiving
They may forgive verbally They may feel so
guilty for not being able to forgive That
they forgive verbally But then their heart's not
into it They're not forgiving or they cannot
forgive from the entirety of their being And
so what they carry is a resentment inside
There's a forgiveness on their tongues Apparently they're
okay But internally they're not And that internal
resentment That rancor that they hold That then
manifests itself in different ways Passive-aggressive Not
being very explicitly aggressive, obviously, because they've forgiven
But then they're taking jabs other ways Then
they're making, they're creating tension some other ways
And so it was far better Than this
crooked way of relating with each other Where
apparently there's forgiveness Whereas in reality there is
none And everyone has to weigh themselves Do
I have that capacity?
And we should definitely not force or corner
people They know themselves best And we have
to respect that and give them the space
for that If a prophet of Allah He's
saying, I'll do it but later سوف أستغفر
لكم ربي Soon I will ask my Rabb
to forgive you إنه هو الغفور الرحيم He
is certainly most forgiving, ever merciful He's not
even saying about himself forgiving them He's saying,
I'll ask Allah to forgive you He's الغفور
الرحيم Perhaps don't even have those expectations from
me The hurt that you caused was that
deep فلما دخلوا على يوسف So when they
all entered upon Yusuf آوى إليه أبوي He
took his parents to himself He made them
sit next to him وقال and said أدخلوا
مصر إن شاء الله آمنين Enter Egypt secure
by the will of Allah ورفع أبويه على
العرش He raised his parents to the throne
وخروا له سجدا And they all fell down
in prostration before him.
وقال And Yusuf Alayhi Salaam said يا أبت
هذا تأويل رؤياي من قبل Father, this is
the interpretation of my dream that I saw
The dream that the surah began with Yusuf
Alayhi Salaam as a child, he sees a
dream, he narrates it to his father His
father says, hold on to that dream, do
not share it with your brothers But it
is a sign of something special It is
a sign that you're going to be the
next prophet You're from the lineage of prophets
Note how the dream itself, it had an
element of prophecy of course But in making
that dream come true, the effort of Yusuf
Alayhi Salaam, the sabr of Yusuf Alayhi Salaam,
the isma of Yusuf Alayhi Salaam, the ihsan
of Yusuf Alayhi Salaam, all of that that
came with his struggles It was an important
ingredient in the fulfillment of that dream That
dream just didn't come true on its own
It wasn't just because it was meant to
happen, it happened No, there was a lot
of effort, there was a lot of choice
There was a lot that Yusuf Alayhi Salaam
did to make that dream come true His
understanding of dreams coming true or destiny being
fulfilled involved a lot of effort on his
own part He didn't just say, I'm going
to sit back and relax and wait for
this dream to come true He did whatever
it was that was needed for that dream
to come true on his own part قَدْ
جَعَلَهَا رَبِّي حَقًّا Yet his humility in the
fulfillment of that dream, my Rabb has made
it come true Allah has made it come
true وَقَدْ أَحْسَنَ بِي He has been very
kind to me Allah has treated me beautifully
Getting me abducted by my brothers Thrown in
a well Sold off as a slave Harassed
not once but twice Or even more than
that Wrongfully sent to jail قَدْ أَحْسَنَ بِي
رَبِّي Yet, what is he saying?
My Rabb has been very, very gracious with
me All that suffering that he was subjected
to He is looking in that and he
sees beauty And he sees Allah's plan And
it is that seeing, that ability to see
the beauty in all of that suffering That
not only turned his own life around He
came out of jail His name was cleared
up He was appointed as a minister He
earned that position because of which he could
get his entire tribe All his brothers, his
parents, with their families To come to Egypt
as royal guests With that patience, with that
sabr, with that ihsan He didn't just change
his own life His family's fortunes turned They
were living the life of poverty or as
nobodies Or whatever the situation was Now they
are guests of royalty It's not just his
family, all of Egypt Because of his interpretation
of the dream And how he carried himself
doing that And the responsibility he took for
himself And then took care of the finances
of Egypt Egypt was saved On account of
that ihsan, on account of that sabr Not
just Egypt But all the adjoining areas That
were stricken with famine Their source of food
during that time Their source of nourishment, their
source of life Became Egypt, why?
Because a person who deserved that responsibility Took
that responsibility and lived up to that responsibility
And he earned it With the sabr and
ihsan in the entirety of his life It
wasn't just Egypt at that time It wasn't
just the adjoining areas of Egypt at that
time Centuries later In the Aam ul Huzn
Rasulullah S.A.W. and the Sahaba R
.A. They are hearing the story of Yusuf
A.S. And they are finding solace They
are finding hope They are finding inspiration They
are finding encouragement Rasulullah S.A.W. finds
for himself a role model in Yusuf A
.S. And it is as if he sees
his destiny In the culmination of the story
of Yusuf A.S. That that's what he
is going to say He holds on to
that ayah He holds on to it Until
Fath Makkah So with the sabr and ihsan
of Yusuf A.S. Not just the people
of his time But centuries later Rasulullah S
.A.W. and the Sahaba R.A. They
find nourishment They find a source of life
And we are indebted to Rasulullah S.A
.W. And the Sahaba R.A. And so
we are indebted to Yusuf A.S. The
fact that we are all sitting here right
now It was what Rasulullah S.A.W.
did And the Sahaba R.A. did Their
sabr, their ihsan And they took their inspiration
from this surah from Yusuf A.S. So
how the suffering of one person Who saw
in his suffering A plan of Allah And
he held himself strong Centuries, millennia The entirety
of humanity is indebted To that person in
jail Holding on to his faith We don't
see people in jail with that eye We
don't see ourselves in the midst of our
own suffering That that's the possibility There is
so much to be unlocked In the midst
of suffering We see suffering and we think
all is lost There is no chance All
doors are closed But there is a divine
plan to trust that To hold on to
that To face that suffering with dignity With
honor And then to realize that that dignity
That honor, that uprightness That sabr We're not
the only ones who benefit from that Generations
benefit from that Just like generations suffer When
we become victims When we play the victim
card When in the midst of genuine suffering
We lose our handle on sabr On ihsan
On how that suffering is meaningful There is
a divine plan in there for us We
lose that altogether In a similar circumstance Right
around the same time Surah Hajj actually addresses
that option You wanna lose hope, you can
lose hope Allah says that the example of
the person who loses hope Because of all
the difficulty that they're subjected to Is like
a person who puts a rope to the
sky And he starts climbing that rope And
he's climbing that rope and he's getting on
real high He's doing good, he has faith
He's acting on that faith He's elevating himself
But then the going gets really tough And
he doesn't know if he should continue on
that path or not He doesn't know if
he should let go of hope Because he
doesn't see an end in sight Allah says
let him leave that rope then Let him
let go of that rope What's gonna happen?
See if his frustration is any better If
he lets go of that rope Because when
he lets go of that rope He falls
flat on his face Is that an option?
But the fact that these ayahs are coming
down Allah says that these ayahs and these
reminders were necessary Because those feelings were developing
قَدْ جَعَلَ رَبِّي حَقَّ وَقَدْ أَحْسَنَ بِي And
he has been very gracious to me إِذْ
أَخْرَجَنِي مِنَ السِّجْنِ When he brought me out
of prison He doesn't mention all the suffering
He talks about when the suffering stops When
liberty is attained When he brought me out
of prison وَجَاءَ بِكُم مِّنَ الْبَدْوِ He brought
you from the desert مِنْ بَعْدِ أَنَّزْغَ الشَّيْطَانُ
بَيْنِ وَبَيْنَ إِخْوَتِ After Shaytan stirred up a
rift between me and my brothers إِنَّ الرَّبِّ
لَطِيفٌ لِّمَا يَشَاءُ My Rabb is certainly subtle
لطيف In what he wills What Allah's plan
is and how he goes about that plan
That there is so much subtlety there Who
would have thought?
Who would have perceived?
In the jealousy of Yusuf's brothers In their
abduction In their selling him off In all
of that Who would have seen the presence
of Allah?
And because he is so difficult to perceive
He is so imperceptible That's what it means
to be subtle That's what it means to
be لطيف إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْعَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ He is
definitely knowing and wise رَبِّ قَدْ آتَيْتَنِي مِنَ
الْمُلْكِ My Rabb you have blessed me with
dominion You have given me some power وَأَلَّمْتَنِي
مِن تَأْوِيلِ الْأَحَادِيثِ And you have taught me
interpretation of dreams Or you've taught me how
to interpret matters Affairs, dealings, whatever goes on
You have given me an understanding, a depth
in them قَاتِرَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ The originator of
the heavens and the earth أَنتَ وَلِيِّ فِي
الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ You are my protector in this
life and in the next تَوَفَّنِي مُسْلِمًا وَأَلْحِقُنِي
بِالصَّالِحِينَ Make me die as a Muslim and
join me with the righteous We saw this
in Ibrahim Alayhis Salaam This is a sign
of acceptance right here He has been elevated
beyond imagination Yet, he recognizes that he cannot
take that elevation for granted He's a prophet,
yes His father's a prophet, yes His grandfather's
a prophet, yes His great grandfather's a prophet,
yes All his efforts, his sacrifices have been
accepted, yes He's coming out victorious, yes But
is he arrogant about it?
Is he entitled about it?
He's like, no He's turning humbly to Allah
and saying, My end, ya Allah When I
die, I need to die on Islam Again,
a moment for all of us to reflect
Do we entertain the possibility of not dying
on Islam?
Do we fear that possibility?
That we will die and we will not
be in a state of Islam?
Yusuf Alayhis Salaam feared that possibility He entertained
that possibility He thought it was definitely possible
It could be a reality And so he
prays very humbly وَأَلْحِقْنِي بِالصَّالِحِينَ And join me
with the righteous Place me among the righteous
Again, it is an honor for the people
of righteousness That Yusuf Alayhis Salaam is going
to be in their midst But in his
humility, in the moment, he's not acting all
entitled He knows Allah has given me this,
he can take this away One mistake is
all it takes at times So he says,
ya Allah I want this to be protected
I want myself, my iman to be protected
I want the company of the righteous to
be of the Muslims ذَلِكَ مِنْ أَنْبَاءِ الْغَيْبِ
Now the Qur'an turns to Rasulullah S
.A.W. and the Sahaba And everyone listening
that this is news of the unseen نُحِيهِ
إِلَيْكَ Which we reveal to you, ya Rasulullah
وَمَا كُنْتَ لَدَيْهِمْ You were not there with
them إِذْ أَجْمَعُوا أَمْرَهُمْ When they agreed on
their plan وَهُمْ يَمْكُرُونَ While they were scheming
When the brothers were plotting their plot You
weren't there with him With all of them
Allah is bringing this news to you وَمَا
أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ وَلَوْ حَرَسْتَ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ And despite your
deepest desire Most people will still not believe
They asked you a question How did Yusuf
and his family end up in Egypt?
When they weren't there That's not where Ibrahim
A.S. left Ishaq That's not where Ishaq
left Yaqub How does Yusuf A.S. and
all the brothers How does Musa A.S.
How do they end up with the Pharaoh
in Egypt?
What's the story?
Rasulullah A.S. gives them the story Down
to the last detail Are they still going
to believe?
No وَمَا أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ وَلَوْ حَرَسْتَ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ Even
though Rasulullah A.S. wants nothing else وَمَا
تَسْأَلُهُمْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَجْرٍ Even though you don't
ask them anything of it One of the
most important claims Of Rasulullah A.S. is
I'm not a storyteller This is not my
profession I'm not making money off of it
If anything, I've lost everything for it I've
sacrificed everything for it I'm not a Quran
teacher who charges I am, if anything, done
for Because of it, everyone's turned against me
That level of sacrifice that comes with passing
the message Is a sign of truthfulness إِنْ
هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَالَمِينَ This is just a
reminder for all the people of the world
وَكَأَيْجٍ مِّنْ آيَةٍ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَوْلِ You're surprised
that they're gonna hear this story And how
you could not have possibly known this You
weren't there with Yusuf, you don't know how
to read or write You have no access
And the story, even if you did have
access to the Bible As some hypotheses go,
some accusations against the Prophet This is not
how the story is narrated in the Bible
It's very different And you're surprised that they
still don't believe in you You've responded to
their challenge And you're still surprised that they're
not accepting your response That they're not overawed,
overwhelmed Into believing Why are you so surprised?
They pass ayaat of Allah everyday In the
heavens and the earth وَكَأَيْجٍ مِّنْ آيَةٍ This
story of Yusuf on all of these ayaat
in the Quran Don't be surprised that people
don't take them seriously People don't take any
of the ayaat around them seriously They don't
see ayaat, every single thing in existence In
our experience is testifying to the reality of
God To the greatness of God, to the
power of God To the wisdom of God,
to the knowledge of God All of that,
to the mercy of God, to the love
of God To the ability of God to
see and hear and respond All of these
ayaat And we're so deeply afflicted With a
cataract of materialism, if you will That we
look at these ayaat not as signs of
God But as ends by themselves, within themselves
And we say, where's God?
We don't see Him It's not that you
don't see Him because He's not there Or
that these are not ayaat You don't see
Him because you're blind If a blind person
continues to complain, why is there no light?
What would you say to that blind person?
يَمُرُّونَ عَلَيْهَا They pass by these ayaat And
again, yes, it's talking about the kuffar It's
talking about those who reject Rasulullah ﷺ But
it is a point of reflection for all
of us as well We pass by ayaat
of Allah Morning, noon and night The rising
sun, the setting sun The clouds, the rain,
the wind, the trees, the fruits The flowers,
the butterflies All animals, and then humans And
the incredible achievements of humans How many of
those remind us of Allah?
How many of those make us stop in
our tracks and reflect And say, wow!
سُبْحَانَ اللَّهُ اللَّهُ أَكْبَلُ And how many of
those we just pass by Taking them for
granted There is a curiosity that a child
has A very childlike state of experiencing things
For a child, everything is awesome One of
the first things that children learn To say
is, wow!
You would actually hear that in their expression
quite frequently Because they're experiencing the stuff That
is very routine and mundane for us They're
looking at it as a wonder Everything is
wonderful Again, to bring that childlike state to
our mind To our reflection, to our prayer
To be able to see these as ayaat
of Allah وَهُمْ عَنْهَا مُعْرِضُونَ So how many
signs in the heavens and the earth They
pass by them and they pay no attention
to them وَمَا يُؤْمِنُ أَكْسَرُهُمْ بِاللَّهِ إِلَّا وَهُمْ
مُشْرِكُونَ And most of them Most of them
who do believe in Allah Most of those
who believe in Allah Don't believe in Allah
Except with some shirk involved in it A
very frightening ayah The inevitability of shirk Of
how easy it is For shirk to permeate
our thought process Our feelings, our actions Allah
is saying most people who believe in Allah
Don't believe in Allah Except with shirk It's
sullying that iman That to perfect tawheed is
a process To genuinely become muwahid Is effortful
It's a struggle It has to be consciously,
deliberately carried out It's not something that you
take for granted I said the shahada أَشْهَدُ
اللَّهِ إِلَىٰهِ إِلَىٰهِ I'm a muwahid now Not
so fast It's a wonderful achievement and a
blessing of Allah But it's the start of
a journey And there is so much shirk
That consciously and unconsciously Permeates our being That
it has to be filtered out It has
to be purified out There is that element
of tazkiyah That is necessary أَفَأَمِنُونَ أَن تَأْتِيَهُمْ
غَاشِيَةٌ مِّنْ عَذَابِ اللَّهِ So do they feel
safe That there will not come to them
an overwhelming event A punishment from Allah أو
تَأْتِيَهُمُ السَّاعَةُ بَغْتًا Or there comes to them
the last moment all of a sudden رسول
الله ﷺ Imagine that Every Friday he would
be afraid Every Friday he would be afraid
The one who gave us all the signs
of the hour Minor signs, major signs What
will happen He knew all of that But
every time, every time On Friday He would
be afraid Every time there would be a
storm brewing He would be afraid Is this
the عذاب الله Friday, the day of judgment
is scheduled on Friday Is what he said
On Fridays he would be afraid رسول الله
ﷺ did not claim certainty in his knowledge
about the coming of the hour Rather what
he taught us What he embodied in his
own self Is that you don't need to
know It is important that you don't know
It is important that you fear That it
can come whenever We feel secure in our
knowledge of the signs of the hour How
can the final day come?
How can the day of judgment come?
Isa A.S. has not come The Mahdi
has not come I haven't seen the Dajjal
yet The hour cannot come The Ajuj Majuj
have not come It is as if all
of these Signs have to be fulfilled and
all these Entities who are to come are
going to come with labels We are Yajuj
and Majuj Like you're watching a movie and
there's captions The Rasulullah ﷺ was afraid How
do we reconcile that with our attitude?
We don't see the day of judgment coming
We don't fear the day of judgment coming
Allah asks it as a sign of faith
to be afraid It is a sign of
faith to not know And it is perhaps
a testimony Of how deeply insecure we are
That we find refuge in the certainty of
these signs And how we've understood them Didn't
Rasulullah ﷺ understand them better?
Why was he still afraid?
And they have no idea Say this is
my way I invite to Allah With insight
This is not blind faith This is with
clarity Seeing with open eyes I and those
who follow me I'm not inviting you to
something that Doesn't make sense Or cannot be
understood There is an element of Basira That
is necessary A clarity that the Quran invites
to That Rasulullah ﷺ and the Sahaba demonstrate
And exalted is Allah And I am not
of those who associate with Allah And we
did not send before you messengers Except men
to whom we revealed From the people of
the town We chose them They were human
beings All prophets were human beings So you
are a human being as well أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا
فِي الْأَرْضِ Haven't they travelled through the land?
فَيَنظُرُوا تُسِيءِ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ
What was the end of those before them?
وَلَدَارُ الْآخِرَةِ خَيْرٌ لِلَّذِينَ اتَّقَوْا And the home
of the hereafter is definitely the best For
those who fear Allah Just as travelling through
the land And whatever history this teaches you
That history is testifying to a future That
there are consequences That actions have consequences That
nations undergo the consequences Of the choices that
they take And so if all undergo the
consequences of their choices Why would you not
face the consequences of your choices?
أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ So don't you think حَتَّىٰ إِذَا
اسْتَيْئَسَ الرُّسُلُ Until when the messengers have given
up hope وَظَنُّوا And they start thinking Those
with them Again this is عام الحزن Tenth
year of prophethood No sign of freedom No
sign of any difficulty upon the Sahaba رضي
الله عنهم Or the Prophet ﷺ Relenting in
any way It seems to go from bad
to worse From worse to even worse And
so Allah is saying There's nothing new about
that حَتَّىٰ إِذَا اسْتَيْئَسَ الرُّسُلُ Messengers who were
sent before There came a point that they
were losing hope All those with the messengers
Had started thinking وَظَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ كُذِبُوا They
had started thinking That they were lied to
They started entertaining doubts It's been so long
The help of Allah is not coming مَتَىٰ
نَصْرُ اللَّهِ جَاءَهُمْ نَصْرُنَا Then came the help
of Allah It is when it gets that
difficult When they are rattled to their core
When the very faith they're holding on to
Is slipping away And they feel it's There's
no way out That's when the help of
Allah comes It is to that level that
Allah tests What are you made of?
How true are you to your claim?
فَنُجِّيَ مَنْنَ شَاءَ And so whoever we willed
was saved وَلَا يُرَدُّ بَأْسُنَا عَنِ الْقَوْمِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ
And our punishment cannot be repelled From the
criminals Again the news that we hear The
world that we see Whatever it is that
we're experiencing Gives this impression That those who
have rejected Allah Those who have turned away
from Allah Those who are oppressing the people
of Iman They're victorious That there seems to
be No consequence for their evil Apparently they
can get away with genocide But then there
is the narrative That the Quran gives us
Of Iman, of hope Of an understanding Of
responsibility mind you That for the people committing
genocide To actually suffer For their sins and
their crimes There has to be A believing
people Who are standing on the other side
Holding on to faith Yes there are Fara
'ina In the world that we live in
There is no doubt about that And they've
probably killed more Than the Firaun could ever
dream of But where's the Musa?
وَلَا يُرَدُّ بَأْسُنَا عَنِ الْقَوْمِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ لَقَدْ كَانَ
فِي قَصَصِهِمْ عِبْرَةٌ لِأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ In their stories
Is a lesson for the people of understanding
ما كان حديثا يفترى This is not a
narrative that was invented This is not a
comic strip This is not a Disney movie
This is not Marvel This is something that
you hear And your life responds by changing
وَتَفْصِيلَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ And an explanation of everything
Everything really, yes Everything worth being explained Everything
necessary وَهُدًا وَرَحْمَةً And a guidance and a
mercy لِقَوْمِي يُؤْمِنُونَ For a people who are
inclined to believe For a people who want
to believe There is belief But a continuous
explanation of Iman in the Quran Is Iman
is not just something you do once Iman
is an attitude that you continue to carry
Looking to learn more To know more To
believe more وَآخِرُ دَعْوَانًا الْحَمْدُ لِلْأَهِدِ If there's
comments or questions Please do feel free Okay
سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ نَشْهَدُ وَلَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ
نَسْتَغْفِرُكَ وَنَتُوبُ إِلَيْكَ السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته