Zia Sheikh – Believers should obey out objections Ramadan Khatira Day 3 682016

focus on an event that took place with

the Bani Israel and the lessons that we

can learn from it.

The story goes that amongst the Israelites in

the time of Musa A.S. a murder

took place.

Somebody killed somebody and Allah SWT, he instructed

the people to slaughter a cow to find

out who the murderer was.

So apparently what they had to do was

to slaughter the cow and then put the

meat of that cow together and somehow Allah

SWT would open up for them the murderer

of who it was.

So Allah SWT, he describes how Musa A

.S. he told them to slaughter a cow

and even probably people sitting here would be

thinking that what's the slaughtering of a cow

got to do with the murder of an

individual and this was exactly the complaint that

the Bani Israel had against Musa A.S.,

the first objection that they had.

Allah SWT says, when Musa A.S. he

said to his people that indeed Allah SWT

is ordering you that you should slaughter a

cow.

So what did they say?

Are you making fun of us?

Are you ridiculing us?

Musa A.S. said, I seek refuge from

being amongst the ignorant people.

So this shows that ridiculing people, making fun

of them, it is one of the attributes

of a jahil person and not worthy and

befitting of a person in the position of

Musa A.S. or a person who has

any type of dignity, he should not be

engaging in that type of activity.

So the first objection that they had was

that you shouldn't be joking with us, this

cannot be true.

But then after that, they started asking questions.

And when Musa A.S. told them to

slaughter a cow, they could have taken the

first cow that they came across and they

would have fulfilled the requirement.

But then they continued to ask questions.

The first

question, they said, explain to us what kind

of cow it is.

We know it is, so Musa A.S.

said that it should be should not be

too old, not too young.

So they asked a question, so one condition

came in.

That it should be not too old, not

too young, but in the middle somewhere.

Do as you have been instructed, meaning don't

ask too many questions, just go ahead and

do what you are supposed to do.

They continued.

Okay, tell us what color it is supposed

to be.

Instead of again taking the cow that they

are supposed to, now they put a condition

that it should be middle aged, not too

young, not too old.

Now they asked for more, so Allah A

.S. puts another condition on them about the

color.

They asked what color it should be, so

the response comes from Allah A.S. Allah

A.S. is telling you that it should

be a yellow colored cow.

It should be a yellow colored cow and

the color of it should be such that

it is beautiful to look at and people

when they look at it, they become happy.

That kind of a color.

So now they have restricted themselves to two

conditions.

It should be middle aged, not too old,

not too young and it should be a

golden color.

Yet they persisted.

They wanted more information.

They said, They said, explain to us further

how that cow should be.

This cow is confusing us and if you

tell us more details, Inshallah we will be

guided.

Some scholars say the fact that they used

the word Inshallah, because of that they stopped

and this was the final question, otherwise they

would have continued.

They said Inshallah we will be guided.

So the third answer came from Allah A

.S. The

third answer came from Allah A.S. that

it should not be zalul, meaning it should

never have been yoked, meaning it should never

have been tied up and used for work

in the fields.

That it had made the lines in the

ground faster for putting seeds and it should

never have been used to water the plants

also.

And it should be musallama, it should be

completely without any blemish.

There should be no fault in it.

Now they said, Now you have given us

the complete details.

Now obviously because they put so many restrictions

on themselves, Allah A.S. says, Ultimately they

found that cow, but it was such that

almost they couldn't find it.

They couldn't find such a cow with the

restrictions that they had put upon themselves.

When initially all they had to do was

take the first cow that they could and

slaughter it and it would have been sufficient.

But condition upon condition, questioning after questioning, ultimately

it became more and more difficult for them.

They found it ultimately, Allah says, that almost

they couldn't make it.

So the point from the story is that

when it comes to obedience of Allah A

.S. and the command of Allah A.S.

rather than nitpicking and asking questions, too many

questions, we should basically just get along with

what Allah A.S. has told us without

too much delving into, as the Prophet A

.S. said, He prohibited us from That too

much dialogue, too much discussion, too much asking

questions, this is not what a believer is

supposed to do.

Otherwise as believers, we could ask so many

questions.

Why are we supposed to wash our body

parts three times in wudhu?

Why, for example, do we even have to

make wudhu?

Once we've used the bathroom and we've cleansed

ourselves thoroughly, why do we need to make

wudhu?

Once we know that our body actually is

clean, then why do we need to make

wudhu?

Why do we face a certain direction?

Why face tiblah while we're praying?

Why do we have two rakah in fajr

rather than four?

It's a time of ibadah, it's darkness, maybe

we should have more rakah.

So we could ask so many of these

questions.

But as believers, we are instructed to just

say to Allah A.S., we hear and

we obey.

And as opposed to what the Bani Israel

said to Musa A.S., we heard and

we disobey, this is also in the Quran.

They used to blatantly and openly say to

Musa A.S., we heard and we disobey.

Now we don't want to have any part

of this.

We don't want to listen to you.

So as believers, we have to do what

Allah A.S. tells us by saying, So

a few verses later Allah A.S. addresses

the Bani Israel and tells them, Then your

hearts became hard.

When a person doesn't want to obey Allah

A.S., what happens is that his heart

becomes hard.

And it becomes, as Allah A.S. says,

it became like stones and even harder than

stones.

And Allah A.S. says that there are

some stones that they will actually split up

and water flows through them.

Some fall through the fear of Allah A

.S. Some split up and water flows through

them.

So even stones, they sometimes soften up and

allow things to go through them, allow water

to go through them.

Sometimes they fall down.

But your hearts have become such that they

became even harder than that.

And that is as a result of asking

too many questions, becoming stubborn and not being

obedient to your Prophet.

So again we need to be the opposite

of that.

We need to be, we need to completely

submit ourselves to the command of Allah A

.S. to the Sunnah of the Prophet A

.S. and fulfill the right of Atiullaha wa

Atiurrasul.

Have the obedience of Allah A.S. Have

the obedience of the Prophet A.S. Follow

them to the letter without asking too many

questions.

And in this is our success.

And the reason that Allah A.S. mentioned

this story is for us as a lesson.

Otherwise this Quran was not revealed to the

Bani Israel.

It was revealed to us.

It was revealed to us why?

So that we take a lesson from the

mistakes that those people made and we as

an Ummah don't make the same mistake.

So this is the biggest lesson we learned

from these verses today.

I pray that Allah A.S. gives us

to understand and practice what has been said

and heard.