Zia Sheikh – The Story of Samiri & Goldern Calf Ramadan Khatira Day 15

Zia Sheikh
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The speaker discusses the loss of people, including reputation and work, due to confusion surrounding the Bible's teachings. They emphasize the importance of following instructions and avoiding mistakes, and stress the importance of practicing what has been said in the Bible and finding the right person to ask for. The speakers also mention the use of "has been tested by" and its potential consequences, as well as the importance of practicing what has been said in the Bible and finding the right person to ask for.
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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.

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Alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillah.

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Last night we completed Surah Taha and in

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Surah Taha there is a story which I'd

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like to talk about and in it we

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learn the lesson of how it's very easy

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to slip up and fall into sins even

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as grave as shirk while being even in

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the presence of illustrious people like the Ambianim

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wa Salatu wa Salam, the Prophets themselves.

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And this is something that we should learn

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a lesson from that we tend to have

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a logic or we tend to try to

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work things out by ourselves to justify things

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that we do sometimes and in doing so

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when we don't have the right guidance we

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tend to instead of doing the right thing

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we either end up in doing a bid

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'ah or innovation or even go as far

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as to commit shirk.

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So this story is the story of Samiri

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or As-Samiri, the person who misguided Bani

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Israel while Musa Alayhi Salatu wa Salam was

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away.

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So the story is that Musa Alayhi Salatu

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wa Salam, this is after the Israelites escaped

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from Fir'aun they were wandering around in

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the wilderness and in the course of doing

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this Musa Alayhi Salatu wa Salam was instructed

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to fast for 30 days then he added

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another 10 days and he had a meeting

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scheduled with Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala and

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he went for that meeting in the meantime

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behind him a person who the Quran calls

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As-Samiri and this probably was not his

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name the indication is that As-Samiri, the

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Ya at the end is called Ya'ul

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Mansub or Ya'ul Nisbah and this is

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like a person saying Pakistani, Hindi, okay so

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he was from a place called As-Samir

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or Samir he was from this place called

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Samir, his real name Allah Subhana wa Ta

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'ala only knows what it was there is

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a possibility that it was Haroon but why

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that was Insha'Allah I will discuss that

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in a minute so this Samir what he

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did, he created for the Bani Israel a

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cow which made a noise, which made a

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sound and the Bani Israel they started worshipping

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that cow, they started worshipping that cow while

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Musa Alayhi Salatu wa Salam was away this

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is the story of how it came about

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so I am going to do the translation

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of those verses and as we go along

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Insha'Allah I will explain so I will

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start with the Ayah number 83 in which

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Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala says to Musa

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Alayhi Salatu wa Salam O Musa what made

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you rush in front of your people?

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so his people were left behind, Musa Alayhi

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Salatu wa Salam in eagerness to meet Allah

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Subhana wa Ta'ala and talk to him,

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he is running forward and he meets Allah

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Subhana wa Ta'ala so Musa Alayhi Salam

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said Musa Alayhi Salam said they are following

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in my footsteps, they are coming up behind

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and I rushed to you so that you

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could be pleased O Allah Subhana wa Ta

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'ala Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala says indeed

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we tested your people after you and As

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-Samiri he has misguided them he has misguided

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them, so Musa Alayhi Salatu wa Salam he

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returns back Musa Alayhi Salatu wa Salam returned

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back to his people in the state of

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anger and in the state of sorrow, grief

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and he says to his people that didn't

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your Lord Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala give

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you a good promise meaning that Allah Subhana

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wa Ta'ala up until now he has

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been saving you he saved you from Firaun

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and you saw how he destroyed Firaun's army

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and everything that has happened since you started

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following me has been in your favor and

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now you turn around and do this completely

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against my teachings meaning that you saw with

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your own eyes how Allah Subhana wa Ta

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'ala destroyed Firaun a miracle, how the sea

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split and the army of Firaun was drowned

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there you saw with your own eyes the

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miracles that I have been performing in front

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of you and it's not even been a

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long time, you saw this with your own

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eyes you know you could say that okay

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200 years later, 300 years later you forgot

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about my teachings but these things happened in

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front of you and the time has not

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even been that long so how is it

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that you fell into this kind of misguidance

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or was it simply that you wanted Allah

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Subhana wa Ta'ala to be upset with

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you and angry with you so therefore you

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broke my promise or went against my promise

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and now this was the excuse that the

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Bani Israel gave to Musa A.S. they

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said that we did not go against your

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promise with our own accord but we were

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laden with the jewelry from the jewelry of

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the people and we Qadhafna Hamini with the

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jewelry of the people you threw it, you

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put it in one place and similarly Samiri

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did the same thing the story behind this

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was that when the Israelites escaped from the

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clutches of Firaun when they escaped from Egypt

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they had taken with them all their jewelry

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they brought it all and now they were

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basically laden with it, it was heavy so

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they decided that they are going to put

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it in one place, melt it and then

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make gold and silver bars out of it

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so it becomes easier for them to carry

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it so similarly Samiri did the same thing,

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he had his own jewelry put it and

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they melted it all and Samiri what he

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did, he instead of making the jewelry into

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bars of gold and silver he shaped the

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jewelry into the shape of a cow and

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this cow had a noise, it made a

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noise so what was this noise?

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some scholars say that he and I will

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cover that in a minute that there was

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a sound that came from it that statue

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actually made a sound and others say and

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this is the majority opinion that the holes

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in this statue were such that when the

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wind blew through it, it made a sound

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like the sound of a cow so the

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Israelites, they were fooled into thinking that it

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has some kind of life and this was

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the only proof that they had that this

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is something worth worshipping that it made a

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sound and that's it, we should worship it

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and when they heard this sound they said

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this is your God and this is also

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Musa's God but Musa forgot Musa forgot that

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this is his God Allah says about this

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thinking of theirs do they not see that

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this statue cannot even respond back to them

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cannot talk to them and does not have

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control on any harm or benefit so the

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only logic that they had the only argument

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that they could present was that it's making

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a sound therefore it's worth worshipping so the

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point that we can make is that sometimes

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we will justify an action of ours with

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a logic that we have in our mind

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but that logic is against the teachings of

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the Quran and the Sunnah we think that

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we have some logic behind it we have

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a reasoning behind it but if you ask

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a real knowledgeable person he will tell you,

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no, this logic of yours is tainted this

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logic is wrong so then after that Allah

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SWT talks about Harun A.S Harun A

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.S, he tried to prevent them from doing

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what they were doing and this is against

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the teachings of what the Bible says the

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Bible says that Harun actually encouraged them to

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make an altar for this cow and encouraged

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them to try to worship that cow and

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the scholars think that there is a possibility

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that Harun was the name of a Samiri

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and that Harun is what is meant in

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the Bible however as a Prophet, Harun A

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.S could never dream of or could never

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imagine encouraging people to commit shirk this is

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not something that a Prophet let alone a

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good Muslim would do so Harun A.S

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prevented them from doing that Allah SWT says

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about him indeed Harun A.S said to

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them from before that oh my people, indeed

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you have been tested by this this is

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a test for you and to fall into

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the trap of the Shaitan and to start

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worshipping this thing you are failing this test

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miserably your Lord is Ar-Rahman, he is

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Allah SWT so follow me and obey my

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command you should listen to me and what

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was their response?

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we are going to continuously make I'tikaf in

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front of this cow, meaning worship it until

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Musa A.S comes back it means to

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devote yourself to worship and the word I'tikaf

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is from this the root letter is the

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same so we are going to stay devoted

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in worship to this cow until Musa A

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.S comes back now the next sentence it

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talks about it is the saying of Musa

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A.S and from this exchange between Musa

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A.S and Harun we can learn a

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huge and a beautiful lesson also he

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said, oh my, oh the son of the

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mother oh the son of my mother, meaning

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he is basically trying to get him to

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calm down hey listen, we are blood brothers

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here calm down, I didn't mean to do

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anything wrong I didn't go against your command

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don't hold my beard nor my head this

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could be literal or it could be figurative

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it could be an expression that don't basically

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don't hold me accountable for this situation I

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was under the impression, I was afraid that

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you are going to say that you made

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a split between Bani Israel and you didn't

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wait for me to come you didn't wait

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for my command so here we learn a

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lesson Musa A.S is a prophet Harun

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A.S is also a prophet both brothers

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both of them have an understanding that you

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should have done this Harun A.S says

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Musa A.S said, you should have done

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this Harun said, well if I had done

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that I was thinking that this would have

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happened and there would have been a split

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amongst the group so I thought it's best

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for me to stay here wait for you

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to come back and then resolve the situation

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after you came back so the lesson we

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learn is that when this can happen between

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two prophets a disagreement and you know, differences

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of opinion how could it not happen between

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two ordinary individuals so in community sometimes we

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have differences of opinion amongst people and differences

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of viewpoints and the underlying thing should always

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be that each and every community member or

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Shura member or leader of the community always

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has the objective of doing good for the

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community that should always be the bottom line

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and the reasoning behind every person serving the

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community in trying to pursue that goal or

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achieve that goal there will always be differences

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of opinion differences of viewpoint but the underlying

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factors should always be the pleasure of Allah

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S.W.T and when we have differences

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of opinion this should not be the cause

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of argument and fighting between us Musa A

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.S. and Haroon had a difference of opinion

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as to what should have been done and

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they were prophets they were prophets A.S.

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did they want to please Allah S.W

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.T both of them did did they want

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to disobey Allah S.W.T no they

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didn't how could they, they were prophets so

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similarly we learn from this that differences of

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opinion amongst people are not necessarily wrong and

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if there are differences of opinion we should

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try to work them out and understand that

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there always will be differences of viewpoint that

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we should try despite those differences to try

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to work with each other so then Musa

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A.S. turned to Samiri and he said

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to him what's your explanation of Samiri what

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is this situation that you've got the people

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into so he said so

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the translation I'll explain it first and then

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translate probably makes it easier that he said

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that I saw what other people could not

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see I saw the messenger and who is

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the messenger here one opinion is that it's

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Jibreel A.S. I saw Jibreel A.S.

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and I could see him and I could

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see where he could put his footsteps and

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where he put his footsteps I took the

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dust from that or the soil which was

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there and I put it inside the cow

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and this is the thing that made the

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noise come that's one opinion and another opinion

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is that he was trying to trying to

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as the saying is he was trying to

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butter up Musa A.S. and try to

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soften his stance by saying good things about

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him and the messenger here is referring to

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Musa A.S. that I followed the footsteps

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of the prophet Musa A.S. and I

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took from the dust from his footsteps and

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I put it into the statue of the

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cow and this is what made the sound

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now the Quran doesn't say that this is

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actually what made the sound come the Quran

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simply says that this was the explanation that

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Samiri gave to Musa A.S. and it

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doesn't say whether that was true or not

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simply the excuse that he presented so as

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a criminal, as a person who has done

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wrong he has a right to present his

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case he presented it and the Quran doesn't

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say either way whether he was telling the

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truth or not so we can simply come

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to the conclusion that there was no magic

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dust there was no magic soil simply the

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fact that the cow it had holes in

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strategic locations and the wind blew through them

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it was just making that sound so Musa

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A.S. told him Go!

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Go!

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because in your life you are going to

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just tell people don't touch me, don't touch

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me so he was afflicted with a certain

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type of illness maybe leprosy in which he

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used to tell people don't touch me, don't

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touch me either he became very sensitive to

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the touch where somebody touched him and it

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hurt him or it was a contagious disease

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that he was afflicted with and nobody was

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allowed to get close to him because of

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that you have a promise or an appointment

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that will not be changed meaning you will

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have a certain amount of time in your

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life after that you are going to leave

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this world and then what was done to

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the statue this

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statue of yours we are going to take

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it and we are going to burn it

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and then the after effects of the statue

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being melted and burned we are going to

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throw them into the sea and this is

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exactly what happened and then at the end

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indeed your God is not this statue it

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is Allah S.W.T there is no

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one worthy of worship except Him and His

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knowledge is vast over everything so basically the

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summary is that when it comes to the

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Deen and the religion we need to make

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sure that we are taking the religion from

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the right sources and we are not taking

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it from somebody that claims to be religious

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claims to be performing miracles claims to be

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a person who is in touch with jinns

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or whatever certain people claim our source of

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religion should be the righteous guided scholars the

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Quran and the Sunnah and people that follow

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the Quran and the Sunnah as a proof

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in their lives other than that if we

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try to take other people or other sources

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there is a very high chance that we

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might be misguided and we will use the

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simplest and the smallest of justifications to follow

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that misguided path just like the Israelites did

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their proof was simply that the cow is

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making a sound therefore it is worthy of

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worship so these are the lessons we learned

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from this I pray that Allah S.W

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.T gives us sufiq to understand and practice

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what has been said in here

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