Divine Hidaya! - Sayed Ali Al-Qazwini

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[0:14]Al fat.

[0:16]The first chapter in the Holy Quran is stated by many of

[0:22]our scholars to be amongst the greatest if not the greatest chapter

[0:26]in the Holy Quran.

[0:29]such that allahel found it suitable to place at the beginning of

[0:32]his holy word in his holy book also has several other aliases.

[0:41]It's known as right the mother of the book according to some

[0:50]scholars the great name of Allah only those who are truly entrenched

[0:55]in knowledge they know this name of God and it said according

[0:59]to our literature thank you dear brother that if you invoke Allahel

[1:07]with this name Allah will answer any dua And it's mentioned somewhere

[1:11]in the holy Quran.

[1:11]We know that but we don't know where.

[1:13]According to some scholars, it's mentioned inah.

[1:17]So this is definitely a very important and a very great chapter.

[1:24]We recite it every single day.

[1:25]How many times how many times do we recite every single day

[1:29]at minimum?

[1:31]What what I mean 17, right?

[1:34]We have 17.

[1:35]At a minimum, we have to recite this blessed surah 17 times

[1:41]a day.

[1:42]Therefore, we must ponder what are lessons that can be gleaned from

[1:47]this wonderful chapter.

[1:49]If you look at fat, you'll find there's one central theme in

[1:56]the entire chapter.

[1:59]There is one overarching one overarching subject around which everything revolves and

[2:07]it's this verse.

[2:11]This is the most important verse in the chapter.

[2:14]Everything before this verse is a preamble.

[2:18]It's an introduction.

[2:21]It's getting ready to this point.

[2:23]And then everything afterwards is, you know, the the strawberry on top,

[2:27]the cherry on top.

[2:29]But the centrality of this verse is if we look at we

[2:41]start off by saying we invoke the name of God the beneficent

[2:46]the merciful at the time ofah when you wanted to dedicate any

[2:53]great act you have a child that's born and this is a

[2:55]day of blessings you take this child.

[2:58]You've seen Simba, you know, you you carry the child and you're

[3:02]not on a cliff, but you're carrying the child and you dedicate

[3:06]this child in honor of one of the gods, theat one of

[3:12]these false idols.

[3:13]This was so ingrained that every act that you do, you're always

[3:18]thinking of these idols.

[3:19]How can I please them?

[3:21]How can I have them help me?

[3:22]The Quran came and said, "We're going to set a new system."

[3:26]Every time you engage in any action, you want to drink water,

[3:32]you want to take a step, you want to begin your prayer,

[3:37]you want to go to sleep, anything you do before it, you

[3:42]say in the name of God.

[3:43]The goal of life, my dear brothers and sisters, is to increase

[3:48]our God consciousness, our tawa.

[3:50]One way you increase your tawa is constant.

[3:54]When you constantly mention God, the other way is when you dedicate

[4:00]every action to Allahel, you start everything by saying, when you write

[4:06]a letter to a friend, you know, now with WhatsApp, this is

[4:10]lost.

[4:08]All the etiquets of of writing and receiving and sending letters, they're

[4:12]not as apparent.

[4:14]But for those of you who may remember way back when you

[4:18]would send letters in the mail, I remember, you know, sometimes overseas,

[4:22]we would send letters.

[4:23]Usually the first words would be either alaykum or before that sometimes

[4:28]you don't know if someone would you know maybe a child would

[4:33]take hold of this paper or at customs or whatever so you

[4:35]write so you don't say the word god just in case that

[4:38]paper is desecrated but it's the same thing you're dedicating writing this

[4:44]paper this letter this in the name of god so the Quran

[4:47]came and said we have a new system now Alhamdulillah.

[4:58]What is the difference between and you thank God you give shook

[5:05]for all his blessings.

[5:05]That's a sign of a believer.

[5:07]Anything good happens.

[5:09]You say yes I did my part.

[5:10]I put an effort but every good blessing and privilege that I

[5:16]have is thanks to allahel.

[5:17]You praise God in all scenarios.

[5:21]Regardless of there are blessings ahead of you or there is balah

[5:27]and tribulation even in the midst of the worst calamity you experience.

[5:30]A believer says alhamdulillah.

[5:33]Ya Allah thank you for enabling me to be patient in the

[5:39]face of this calamity so that I can elevate my ranks in

[5:46]heaven.

[5:44]We give praise to Allahel who created this universe in utmost perfection

[5:50]who created the human being in utmost perfection and who sent us

[5:56]the greatest of messengers in order to guide us.

[6:01]So we offer our praise.

[6:00]We lavish allahel with praise.

[6:05]Alhamdulillah.

[6:11]These two attributes of God are so important.

[6:16]Why is it that with the exception of one chapter, every single

[6:21]surah in the holy Quran starts with Allah could have chosen any

[6:27]one of his attributes.

[6:35]So many attributes.

[6:37]Why these two?

[6:42]Alman, my dear brothers and sisters, is a quality unique only to

[6:50]Allah.

[6:48]You cannot name anyone else.

[6:51]We have some qualities that are they're shared between the and the

[6:57]you can name your son for example even though is one of

[7:02]the attributes of Allah but there are certain attributes where Allah is

[7:07]exclusive he does not share in these attributes is one of them

[7:10]meaning he has mercy upon everything that has ever exist that currently

[7:16]exists within the known and the unknown observable universe and everything to

[7:20]come.

[7:21]This only Allah can claim.

[7:23]Alheim is a specific type of mercy that Allah extends to you

[7:30]to me his beloved servants.

[7:31]So there are various levels and gradations of mercy that Allah extends

[7:37]to us and Allah found it fit to mention these two attributes

[7:42]at the start of every chapter within the holy Quran.

[7:45]Allahel he created us according to one narration in order to have

[7:51]mercy on us.

[7:51]Some people say, "Why was I created?" You know, I I wish

[7:56]I was never born.

[7:59]I'm not enjoying life.

[7:58]Why is it that Allah has putting me through this test?

[8:02]My dear brothers and sisters, the reason Allah brought you here is

[8:05]to have mercy on you.

[8:05]He wants you to enjoy that heavenly paradise.

[8:09]But sometimes, you know, a little bit he has to put us

[8:17]through some trials so that we can deserve it.

[8:18]We have to put in some effort so that we can deserve

[8:23]all those bountiful rewards on the day of judgment when I go

[8:38]up am I going to see my supervisor my boss our county

[8:40]executive you know we have in the in the USA counties what's

[8:44]the exact equivalent here are we going to see the mayor who

[8:46]are we going to be held accountable to Can I say, you

[8:51]know, I had to do this because my boss told me to.

[8:53]I did those bad things because of peer pressure because my friends

[8:56]told me to.

[8:57]Are my friends going to hold me accountable on the day of

[9:02]judgment?

[9:03]Only one person.

[9:02]Everything that I do, everything that I do will be laid bare

[9:09]behind me.

[9:10]In fact, according to some narrations, the skies on the day of

[9:14]judgment will be like a projector so that everyone can bear witness

[9:20]to everything I did.

[9:20]Sometimes we're in our own privacy.

[9:22]We think no one can see us and we do whatever we

[9:26]want to do.

[9:26]But remember, there will be a day when everyone else will see.

[9:31]But forget everyone else.

[9:32]Allahel is seeing you right now.

[9:36]He's looking at you.

[9:39]He knows even what's in your innermost heart.

[9:41]And there will be a day in which you will be held

[9:44]accountable to him.

[9:52]The Quran didn't say we worship you.

[9:57]The Quran said for those who know Arabic this is what is

[10:03]meaning that this action whatever it is is only directed towards this

[10:12]object meaning our is only directed towards allahel there's a difference between

[10:16]saying I worship Allah and only to Allah I worship sometimes even

[10:22]believers even Muslims we do what's called miniik minor shik baby shik

[10:30]it's time for prayer but I'm busy doing something else I'm still

[10:36]at work doing something non-essential of course I'm watching my favorite TV

[10:39]show and I say you know what give another five minutes and

[10:40]I'll get to prayer that's a type of shik because right now

[10:43]you're saying oh Allah what I'm doing right now is more important

[10:45]than you Allah is not your priority if you worship Allah you

[10:52]would not do that and so we find these micro shik type

[10:54]actions on a daily basis Quran says you want to be a

[11:00]servant of Allah.

[11:00]You say we dedicate our worship, our actions solely to you.

[11:06]And we rely only on you.

[11:09]We understand that yes, there are natural causes in this duny.

[11:11]Sometimes you get sick, you have to seek a medical professional.

[11:13]Sometimes you have a problem, you have to go to someone who

[11:17]is an expert in that field.

[11:17]But at the end of the day, the only one I fully

[11:23]rely on is Allahel.

[11:22]My is on none other than Allah.

[11:31]You know a helpful tip to my dear brothers and sisters but

[11:36]more specifically my dear brothers you know if let's say you want

[11:40]to increase the the happiness of your marital life.

[11:44]You know one way some some people have said is don't say

[11:47]you know mashallah you're looking so beautiful today.

[11:50]That sounds like a compliment right?

[11:51]It's a beautiful compliment.

[11:52]But then what what you get hit back by?

[11:55]Does that mean yesterday I wasn't looking good?

[11:59]Right?

[11:57]So you got to be careful.

[12:01]What can you say?

[12:01]Say beauty is you.

[12:04]Flip it around.

[12:04]Say the definition of beauty is you.

[12:07]All things that are beautiful head towards you.

[12:11]So this is one way we can benefit from the holy Quran

[12:15]and inshallah improve our family uh situation and our family satisfaction.

[12:19]Ali Muhammad.

[12:25]But be careful when you say this.

[12:28]Say it quickly because there was a brother.

[12:29]He wanted to test this out.

[12:30]So he went up to his wife and he said, "You know,

[12:33]my wife uh you're not looking beautiful today." So what was he

[12:35]trying to say?

[12:36]He was trying to say, "You're not looking beautiful today.

[12:38]Beautiful is you." But uh he ended up waking up in the

[12:43]morning with a coma in the hospital.

[12:44]So he was in the kitchen and uh a pan came flying

[12:46]his way.

[12:46]So be careful and be very strategic on where you decide to

[12:51]say this, right?

[12:50]In a neutral area.

[12:54]No weapons available.

[13:01]All of the chapter is building up to this verse.

[13:05]Guide us to the straight path.

[13:08]And everything that comes after this verse is just building onto this

[13:14]verse.

[13:13]What straight path?

[13:15]What are we talking about?

[13:19]And according to our narrations, this is the path of according to

[13:28]the who are those whom they displease Allah.

[13:31]Allah is angry at them.

[13:32]The Allah made a pact with them.

[13:36]He said, I will make you the best nation on earth.

[13:37]But because they broke their pact, Allah was displeased with them.

[13:41]And those who are astray, those are people who follow the Christian

[13:47]faith.

[13:45]They have their heart set in the right place.

[13:48]But they were led astray by those who had evil in their

[13:55]hearts.

[13:57]Ya Allah guide us to the straight path.

[13:59]This is a dua.

[14:03]So if you look at the central theme is actually a dua.

[14:07]And to my knowledge, this is the only dua that we have

[14:12]to recite every single day in our prayers.

[14:14]What's so special about this dua that we have to constantly say

[14:16]it?

[14:17]Everything before is preparing us for this dua.

[14:20]And what's after, as we said, is like the cherry on top.

[14:22]Why is this dua so important?

[14:26]Some people ask, "Aren't we already guided?" The fact that we're here,

[14:30]alhamdulillah, we have the blessing of attending a majing day in fasting.

[14:36]We will dedicate the rest of our night in and worship.

[14:39]Aren't we already guided?

[14:40]Why do we have to constantly ask God for more guidance?

[14:43]Now, isn't that redundant?

[14:46]Our scholars, they've given us three possible interpretations here.

[14:50]Why is it that we constantly ask for guidance even though we

[14:54]might think we are guided?

[14:55]The first my dear brothers and sisters is that when we say

[15:01]in this verse what we are referring to is continuous guidance.

[15:09]Yes, inshallah we may be among those who are guided.

[15:12]Today is February what?

[15:16]20 21st.

[15:16]Inshallah today on February 21st we are guided.

[15:19]Who's to say that February 22nd will be the same the day

[15:26]after towards the end of my life?

[15:29]Who says that my will be on that towards the end of

[15:31]my life I will continue to be on this straight path?

[15:34]How many dear brothers and sisters have we've seen because of the

[15:38]desires of this dunya because of peer pressure because of the insinuation

[15:45]and the whispering of the shaitan.

[15:46]They were on good path, on good footing, but then they started

[15:51]slipping.

[15:51]Who am I to say that this won't happen to me?

[15:57]One of our grand scholars, he's given us an example so that

[16:01]we can understand this better.

[16:02]On the topic of free will and predestination, they've said that we

[16:08]do have the ability, we believe within the school of thought of

[16:12]the B, we have the ability to choose our own destiny.

[16:17]However, there's something that precedes this and this is divine will.

[16:21]So, it is not the case that Allah dictates all my actions,

[16:26]but it is through Allah's grace that I am able to execute

[16:29]my free will.

[16:31]And the example that they've given is that imagine there's someone that's

[16:35]paralyzed.

[16:36]He can't move his arm.

[16:36]Now, they come up with some new technology, Neuralink, you know, whatever

[16:39]Elon Musk is working on, and they connect a wire to him.

[16:44]When they plug it in, he's able to move his hands.

[16:46]Now, the machine is not making him move his hands.

[16:49]He can choose what to do, right?

[16:50]To extend his hand to bring it in.

[16:52]But the second they unplug, what happens?

[16:55]He's paralyzed again.

[16:56]Similar fashion when it comes to haya.

[17:00]Haya comes from Allah.

[17:02]The Quran in numerous numerous numerous numerous verses has made that clear.

[17:07]Haya comes from Allah.

[17:06]But it's up to me if I choose to be a worthy

[17:13]recipient of divine mercy.

[17:12]Do I want to be guided?

[17:14]Yes or no?

[17:16]That's my choice.

[17:18]But yes, Allah chooses whom he decides to give haya.

[17:20]Which is why we constantly ask ya Allah.

[17:24]Today you've blessed me with haya.

[17:26]Yesterday, the day before, but tomorrow, the day after.

[17:30]That's why every single day when we wake up in the midst

[17:34]of our day, before we go to sleep, we constantly ask Allah

[17:42]is one of the great companions of he was so honored in

[17:46]fact one of his titles was he had a rank similar to

[17:54]Salman that's how close he was until in one of the battles

[17:56]one of his sons he began he took on basically the role

[18:01]of the devil he began whispering and whispering and telling him stuff

[18:07]to instigate him against the B until he ended up fighting against.

[18:10]Imagine someone that he was part of the B.

[18:14]This was an honorary title given to him.

[18:17]He ends up fighting against there's one story that I heard after

[18:29]I moved to Najaf that many many years ago there was a

[18:31]scholar who ever since a young age he came to the he

[18:35]began studying he dedicated his time to to worship to gaining knowledge

[18:38]and he became you know among the elites top ranks in his

[18:43]class top teachers and he was very qualified at his time there

[18:46]already was a grand merger.

[18:49]Some would say he was, you know, clearly number two in line.

[18:54]One day he gets ill.

[18:57]His situation begins deteriorating and he's on his deathbed.

[18:59]A friend comes to visit him, someone who's known him all these

[19:02]decades.

[19:03]He sees him on his deathbed.

[19:05]This person, the scholar, says, "Give me a copy of the Quran."

[19:10]Now, this person said, "Mashallah." You know, it's like in his final

[19:15]moments.

[19:13]You can clearly see his, you know, he's in his final minutes,

[19:19]final hours, but he wants a copy of the Holy Quran.

[19:22]So, he says, I brought him a copy of the Holy Quran.

[19:24]He took it.

[19:25]He did something which I don't want to mention.

[19:28]He disrespected the Quran and he said, "This is all a lie."

[19:32]I said, "Wait, wait, wait a second.

[19:34]What's going on?

[19:36]What happened?" He says this is all a lie and Allah you

[19:41]are not just he said I thought that maybe this is you

[19:44]know he's speaking nonsense what's going on he said he looked at

[19:48]me he said if Allah was just he wouldn't make me die

[19:51]now he would have made me a merger he says when I

[19:59]heard that I understood that this man did he dedicate those hours

[20:03]of knowledge those hours of being a neighbor of is there a

[20:09]blessing greater than this?

[20:09]Did he dedicate it to allahel or did he dedicate it to

[20:15]his jah his ego?

[20:14]He wanted to be known as someone great.

[20:17]He wanted his name to be spread.

[20:19]He wanted people to come to him.

[20:20]There's a difference.

[20:23]And you know maybe he wasn't always like this.

[20:25]Perhaps when he started he was earnest.

[20:28]He had full tawa.

[20:30]He had fulllas but throughout the way he started slipping.

[20:34]Thus you can't say you know mashallah this guy he prayed he

[20:39]doesn't need this.

[20:39]No it doesn't matter who you are.

[20:42]What doesan sayan does not make exceptions you know for who you

[20:48]are.

[20:48]Shanan will work in fact our hadith state that thean if he

[20:53]sees a mushri a disbeliever a he leaves them alone.

[20:55]They're already on the wrong path.

[20:57]He works extra.

[20:59]He puts in overtime for those who are pious.

[21:03]So especially if you are on the right path you have to

[21:06]constantly ask for haya.

[21:08]You have to constantly ask allahel to grant you haya.

[21:16]A second interpretation by our scholars is that us Muslims we agree

[21:25]on major aspects of Islam from all sex almost unanimous agreement.

[21:29]All Muslims agree that Allahawel is the he's the creator.

[21:36]He is the and he's the one who created us.

[21:39]Any disagreement?

[21:40]All Muslims agree that thea is the all Muslims agree that Allahel

[21:46]sent one Quran, one book, one message and that's the holy Quran.

[21:49]And all Muslims agree that Allahel send the greatest of mankind.

[22:02]All Muslims if you want to qualify as a Muslim be called

[22:06]a Muslim all Muslims are under unanimous consent on these issues.

[22:10]This second set of scholars they say means ya Allah guide us

[22:18]to the proper beliefs not in these major issues that we all

[22:21]have unanimous consensus guide us on the minor issues that are still

[22:25]important.

[22:31]You find some group of Muslims throughout history, they took the belief

[22:40]that if Allahawel wanted to place with all his might and all

[22:43]his integrity and all his service to Islam and to Allah, place

[22:48]him in hellfire.

[22:49]He has the right to do so.

[22:51]Why?

[22:52]You ask them why.

[22:56]They'll say, "Well, Allah can do whatever he wants.

[22:57]Is this correct?

[23:00]Is this proper?

[23:02]Can any accept this?

[23:03]Allah placing in hellfire according to the path of the Allah himself

[23:07]has bound himself by justice because he is the most wise and

[23:14]his wisdom leads him to justice.

[23:15]Therefore, no, Allah could never do this.

[23:17]Not because he literally can't, because he would never do this.

[23:20]But you find some group of scholars, you know, the Ashites and

[23:24]they don't really exist anymore, but they took for centuries the opinion

[23:29]that Allah is not just he could do whatever he wants.

[23:31]This is a big difference.

[23:35]Part of our isal right after item number one on the agenda.

[23:38]We have number two, the justness of God.

[23:41]This is very important.

[23:42]But there has not been unanimous consent throughout Muslims throughout history on

[23:47]this issue.

[23:49]What's another issue?

[23:50]Infallibility of the prophets.

[23:53]You find some group of scholars believe that prophets are not infallible.

[23:58]They can make mistakes.

[24:00]They can sin.

[24:00]They've done wrong things.

[24:02]In fact, some of the verses of the Quran, they do in

[24:04]order to slander a prophet.

[24:07]They say that's that's the prophet.

[24:08]He saw that poor man and he frowned and he turned his

[24:10]back on him.

[24:12]Yeah, that's a prophet.

[24:12]Really?

[24:13]That's the prophet?

[24:15]Then why does the Quran say you know any normal decent human

[24:22]being wouldn't do that let alone the prophet so you find on

[24:25]this issue of the infallibility of prophets there's not unanimous consent what's

[24:30]another issue now this is kind of no longer the talk of

[24:36]the town but for centuries during especially the Abbasid Empire this was

[24:40]like like you'd be killed for this like if you took an

[24:42]opinion contrary contrary to someone else like he would sometimes slaughter you.

[24:46]Is the Quran or was the Quran created at the time of

[24:52]prophet Muhammad or was it always existent from the beginning of time?

[24:55]Now one opinion says that Allah created the Quran in order to

[24:58]descend upon.

[24:59]The other opinion which is the opinion that has died out is

[25:04]that no the Quran being the word of Allah meaning like Allah

[25:07]it must have begun since you know the beginning of time the

[25:10]dawn of time pre-eternally existent.

[25:13]Now pretty much all Muslims agree that no it is created but

[25:17]at the time if you disagreed with someone and he was in

[25:21]a higher position or higher rank he would literally have you executed.

[25:25]This caused Muslims so much blood.

[25:26]This is why my dear brothers and sisters we constantly ask for

[25:35]haya.

[25:32]In one narration, our blessed immune giving us the blessing of being

[25:53]able to worship you and to follow you.

[25:55]That's what this verse means.

[25:56]So, it's looking at at the future.

[25:59]It's constant guidance.

[26:04]That same blessing that you gave us such that in the past

[26:08]we worship you so that whatever remainder of my life that there

[26:16]is every moment of it will be dedicated in you will be

[26:20]dedicated for your worship.

[26:21]This is that second group of opinion.

[26:27]What is the third opinion?

[26:30]The third opinion, my dear brothers and sisters, is that ya Allah,

[26:39]grant me to be your servant in a manner that you see

[26:45]fit, not in a manner that I see fit.

[26:50]What's the difference?

[26:52]And you know the difference really is between the sky and the

[26:56]earth.

[26:57]Ya Allah, make me a type of servant that you would like

[27:00]me to be, not that I would like to be.

[27:05]Sometimes we have our own conceptions on what it means to be

[27:10]a good Muslim, on what it means to be proper to have

[27:12]proper beliefs, on what it means to have proper iman and proper

[27:17]actions.

[27:18]But then I have to look, do my beliefs, my personal beliefs

[27:22]align with the Quran, align with what Allah wants, align with the

[27:31]teachings of Islam?

[27:31]Am I following my own?

[27:35]Am I following my own personal interpretation of the Quran or am

[27:41]I following what Allah wants me to?

[27:42]There are a group of scholars today who believe that all seafood

[27:48]is permissible.

[27:48]But the mainstream opinion is that not all seafood is a is

[27:53]permissible.

[27:53]Similar to our Jewish brothers and sisters that you know we have

[27:56]certain dietary restrictions, fish with scales, shrimp, you know, stuff like that.

[28:00]And those first set of scholars, they have their own evidence, but

[28:04]they've done deep, deep, deep, you know, research looking at the Quran,

[28:07]the hadith, all that.

[28:08]But there are some people who will come and say you know

[28:12]uh I read the Quran and the Quran says that it is

[28:18]permissible for you to go fish in the ocean.

[28:20]Therefore I will go eat whatever I want regardless of who they

[28:23]follow.

[28:24]Is this permissible?

[28:26]Do we just read the Quran one line without context without understanding

[28:29]the and then we try to apply it?

[28:32]First of all what is the context of this verse?

[28:33]The context of this verse is right after the right after Hajj

[28:39]meaning that there was a prohibition on on you know catching animals

[28:43]on hunting on fishing.

[28:43]Now there is no longer a prohibition.

[28:45]Doesn't mean go and eat whatever you want you know octopus whatever

[28:49]according to the second group of scholars.

[28:51]So we don't just use our own personal interpretation in understanding the

[28:57]Quran.

[28:57]Some people who work in the finance industry.

[28:59]Now there are certain exceptions Islamically mandated exceptions.

[29:02]It's not to say that you're not allowed to work in finance.

[29:06]No.

[29:06]But there are certain segments in which it is not allowed to

[29:08]deal with us and interest.

[29:09]Some people will come and say but the Quran says don't do

[29:15]interest if it's multiple you know meaning 100% interest 200% interest 300%.

[29:20]So if I deal with anything under that 20% 10% 50% then

[29:23]it's permissible.

[29:24]No this is not the proper understanding of the Quran.

[29:27]Allah himself sometimes he would expound on the Quran.

[29:31]You know, some brothers when they get hungry, they get in their

[29:34]car and they head over to McDonald's and they order that Mc,

[29:36]you know, McDouble and the McChick.

[29:38]You ask them, "Why are you ordering a McDouble McChick?

[29:42]Isn't this haram?" They'll say, "The Quran says in the Quran does

[29:45]it say?" They'll say, "The Quran says, isn't that what the Quran

[29:51]says that the food that's given by the meaning Jews and Christians

[29:55]permissible to eat?" So, I'm not living in a Buddhist country.

[29:58]I'm going to go eat.

[30:02]Is this permissible?

[30:00]Or is this me simply trying to suit the Quran and trying

[30:06]to understand the Quran in a way that suits me, not suiting

[30:10]Allah?

[30:09]And our scholars have written, I mean, pages and pages and books

[30:14]about this.

[30:13]First of all, what is the context of this verse?

[30:16]Again, the context of this verse, for a while, there was an

[30:20]embargo on neighboring Jewish and Christian tribes because they were at war

[30:23]with rasoolah.

[30:22]They were at war with the Muslims.

[30:24]So, the prophet commanded the Muslims, don't buy from them anything, not

[30:27]even beans, not even water, not even bread.

[30:29]But then afterwards they came to a peace treaty.

[30:33]You're now allowed to go buy from them.

[30:35]And even if you look at old Arabic dictionaries near the time

[30:41]of does not mean any type of food, right?

[30:42]There's there's various words for food at that time specifically meant like

[30:47]legumes, beans, vegetables, bread.

[30:53]It does not include meat.

[30:53]Even if let's say you don't accept this, Allah himself would sometimes

[30:57]come and expound explain the Quran.

[30:59]we have in our hadith that meat is exempt.

[31:02]It is not applied here.

[31:04]So this is just a quick overview.

[31:07]But the point is you can't just come and look at a

[31:09]single verse and cherry pick and say you know what this suits

[31:13]my understanding better because I like it to be this way then

[31:16]I will choose to understand this and I will choose to act

[31:18]upon it.

[31:20]This is not permissible.

[31:21]Once I im peace be upon him he was walking the streets.

[31:25]He saw a man pass by a baker and when the baker,

[31:28]you know, he turned around and said, "Go pick up something for

[31:31]a second." He saw him slip two loaves of bread in his

[31:35]pocket.

[31:36]Imm didn't say anything.

[31:37]He said, you know, maybe he's his friend or maybe he's prepaid

[31:40]for them.

[31:42]Allah, he says, I saw him walk until he passed by a

[31:44]fruit stand.

[31:45]Again, the guy got occupied with something.

[31:48]He slipped two pomegranates and put them in his pocket.

[31:50]The imam still didn't say anything.

[31:53]He says, "I saw him walk a little bit.

[31:55]He saw a poor guy.

[31:56]He offered him two loaves of bread and two pomegranates.

[31:57]The Imam went up to him.

[32:01]He said, "Did you purchase those pomegranates or bread or did you

[32:04]just take it?" He said, "No, I just took it." He said,

[32:06]"Then why would you do this?

[32:08]Do you not understand that this is impermissible?

[32:10]You stole.

[32:09]This is not halal.

[32:12]No proper Muslim would do this." He said, "Wait a second.

[32:15]Aren't you Muhammad?" Says, "Yes." He starts doing this.

[32:23]what's wrong?

[32:24]He says, "You're the grandson of and you don't understand the book

[32:28]of your grandfather, the book that was descended upon him." So the

[32:34]imam smiled.

[32:33]He said, "Okay, teach me.

[32:36]What don't I understand?" He says, "Don't you read in the holy

[32:39]Quran?

[32:48]If you come with a good deed, Allah will do it times

[32:51]10.

[32:51]But if you do a bad deed, you'll just get an equivalent

[32:55]bad reward times one.

[32:55]So he says, let's do the math.

[32:57]You know, mashallah, brother was professor at math.

[33:00]He said, I stole four things.

[33:02]Okay, so that's minus four.

[33:03]He says, but then I gave four items to a poor individual.

[33:07]So that's four plus.

[33:08]Well, it should balance out.

[33:11]But he says times 10, right?

[33:12]You have to do pendis within the parenthesis.

[33:15]So that's 40.

[33:17]40 minus 4, that's net 36.

[33:18]So right now after doing this whole transaction, this Robin Hood, I

[33:21]now have 36 good deeds.

[33:23]Imam's like, "Wait, you know, chill out." Not these exact words, but

[33:28]it's like, "Wait a second, bro.

[33:30]Let's let's redo the math." So they didn't have chat back then.

[33:32]So the imam had to school him, you know, the the oldfashioned

[33:37]way.

[33:38]He says, "Look, you say you get net 36.

[33:41]I will teach you now that you have negative8.

[33:42]You don't have a single good deed.

[33:46]In fact, you have negative8 sins." says why?

[33:47]He says number one you stole.

[33:52]So that's minus four.

[33:52]He says giving that which is not yours does not gain you

[33:56]any.

[33:56]You only gain if you have a right to something and then

[34:01]you give it you know in the sake of charity.

[34:03]He says so you don't get any reward.

[34:05]And in fact giving that which is not yours even if it's

[34:07]for a good cause even for charity that is another set of

[34:14]sins.

[34:15]So number one stealing you know.

[34:16]Number two, dealing with property that's not yours.

[34:18]You had no right to touch that property in that manner.

[34:22]So that's another minus four.

[34:23]So minus eight.

[34:25]See this this guy, he was trying to be Robin Hood and

[34:29]use his own interpretation in the Quran without really doing without really

[34:34]thinking, without really using his brain.

[34:36]This is not proper.

[34:38]We should not accept this.

[34:40]A lot of these Sufis that you see online, they'll do these,

[34:45]you know, dances and whirlwind dances and stuff, you know, they have

[34:50]their own uh very creative customs.

[34:51]Some of them, if you really befriend them, they won't tell you

[34:55]this in the beginning.

[34:59]They'll basically do a type of if you ask them, you know,

[35:00]do you pray?

[35:01]Are you Muslims?

[35:01]Do you?

[35:02]They'll say, yes, yes, yes, yes, of course.

[35:05]You know, etc.

[35:05]Some strands of Sufiism their belief is and they'll only tell you

[35:12]this if you really get close that if you reach a certain

[35:14]spiritual rank no if you're at the start of your journey you

[35:17]have to pray you have to do you have to dop you

[35:20]have to do you have to do all this stuff but if

[35:23]you reach a certain level of spirituality you no longer have to

[35:27]pray you no longer have to fast you no longer have to

[35:33]do any of the you're able to drink wine and historically Many

[35:36]of them have done exactly that.

[35:38]You ask them why.

[35:40]They'll say from the Quran.

[35:43]Oh, the Quran says this where they say yes.

[35:47]Read the Quran.

[35:46]What does the Quran say?

[35:48]The Quran says worship your Lord until you attain certainty.

[35:52]I have certainty of God existence now.

[35:54]I don't need to worship him anymore.

[35:56]I can do whatever I want.

[36:00]All doesn't matter.

[36:03]of this verse state that here means death.

[36:07]Why death?

[36:09]Because upon the moment of death, that veil is lifted and you

[36:12]have utmost certainty that everything Allah promised you is going to come

[36:16]your way.

[36:17]You can see the angels flying, you can see the jin, you

[36:19]can see the devils, you can see that which is now unseen.

[36:25]That's what the reverse is talking about.

[36:27]It's not that you know you worship and then when you reach

[36:31]the pinnacle you no longer need to worship.

[36:33]Doesn't make sense.

[36:33]If that was the case then why is it that he would

[36:37]spend all his nights in so much prayer such that the Quran

[36:40]had to come down and tell him you know you don't have

[36:42]to overburden yourself so much.

[36:46]Why is it that the imams would spend so much time in

[36:48]worship that sometimes the skin on their foreheads would begin peeling from

[36:51]all that?

[36:53]Is there anyone else greater than them?

[36:55]Greater than the prophets of God?

[36:56]And yet they were the most people who worshiped Allah and followed

[37:00]his laws.

[37:01]So see sometimes we have to be careful that I don't just

[37:06]do something because you know it's my personal inclination.

[37:10]I want to do that.

[37:11]I feel like this is what's right.

[37:14]any given topic whether it's abortion whether it's organ donation whether it's

[37:22]name it you know you name it whatever it is I have

[37:28]to say Allahel he knows and I can do my best to

[37:30]go research what what it is that Allah wants me to know

[37:33]about this what Allah wants me to believe about this how Allah

[37:35]wants me to act about this I can't come with my own

[37:40]predetermined conclusions and say you know what Islam has to agree with

[37:42]this or else or else In one narration, Im Bakar peace be

[37:53]upon him, he tells his companions, there is two.

[37:56]The Quran says the in the is that bridge that we walk

[38:03]in order to reach heaven.

[38:05]According to some narrations, depending on who you are, that bridge, it's

[38:10]narrower than a sword.

[38:13]You have to balance in order to reach the end.

[38:16]And what happens if you fall?

[38:18]What's be what's underneath you?

[38:19]I'll fire.

[38:21]I have to be very careful.

[38:22]But for the believers, the hadith says the surat will be a

[38:30]wide bridge and inshallah we can easily cross together.

[38:32]However, there is another in this duny and our other imams have

[38:42]expounded once.

[38:41]sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

[38:43]He was looking at his companions.

[38:45]He was explaining to them the meaning of this verse that my

[38:51]path is the proper and straight path.

[38:53]The hadith says when he said this he was pointing at Ali.

[39:05]He is the one who divides the line between hellfire and heaven.

[39:12]If we ascribe to his path, we follow his words and we

[39:18]give him our you will be certain to be on the path

[39:24]of on the straight path, the path of my dear brothers and

[39:30]sisters, one of the most difficult moments in our lives is that

[39:34]moment of death.

[39:38]You experience a thirst you've never experienced before in your life.

[39:43]And you experience a washa, a strangeness, a fear you've never experienced

[39:47]before in your life.

[39:47]And you see two people who are the most scariest looking creatures

[39:51]you've seen in your life.

[39:54]It's very scary.

[39:53]You know, may Allah protect us and guide us in these times.

[39:58]However, the narration says, "If you were someone who claimed to have

[40:06]the love of Aliab, if you were someone who claimed to follow

[40:08]in the footsteps of Ali, if you were someone who claimed to

[40:15]have the of Ali at your moment of death, you will see

[40:17]someone waiting for you.

[40:20]You will see Ali waiting for you.

[40:21]And he will be there with that cup that you will not

[40:24]go thirsty again.

[40:26]May we all live and die upon the path of Ali.

[40:31]May we all live and die upon the path of Muhammad Muhammad.

[40:33]May Allah subhana ta always guide us in our most difficult moments.

[40:37]May Allah subhana wa ta'ala guide our communities.

[40:41]May Allah subhanaa tala guide our families.

[40:44]May Allah subhanaa tala guide our children and our lineage.

[40:46]Yes, even our future generations.

[40:48]May Allah subhanaa tala guide them.

[40:50]May Allah subhana ta guide all Muslims and all people across the

[40:52]globe.

[40:55]Alhamdulillah.

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