Thanking God: Introducing Ch. 35 of the Quran (Fatir) - Sayed Jawad Qazwini

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Ramadan 2019 - Thanking God: Introducing Ch. 35 of the Quran (Fatir)
Night 26 - Ramadan 2019 - 1440 at the Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo

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[0:00]Sal Allahu alayhi wa salam alayka wa ala l-mursaleen maha bua la

[0:24]human Temasek become I mean a man legend alaikum ya later knock

[0:34]on Americans oddity vana [Music] 4000 Alima all allahu taala femur Comiket

[1:04]and Kareem was the Posada peen audhu billahi min ash-shaytaan-i'r rajeem abysmal

[1:13]rahmanir rahim alhamdulillah factory 71 our jaw in in mana acacho sullenly

[1:34]and haughty math now as soon as our ba Yazeed oof in

[1:49]hunky Masha or in a LAN and couldn't shy in body or

[1:53]when you're gathering with our membranes of muhammad wa ala muhammad as

[2:03]a gift to the soul of sayyidina wa Navi in our album

[2:08]in our Habibi nourisher lillahi recite the second salat salli ala muhammadin

[2:14]wa ala muhammad for Allah to shower onto this gathering with His

[2:19]infinite mercy and compassion and to haste and the reappearance of seed

[2:27]in our Maulana Sahib illustrious Zaman reside the third salawats with the

[2:30]loudest of your voices we have reached the 35th chapter from the

[2:45]holy quran surat father which was revealed and the holy city of

[2:52]Mecca with 45 verses the initiator or the creator as the name

[3:02]and the title of this chapter and it takes its title after

[3:07]the very first ayah within the 35th chapter as a loss of

[3:12]Hannah who what Allah says alhamdulillah he factory sumati will glorify and

[3:23]praise thank Allah who is the initiator of the heavens and the

[3:32]earth there are many important aspects that we ought to pay attention

[3:42]to before we engage with the tafseer of this chapter one is

[3:49]there are five chapters within the holy quran five sewer within the

[3:55]holy quran that's begin with alhamdulillah and I will briefly explain Sharla

[4:08]what alhamdulillah means this great statement one of the most powerful statements

[4:19]that a human being can utter is alhamdulillah Allah begins five chapters

[4:24]within the Holy Quran with alhamdulillah number one is surah al-fatiha chapter

[4:29]two chapter one number two is surah al-anam chapter 6 so littell

[4:39]Kev chapter 18 saw at cemre chapter 34 and saw at fibre

[4:47]chapter 35 what do they all have in common besides the fact

[4:50]that they all begin with alhamdulillah what do they all have in

[4:53]common hmm besides alhamdulillah what else do they all have in common

[5:09]they are all sent down in Mecca they were all part of

[5:14]the revelation of the holy city of Mecca and you have been

[5:20]informed in the past several nights of the extreme difficulties of the

[5:27]Muslim community in Mecca yet Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala when he begins

[5:33]to address their difficulties when he sends ye to speak to the

[5:42]Muslim community he begins with with what Al hamdulillah which tells me

[5:48]and you that's when we are in a difficult situation when we

[5:54]suffer the first thing that we must do is count our blessings

[6:00]today I've lost my job today I have pain I have an

[6:08]illness today I suffer from depression today I may have lost a

[6:17]loved the first thing that I do is either I start complaining

[6:21]and whining and saying life is horrible life is mistreating me I

[6:26]have the worst life ever I have the worst luck ever why

[6:32]doesn't this ever happen to anyone else why do all the miseries

[6:37]fall on to me or I can say alhamdulillah I count my

[6:41]blessings and I say I am blessed I have health I have

[6:47]wealth I have money I can pay my bills I have a

[6:53]roof on top of my head I live in a secure community

[6:58]I'm not afraid that's you know one day I will be attacked

[7:02]and killed I live in a country with where it where has

[7:09]freedom and democracy and equality I enjoy my family I enjoy my

[7:15]parents I enjoy my children so the first thing that I do

[7:18]in a difficult situation is I must count my blessings the blessings

[7:25]of Allah unto me and Allah says look you're not gonna be

[7:28]the only one that's being tested and this life while and a

[7:35]blue one nickim every single one of you every one of my

[7:39]creation everyone that comes to this earth before they leave and their

[7:43]50 years and their 70 years and a hundred years and 1000

[7:50]years if they love like no for example well on a blue

[7:52]and nickel we will test you all Bechet in middle Sofie well

[7:59]Jory when examen LM Lalli well alpha see what summer art we

[8:07]will test you in every way with poverty with hunger with fear

[8:11]in every possible way you can think of you will be tested

[8:19]and then wabash terrace i mean their tests the test is you

[8:23]have to be patient you have to have Sabra Wabash genocide Marine

[8:27]this is your test one and a blue one nakum and when

[8:31]allah says well and a blue one nakum it comes from the

[8:38]root word bala it Julia meaning you've been tested so how do

[8:42]you come out of this test you either come out of this

[8:48]test as a failure or no you pass the test you either

[8:50]pass it with an A or you pass it with a d+

[8:54]it depends how do you want to pass if you wanna pass

[9:00]with an A+ then what do you do number one you count

[9:03]your blessings number two you do not complain and number three you

[9:11]say alhamdulillah alhamdulillah if is salah you have Laura alhamdulillah here and

[9:17]I couldn t Han just like the Prophet Ayub what happened to

[9:22]the Prophet are you the Prophet are you was tested you see

[9:26]when I'm tested I'm tested sometimes with poverty than it passes then

[9:30]with health and it passes then with family issues than it passes

[9:34]then losing a loved one and it passes true but IU was

[9:41]tested with all of them at the same time with his health

[9:49]with his wealth with his reputation with his family with his children

[9:53]he lost everything and you've lost his children one after another and

[9:59]you've lost his wealth and you've lost his health he lost his

[10:05]vision he became handicapped he had nothing his wife his wife had

[10:16]to go and work in people's homes as a maid so she

[10:18]can bring food to Ayub so he can eat he could not

[10:22]even move she would put the food in his mouth and he

[10:27]would just chew the food and I you would always say alhamdulillah

[10:35]so allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala reveals all those chapters and the holy city

[10:43]of Mecca when the Muslims were tested and they were tested severely

[10:48]they were tested severely there a man was truly tested and they

[10:52]kept and the message is you must keep going you must say

[10:57]alhamdulillah count blessings and have faith in Allah and Allah says in

[11:06]shaker Tom this is Allah Allah makes if you are thankful that

[11:08]Allah subhana WA Ta'ala will increase in his bounties and another law

[11:14]in the Quran allies law says after every difficulty in the Marigny

[11:23]no difficulty lasts even for a human didn't lust even for the

[11:28]Muslim community of Mecca didn't last at all passes during the period

[11:33]of difficulty we must be patient we must observe Sabah so this

[11:38]is the very first thing that we must understand about this chapter

[11:41]five chapters in the Quran begin with alhamdulillah all sent in Mecca

[11:47]all have this primary message within them primary lesson within them that's

[11:51]when it comes to difficulties make sure your about amongst the first

[11:56]people to thank Allah number 2 Allah says here and endure for

[12:00]other chapters especially in the first chapter so littell Fattah al mubarak

[12:04]until fatiha Allah begins and says al hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen L

[12:13]hamd there is a difference between hand and shook and al hamd

[12:16]what is the difference you see hamd is being thankful and we

[12:25]must be thankful to those who do good to us we must

[12:31]learn teach ourselves teach our children teach those around us to thank

[12:37]those who do good to us and sometimes we're not just thankful

[12:41]by saying thank you no we have to go out of our

[12:48]way to be thankful we have to demonstrate our gratitude and we

[12:52]have to be thankful to anybody who has done any good for

[12:58]us for example amongst the areas where we have to be thankful

[13:00]as we have to be thankful to this country why why do

[13:04]we have to be thankful to this country do we have to

[13:08]be thankful to this country if they were Muslim know what solace

[13:14]and the early Muslims to Abyssinia Habashi and they were thankful to

[13:21]the king of Abyssinia why because he was Muslim no because he

[13:25]was a good king because he was the man who embraced them

[13:31]he gave them refuge it took care of them there they had

[13:38]freedom sort of so Allah was also thankful to them the Muslims

[13:42]were thankful to him how about our Muslim countries they have Aslam

[13:47]in their name and their identity but do they give you freedom

[13:56]to practice do they give you equality do they give you freedom

[14:01]of speech is there something called freedom of speech is there something

[14:09]called justice is there something called human dignity is there something called

[14:18]human rights no none of them it is one person who enjoys

[14:25]human rights in our Muslim countries that is the ruling party and

[14:29]those surrounding the ruling party yes they enjoy freedom they enjoy justice

[14:33]they enjoy Liberty they enjoy wealth they enjoy a house they enjoy

[14:37]health care they enjoy everything nobody can speak to them nobody can

[14:42]touch them nobody can harass them but when it comes to the

[14:48]other people the average people do they have freedom can they speak

[14:53]can they give their opinions No so we think we must be

[14:57]thankful to this land how are we thankful by being good citizens

[15:01]and by having an put in making this country a better place

[15:06]by supporting the health system by supporting the educational system by creating

[15:14]groups that bring more harmony and understanding amongst the citizens of this

[15:20]land for example amongst the most beautiful and important things that we

[15:24]must engage in as interfaith work with other Christians with other Jews

[15:28]with Hindus with Buddhist doesn't matter as long as we get to

[15:34]know each other we respect each other we understand that we live

[15:37]in harmony with each other that's important because this does not happen

[15:40]elsewhere but you can do it in this country also not only

[15:47]with people outside the religion of Islam people was within the religion

[15:53]of Islam Muslims in the Muslim countries are busy killing each other

[15:59]are busy fighting one another are busy accusing one another but here

[16:05]we have a chance to become brothers the way a lot subhana

[16:11]WA Ta'ala wants us to be and nummy Nona it's worth fastly

[16:15]baina how I come make peace amongst your brethren and faiths and

[16:23]this is an amazing gesture if we were to take part in

[16:27]it and visit other Muslim communities in the month of Ramadan 4fr

[16:35]invite them to our community for afar let us break bread let

[16:39]us come to an understanding of respect so we must show thanks

[16:47]and gratitude words do one area that people show thank thanks and

[16:53]gratitude is to their parents those parents that went since we were

[17:01]babies and for your mother before you were born she began to

[17:10]carry you and care for you and show her love to you

[17:12]until now whether you're 50 years old or you're five years old

[17:17]or you're 15 years old and it's this mother that day and

[17:24]night she gave her life for you more than the father how

[17:32]so they say a man went to complain in front of a

[17:37]judge to take custody of his child so the judge told him

[17:44]why do you want to take custody of the child he says

[17:52]he is my son he carries my name he carries my name

[17:56]the mother says I carried him with difficulty and I gave birth

[18:07]to him with difficulty you made him with pleasure and now you

[18:18]only enjoy him he enjoy his presence but I am the one

[18:26]that goes through the difficulties and the pain so that is why

[18:29]and she says you you you your part of the job was

[18:37]several minutes mine was nine months I carried him for nine months

[18:42]I took care of him for nine months in my room and

[18:49]then I delivered him with pain so this mother should you not

[18:52]be thankful to this mother should you not show your gratitude to

[19:01]your mother on daily basis with love with compassion yes sometimes our

[19:08]mothers they become upset and they lose it with us you know

[19:11]but that's okay we have to be patient well ah chuckle Illuma

[19:20]orphan rotten her home ah then with your father this father that

[19:25]day and night he goes out and he works hard from the

[19:29]morning until the night and at night he thinks of your future

[19:35]and your well-being and how to bring you an honorable life a

[19:43]dignified life to pay for your bills and to pay for your

[19:45]college and pay for your medicine and he doesn't understand that they

[19:52]are a weekend from a weekday it's all dedicated to you his

[19:56]family his children his offsprings should you not be thankful to him

[20:01]so we thank our parents we thank our teachers we thank our

[20:05]mentors we thank those who protect us we thank those who helped

[20:14]us and aid us we thank many people but alas as alhamdulillah

[20:19]glorification and all praises due to Allah why because when you thank

[20:27]your parents you're also thanking Allah when you thank your teacher you're

[20:32]also thanking Allah when you think those who protect you you're also

[20:36]thinking Allah when you think for example you are thankful to your

[20:41]country and your land you're also thankful to Allah why because he's

[20:45]the creator of creator of them all he's the creator of your

[20:49]parents and he's the creator of your teachers and he's the creator

[20:55]of your Guardians and he's the creator of this land so all

[20:59]thanks and gratitude is traced back to the Almighty Allah subhana WA

[21:06]Ta'ala himself because we cannot do anything without the power invested in

[21:15]us by Allah somebody's helping you today somebody's teaching you today if

[21:21]somebody is your guardian or your parent or your mother or your

[21:25]father it is by the power invested in them by Allah that

[21:32]they became parents and now they're taking care of you and they're

[21:35]able to go to work and they are able to bring sustenance

[21:39]to you so we thank them and by thanking them we are

[21:42]thanking Allah that's one number two hadith or Rasul Allah a famous

[21:50]hadith from Rasul Allah says man lam yasha : loot leshka ren

[21:56]harlech if you're not thankful to alas creation you are not thankful

[22:02]to Allah meaning what meaning you have a teacher he teaches you

[22:12]he puts time and energy and and then you say they tell

[22:14]you you have to be thankful to this teacher say why should

[22:17]I thank him I think Allah I only think Allah you have

[22:24]to thank this person who for example gave you a gift or

[22:30]a deed you or was kind to you or solve the problem

[22:32]no I only think Allah this is not the case you thank

[22:38]the person and by thanking the person you think Allah Subhanahu WA

[22:42]Ta'ala this is the discipline of Islam this is how Islam has

[22:47]disciplined us man lam yasha calm eluc la mouche coral silent but

[22:55]Allah wants to make it clear brothers and sisters space and pay

[22:59]attention to this Allah wants to make it clear that thanking Allah

[23:04]is different than thanking the normal people human beings people that surround

[23:10]us why because people that surround us if they help us there

[23:14]must be a reason where either family they like us we're friends

[23:24]they felt bad for us they get this feeling of self-satisfaction if

[23:28]they help us out but a loss of hana wa taala helps

[23:33]those who like him or those who don't like him those who

[23:40]pray to him and worship Him and those who pray to him

[23:44]do not pray to him and worship Him those who complain about

[23:47]God and those who praise God all of them allah subhana wa

[23:56]ta'ala blesses all of them he gives give the gratitude where it's

[24:01]due to the creator that does not differentiate between his creation and

[24:07]giving number two when we do something good we expect something in

[24:11]return Allah subhana WA Ta'ala expects nothing in return more importantly no

[24:17]one helps out an enemy no one is gonna go out of

[24:23]his way and say I'm going to help out an enemy but

[24:28]allah subhana wa ta'ala even helps out those who are his enemies

[24:33]with his blessings with his neighbor with his generosity and that is

[24:38]why we see the representatives of allah also doing the same thing

[24:42]how do we know they're genuinely the representatives of god because you

[24:48]find them for example also being generous and kind to their enemies

[24:53]abdullah al kawar was a man who would curse ali IBN ABI

[25:07]talib in Kufa he was famous for giving sermons and those sermons

[25:10]contained the cursing of ali IBN ABI talib and he would not

[25:17]come and take from basil man because ali Evan idea pilot was

[25:20]the Khalifa but this man had children this man had children he

[25:26]had a family they say that Ameer al-mumineen would take the money

[25:30]to him and he would take the goods to his family and

[25:35]deliver them because this was their belonging from Battlement even though someone

[25:40]who cursed him was against them Ameer al-mumineen does not cut his

[25:45]news from Bethel man a person comes in mom Hassan is mujtaba

[25:48]he's sitting and he's delivering a class in Medina and this happens

[25:53]to be maybe around the time of our we're or and then

[25:59]he stands in front of him a man a son and curses

[26:05]him imam al hasan says to him maybe you're traveling he was

[26:10]a traveler and you are thirsty and you're hungry and you need

[26:15]a place to rest come to our home a mammal Hassan took

[26:20]him to his home when he gave him food when he gave

[26:23]him shelter when he nurtured him he told him you know what

[26:30]you said about me and my father and my family this is

[26:38]where job Rahil is to come and sit this is the place

[26:39]that Jabra eel would come and sit and he would bring the

[26:45]wahey - huh mm BIA Mohammed this is our home this is

[26:48]the home that you belittled the man he was speechless he didn't

[26:58]know what to say because he saw first a cloud of anbiya

[27:02]first he saw the a cloud of a new beta rasoolullah and

[27:11]then physically showed him the location of Gibran and at home so

[27:20]Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says thanking the Almighty is much different than

[27:27]thanking the normal people that is why he begins with alhamdulillah father

[27:33]is similar to Al Araf Jarrell in Malay Iike Allah here makes

[27:44]a reference to Malika the Angels what does he say jerilyn Mela

[27:49]okati Rosalyn oleaginous a team Messner with Allah saguaro Bob discusses the

[27:57]strength of the melodica now we have several very famous Malaika amongst

[28:04]them as jibra eel amongst them is Mecca in Hawaii his job

[28:12]is to communicate with prophets bring the why and so I feel

[28:17]as the one who will blown the horn when when everyone dies

[28:24]he blows in the horn and the time of resurrection he also

[28:28]blazing the blows in the horn as I eat and I his

[28:36]Salam medical mote he's the angel of death and then we have

[28:45]several other angels tetanus Daniel melih Iike - well Roy Roy is

[28:49]also one of the angels that an assalam alayka - Aroo he

[28:55]is the angel that is responsible for that evening lailatul cutter some

[29:02]people believe he is Jabra in other people say no he's a

[29:05]designated angel for that specific task of lailatul control and then we

[29:11]have for example has an agenda hazard UNAM Malik Malik is the

[29:20]name of has you know now he is the chief of the

[29:23]Hellfire inaudible ah he's the manager of the Hellfire and everyone it

[29:31]seems everyone that ends up in the pits of the Hellfire when

[29:33]I would have belong on a stage you know Bolanos Malik they

[29:38]know him so they say to him when I know yeah Malik

[29:40]the people of janam they say ah Malik Lia clear Lane Arabic

[29:48]tell a lot to kill us to furnish us to end us

[29:54]Carla and nakum murky food he will stay here there is no

[29:58]death he will stay here in this punishment know them Allah so

[30:02]Allah subhana WA Ta'ala discusses the Angels within this ayah and then

[30:10]he says Yazeed official ki ma Yasha he increases and his creation

[30:19]as he desires and wishes what does that mean this bafa Saleem

[30:26]have said that Allah gives something extra to every person and this

[30:32]is how he establishes his equal - what do I mean some

[30:37]some people allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala gives them eloquence some people Allah gives

[30:42]them a good memory some people are lost of Hanna what Allah

[30:45]makes them great analysts sometimes a loss of Hanna to either make

[30:54]some people very smart other people alive gives them a very strong

[30:58]body other Allah subhana WA Ta'ala every person he gives him something

[31:03]extra he gives someone someone he gives him beauty Sheikh he gives

[31:08]him you know a beautiful face for example other people know Allah

[31:13]gives them a beautiful body Allah subhana WA Ta'ala other people gives

[31:17]them a beautiful voice every person Allah gives them something differently why

[31:23]because according to your nature and what is within Allah hose your

[31:29]Creator knows this is what you need to be successful this is

[31:36]your task this is your mission in life and this is your

[31:39]extra tool this is your weapon this is what you're going to

[31:47]win with Allah gives you that and allahu ala kulli shayin Qadir

[31:51]now when we come to the second ayah my ft my FDLR

[31:59]holiness my after halal in us and allah subhana wa ta'ala opens

[32:03]the door of mercy for his people Allah subhana WA Ta'ala within

[32:10]this chapter at many stages more than any other chapter and the

[32:18]Quran speaks to the nos to the people so and verse number

[32:20]2 go quickly through them verse number 2 Allah subhana WA Ta'ala

[32:29]my after Allah holiness number 3 yeah I you Anna's verse number

[32:34]3 ya Johannes verse number 5 yeah Johannes verse number 15 yeah

[32:40]Johannes and the last verse while oh you actually la una Savi

[32:47]Marcus Abu so a lot of Matala and this chapter discusses with

[32:51]the people within us meaning all Muslims understand this message of the

[33:00]Quran is a universal one as a message for everyone let us

[33:07]come to the second page number six verse number five I'm sorry

[33:12]Allah says yeah are you honest with this we conclude one minute

[33:16]in Noah and Allah he Huck oh you people know that the

[33:21]command of Allah the promise of Allah the word of Allah is

[33:24]happy it will happen fella ahora Nichole hiya to dunya when I

[33:35]ever wanna come belong elder or and misshapen and misshapen alikum I

[33:39]do one fatica do who I do wa and Maya drew his

[33:44]BA Julio cool woman as hey Ben science so we discussed possible

[33:47]shape and Allah makes a reference alert here but Allah Subhanahu WA

[33:53]Ta'ala and for example surah al-anam verse number 4 94 he says

[33:58]wa khatim una mirada kamar halacha como el Amara you have returned

[34:04]to us as we created you in the first day Allah speaks

[34:09]to people who are still alive for still breathing and Allah says

[34:13]you have returned to us on the day of judgment like the

[34:16]day you were born why because Allah wants me and you to

[34:20]know that his word his promise will take place it is real

[34:25]so he speaks of it and the present tense as its as

[34:31]if it's happening now Allah subhana WA Ta'ala reaffirms this in the

[34:35]Quran when Allah makes a promise his promise takes place yeah a

[34:43]you a nurse in our and Allah Huck make sure you understand

[34:47]that the promise of Allah is one that will definitely take place

[34:52]so when we read the Quran let us look for those promises

[34:56]of Allah and let us make sure we engage with them we

[35:01]live them we believe in them I ask Allah Subhanahu WA to

[35:03]Allah to bless us all with being able to spend quality time

[35:10]with the holy quran washer Odawara and al hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen

[35:13]or sal allahu ala sayidina wanna be in a muhammadin wa ala

[35:19]nabina hearing

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