Qur'an 30 for 30
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Juz' 4 with Dr. Tamara Gray
Sh. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro, joined by special guest Dr. Tamara Gray, explore gems from the fourth Juz' of the Holy Quran.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Allahumma salli wa sallam wa baraka rabbika rasulika muhammadin salallahu alayhi wasalam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wasalam tasliman kathira Welcome back everyone to our next episode of Qur'an 30 for 30 and Alhamdulillah rabbil alameen We're moving on now to just four. I pray that Allah Azawajal has allowed you to taste the sweetness of this very unique Ramadan thus far. And I pray that you're developing a good connection to the Qur'an. To remind everyone inshaAllah ta'ala to please tune into all the different series that we have. We'll be doing this nightly and inshaAllah ta'ala we also have the angels series every day as well as from deep to habit. And inshaAllah you can find more information at the Yaqeen Institute social media handles. So I'm going to get right into it inshaAllah ta'ala because I don't want to take away from our very special guest today, mashAllah who's with us Dr. Tamer Ghaib. Great Alhamdulillah. We've talked a lot and subhanAllah the last few ajza' reflected a lot on the mistakes of previous nations. And something occurred to me and as I said when we first started this series the beauty of the Qur'an is that every time you read it something new just pops out at you if you're paying close enough attention. And typically we go from immediately Bani Isra'il and Surah Al-Baqarah and the mistakes of Bani Isra'il and then mistakes in the way that previous nations dealt with their prophets and the way that they dealt with the law and how we learn from those mistakes. But there's something very very specific that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala admonishes us with as we get into this juz' in particular. Allah setting the standard with us. And I want to start this off with a hadith from the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam where the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam said I asked Allah for three things, very relevant right now. Sa'alto rabbi thalaf, I asked Allah for three things. I asked Allah that he would not allow this ummah to be wiped out by an army, an external enemy. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala granted him that, alayhi salatu was salam.
And he asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we would not be wiped out by a plague. This ummah will not die collectively as a result of a plague. And Allah granted him that. But I asked Allah the third thing, alla yaj'ala ba'sahum baynahum that disunity does not become the cause for their destruction and Allah did not give the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam that answer. And subhanAllah as we look at this juz, all of the admonishing of this ummah is about disunity. As if to say that the previous nations failed for these reasons. Here is your nation's failure if you don't get a hold of it. And it starts from the very, very beginning. ya'ayyu allatheena aaminoottaqullaha alhaqqatu qatihi wa laa tamu'tuna illa wa antum muslimoon wa a'tasimoo bihabli allahi jamee'an wa laa tafarraqu wadhkuru ni'mata Allahi alaykum ith kuntum a'da'an faallafa bayna quloobikum faasbahtum bi ni'mati ikhwana until the end of the ayah. And as a few of you said in feedback that you want the verse numbers, so it's verse 102 and 103. Allah says, hold firmly to the rope of Allah altogether and do not become divided. And remember the favor of Allah upon you when you were enemies and he brought your hearts together and you became by his blessing brothers. And you were on the edge of the fire and he saved you from it. Thus does Allah make clear to you his verses that you may be guided. If you look through the history of Islam and the history of the Muslim Ummah, our problems have always been internal. It's the internal divisions that allow for the external to prey upon us in a way that they exploit those differences and then use that against us. And this is a theme throughout this juz. So what's your mandate as an Ummah? Stay united. And then Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says in verse 104, Wal takun minkum ummatun yad'una ila alkhayr wa ya'muruna bil ma'rufi wa yanhauna alilmunka wa ulaika humul muflihoon And let there be arising from you a nation inviting to all that is good
and joining what is right and forbidding what is wrong. And those will be the successful. Those are the people that will be successful. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says once again, Wala takunu kalladheena tafarraqu wa akhtalafu min ba'di ma ja'ahumul bayyinat And do not be like those before who were divided amongst themselves and they allowed those divisions to misguide them after clear proofs and clear guidance had come to them. So SubhanAllah, this is once again, your nation needs to stay united. And Allah again puts this on us. Sometimes you hear these ayat, these verses about how Allah describes this Ummah and you assume they're in different surahs. It seems like they're all in this juz. Kuntum khayra ummatin ukhrijat lil-naas. Ta'mununa bil-ma'rufi wa tanhawna AAalil-munka That you are the best nation that's been produced for the people. You enjoy what is right and forbid what is evil. And you believe in Allah. That's verse 110. And then Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la goes to the next one. And this is so beautiful and powerful. If you're taking notes, the fourth part of Ali Imran, which is verse 121 to 200, was revealed particularly after the Battle of Uhud. And I should mention that all of the surahs thus far are madani surahs. They're surahs that were revealed in the madani after the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam made hijrat to Madinah. But particularly after verse 121, this was revealed after the Battle of Uhud, where the Muslims faced their first defeat. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, Wa idh ghadawt min ahlika tubawwi il-mu'mineena maqa'idil-il-qital wal-lahu sami'un a'aleem And remember when you, O Muhammad, left your family in the morning to post the believers to their stations for the Battle of Uhud, and Allah is all hearing and Allah knowing. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la reminds us, SubhanAllah, remember the Muslims now have to be introspective, and sometimes in defeat, you'll learn the lessons that are necessary for long-term victory.
Look what happened to you when you didn't follow the orders of Allah and the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And Allah reminds, it wasn't about your lack of numbers. It wasn't about what you didn't have. It was what? Wala qad nasarakumullahu bi-badrin wa antum adhilla fattaqullaha la'allakum tashkurun Remember when Allah supported you in Badr? When you were few in number, okay? You didn't have much in Badr. But remember when Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la supported you then? And so it's befitting that Allah calls the believers' attention to a time where they broke the covenant to make the point about how victory comes from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and how help comes from Allah when they stay together upon that which Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la commanded. And of course, Uhud happened, or the defeat of Uhud came because of a few people, 40 people from the mountain of archers that came down against the command of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And in the process, not only put forth their own disobedience of the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, but compromised the entire ummah in the process, including the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And they all suffered as a result of it. Why? Because of the fear of the loss of dunya. Because they feared that the spoils would run out before they got to it. So Allah is saying, look, look at Bani Isra'il, look at the nations that came before. It's not istihza' bil-la or bi-ayatil-la that you're doing, mocking the signs of Allah or the verses of Allah or breaking the covenant in the way that Bani Isra'il necessarily broke the covenant. But when you disobeyed Allah and the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, even though you had numbers, you failed. Whereas when you were obedient and together, you succeeded because of the mercy and the favor of Allah being upon you. Sufyan Al-Thawri Rahim Allah has a beautiful statement here where he says that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la connected
ni'mat Allahi alaykum ith kuntum a'da'an and he mentioned his ni'ma twice, his blessing when you are together, as if to say that the blessing of Allah is only upon us when we're united. The ni'ma of Allah is only upon us when we're united as an ummah. Otherwise, we're our worst enemies. Finally, verse 144, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la mentions that what happened in Uhud is that the people gave up because they thought that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was dead. And Allah says, wa maa muhammadun illa rasool qad khalat min qablihi ar-rasool afa immata aw qutilan qalabtum ala a'qabikum Muhammad is not but a messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Other messengers have passed on before him. If he dies or if he is killed, would you turn back on your heels to unbelief once again? Would you go back to that again? The summary of this, and then I'll pass it to Shaykh Abdullah. In this beautiful chapter, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la reminds us what? That Allah Azawajal is with us when we are together. Verse 160, in yansurukumullahu fala ghariba lakum If Allah is with you, who can be against you? If Allah is with you, who can be against you? And if Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la abandons you, then who's going to be able to support you after that? And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la finally expresses his forgiveness to the believers that turned back. So this was not to say that the covenant has been taken from you as an ummah, but was to say that you are forgiven. wala qad a'afa Allahu a'inkum Allah has forgiven those who turned away in Badr, in Uhud. And then finally Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la tells the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam also to be kind-hearted and gentle with the people and to be forgiving towards his people and not to turn away from them as a result of this. So you are not an ummah that's to be disgraced. You're an ummah that made a mistake. Learn from the mistake, stay together upon what Allah and his messengers Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam gave you,
and you will have success. Sheikh Abdullah, tifadhal. It's the baton again, huh? MashaAllah. Bismillah wa salatu wa salam wa rasool Allah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala amma ba'al He actually mentioned one of my favorite verses, SubhanAllah, as all the verses are beautiful, but he talked about the verse of, you know, al-aws wa al-khazraj, where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la said wa a'tasimu bihamri-llahi jamee'an wa la tafarruku And talking about the means of brotherhood and for them to remember when they were once enemies and how because of the belief, because of their recognition in their hearts is what kept them together by the permission of Allah. And that's exactly what I want to address inshAllah, because when you look at the pages where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is talking about, roughly from ayah 122 to 129, he's talking about the battle of Badr. And he's talking about how Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la assisted them, where he mentions, wa ma ja'alaha allahu illa bushra'alakum wa li tatma'inna quloobukum bih And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has not made this as a congratulations for you and for your hearts to be content. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, as he mentioned earlier, wa man nasru illa min indi Allahi al-aziz al-hakim and the help of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is wa man nasru illa min indi Allahi al-aziz al-hakim and there is no help or assistance except from Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise. But what I want to capitalize on here is near the end of that page, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la transitions and talks about, briefly, he talks about the actions that could lead to the hellfire, where he says, after A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajim, in verse number 130, Ya ayyuhal lazeena aamanoo latakoolirribaa adhAAafil mudhaAAafa wataqoollaha laAAalakum tuflihoon O you who believe, do not take interest in great amounts or multitudes. Fear Allah, perhaps you may be of the successful. watakoonnaa arallatee ooiddat lilkaafireen And fear the fire that has been prepared, been prepared for those that are ungrateful and disbelieving. So, watakoonnaa arallatee ooiddat
It has been prepared, and as some scholars mention that the hellfire is present now, that it is here now. And then Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, waatioollaha warrasoola laAAalakum turhamoon And fear Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, and obey Allah and the Messenger, perhaps you will be shown mercy. But then Allah does, in Atuf, he adds again, it's like he's continuing, he says, wassari'oo ila maghfiratin min rabbikum wajannatin arduhas salawat wal ardu ooiddat lilmu'taqeen So Allah is saying, as in the verse before, verse number 132, and obey Allah and the Messenger, perhaps you will be shown mercy, and also sari'oo. And sari'oo comes from like how we say, bisuraa, or to go fast, or to rush, haste towards maghfira. And what is beautiful here is as scholars mention, Ta'arim Al-Ashur, mashaAllah, mentions that, wassari'oo ila maghfira, to rush towards the actions that would necessitate or that would imply that you need maghfira. And from that is ta'atullah warrasoolahu, is obeying Allah and his Messenger, which we understand that any good deed that you do, if you're sincere, it could be a means of maghfira and seeking forgiveness. That's why when someone converts to Islam, this is one of the greatest expiations, because you have done the most important thing, being that you recognize that God needs to be worshipped by himself, and you voluntarily done that, and you want to do actions of morality and goodness for God's sake. So here Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is ordering now, and rush towards forgiveness, meaning rush towards the actions that would bring you forgiveness. ila maghfira min rabbikum from your Lord, wajannatin arduhas samawatu wal ardu iddat lilmuttaqeen Ah, this is beautiful. He said, rush towards forgiveness and jannah, and also jannah, that its expansion or its size or its width or its mass
is like that of ya ardu samawatu wal ardu, as the heavens or the earth, not in actuality, but to give taqreeb al ma'ana, to show you that it is vast. It is vast. And we do not know the actuality of it. As the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, feeha ma la'aynun ra'at wa la'udhunun sami'at wa ma khatira ala qalbi basharat Jannah, the reality of it, is that we don't know. It's what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and has not even come across the senses of man. They can't fathom it. But here Allah says at the end of it, ooddat lilmuttaqeen Just as he mentioned before, that the hellfire was present and prepared for those that are ungrateful and disbelieving. But then for the believers, for the muttaqeen, it is prepared already there for the ones that have mindfulness of Allah. Then Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la explains who are the muttaqeen. He explains who they are. He says, alladhina yunfiqoona fissarra'i wa dharra'i wa alkathimeena alghayth wa alAAafina AAala an-naas wa Allah yuhibbu almuhsineen So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la gives here darajat. Darajat. He gives levels. So who are the muttaqeen? alladhina yunfiqoona fissarra'i So there are three categories, and some say four. The first one is alladhina yunfiqoona fissarra'i Those who spend in prosperity and in adversity. You know, you have a lot of money, your check has come in, mashAllah, things are great. Sometimes you may forget and may be diverted, and may be distracted. As Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, alhaakum at-takathur You were diverted and distracted from matakathur, gathering things in abundance, money, stature, reputation. It diverted you from gratitude. It diverted you from giving back to those that are in need. From giving back for the sake of Allah. And dharra'u laa yara'a hab an-naf'a, I can't give. You know, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that charity does not decrease the wealth. You know, SubhanAllah, it's a beautiful thing
that when we give in times of need, as the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned, is a virtuous thing. When you're shaheeh, saheeh. When you are at-baqeeh, when you don't want to give, but you force yourself to give because you know that it's something that's better. Of the intangible. And saheeh, you are healthy. So here he says, sarra'u dharra'u wal-ka'thimina al-ghayth and that's the second category. Ka'thim is like someone that suppresses something. And what's beautiful here is that Islam is not unrealistic. You know, sometimes we fall victim to say, you know, I want practical Islam. You know, I want something practical. Well, the lack of understanding Islam or being told by someone that has fiqh, fiqh, fiqh of their religion, that's where the flaw is. It is not within the shari'ah itself. It is within the practitioners of the shari'ah. So when we say ka'thimina al-ghayth, Allah is acknowledging that we will get angry. Every single human being, we will get angry. There will be a level of anger. But what the ka'thim does, is he or she controls it and suppresses it. As some scholars mentioned that this ka'thim is like boiling inside that does not, it is not shown through the actions because you have held yourself. Now we are at home and we, you know, throughout our lives with our family members, with friends, with, you know, things we may see on the television. When you have the ability and the strength to display or exhibit that anger, you suppress it. And that is what is beautiful. And that's the jihad in us, that is fighting the soul for that which is better for us. That's the second category. walAAafina AAalinnas alAAafu As we know Allah's name is alAAafu. And as we say nasa lAllah salama walAAafi, we always hear all the time, inshaAllah it's in a good context, that we ask Allah for, to make us, give us salam, to make us sound and good health. But the origin of the word aafu or aafa, yaafu,
comes from making something easy. As Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says in the chapter of al-an'am, khuthi alAAafu wa'mul bin ma'ruf Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says khuthi alAAafu, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says in order to do the good or take the aafu, to be easy, take the easy route when dealing with people. Take the easy route when dealing with people, that you are easy with them. So when someone pardons you, they're taking the easy route with you, even though they have the strength to overpower you. So Allah azza alAAafu, he pardons us, and some scholars make the differentiation between aafu and ghafran, aafu is that it is as though it never took place, and ghafran, min ghafr, like the sin is still there, but he covers it up, Subh'anaHu. So those are the three. He says, walAAafina AAaninnas Then Allah says, wallahi yushibbu almuhsinina Let's notice one thing here, is that Allah says, and, he says the ones that spin in ease and in hardship, and the ones that spin in ease and in hardship, and they suppress their anger, and the one that pardons people, he doesn't say, and the good doers, the muhsinina. He stops and he says, wallahi yushibbu, and some scholars mention yushibbu, because ihsan is the highest level, as we know in the Hadith Jibreel. What is ihsan? Antaabudullaha ka'anaka tara To worship Allah as though you see him, and though you do not see him, he sees you. You're aware of his presence. Everything that you do is in light of the presence of Allah. It is as though you see him, like when you see someone that you want to impress, many of our children want to do that. It is as though you know Allah is watching you to the degree that you see him, and that is a muhsin. And even linguistically, hasunah comes from to beautify something. The actions that you do, as we translate it as excellence, not perfection. Not perfection, not perfection, excellence. Because excellence expresses, yeah, Allah, I'm doing my best. I'm doing my best. Help me.
I'm trying my best. That is the muhsin. You may not make your five prayers. You may haven't been able to make the 100 yet, but you're saying yet, because you have good expectations of Allah, and you try your best hoping in Allah. That is the muhsin. Some scholars mentioned these three categories that were mentioned earlier. The first three, basically, are the ones that the muhsin will reach. That is the characteristics of the muhsin. And moving on to the next verse briefly, I'm not going to cover all of it, but Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la mentions, wal-ladheena itha yafaAAadoo fahishatan aw dhalamoo anfusoon dhakarullah The ones that if they've done bad deeds, fahisha, an excessive of bad deeds, just bad deeds, something that they regret, aw dhalamoo anfusoon, or they've oppressed themself, knowing that sin is an oppression of themself, what do they do? Dhakarullah. They remember Allah. They remember Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Don't want to take too much time, but in conclusion, in finishing that verse, which is the verse number 135, what Ibn Rajab mentions is a beautiful point that the first portion of the verse of number 134, where he mentions the three categories and then mentions the muhsin, which some may classify as four, is that this deals with the individual with other people. That you give charity to other people. Someone may make you angry, right, and you suppress that anger. And a higher level than that is that you pardon that person. And all of that is an example to ihsan ila alghayr. And then the second category of the next verse of 135 deals with how you deal with yourself. You commit a sin. You stop. You recollect. You remember, and you do something about it. So may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la make us, within these times we're facing, as he mentioned with the community, even over Zoom, we still maintain the community and do things that bring us together as we are doing now. May Allah make this a blessed gathering, inshallah wa ta-a'la. BarakAllah. Salam alaykum. Tawba ta'ala. JazakAllah khair, Sheikh Abdullah.
So inshallah ta'ala, our special guest for tonight we have with us Dr. Tamara Gray. Alhamdulillah, we're blessed to have her. The founder of Rabata, and inshallah ta'ala, she will give us the beautiful khitab that we're looking for with this jizb. Tafadhali. No pressure. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Salatu wassalamu ala khatun anbiya Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala nishab al juma'in. MashaAllah, very beautiful words that you all were sharing, and this concept of unity and coming together, and how this particular jizb is really calling out to all of us to think about the other, and to be concerned with how we are living in community or not in community either way. And at the end of this surah, we have some very clear and direct instructions around, I would say, how to be a person who has the energy to be able to come back to community in a healthy way. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, I'm in verse 191, 192, 93, 94, 95, where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is talking about, alladhina yathkuruna Allaha qiyaman wa qa'udan wa ala janubihim. These are very famous verses, I'm sure we've heard them a lot. Where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is saying, the one who remembers Allah standing or sitting or lying on their sides, and these different positions of worship, these different positions of dhikr, we have two different types of forgetfulness that are referred to in the Qur'an.
Actually there are three, but one is forgetfulness, the one who forgets by abandoning. So we abandon, inshallah we don't become of these people, but one who abandons good works. That's a type of forgetfulness. And another type of forgetfulness is when we don't remember information. But the dhikr, alladhina yathkuruna Allaha qiyaman wa qa'udan wa ala janubihim, this is every position of the human being. So the human being might be standing, the human being might be sitting, the human being might be lying down. In all of these positions, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is calling on us to be of those who remember, have dhikr, and of those who contemplate, contemplate the universe, contemplate the earth, contemplate where we are and what we're doing. And what this does is it pulls us back and it puts us into this space where three things happen, one is we understand who we are in relationship to the rest of the world, who we're supposed to be, people of remembrance. One of the early scholars said that for the one who wants to really know Quran, based on this verse, they should recite it standing, recite it sitting in this position of study, and recite it standing in a position of prayer, recite it sitting in a position of study, and recite it lying down in a position of relaxation. Because the Quran is that which we establish and stand and we stand for and we live for. The Quran is that which we study and that which fills our mind. And the Quran is what gives us rest. The Quran is what gives us the ability to stand back up again, if you will, and move
out into this world where we go out and interact with people and pull community together. We've become a very, our lack of community has a lot to do with being sensitive, getting upset, all these sort of very shallow things that tell us, that should tell us that we are a people without ibadah, that we are people who are missing out on ibadah. And if you look at these verses and you continue, you see that there's this beautiful, Oh our Lord, indeed we have heard a caller calling to faith, calling, calling to believe, come, come, come and believe. So we believed. And so we heard, we acted, then we say, Forgive us our sin, Three things we need to be forgiven, to be pardoned and to be raised up with the people of piety. And if you look around and find the people of piety, you can learn how to live like them as well. And in learning how to live like them, if we live like the people of piety, then we live like the companions of the Prophet ﷺ. There's a beautiful dua, I probably won't remember it right now, but in its meaning, it says, Ya Allah, grant me the mercy that you granted those who lowered their gaze in front of the Prophet ﷺ. So who are they? These are the companions. These are the people of abrar. These are the people of birr. These are the people who knew how to have adab and act with the Prophet ﷺ. These are the people who responded to the call, the call to faith. So now it's Ramadan, this is Ramadan, and every single one of us are being called. The angels are calling us, the month is calling us, this time is calling us, the Quran is
calling us. Aaminu, aaminu, aaminu, believe. And every verse in the Quran, wal ladheena aaminu wa aamilu salihaati, it always comes together because the way we live is a reflection of what we believe. And the last verse in this little section that I'm thinking about today, circles us right back to this concept of how do we live together in society. Fastajab lahum rabbuhum anni laa udi'u aamilu aamilu minkum min dhakiran aw untha. Indeed Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and the Lord responded to them, never will I allow to be lost the work of any one of you, whether male or female. So whatever you are doing, whatever is exhausting, whatever is hard, whatever is easy, whatever you're putting extra effort in, and not a single human being sees, this verse comes and reminds you. You heard the call, aaminu, aaminu, hadhir, okay, aamanna, aamanna. And then you responded to that call in what? In ibad, in dhikr and tafakkur. In dhikr, in the remembrance of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, in standing, in our standing we remember Allah. In our sitting, we remember Allah. When we're lying down, we remember Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. In our ability to contemplate the earth, and then in our movement, in our action, in protecting ourselves from the hellfire and gaining access to the heaven that Shaykh Abdullah talked about. And we reach then to this place where we have comfort. Just in case you're in a place today where you're being treated unfairly, which so many people are today. To be treated unfairly in this life is a part of living. Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah we're human. Faistajabal ahum rabbuhum anni laa udeeya.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la doesn't lose, doesn't allow to be lost the deeds of any one of us. So think what you did today. Did you wash a dish? Did you read extra Quran? Did you call somebody who you should have called? Did you forget to do things that you should have done? All of this is held for us. It doesn't matter who we are. All of this is held for us. And to circle back finally to what we began with tonight, ba'dukum min ba'd. That's how this, you won't be allowed any of this work to be lost, whether you are male or female. You are one of another. So here we are, not just as tribes and nations, but together as men and women coming together. Falladheena haajiru wa ukhuriju min diyaarihim wa uudhu fee sabeer wa qatilu. Sorry. Wa qatilu wa qutilu. Whatever you do, what do you do? Did you go on hijrah? Did you not go on hijrah? Did you leave your house? Did you stay in your house? Did you go out and fight? Were you fought against? Whatever you did, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will forgive you and tajreeb. Sorry, I lost my train of thought. Will... Tajreeb min tahdi hal anhar. Thank you. They will be put into the jannah, under which is rivers. I find this image very beautiful, this idea of garden with rivers flowing underneath it. Because they're rivers that cause great beauty. And I mean, we don't know what jannah looks like, but they just for me in my head, they it's very much a welcoming sound and a welcoming smell and a welcoming. It's like saying all, come on, let's go. Let's all go and have fun with these beautiful rivers and these beautiful gardens as we are all together in that space.
So Ramadan, ya jama'a. Standing, sitting, lying down. Just remember Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la recites Quran, have the word, the names of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la in our hearts and in our tongue, on our tongues and not let any moment of this month escape us. SubhanAllah, one thing that to bring it all back for everyone, by the way, is that Surah Al-Fatiha is a dua. Surah Al-Baqarah ends with a dua. Surah Ali'Imran ends with a dua. A supplication, a supplication, a supplication encapsulates all of these first three chapters of the Quran. It teaches us, as we said, this is now the mandate to the Ummah, to our nation, to stay together, busy with Allah, not let the Shaytan make us busy with ourselves. Stay busy with Allah. Have ihsan as Shaykh Abdullah talked about with other people and forgiving when we're not expected to forgive, spending charity when we're not expected to spend, and then have ihsan with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la even when it's just ourselves, excellence with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la with ourselves, that we seek forgiveness whenever we do something wrong even if we're not caught, even if no one else saw it. We have ihsan with Allah. We're thinking about the sight of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. And then finally those beautiful verses that Dr. Tamara left us off with, which were the ten verses that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would recite when he woke up to pray qiyam al-Nair. So when he would wake up to pray qiyam, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would recite those last ten verses of Shuraat Ali Imran. JazakumAllahu Khayran Dr. Tamara for joining us. JazakumAllahu Khayran Shaykh Abdullah and inshaAllah Ta'ala for the rest of you, please do keep us in your du'a and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow inshaAllah Ta'ala as well.
JazakumAllahu Khayran, wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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