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Juz 29: Remember Your Humble Beginnings | Sh. Mowlid Ali
How can understanding Allah's blessings and provision on earth increase us in the afterlife? How can reflecting on your own creation give you a stronger sense of purpose? How can we understand God's dominion and connect it with His Mercy?
Join Sh. Mowlid Ali with hosts Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro as they reflect on Juz 29 of the Qur'an, discussing the humble beginnings of the creation of man, our vulnerability and reliance on Allah, and Allah's total Dominion over all things.
✨Qur'an Trivia✨
Who is the woman referred to in Surah Al-Mujadila?
A. Hind bint Utbah
B. Nusaybah bint Ka’ab
C. Khawlah bint Tha’labah
Chapters:
0:00 - Highlights
📌 1:17 - Today's trivia
2:25 - Introduction
📌 3:20 - Dr. Omar Suleiman reflects on our vulnerability and reliance on Allah
4:30 - If Allah had sunk the water into the earth
6:17 - The test of the people of Mecca
8:20 - The destruction of the people of Aad with wind
9:15 - The people of Jannah and Jahannam
📌 10:50 - Sh. Abdullah Oduro reflects on how Allah brings life to creation
12:40 - Those that wander aimlessly
13:20 - On reflecting on the intentionality of your creation
15:20 - The 2 lives and 2 deaths
📌 17:15 - Sh. Mowlid Ali reflects on Allah's Dominion in Surah al-Mulk
18:00 - The repeated mention of mercy
19:00 - Guidance and gratitude
21:30 - Allah's Dominion
📌 22:20 - Reflections
23:30 - Remember where you came from
24:30 - Everything is a sign
26:50 - Surah al-Mulk in Omar ibn Saeed's diary
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Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Omar Ibn Sa'id was a Muslim scholar. He was a hafidh of Qur'an. He knew the Arabic very well. Perhaps maybe he was explaining the dominion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. No human being could claim any dominion over any other human being. It is only Allah who has a dominion. So in a way, it's like, it's rejecting slavery on the basis of surah al-Mulk. SubhanAllah. Interesting. SubhanAllah. I didn't know that, Shaykh. JazakAllah khair. It's almost like as you're kind of getting to the end of the Qur'an, the beginning started off with a claim. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala telling us the story of Adam alayhi salam, the story of Shaytan. The more you recognize who your blessings came from, the more humble you'll be. The more you recognize or the more you see yourself as the source of your own power and blessing, the more arrogant you will become. And then, I think of that original conversation, the angels were saying, yeah, Allah, are you putting in this earth, are you going to put people that will spread corruption, spill blood? And when Allah says, I know that which you don't know, as many of the scholars say, that means that there are people, there are descendants from this creation that will make the entire human enterprise worth it with the beauty of their worship, the prophets and the salihin. So at this point now, you've seen the full spectrum and you get to just 29. Those that forgot where they came from and hence they ruined where they're going and those that knew exactly where they came from and so they built here and they built for their hereafter. And you find these prophets and these righteous people and they're far and few and it's interesting because Allah Azawajal says that most of them will be ungrateful, most of them will be arrogant. And I think if you proportionately took the stories of nations in the Quran and through history, you find the majority are indeed arrogant, the majority indeed forget where they come from and they repeat destruction. But then you got those few bright spots that make it all worth it.
And it's always a common theme. They know, biyadihil mulk. They know that in his hand is all dominion. And Suleiman Alayhi Salaam says, asks Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for a customized kingdom. mulkan la yambaghiri ahad min ba'di. Allah gives him the greatest kingdom of all time, the greatest mulk of all time. But he uses that all in praise of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. So as long as you maintain that humility, it's always going to inshAllah to our channel towards good things. We ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for acceptance. JazakAllah khair Sheikh Maureed. JazakAllah khair Sheikh Abdullah. Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, I accept from you both. May Allah Azawajal allow us all to be people who have recognized this Ramadan where we came from and bi-idhnillahi Ta-A'la give us where we hope to go. Al-Firdaws Al-A'la. Allahumma Ameen. BarakAllahu Fikum to all of you for tuning in. We'll see you all tomorrow. InshaAllah Ta-A'la. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Al-Firdaws Al-A'la, Al-Firdaws Al-A'la. But Allah is telling the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Qul, say, declare, tell people, Qul Huwa Ar-Rahman. Allah is the most merciful. Huwa Ar-Rahman. Amanna bihi. We believe in Him. Wa alaihi tawakkalna. And we put our trust on Him. Fasa ta'alamuna man huwa fi dhalali mubeen. Soon you will come to know who is misguided, who is astray. SubhanAllah, you see in this ayat of Surat Al-Mulk, many topics. But the one thing we find in this is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is talking to the believers that Allah has the absolute dominion and that He has the mulk of everything.
And in that mulk is also associated with His rahmah and His mercy. And the surah also reminds us to put our trust in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and to give thanks to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for the guidance of Al-Islam. Therefore we say Alhamdulillah ala ni'mat Al-Islam. Praise be to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for the favor of Al-Islam. Because this is, wallahi, the ni'mah that will never expire. And it's a ni'mah that we renew in the month of Ramadan. Hadha wa sallallahu wa sallam ala nabiyyina Muhammad. JazakAllah khair Sheikh Malik. SubhanAllah, one thing that is very clear as you go through the juz' is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala reminds us multiple times, in this juz' in particular, that you were nothing. You were not even mentioned before. Allah mentioned He created death and He created life. To show you, as the scholars mentioned, that death actually preceded life. Meaning the default, we think the default is life. And that's why we look at death as so evil at times. Like why? Why did death happen? Well, why did life happen in the first place? Your default was lifelessness. And then Allah gave you life, right? And then Surah Al-Haqqa, right? Allah Azzawajal mentioning people that forgot where they came from as communities. Surah Al-Qiyamah, right? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala going through the whole stages of embryology. It's really interesting because what it reminds me is, you know, sometimes you see someone who succeeds. And when they succeed, they lose all of their character. When they have success. And then the words are what? He forgot where he came from. Remember your humble beginnings. And when they say remember your humble beginnings, remember your old neighborhood. Remember your old friends. Remember what you used to have to dress with and you used to have to eat. And remember this and remember that.
Well, you know, Allah is saying that most people have forgotten where they came from, right? And they've forgotten who they came from. And that's why the defaults for them, if they don't attribute everything that they have back to their creator, is arrogance. Whereas, SubhanAllah, I was thinking when Sheikh Maulid was talking about the connection that Allah is making in Surah Al-Mulk between his authority and his mercy, is that Allah has everything, yet he chooses mercy. When we have a little bit of this world, we choose cruelty. And that test has been repeated multiple times throughout history with different nations and tribes and individuals. SubhanAllah, that's why it's important to, SubhanAllah, to always be a person of the akhirah, to try your best to always look at everything, you know, as a sign from Allah, SubhanAllah, that everything is an ayah, like, you know, that Allah is communicating through that. And that's a huge opportunity for the believer in the divine, the believer in Allah, SubhanAllah. Firstly, knowing who he is and who he is not. And then when you go through life, you attribute to say, okay, how is this a sign from Allah, SubhanAllah? How does this remind me about Allah? And you know, when you were talking about, you know, don't forget where you came from, SubhanAllah, we make an analogous with, you know, we learn method of Allah, and Allah is a much greater example. How would we feel if someone was ungrateful to something that you've done for them or your community has done for them? From twofold, because SubhanAllah, we may feel bad or may have some type of envy or dislike of that person not showing gratitude to our actions. But at the same time, realizing that what you've done for them is only by the fadlullah of Allah, SubhanAllah. Also, that person that's been given something, they should realize, yes, I should show gratitude to that person, which is in essence showing gratitude to Allah, SubhanAllah, as long as my intention is there.
But when it comes to Allah, SubhanAllah, looking at it on a much greater scale, none of this would be present except with Allah, SubhanAllah. So there's so many opportunities for us to overlook ourselves and look at Allah, SubhanAllah. But Allah is putting things in front of you to see how will you respond to that and that is our ultimate responsibility. And that's why with these beautiful verses, it just reminds us ultimately of tawhid, really the oneness of Allah, SubhanAllah, whether in his lordship, when asking these rhetorical questions, when showing us the reality of the situation in the world, the reality of human beings, past, present, and future. And then for us, after remembering that, as they say, yastalzi mu'uhiya, that it will require from us that universal responsibility just to say, God, thank you. And how do you thank him with that system that he's given us, primarily with the Prophet, only with the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. So just putting that in a proper perspective into looking at, SubhanAllah, it may seem difficult, but it's very, very, mashallah, simple when looking at the creator of the heavens and the earth and looking at the signs that he's put in front of us. Yes, SubhanAllah, when I look at Surah al-Mulk, one of the things I see is the trust, having tawakkul on Allah, SubhanAllah. And I read a story about Omar ibn Said, the African slave who was a slave in America. He wrote a diary titled Hayat, Life, in Arabic. It was recently translated into English, but in that diary, he puts the entire Surah al-Mulk as an introduction to his life. SubhanAllah. And people don't know why he put that Surah, why he chose Surah al-Mulk before he spoke about his life, his dilemma as a slave in this country. He puts the entire Surah in Arabic, the entire Surah al-Mulk in Arabic, and then he speaks about his life.
But when I look at the Surah, I see perhaps Omar ibn Said was a Muslim scholar. He was a hafidh of Quran. He knew the Arabic very well. Perhaps maybe he was explaining the dominion of Allah, that no human being could claim any dominion over any other human being. It is only Allah who has a dominion. So in a way, it's like rejecting slavery on the basis of Surah al-Mulk. SubhanAllah. Interesting. SubhanAllah. I didn't know that. JazakAllah khair. It's almost like as you're kind of getting to the end of the Quran, the beginning started off with a claim. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la telling us the story of Adam Alayhi Salaam, the story of Shaytan. The more you recognize who your blessings came from, the more humble you'll be, the more you recognize, or the more you see yourself as the source of your own power and blessing, the more arrogant you will become. And then I think of that original conversation, the angels were saying, Ya Allah, are you putting in this earth, are you going to put people that will spread corruption, spill blood? And when Allah says, I know that which you don't know, as many of the scholars say, that means that there are people, there are descendants from this creation that will make the entire human enterprise worth it with the beauty of their worship, the prophets and the salihin. So at this point now, you've seen the full spectrum when you get to just 29. Those that forgot where they came from and hence they ruined where they're going and those that knew exactly where they came from and so they built here and they built for their hereafter. And you find these prophets and these righteous people and they're far and few and it's interesting because Allah Azawajal says that most of them will be ungrateful, most of them will be arrogant. And I think if you proportionately took the stories of nations in the Quran and through history, you find the majority are indeed arrogant, the majority indeed forget where they came from, and they repeat destruction.
But then you got those few bright spots that make it all worth it and it's always a common theme. They know, biyadihil mulk. They know that in his hand is all dominion. And Suleiman Alayhi Salaam says, you know, asked Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for a customized kingdom. mulkan la yambaghiri ahad min ba'di. Allah gives him the greatest kingdom of all time, the greatest mulk of all time. But he uses that all in praise of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. So, so long as you maintain that humility, you know, it's, it's always going to, inshallah, channel towards good things. We ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for acceptance. JazakAllah khair, Sheikh Maureed. JazakAllah khair, Sheikh Abdullah. JazakAllah khair. Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, accept from you both. May Allah Azawajal allow us all to be people who have recognized this Ramadan where we came from and bi-idhnillahi Ta-A'la give us where we hope to go. Al-Firdaws Al-A'la. Allahumma ameen. BarakAllahu feekum, to all of you for tuning in. We'll see you all tomorrow, Allah Ta'ala. As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
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