Name: Juz' 4 with Dr. Tamara Gray
Uploaded: 2020-04-27T02:55:14.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: Sh. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro, joined by special guest Dr. Tamara Gray, explore gems from the fourth Juz’ of the Holy Quran.

<p>Sh. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro, joined by special guest Dr. Tamara Gray, explore gems from the fourth Juz&apos; of the Holy Quran. <br></p>

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 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 pro…

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