REACTING TO QURAN SURAH BAQARAH VERSE 208
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In this episode of Reactions to the Qur'an, we talk about how to react to the quran and how we can derive some benefits from it. We also talk about the role of the devil and how to deal with it.
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Asalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi barakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends
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welcome to another episode of react to quran with me and brother mohammed hijab
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anyways what we're going to do today is we're going to be doing reacting to quran
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react to quran but we'll be reacting to the quran so we open a random place and react to it derive
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some benefits from it insha'Allah some reflections etc same as you guys you can do the same as well
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so make sure you guys get your quran out as well and react with us insha'Allah and then we're going
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to go to tafsir ibn kathir and see if there's anything extra that we can derive from the verses
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where do you want to go for anywhere well you have to pick randomly it's not what you want to go for
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um okay how is it going to be any pick any let's go here man let's go hajj
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let's go what it's hajj it's talking about hajj no okay no that's not you should not look
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pick any any okay you you i'm gonna pick here go on that one what's that which one that that number
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uh 206 208 sorry 208 okay you read yeah this is beautiful actually well done really yeah oh you
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oh you believe oh you believe submit entirely to allah and do not walk in the devil's footstep
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assuredly he is uh declared enemy to you if you slide back after that the clear sides have come to
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you then know allah is ought uh i don't know this is a very interesting word i haven't even come
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across it in my life august wise august wise okay maybe all knowing wise yeah um and then it says
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that it continues let's go for these two verses i think these two yeah well you can go for the third
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one as well okay are they waiting for anything other than allah's coming to them in the shadow of
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a cloud with all the angels and the question is fast settled so allah shall things return okay
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would you okay so it says yeah it basically says oh you who believe come into islam
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in its entirety and don't follow the footsteps of the devil now this interesting phraseology was also
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mentioned to abraham in the same surah where allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
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it's allah said to abraham aslam meaning become muslim submissive and he said i have become submissive
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to allah lord of the world it doesn't mean to say and this is so interesting you know why
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because if you think about it we're already muslims this is quite if you think it's quite ironic because
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it says oh you who believe enter islam uh completely and don't follow the footsteps of the devil which
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means wherever you are in your spiritual ladder yeah as a muslim yeah then you basically have a you can go
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up yeah don't limit yourself yeah because it's saying meaning completely because as muslims we have
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shortcomings we might find it difficult to submit to some rules and we can might find it easy to submit
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to other rules so what islam is telling us what allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us that come into islam
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in its entirety so don't think okay i'm going to follow this part of islam and not this part of
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islam and that's why and by the way in the same surah in surah al-baqarah allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he
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mentions so do you believe in parts of the book and you disbelieve in other parts of the book
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that what is the recompense of someone who does that from you except that you have
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yeah that and the day of judgment they'll be returned to the most um to to a more painful
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punishment this is by the way verse 200 and what do we say it's the 208
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yes yeah while you do that yes i just want to yeah so also one thing that is beneficial for us
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um for me to react on is um where it says and do not walk in the devil's footsteps surely he has
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declared enemy to you yes yeah so do not follow his footsteps you know of what he did you know what
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did he do you know he rebelled you know imagine he was on the ranks of uh the angels yeah and
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because he envied and was arrogant and jealous these are characteristics here we're talking about so
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when we say footsteps listen carefully and he did not like adam alayhi salam yeah and imagine
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allah subhanahu wa ta'ala creating you and asking you to do something and you're rejecting it
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and what are you doing at that stage you are like basically instead of acknowledging what allah is
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saying and obeying you are taking your arrogance your jealousy your envy as a deity over what allah
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is saying because you're saying no i'm not because i'm better than him you know so it's like
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allah subhanahu wa ta'ala saying do not take his footsteps arrogance you know um envy jealousy
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you know there is a um uh hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi salam um in abu da'ud if i'm not
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mistaken um saying that jealousy burns good deeds just like fire destroys wood you know so don't follow
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his footsteps acknowledge and also it says assuredly he has declared declared enemy to you know your enemy
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this is your enemy so when you know someone's a clear enemy to you you need to be careful you need
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to watch his every step you need to be careful because you need to see what's he going to do to
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attack you because he is a clear enemy to you he has sworn an oath by allah's might that allah
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indeed told the day of judgment i am going to misguide them he is giving an oath because he is doomed
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he's finished so he's saying i'm going i'm going to take as much people as i can with me yeah i'm
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going to do the maximum amount of damage you know so that's why it's important to know your enemy
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so why do we when it comes to our biggest enemy we're laid back we're calm we don't care you know
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it doesn't mean nothing we don't do nothing to prepare ourselves against him and his attacks from
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his soldiers from the shayateen yeah so why is it that we don't prepare knowing that there's an
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outright declaration on war against us we should be very firm and say you know what he's my enemy
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he's going to try to take me down what can i do to protect myself what is the biggest weapon that we
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have the book of allah yeah and the sunnah of the prophet muhammad peace be upon him to tell us
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how to deal with the situation do you know what i'm trying to say allah has created iblis
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allah has created you also when i have a phone who knows that phone best the person who made it
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they know that product best they know what's good for it and what's bad for it allah knows what's good
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and bad for us and allah knows our enemy so we have the book of allah and we have the prophet
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to help us how like we said before in the other episode when the shaytan comes what says seek
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refuge in your lord so you're seeking refuge from allah this is a weapon
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boom he's coming with a little jab yeah you're like you know i'm saying yes you're protecting
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yourself so we need to do that know your enemy look he is declared an enemy to you know your enemy
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and this is really profound you know what's interesting is the next verse as well because
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it says that if you are if you slip up after the basically the guidance has been shown or the
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clear signs have been shown to you yeah then know that allah is aziz which means mighty i don't know
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how they've translated it's a bit of a translation to be honest and hakeem which means all wise so he's
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mighty and wise so he knows how to use his might and this is an interesting construction why is it
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interesting because if someone is very mighty someone is very strong yes they usually blur out
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that strength or they abuse that strength like you'll see maybe in different police forces and stuff
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like that you'll find oppression because when someone has the ability to do something yes they
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usually do it yes allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says no allah is aziz and hakeem meaning he is aziz
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meaning he's mighty and hakeem he knows how to use that might in the right direction
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but moreover he's warning us because this is the justice of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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if you slip up after the bayonet have been shown to you bayonet meaning here the clear proofs so
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allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving you an opportunity giving us an opportunity to see the
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clear signs be exposed to the clear signs and if you yet deny the clear signs then allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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is aziz hakeem meaning he knows now how to exact punishment upon the person who deserves that kind
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of punishment because they've been exposed and yet they are reluctant to engage with the islamic
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discourse yeah and so if you guys are not aware it's surah baqra yeah verse 208 onwards we've
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been reading so far and it says in the next i think you've read up until the next verse yes are they
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waiting for anything other than basically it says here are they waiting for allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
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come to them in the clouds yeah and the angels basically that these pagan arabs at the time of
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the prophet muhammad they were literally asking and like the for example the bani israel the children
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of israel of the time of moses yeah they were asking to see allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they
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were asking that they were expecting something to be that profound hmm but then the question doesn't
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actually have a response allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he says are they looking for this but he doesn't
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answer it then they're going to get it or they're not going to get it because it says it's an incredibly
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uh silly request in the first place if if you could see allah subhanahu wa ta'ala what would be the
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point of the test if you could see the angels coming down there would be absolutely no part of the test
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that would be such a high level of evidence that there would be no test after that you're going to
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you're going to believe and if you believed did what basically do you believe you know you you know
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there's obviously uh if i'm not mistaken there there's hadith that says those who did not see
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allah and believed in allah there's a high like great reward the the prophet yeah the prophet he said
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that uh he was talking about how strange it is that people in the future will have never seen him but
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they will believe him the people who come after this time the prophet muhammad i'm talking about
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allah here but you're right even the prophet about that as well yeah that like when he said my brothers
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and he said oh he's talking about the hadith which says and ta'bud allaha ka annaka tara fa in
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the hadith of jibreel that you should without seeing allah yeah you should worship allah subhanahu
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ta'ala which is hadith rura by amal khattab yeah is without seeing allah you should worship him as
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if you see him because if he doesn't if you can't see him yeah he can still see you yeah that is well
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but the one that i was talking about is that basically the reward is so high that the fact
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that you didn't see allah yeah and you worshiped him you know yeah that the reward is so high because
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that's the whole point you know the fact that you believed in him you had signs it's not like blind
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faith and also like you said the prophet also said those who did not see him like when he said like
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my brother said oh you're talking about us yeah he said no no those who did not uh see me but
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believed in me yeah you know that's what it's about because we didn't see the prophet you know
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you know and um our maybe our reward is greater the fact that the sahaba was there they saw it it all
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happened you know what i'm trying to say that's a different level of thing but with us the fact that
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clearly the sahaba are a different level to us completely yeah of course exactly that's what i said
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they're a whole new level to us but in this specific sentence that the prophet specifically says
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yeah no my brothers who have believed in me and didn't see me yeah so he's making like a distinction
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yes yes absolutely there's a great reward it's true you know subhanallah so these verses really
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they bring to prominence and to light these these themes which are very important yeah first of all
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believing in allah without seeing him submitting to him yes completely uh believing in the ghaib
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generally yes and not asking for incredible kind of evidences that would render the whole test yes uh
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void because there would be no point of the test and finally to to uh to realize the attributes of
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allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the fact that he's all wise and almighty and from that we can worship
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allah knowing fully that we have trust in him yes and he is in general control of our effects exactly
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so brothers and sisters know who your lord is and know who your enemy is very clearly um and insha
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allah that's from us today uh hope you guys have benefited like we said before we've stopped at verse
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to 10 210 do carry on reading finish the whole chapter insha allah and it's a rewardable as well
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you know you're not losing nothing carry on reading insha allah thank you for tuning in may allah bless
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you guys uh may allah grant every single one of you guys jannah till next time from me and brother
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mohammed hijab as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh