Ali Dawah - REACTING TO QURAN SURAH BAQARAH VERSE 208

00:00:00.000 Asalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi barakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends

00:00:15.960 welcome to another episode of react to quran with me and brother mohammed hijab

00:00:20.300 if you don't know me my name is Ali Dawa

00:00:22.620 anyways what we're going to do today is we're going to be doing reacting to quran 1.00

00:00:26.460 react to quran but we'll be reacting to the quran so we open a random place and react to it derive

00:00:33.700 some benefits from it insha'Allah some reflections etc same as you guys you can do the same as well

00:00:38.940 so make sure you guys get your quran out as well and react with us insha'Allah and then we're going

00:00:44.060 to go to tafsir ibn kathir and see if there's anything extra that we can derive from the verses

00:00:47.840 so mohammed hijab you go for it 1.00

00:00:55.080 where do you want to go for anywhere well you have to pick randomly it's not what you want to go for

00:01:01.240 um okay how is it going to be any pick any let's go here man let's go hajj

00:01:08.480 let's go what it's hajj it's talking about hajj no okay no that's not you should not look

00:01:13.240 pick any any okay you you i'm gonna pick here go on that one what's that which one that that number 0.52

00:01:20.000 uh 206 208 sorry 208 okay you read yeah this is beautiful actually well done really yeah oh you

00:01:32.240 oh you believe oh you believe submit entirely to allah and do not walk in the devil's footstep

00:01:37.500 assuredly he is uh declared enemy to you if you slide back after that the clear sides have come to

00:01:45.160 you then know allah is ought uh i don't know this is a very interesting word i haven't even come

00:01:51.120 across it in my life august wise august wise okay maybe all knowing wise yeah um and then it says

00:01:56.700 that it continues let's go for these two verses i think these two yeah well you can go for the third

00:02:01.700 one as well okay are they waiting for anything other than allah's coming to them in the shadow of 0.94

00:02:05.420 a cloud with all the angels and the question is fast settled so allah shall things return okay

00:02:12.060 would you okay so it says yeah it basically says oh you who believe come into islam

00:02:23.680 in its entirety and don't follow the footsteps of the devil now this interesting phraseology was also

00:02:30.340 mentioned to abraham in the same surah where allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says

00:02:35.100 it's allah said to abraham aslam meaning become muslim submissive and he said i have become submissive

00:02:44.920 to allah lord of the world it doesn't mean to say and this is so interesting you know why

00:02:48.800 because if you think about it we're already muslims this is quite if you think it's quite ironic because

00:02:55.780 it says oh you who believe enter islam uh completely and don't follow the footsteps of the devil which

00:03:09.360 means wherever you are in your spiritual ladder yeah as a muslim yeah then you basically have a you can go

00:03:19.260 up yeah don't limit yourself yeah because it's saying meaning completely because as muslims we have

00:03:27.440 shortcomings we might find it difficult to submit to some rules and we can might find it easy to submit

00:03:33.180 to other rules so what islam is telling us what allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us that come into islam

00:03:41.360 in its entirety so don't think okay i'm going to follow this part of islam and not this part of

00:03:47.620 islam and that's why and by the way in the same surah in surah al-baqarah allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he

00:03:53.800 mentions so do you believe in parts of the book and you disbelieve in other parts of the book

00:04:01.580 that what is the recompense of someone who does that from you except that you have

00:04:09.920 basically um humiliation in this world

00:04:13.580 yeah that and the day of judgment they'll be returned to the most um to to a more painful

00:04:22.400 punishment this is by the way verse 200 and what do we say it's the 208

00:04:28.900 yes yeah while you do that yes i just want to yeah so also one thing that is beneficial for us

00:04:37.280 um for me to react on is um where it says and do not walk in the devil's footsteps surely he has

00:04:45.700 declared enemy to you yes yeah so do not follow his footsteps you know of what he did you know what

00:04:51.180 did he do you know he rebelled you know imagine he was on the ranks of uh the angels yeah and

00:05:00.220 because he envied and was arrogant and jealous these are characteristics here we're talking about so

00:05:06.420 when we say footsteps listen carefully and he did not like adam alayhi salam yeah and imagine

00:05:12.000 allah subhanahu wa ta'ala creating you and asking you to do something and you're rejecting it

00:05:16.060 and what are you doing at that stage you are like basically instead of acknowledging what allah is

00:05:21.880 saying and obeying you are taking your arrogance your jealousy your envy as a deity over what allah

00:05:28.060 is saying because you're saying no i'm not because i'm better than him you know so it's like

00:05:33.480 allah subhanahu wa ta'ala saying do not take his footsteps arrogance you know um envy jealousy

00:05:39.060 you know there is a um uh hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi salam um in abu da'ud if i'm not

00:05:45.060 mistaken um saying that jealousy burns good deeds just like fire destroys wood you know so don't follow

00:05:52.900 his footsteps acknowledge and also it says assuredly he has declared declared enemy to you know your enemy

00:06:00.480 this is your enemy so when you know someone's a clear enemy to you you need to be careful you need

00:06:06.460 to watch his every step you need to be careful because you need to see what's he going to do to

00:06:11.300 attack you because he is a clear enemy to you he has sworn an oath by allah's might that allah 0.95

00:06:18.440 indeed told the day of judgment i am going to misguide them he is giving an oath because he is doomed

00:06:24.480 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

00:06:30.700 going to do the maximum amount of damage you know so that's why it's important to know your enemy

00:06:36.400 so why do we when it comes to our biggest enemy we're laid back we're calm we don't care you know

00:06:42.960 it doesn't mean nothing we don't do nothing to prepare ourselves against him and his attacks from

00:06:48.480 his soldiers from the shayateen yeah so why is it that we don't prepare knowing that there's an

00:06:53.640 outright declaration on war against us we should be very firm and say you know what he's my enemy

00:06:59.960 he's going to try to take me down what can i do to protect myself what is the biggest weapon that we

00:07:05.860 have the book of allah yeah and the sunnah of the prophet muhammad peace be upon him to tell us

00:07:11.120 how to deal with the situation do you know what i'm trying to say allah has created iblis

00:07:15.720 allah has created you also when i have a phone who knows that phone best the person who made it

00:07:21.940 they know that product best they know what's good for it and what's bad for it allah knows what's good

00:07:26.360 and bad for us and allah knows our enemy so we have the book of allah and we have the prophet

00:07:32.360 to help us how like we said before in the other episode when the shaytan comes what says seek

00:07:38.580 refuge in your lord so you're seeking refuge from allah this is a weapon 1.00

00:07:45.620 boom he's coming with a little jab yeah you're like you know i'm saying yes you're protecting

00:07:50.520 yourself so we need to do that know your enemy look he is declared an enemy to you know your enemy

00:07:56.120 and this is really profound you know what's interesting is the next verse as well because

00:07:59.620 it says

00:08:00.020 it says that if you are if you slip up after the basically the guidance has been shown or the

00:08:11.040 clear signs have been shown to you yeah then know that allah is aziz which means mighty i don't know

00:08:15.940 how they've translated it's a bit of a translation to be honest and hakeem which means all wise so he's

00:08:21.160 mighty and wise so he knows how to use his might and this is an interesting construction why is it

00:08:25.720 interesting because if someone is very mighty someone is very strong yes they usually blur out

00:08:32.140 that strength or they abuse that strength like you'll see maybe in different police forces and stuff

00:08:37.420 like that you'll find oppression because when someone has the ability to do something yes they

00:08:41.500 usually do it yes allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says no allah is aziz and hakeem meaning he is aziz

00:08:47.280 meaning he's mighty and hakeem he knows how to use that might in the right direction

00:08:51.560 but moreover he's warning us because this is the justice of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:08:57.320 if you slip up after the bayonet have been shown to you bayonet meaning here the clear proofs so

00:09:07.180 allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving you an opportunity giving us an opportunity to see the

00:09:11.960 clear signs be exposed to the clear signs and if you yet deny the clear signs then allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:09:18.600 is aziz hakeem meaning he knows now how to exact punishment upon the person who deserves that kind

00:09:24.960 of punishment because they've been exposed and yet they are reluctant to engage with the islamic 1.00

00:09:29.940 discourse yeah and so if you guys are not aware it's surah baqra yeah verse 208 onwards we've

00:09:36.300 been reading so far and it says in the next i think you've read up until the next verse yes are they

00:09:41.280 waiting for anything other than basically it says here are they waiting for allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

00:09:49.140 come to them in the clouds yeah and the angels basically that these pagan arabs at the time of

00:09:57.460 the prophet muhammad they were literally asking and like the for example the bani israel the children

00:10:03.460 of israel of the time of moses yeah they were asking to see allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they

00:10:08.340 were asking that they were expecting something to be that profound hmm but then the question doesn't

00:10:15.780 actually have a response allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he says are they looking for this but he doesn't

00:10:21.140 answer it then they're going to get it or they're not going to get it because it says it's an incredibly

00:10:24.420 uh silly request in the first place if if you could see allah subhanahu wa ta'ala what would be the

00:10:30.180 point of the test if you could see the angels coming down there would be absolutely no part of the test

00:10:34.180 that would be such a high level of evidence that there would be no test after that you're going to

00:10:39.380 you're going to believe and if you believed did what basically do you believe you know you you know

00:10:44.900 there's obviously uh if i'm not mistaken there there's hadith that says those who did not see

00:10:51.140 allah and believed in allah there's a high like great reward the the prophet yeah the prophet he said

00:10:58.660 that uh he was talking about how strange it is that people in the future will have never seen him but

00:11:04.260 they will believe him the people who come after this time the prophet muhammad i'm talking about

00:11:09.460 allah here but you're right even the prophet about that as well yeah that like when he said my brothers

00:11:14.660 and he said oh he's talking about the hadith which says and ta'bud allaha ka annaka tara fa in

00:11:20.900 the hadith of jibreel that you should without seeing allah yeah you should worship allah subhanahu

00:11:27.140 ta'ala which is hadith rura by amal khattab yeah is without seeing allah you should worship him as

00:11:33.780 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

00:11:38.260 but the one that i was talking about is that basically the reward is so high that the fact

00:11:41.620 that you didn't see allah yeah and you worshiped him you know yeah that the reward is so high because

00:11:45.540 that's the whole point you know the fact that you believed in him you had signs it's not like blind

00:11:49.380 faith and also like you said the prophet also said those who did not see him like when he said like

00:11:53.780 my brother said oh you're talking about us yeah he said no no those who did not uh see me but

00:11:59.540 believed in me yeah you know that's what it's about because we didn't see the prophet you know

00:12:03.780 you know and um our maybe our reward is greater the fact that the sahaba was there they saw it it all

00:12:09.060 happened you know what i'm trying to say that's a different level of thing but with us the fact that

00:12:12.660 clearly the sahaba are a different level to us completely yeah of course exactly that's what i said

00:12:15.540 they're a whole new level to us but in this specific sentence that the prophet specifically says

00:12:19.620 yeah no my brothers who have believed in me and didn't see me yeah so he's making like a distinction

00:12:23.540 yes yes absolutely there's a great reward it's true you know subhanallah so these verses really

00:12:28.660 they bring to prominence and to light these these themes which are very important yeah first of all

00:12:33.620 believing in allah without seeing him submitting to him yes completely uh believing in the ghaib 0.96

00:12:38.980 generally yes and not asking for incredible kind of evidences that would render the whole test yes uh

00:12:44.980 void because there would be no point of the test and finally to to uh to realize the attributes of

00:12:51.220 allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the fact that he's all wise and almighty and from that we can worship

00:12:56.340 allah knowing fully that we have trust in him yes and he is in general control of our effects exactly

00:13:01.380 so brothers and sisters know who your lord is and know who your enemy is very clearly um and insha

00:13:06.660 allah that's from us today uh hope you guys have benefited like we said before we've stopped at verse

00:13:12.340 to 10 210 do carry on reading finish the whole chapter insha allah and it's a rewardable as well

00:13:19.540 you know you're not losing nothing carry on reading insha allah thank you for tuning in may allah bless

00:13:23.380 you guys uh may allah grant every single one of you guys jannah till next time from me and brother

00:13:28.420 mohammed hijab as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh 0.76

Ali Dawah - May 31, 2017

REACTING TO QURAN SURAH BAQARAH VERSE 208

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