I ask Allah to make this a month of great Mercy for you all and a month of major changes in a positive direction for us as an um we jump now to a parable in Alan where in Allah subhanahu wa taala right after can we lower the gain a bit Ali appreciate
It wherein Allah subhanahu wa taala right after the famous verse you hear every and be sure not to die except in a state of Islam the very next verse now it is almost as if he is telling you the bottom line of what you need more than
Anything to make sure you die in a state of Islam and he says subhah waala and hold tightly to the Rope of Allah all of you together and do not allow yourselves to become divided hold tightly to the book of Allah the Rope of Allah so you imagine
Someone stuck about to drown or on a ledge or something and the Rope is extended the Rope comes dangling down as he said this great Quran one end of it is in your hands and the other end is in the hand of Allah himself so hold on tightly to
It because if you do that you’ll never be lost and you will never be doomed after having done that so that is the rope and the Rope is Our Hope in Allah and the book he extended to us this is the first stop the the second is that Allah in the
Quran though in this Ayah doesn’t say like thei hold on to it he says and some have said the word has a very subtle meaning here an additional meaning to keep in mind translated Loosely as whole tightly comes from the word and the is the wrist
So it’s as if Allah is telling you be so careful about get not loosening your grip on this rope not losing this rope that you wrap it around your wrist before you hold it understand the the image and so what happens there if for whatever reason you slip it’s holding
You now even if you slip for a moment at holding it and that is what the Quran does every Ayah you recite even without understanding it every Ayah you put in the effort to understand every session you attend to learn more about the Quran most importantly every time you apply
Some of the guidance of the Quran you are being further and further protected by it from the doubts and desires that could jeopardize dying Muslim that’s the bottom line and that is why when someone said to him so and so has completed his of the Quran you know like a and like memorize
But the word actually means protect so we say Protect it from being forgotten by memorizing it that’s where the word comes from so when they said to him so and so did his of the Quran he said rather the Quran is doing of him the Quran is actually protecting him
More than he’s protecting the Quran right because the Quran is not dependent on us if we don’t Safeguard it someone else will safeguard it someone else will be honored with that mission but we are dependent on it it is just like you know when Allah says Allah says Safeguard Allah or the
Prophet said Safeguard Allah he will safeguard you what is greater you’re Safeguard no you’re safeguarding the the rights of Allah in your life whereas Allah safeguarding you is far greater when Allah says for remember me and I will remember you what is greater Allah’s remembering of you is
Far greater than your remembering of him subhanahu wa taala likewise this Quran you you you hold on to it tight rather you tie yourself to it so that if you slip for a moment it catches you and then he says and do this tie yourself to the
Quran all of you all together and don’t become divided it’s as if it’s reminding us that this has to be done together it’s as if holding onto the Quran or being held by the Quran won’t work if you try to do it alone it’s a group
Effort and for most people it is you know we celebrate in the Quran ibraim for being an um by himself because most of us cannot be in um by himself by themselves you can’t you need the group support right one of the major to Christianity Today Was the divisions the
Endless divisions within their communities that fractured their communities and the and then their belief in their faith went with it you know interestingly many of our youth and the adults they are challenged on their faith and they are told if you weren’t born into a Muslim family you wouldn’t
Be Muslim today by the way I don’t want you to ever be rattled by this question because if he was not born into a religion hating era he would not hate and be suspicious of all religions if this person was born in the 1500s he’d be advocating for something else right
But the idea is though for this talk tonight he’s kind of right she’s kind of right that of the ways Allah protected you and your sort of regard for the Quran your regard for Islam is the fact that you’re surround he surrounds you with Muslims I don’t mean that Islam is
Right because you were born into a Muslim family I’m saying Allah helped you hold on to what’s right by surrounding with people that believe in the same thing this is very important to realize be you know the S they used to say it’s reported by multiple of them and Jab
They used to say a wonderful statement they used to say the things you hate about the community are far better for you than the things you love about division I just want to like be all alone do things my way my comfort zone but don’t this is
Dangerous to your Dean now right the community is the extended family right that you want to surround yourself with it is your second and most second most important safety net so that you can be able to hold on to the book of Allah subhah waala and the last stop I will
Make there is another Parable or metaphor here he says and recall the favor of Allah on you that he gave you the Quran he made you a person of Islam he surrounded you with Muslims to make the the task easier right recall the favor of Allah on
You when you were enemies of each other outside of this and he mended between your hearts don’t take that for granted don’t underestimate that the other religions fell apart why of the reasons we just said they kept splitting up on racial lines and then on religious lines
They’re not like you they can’t just go into any church anywhere and make their prayers right is this a white church or a black church is this sort of a Lutheran or a Protestant or a Methodist or they don’t do you do that no you Google mask near me and keep it moving
Right and you make your salawat that’s part of the great favor of Allah on you if were it not for Islam we would be the same way so we are spared of this greatly but we are not totally immune to it Here’s the final metaphor and you
Were on the edge of a ditch or a volcano as some have said right or a you know a big hole a canyon filled with fire you’re on the brink of an inferno and so he saved you with it using the Quran and using the brother Brotherhood that the Muslims are called
To that sounded very wrong IPA Muslim Brotherhood never mind that was I didn’t say that I know someone’s going to take this clip and misuse it now the fraternity of Faith how’s that I’ll pick a synonym but through these two things these two things Allah protects your Iman for you so value them
Otherwise you were on the brink of falling deep into that fire because the default is and I’m done that you have a very short span to get this right you know like what do you mean you were on the brink of the fire well you were dead for thousands of
Years you didn’t exist and you will be dead for thousands of years and so you need to make sure that this moment that you spend on Earth you come out of it with Islam the Ayah before it and the default is that we’re not guided Allah gave you guidance through the Quran
Through the unity of Islam he gave you these two so you were right there and just in time he saved you so recall this favor of Allah on you he sent a a letter of consolation to another about his son who had just died he said listen we’re not from this
World we’re from the Hereafter that’s where we really live we were given a short term in this world right and so he said and it’s crazy that a dead man he means I’m bound I was dead forever and I’m going to be dead for a long time right a dead dead
Man is extending his regards to another dead man about someone that has died so just understand how short short this term is that is the reality in that Allah saved you with these two things so treasure Them oh
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